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Sample Question Paper - English Literature-ICSE-Standard IX

This document is a question paper for a Literature in English exam for Std IX (ICSE) focusing on 'The Merchant of Venice' by William Shakespeare and a collection of poems from 'Treasure Trove'. It contains three sections with specific questions related to drama and poetry, requiring students to analyze extracts and discuss themes, characters, and relationships. The total time for the exam is one hour, and it is worth 25 marks.

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Sample Question Paper - English Literature-ICSE-Standard IX

This document is a question paper for a Literature in English exam for Std IX (ICSE) focusing on 'The Merchant of Venice' by William Shakespeare and a collection of poems from 'Treasure Trove'. It contains three sections with specific questions related to drama and poetry, requiring students to analyze extracts and discuss themes, characters, and relationships. The total time for the exam is one hour, and it is worth 25 marks.

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QUESTIO PAPER

LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

Std: IX (ICSE) Time: 1 hr


Marks: 25
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You must attempt all questions.

The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are in brackets ( ).


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SECTION A - DRAMA

The Merchant of Venice: William Shakespeare

Question: I

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

Bassanio : To you, Antonio, I owe the most, in money and in love;


And from your love I have a warranty
To unburden all my plots and purposes
How to get clear of all the debts I owe.

Antonio: I pray you, good Bassanio, let me know it;

(i) Describe Antonio’s mood at the beginning of this scene. State any two reasons
that Antonio’s friends, who were present, gave to explain his mood. (3)

(ii) What promise did Antonio make to Bassanio immediately after this
conversation? (2)

(iii) What did Bassanio say to Antonio about ‘a lady richly left' in Belmont? (2)

(iv) What does the above extract reveal of the relationship between Antonio and
Bassanio ? (2)

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SECTION B

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TREASURE TROVE: A COLLECTION OF POEMS

Question: II

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

Their logs held tight in death's still hands


Was proof of human sin
They didn't die from the cold without
They died from the cold within

(1) What is said to be a proof of the six men's sin? (2)

(2) What human sin does the poem talk about? Did the last man survive? (2)

(3) What does the 'cold within' refers to? Where was it? (2)

(4) What according to you is the message of the poem? What social evil does it
condemn? (2)

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SECTION C

TREASURE TROVE: A COLLECTION OF POEMS

Question: III

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

It was my business to cross the bridge, explore the bridgehead beyond and find
out to what point the enemy had advanced. I did this and returned over the bridge.
There were not so many carts now a very few people on foot, but the old man
was still there.

(1) Who is the ‘I’? Who is the enemy mentioned? Describe the appearance of the
old man. (3)
(2) Where did the old man come from? Why did he smile when he mentioned the
place? What brought him near the pontoon bridge? (3)

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(3) What does Hemingway want to convey through the caricature of the old man
at the bridge? (2)

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