Std. XII- Practice Test No. 1 for 20 Marks

Std. XII- Practice Test No. 1 for 20 Marks

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Practice Test No. 1

Std. XII Marks 20

Q. 1. Read the extract and complete the activities given below.            (08)

At a corner of Sixth Avenue electric lights and cunningly displayed wares behind plate glass made a shop window attractive. Soapy took a stone and dashed it through the glass. People came running round the corner, a policeman in the lead. Soapy stood still with his hands in his pockets, and smiled at the sight of brass buttons. “Where’s the man that done that?” inquired the officer agitatedly. “Don’t you think that I might have had something to do with it?” said Soapy, with a friendly voice, as one greets good fortune. The policeman refused to accept Soapy even as a clue. Men who smash windows do not remain to chat with the police. They take to their heels. The policeman saw a man half-way down the block running to catch a car. With drawn club he joined in the pursuit. Soapy, with disgust in his heart, drifted along, twice unsuccessful. On the opposite side of the street was a restaurant of no great pretensions. It catered to large appetites and modest purses. Its crockery and atmosphere were thick; its soup and napery thin. Into this place Soapy betook himself without challenge. At a table he sat and consumed beefsteak, flapjacks, doughnuts and pie. And then he told the waiter the fact that the minutest coin and himself were total strangers. “Now, get busy and call a cop”, said Soapy. “And don’t keep a gentleman waiting.” “No cop for you,” said the waiter, with a voice like butter cakes and an eye like the cherry in the Manhattan cocktail. “Hey, Con!” Neatly upon his left ear on the callous pavement two waiters pitched Soapy. He arose, joint by joint, as a carpenter’s rule opens, and dusted his clothes. Arrest seemed now but an elusive dream. The island seemed very far away. A policeman who stood before a drugstore two doors away laughed and walked down the street.

A1. True or false    (2)

Rewrite the statements and state whether they are true or false.

1) Soapy expected that police should catch him.

2) Soapy dashed the glass of the shop window to take a revenge.

3) The waiter handed over Soapy to the police.

4) The restaurant where Soapy ate was not a rich restaurant.

A2. Describe            (2)

Describe the restaurant where Soapy ate meal.

A3. Language Study (Do as directed)  (2)

1) The policeman refused to accept Soapy even as a clue.

(Choose the alternative showing the correct transformation of this sentence into negative sentence)

i) The policeman does not accept Soapy even as a clue.   

ii) The policeman did not accept Soapy even as a clue.

iii) The policeman cannot accept Soapy even as a clue.

iv) The policeman would not accept Soapy even as a clue.

2) Men who smash windows do not remain to chat with the police.

(Choose the alternative showing the correct transformation of this sentence into simple sentence)

i) Men smashing windows do not remain to chat with the police.

ii) Men smash windows and do not remain to chat with the police.

iii) Men smashing windows remain to chat with the police.

iv) When men smashing windows, they do not remain to chat with the police.

A4. Word register  (2)

Choose and write the words related to the restaurant from the extract.  

Q. 2. Read the extract and complete the activities given below. (08)

The Sun in the heaven was shining gay, All things were joyful on that day; The sea-birds scream’d as they wheel’d round, And there was joyaunce in their sound.   The buoy of the Inchcpe Bell was seen A darker speck on the ocean green; Sir Ralph the Rover walk’d his deck, And fix’d his eye on the darker speck.   He felt the cheering power of spring, It made him whistle, it made him sing; His heart was mirthful to excess, But the Rover’s mirth was wickedness.   His eye was on the Inchcape Float; Quoth he, “My men, put out the boat, And row me to the Inchcape Rock, And I’ll plague the Abbot of Aberbrothok.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A1. Pick out (2)

Pick out the two lines from the extract that show the joyful atmosphere.

A2. Intention (2)

Write the intension of Ralph to sail near the Inchcape Rock.

A3. Personal response (2)

Give your any one experience of journey by sea.

A4. Poetic device (2)

a) Write rhyming words of each stanza.                   

b) Write rhyme scheme of the first stanza.

Q.3. Rewrite as per the instruction (04)

A1. Rewrite the sentences selecting correct alternative. (2)

1) The novel ‘Rajmohan’s Wife’ is written by –

a) Mulkraj Anand    

b) R.K. Narayan    

c) Raja Rao    

d) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya

2) The essential elements of novel are theme, plot, character, setting, style and –

a) surprise   

b) suspense 

c) conflict    

d) secrecy

3) ‘Tale of Genji’ has been described as the world’s ----------- novel.

a) second     

b) first                      

c) third                     

d) biggest

4) A novel is –

a) a relatively long narrative fiction   

b) a long verse      

c) a long dramatic work having acts

d) a long poem

A2. Match the column ‘A’ with ‘B’.  (2)

A	B
1) Theme	a) The struggle between  the opposite forces in the story
2) Style	b) The background in which the story takes place
3) Setting	c) The central idea in the novel which can be expressed in a nutshell.
4) Conflict	d) The language and the techniques used for the narration of the course of events

 

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