(English Medium) ICSE Class 10 - CISCE Question Bank Solutions

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
NEXT MORNING, I HAD AN IDEA. IT WAS nothing clear cut, merely speculative, But I considered it all the way to school. Then, after assembly, as soon as they were quiet I waded in. This might be a bit rough, I thought, but here goes.
“I am your teacher, and I think it right and proper that I should let you know something of my plans-for this class.”

(i) Who is ‘I’ in the above lines? Where is he? In what mood was he when he entered the class? 

(ii) What did the narrator expect from his students at this moment? 

(iii) Who entered soon after this? What did she do that made the narrator angry? What challenges did he give her? 

(iv) What was the effect of the challenge on her? What plan did the narrator have in mind regarding the conduct of the young ladies? Whose help did he seek for this? 

(v) What did the narrator expect from the boy? What was the reaction of the children when they heard the narrator’s expectations? 

Give an account of the incidents of racial discrimination that Braithwaite has described in the novel ‘To Sir With Love’. 

"Boxer lives his life in patience and unquestioning service." How far is this statement true? Throw light on Boxer's character. 

Answer the following questions with reference to Ray Douglas Bradbury’s short story, ‘All Summer in a Day’:
Why was there so much excitement in the schoolroom that morning? What sets Margot apart from the other children?

Answer the following questions with reference to Ray Douglas Bradbury's short story, 'All Summer in a Day'. 
Describe how the planet was transformed when the sun came out and shone briefly over it.
Why was Margot not able to witness this phenomenon?
What emotion of you supposes the children experienced when Margot emerged at the end of the story?

What was the blue bead?

In H.C. Anderson's story, what forces the Little Match Girl to go about selling matches on the street?

When Luz Long said, 'something must be eating you' he meant that Jesse Owens must be ______.

"We'll keep her a day or two longer; she is so weak and helpless." Who said these words? To whom?

What was the very first thing that the children noticed when it stopped raining on Venus in Ray Bradbury's story. 'All Summer in a Day'?

Which of the following lines tells us that the poet Wordsworth carried a mental picture of the daffodils?

Why according to Maya Angelou, does the caged bird sing?

The line 'The house-roofs seemed to heave and sway' in Browning's poem 'The Patriot' means ______.

Identify the list in which Abou Ben Adhem's name appeared right at the top.

That special human quality does the poem 'Nine Gold Medals' celebrate?

To whom does Portia compare Bassanio as he steps forward to take the casket test?

______ was Portia’s; faithful servant.

Why does Portia ask Shylock if he had arranged for a surgeon to be present at Antonio's trial?

According to Lorenzo, a man who is unmoved by music is ______.

"A Daniel come to judgement! Yea a Daniel" Who is being described in these words? By whom?