MBOSE Class 11 Question Paper 2019 for Alternative English

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(c) And as the Rann ______ , it haunted him with its
mirages, pools of shadow, scooped half-moons of
2019 water. (pulsated/palpitated)
ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH
(d) At this word Jean Valjean, who was _____ and
Full Marks : 100 seemed entirely cast down, raised his head with
a stupefied air. (sullen/ silent)
Time : 3 hours

The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions
(e) Nilkanta had an immense capacity for eating, and
General Instructions: never ______ a good thing, however often it was
offered. (refused/ rejected)
(i) Write all the answers in the Answer Script.
(ii) Attempt Part–A Objective Questions serially. (f) For sometime, Rahim Khan with youthful ______,
(iii) Attempt all parts of a question together at one place. toyed with the idea of open rebellion.
(indignation/resentment)

( PART : A–OBJECTIVE )
(g) Jean Valjean stood still, petrified like the pillar
( Marks : 50 ) of _______, not daring to stir. (stone/salt)

SECTION – I

( Marks : 30 ) 2. Write whether the following statements are True or
False (any five) : 1x5=5
1. Fill in the blanks by choosing the right word from the
given alternatives in brackets (any five): 1x5=5
(a) Mr. Ormond Wall’s parents were English who had
(a) My heart beat so that it seemed to ______ the resided in London.
boat more than the propeller. (rock/shake)

(b) His first impulse was to wreck the nest with one (b) Nuru had run away from home six years ago due
_______ of his pole, but something within him to a more than usually severe beating.
made him desist. (stroke/smash)

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(c) Najab had crossed the Rann on four occasions (d) He plants his ________ in the sea,
earlier. And rides upon the storm. (footprints/footsteps)

(d) Jean Valjean calculated that the six silver plates
and the big ladle would fetch him at least four (e) Thy _______ hath no wreath to weave for thee
hundred francs when they were sold. Save the sad story of thy misery. (minstrel/muse)

(e) Kiran had always suspected Nilkanta of having (f) And all her _______ flanks with garlands drest?
stolen the ink stand and hence went to his room (silken/silky)
to search for it.

(g) Glad till the dancing stops, and the ________ of
(f) Radha was married to Ramnath, a middle-aged,
the music ends. (lilt/tilt)
pot bellied banya of the neighbouring village.

(g) Jean Valjean woke up when the cathedral clock 4. Write whether the following statements are True or
struck two. False (any five) : 1x5=5

(a) The Urn is a foster-child of silence and slow time.
3. Fill in the blanks/Complete the following lines using
the right word from the given alternatives (any five) :
(b) The dear brown earth, is the sign of the joy of
1x5=5 the Lord.
(a) Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed
Your leaves, nor ever ______ the Spring adieu.
(c) The poet is charmed by the sight of the baby’s
(bade/bid) white feet playing in the grass.

(b) Laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length
of a _______. (scale/span) (d) No one can ever understand or interpret the ways
of God.
(c) Cool as syringa buds in _______ hours. (morning/
evening) (e) ‘To India–My Native Land’ is a sonnet.

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(f) Heard melodies are sweeter than those that are GROUP–B
unheard.
( Julius Caesar )
(g) We should laugh and be happy for God made
Heaven and Earth for joy. (a) What role did Cassius play in the killing of Julius
Caesar?

5. Answer any five questions from either Group A or (b) What restrictions does Brutus place on Antony
Group B in about 25 – 30 words. when he allows him to speak at the funeral?
2 x 5 = 10

(c) What does Antony predict in his soliloquy?
GROUP–A
(d) What did Caesar leave for the Romans in his will?
( Abraham Lincoln )
(e) Why does Caesar not read Artemidorus’ letter?
(a) What was Todd’s opinion of American Senators
and Congressmen? (f) What was the effect of Mark Antony’s funeral
speech?
(b) What advertisements did Abraham Lincoln see
as they were driving through Lexington? (g) What does Antony ask for from the conspirators?
(c) Who was Mr. Calvin Fairbanks? What did he do
with the slave girl, Eliza? SECTION – II
(d) What did Allen claim to have seen on the night ( Marks : 20 )
of August 29th, 1857?

(e) Who was Duff Armstrong? What was he accused 6. Attempt any five questions in about 25 – 30 words
of ? each. 2 x 5 = 10

(f) Who was Beau? What was his last bid for the (a) What was the first extraordinary thing about the
slave girl, Eliza? story told by the stranger?

(g) What worried Hannah Armstrong when Lincoln (b) Who was the Panchami Pir? Why did Najab leave
went to visit her? food for the jackals?

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(c) Why couldn’t Rahim Khan join the circus and (e) She died in a car accident. (Add a question tag)
why couldn’t he marry the girl that he loved?
(f) I was too scared to move. (Rewrite the sentence
(d) In what way did Kiran’s afternoons change after without using the word ‘too’)
Nilkanta’s arrival?
(g) I will eat anything as long as it is fit to be eaten.
(e) Why is the sculptor of the urn called a sylvan (Substitute the underlined words with a single
historian? word)

(h) The birds have ______ (fly) away. (Fill in the blank
(f) How should injustice be tackled according to
with the correct form of the verb given in the
John Masefield in the poem, ‘Laugh and Be bracket)
Merry’?
(i) She bought new furnitures for her apartment.
(g) What are the baby’s feet compared to, in the first (Correct the sentence)
stanza of the poem, ‘A Baby Running Barefoot’
by D. H. Lawrence? (j) She arrived just ________ time for lunch.
(Insert an appropriate preposition)
(h) What does the poet warn us not to do, in the
poem, ‘Light Shining Out of Darkness’?
( PART : B – DESCRIPTIVE )
7. Rewrite the sentences as directed: 1 x 10 = 10 ( Marks : 50 )

(a) Susan said, “I was waiting for you to call me”. 8. Answer any two in about 60-70 words: 5 x 2 = 10
(Change into Indirect speech)
(a) Describe the transformation of Rahim Khan.
(b) I will do it. (Change the voice)
(b) Describe how the bishop treated the convict
before and after the thievery.
(c) She has been studying since morning.
(Identify the tense)
(c) Love brings about a change in Najab’s character.
How? Cite examples from the text to justify your
(d) He is never on time. view.
(Change into an Affirmative Sentence)

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(d) How did Nilkanta’s life change after the arrival of (b) As sure as I live, I saw everything with my own
Satish? eyes.

(c) But slavery need not always be bad. A slave who
9. Answer any two in about 60-70 words: 5 x 2 = 10 has a kind master can live much more
comfortably than a free man who is poor.
(a) Which according to Keats is superior–– art or life?
Substantiate your answer with arguments drawn
from the poem.
GROUP – B
(b) In the poem, ‘Laugh and Be merry’, what
( Julius Caesar )
according to the poet is the best way to live life?

(c) What is Cowper’s message in the poem, “Light
Shining Out of Darkness”? (a) Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!
Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets.
(d) Cite all the examples of how the different images
(b) O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
of nature are compared with the baby’s delicate
foot movement. That I am meek and gentle with these butchers.

(c) I am no orator, as Brutus is,
But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man.
10. Explain with reference to the context (any two) either
from Group A or Group B in about 60 – 70 words
5 x 2 = 10
11. Write a precis of the following passage and give a
suitable title. 8 + 2 = 10
GROUP – A
( Abraham Lincoln ) People write and publish autobiographies and
autobiographical sketches for a number of reasons.
(a) If you stop and if everyone stops buying, there One of these reasons is to put on record the events of
will be no more slave trade. a famous or influential career. But not all

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autobiographies, not even the autobiographies most Everybody wants to think well of himself and his
frequently and widely read, are by famous or country. But there is no person who hasn’t got
extraordinary men. Another reason is to hand on to something good in him and some bad as well. In the
others wisdom won through experience and hard same way, there is no country which is not partly
labour. Yet many autobiographies seem to have little good and partly bad. We must take the good wherever
concern to teach or to persuade. A third reason is to we find it and try to remove the bad wherever it may
distil from past experience events, persons and be. We are, of course, most concerned with our country
situations which hold a firm place in memory and to India. Unhappily it is in a bad way today and most of
put true values on them. In this sense, autobiography our lives we have to find out how we can make them
is, as Somerset Maugham has said, a ‘summing up’ happy. We have to see what is good in our own ways
and customs and other countries, we should certainly
and its first utility is to its author himself.
praise it and also take it.
Whatever, its purpose or the fame of the man
who writes it, autobiography is a thing created out of
the recollections of life. Whether it be valuable or (a) What constitutes ‘fantasy’ here? 3
useless depends upon whether it is well or ill-made.
(b) What should be our attitude towards other
Good autobiographies can be mined from discreet
countries? 3
lives. For autobiography is the inclusive and summary
form of what we call ‘themes of experience’. (c) What is the present condition of India? 2

(d) Give the antonym of the word ‘Fantasy’. 1
12. Read the following passage and answer the questions: 10 (e) Give the synonym of the word ‘miserable’. 1

In every country, people imagine that they are
the best and cleverest while others are not so good as
they are. An Englishman thinks that he and his
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country are the best; and a Frenchman is very proud
of France and everything French; the Germans and
Italians think no end of their countries and many
Indians imagine that India is in many ways the
greatest country in the world. This is all fantasy.

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