Unit Test 2 Model English Question Paper Maharashtra State Board
Second Unit Exam
Std:11th Sub: English Marks:25
Unit Test 2 Model English Question Paper Maharashtra State Board
Q 1. Read the extract and complete the activities given below: (10 Marks)
If we wish to maintain democracy not merely inform, but also in fact, what must we do? The first thing in my judgement we must do is to hold fast to constitutional methods of achieving our social and economic objectives. When there was no way left for constitutional methods for achieving economic and social objectives, there was a great deal of justification for unconstitutional methods. But where constitutional methods are open, there can be no justification for these unconstitutional methods. These methods arenothing but the Grammar of Anarchy and the sooner they are abandoned, the better for us.
The second thing we must do is to observe the caution which John Stuart Mill has given to all who are interested in the maintenance of democracy, namely, not “to lay their liberties at the feet of even a great man, or to trust him with powers which enable him to subvert their institutions.” There is nothing wrong in being grateful to great men who have rendered life-long services to the country. But there are limits to gratefulness. As has been well said by the Irish Patriot Daniel O’Connel, ‘No man can be grateful at the cost of his honour, no woman can be grateful at the cost of her chastity and no nation can be grateful at the cost of its liberty.’ This caution is far more necessary in the case of India than in the case of any other country, for in India, Bhakti or what may be called the path of devotion or hero-worship, plays a part in its politics unequalled in magnitude by the part it plays in the politics of any other country in the world. Bhakti in religion may be a road to the salvation of the soul. But in politics, Bhakti or heroworship is a sure road to degradation and to eventual dictatorship.
A.1 Global Understanding: (2)
State whether the following sentences are true or false. Correct he false statements.
- There is nothing right in being grateful to great men.
- In politics, hero-worship leads to dictatorship.
A.2 Complex Factual: (2)
- Write from the extract the two things necessary to maintain democracy.
A.3 Personal Response: (2)
- Write any four duties of a responsible citizen in a democracy.
A.4 Language Study: Do as directed: (2)
- There is nothing wrong in being grateful to great men. (Rewrite using the infinitive form of the underlined word.)
- Bhakti in religion may be a road to the salvation of the soul. (Identify the modal Auxiliary verb from the sentence.)
A.5 Vocabulary: Give one word from the extract for the following ideas. (2)
- A system where the government is elected and ruled by people is called-
- It is the freedom to go where you want, do what you want etc.
SECTION II – POETRY (POETRY AND APPRECIATION) Unit Test 2 Model English Question Paper Maharashtra State Board
Q.2 Read the extract and complete the activities given below. (08)
Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This city now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm, so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!
A.1 Global Understanding: (2)
- From the poem, find and explain the lines that express the poet’s feeling.
A.2 Personal Response: (2)
- You might have visited a bridge. Describe the sights you could see from the bridge.
A.3 Poetic Devices: (2)
- Find out one example of each of Personification and Inversion figures of Speech.
A.4 Poetic Creation: (2)
- Compose four lines on an imaginary village.
SECTION III – (WRITING Skills) (03)
Q. 3.Complete any one activity from the following.
A) Expansion of Ideas: Expand the Idea “One should eat to live, not live to eat” with help of following points.
1) Good health, 2) Purpose of eating, 3) Eating in moderation, 4) Result of overeating
Or
B) Film Review:
- Recently you have watched a movie. Write a Film review of it.
Section IV – Literary Genre – Drama
- Give the symbolic sigmnificance of the title ‘The Rising of the Moon’ (1)
- Describe in about 50wordsthecharacterof Ragged Man in ‘The Rising of the Moon’. (1)
- Write the Theme of the drama Midsummer- Night’s Dream. (1)
- Write three alternatives of Theseus to Hermia. (1)
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