Slc Questions
Compulsory English
Grade 10 Full marks : 75 Time: 2:15 hours Pass marks: 24 1. Read the following poem and do the activities that follow. 5 Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, “This is my own, my native land!” Whose heart hath never within him buried? As home his foot steps he hath tum’d. From wandering on a foreign strand! If such there breathe, go mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell, High though his title, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch concentrated all in self, And doubly dying shall go down, To the vile dust from where he sprung. Unwept, unhonour’d and unsung. -Sir Walter Scott A. Fill in the gaps with appropriate words/phrases from the poem so as to summarize the poem: (4x0.5=2)
The poet has expressed his …………..feelings in the poem. He thinks that an unpatriotic person has a…………..soul. Such persons may get wealth and prestige but they are…………..since they are selfish and have forgotten their birth place for their own benefit. So unpatriotic people…………..twice with no one to sing at their death. B. Answer the following questions: (3x1=3)
a. What do you mean by patriotism?
b. When does a person lose his fame? c. Where, according to the poet, does an unpatriotic person go after death? 2. Read the passage
Grade 10 Full marks : 75 Time: 2:15 hours Pass marks: 24 1. Read the following poem and do the activities that follow. 5 Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, “This is my own, my native land!” Whose heart hath never within him buried? As home his foot steps he hath tum’d. From wandering on a foreign strand! If such there breathe, go mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell, High though his title, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch concentrated all in self, And doubly dying shall go down, To the vile dust from where he sprung. Unwept, unhonour’d and unsung. -Sir Walter Scott A. Fill in the gaps with appropriate words/phrases from the poem so as to summarize the poem: (4x0.5=2)
The poet has expressed his …………..feelings in the poem. He thinks that an unpatriotic person has a…………..soul. Such persons may get wealth and prestige but they are…………..since they are selfish and have forgotten their birth place for their own benefit. So unpatriotic people…………..twice with no one to sing at their death. B. Answer the following questions: (3x1=3)
a. What do you mean by patriotism?
b. When does a person lose his fame? c. Where, according to the poet, does an unpatriotic person go after death? 2. Read the passage