HBSE Class 11 Question Paper 2019 English Elective

Code No. 1002
CLASS : 11th (Eleventh) Series : 11-M/2019
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ENGLISH (Elective)
(Only for Fresh/School Candidates)

Time allowed : 3 hours ] [ Maximum Marks : 80

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General Instructions :

(i) This question paper is divided into two
Sections : A and B.

(ii) All the sections are compulsory.

(iii) Attempt all parts of a question together.

(iv) Stick to the word-limit wherever prescribed.

SECTION – A

1. Read the passage given below and answer the
questions that follow :

I don't believe there's any man who in his
heart of hearts wouldn't rather be called brave
than have any other virtue attributed to him.
And this elemental, if you like, unreasoning,
male attitude, is a sound one, because courage
is not merely a virtue, it's the virtue. Without it
there are no other "Virtues. Faith, hope, charity,
all the rest don't become virtues until it takes
courage to exercise them. Courage isn't only the
basis of all virtue, it's its expression. True, you

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may be bad and brave, but you can't be good
without being brave.
Courage is a mental state – an affair of the spirit
– and so it gets its strength from spiritual and
intellectual sources. The way in which these
spiritual and intellectual elements are blended, I
think, produces roughly the two types of
courage. The first, an emotional state which
urges a man to risk injury or death – physical
courage. The second, a more reasoning attitude
which enables him coolly to stake career,
happiness, his whole future, on his judgement of
what he thinks either right or worthwhile –
moral courage.

Now these two types of courage, physical
and moral, are very distinct. I have known many
men who had marked physical courage but
lacked moral courage. Some of them were in
high places but they failed to be great in
themselves because they lacked it. On the other
hand, I've seen men who undoubtedly possessed
moral courage very cautious about taking

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physical risks, but I've never met a man with
moral courage who couldn't when it was really
necessary, face bodily danger. Moral courage is a
higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

To be really great, a man – or for that
matter, a nation – must possess both kinds of
courage. In this the Japanese were an
interesting study. No other army has ever
possessed mass physical courage as the
Japanese did. Its whole strength lay in the
emotional bravery of the individual soldier. The
Japanese generals shared their men's physical
bravery to the full, but they lacked, to a man,
moral courage. They hadn't the moral courage to
admit when their plans had failed and ought to
have been changed, to tell their superiors that
their orders couldn't be carried out, and to
retreat while there was still time. We played on
this weakness and by it the Japanese
commanders lost their battles and destroyed
their armies.

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All men have some degree of physical
courage. It's surprising how much. Courage, you
know, is like having money in the bank. We start
with a certain capital of courage, some large,
some small, and we proceed to draw on our
balance. But don't forget, courage is an
expendable quality. We can use it up. If there
are heavy, and what is more serious, if there are
continuous calls on our courage, we begin to
overdraw. If we go on overdrawing we go
bankrupt, we break down.

Questions : 1×8=8

(i) What could not be called by any man in his
heart ?

(a) Brave (b) Virtuous

(c) Cool (d) Hot

(ii) What does not become virtue until it takes
courage to exercise ?

(a) Faith (b) Hope

(c) Charity (d) All of the above

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(iii) What is courage ?

(a) Physical state

(b) Mental state

(c) Both (a) & (b)

(d) Neither (a) nor (b)

(iv) What is a higher and a rarer virtue than
physical courage ?

(a) Moral courage

(b) Spiritual courage

(c) Intellectual courage

(d) None of the above

(v) Who has possessed mass physical courage
ever ?

(a) Indians

(b) Pakistanis

(c) Japanese

(d) Britishers

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(vi) Where did the strength of Japanese army
lay ?

(a) Emotional bravery

(b) Physical bravery

(c) Intellectual bravery

(d) Spiritual bravery

(vii) What is like having money in the bank ?

(a) Courage

(b) Currency notes

(c) Cheques

(d) Drafts

(viii) What will happen if we go on overdrawing
the courage ? We will become ……….

(a) Bankrupt

(b) Happy

(c) Sad

(d) Emotional

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2. Read the stanza given below and answer the
questions that follow :
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;

The proper study of mankind is man.

Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise, and rudely great :

With too much knowledge for the sceptic side,

With too much weakness for the stoic's pride,
He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest;

In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast;

In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err;

Alike in ignorance, his reason such,

Whether he thinks too little, or too much:
Chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd;

Still by himself abus'd, or disabus'd;

Created half to rise, and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;

Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd:

The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

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Questions : 1×8=8

(i) What does the poet want human beings to
do ?

(ii) What does the poet not want human beings
to do ?

(iii) What is the proper study of mankind ?

(iv) What doubt has the man have ?

(v) What is man's relationship to human
beings and things ?

(vi) What does a man do even though he is the
Sole judge of truth ?

(vii) What is the root cause of man's confusion ?

(viii) Who is "the glory, jest and riddle of the
world" ?

SECTION – B

3. Read the passage given below and answer the
questions that follow :

It is twilight. A thick wet snow is slowly
twirling around the newly lighted street lamps
and lying in soft thin layers on roofs, on horses'

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backs, on people's shoulders and hats.
The cabdriver, Iona Potapov, is quite white and
looks like a phantom: he is bent double as far as
a human body can bend double; he is seated on
his box: he never makes a move. If a whole
snowdrift fell on him, it seems as if he
would not find it necessary to shake it off. His
little horse is also quite white, and remains
motionless; its immobility, its angularity and its
straight wooden-looking legs, even close by, give
it the appearance of a gingerbread horse
worth a kopek. It is, no doubt, plunged in deep
thought. If you were snatched from the plough,
from your usual gray surroundings, and were
thrown into this slough full of monstrous lights,
unceasing noise and hurrying people, you too
would find it difficult not to think.

Questions : 1×5=5

(i) Name the story and its writer.

(ii) What is twilight ?

(iii) What is the name of the cabdriver ?

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(iv) What do you know about the little horse of
the cabdriver ?
(v) In what mood was the cabdriver ?

4. Read the stanza given below and answer the
questions that follow :
His loud sharp call
seems to come from nowhere.
Then, a flash of turquoise
in the pipal tree
The slender neck arched away from you
as he descends,
and as he darts away, a glimpse
of the very end of his tail.

Questions : 1×5=5

(i) Name the poem and the poet.

(ii) Who is "he" in the stanza ?

(iii) Where does the loud sharp call come from ?

(iv) What does the peacock do as he descends ?

(v) Find words from the stanza which means
the same as :
(a) move rapidly & lightly,
(b) a quick look.

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5. Read the passage given below and answer the
questions that follow :

My beautiful new watch had run eighteen
months without losing or gaining, and without
breaking any part of its machinery or stopping. I
had come to believe it infallible in its judgments
about the time of day, and to consider its
constitution and its anatomy imperishable. But,
at last, one night, I let it run down. I grieved
about it as if it were a recognised messenger and
forerunner of calamity. But by and by I cheered
up, set the watch by guess, and commanded my
bodings and superstitions to depart.

Questions : 1×5=5

(i) Name the chapter and its author.

(ii) For how long has the author's beautiful
new watch run ?

(iii) How is the new watch infallible ?

(iv) How did the author grieve about the
watch ?

(v) What did the author do by and by ?

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6. Answer in about 100 words : 7

Comment on the way in which the theme of
Mulk Raj Anand's story "A Pair of Mustachios"
has been introduced.

OR

What were the voices that Paul heard ? Did they
lead him to success in the real sense ?
(The Rocking-Horse Winner)

7. Answer in about 100 words : 7

What depiction of true love is given in William
Shakespeare's "Let me not to the marriage of
true minds" ?

OR

What does the bird in Philip Larkin's poem
"Coming" announce ? How is this related to the
title ?

8. Answer in about 100 words : 7

Why does Russell Call the three passions
'simple' ? (My Three Passions)

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OR

What is the central argument of the speaker in
S. Chandrasekhar's "Patterns of Creativity" ?

9. Answer any five of the following in about 30
words each selecting at least two from each
part : 2 × 5 = 10

(a) (i) Where did Uncle Oscar take both
Bassett and Paul and why ?
(The Rocking-Horse Winner)

(ii) Where did the author set forth looking
for Garridebs ? With what result ?
(The Adventures of the Three Garridebs)

(iii) Who is Mammachi ? What does she do
in Arundhati Roy's "Pappachi's Moth" ?

(iv) Who is Mala ?
(The Third and Final Continent)

(b) (i) What kind of love is William
Shakespeare talking of in "Let me not
to the marriage of true minds" ?

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(ii) State the central issue in the poem
"Telephone Conversation".

(iii) Justify the title of the poem "The World
is Too Much With Us".

(iv) What does the poem "Mother Tongue"
bemoan ?

10. Answer any five of the following in about 30
words each : 2 × 5 = 10

(i) Where can the roots of India's literary
traditions be traced ? (Tribal Verse)

(ii) What is a good book ?
(What is a Good Book)

(iii) Do you think the fundamental aspect of the
novel is its story-telling aspect ? (The Story)

(iv) Was the author interested in the dance as a
child ? Who enforced this on her ?

(v) Why did the author finally give up on his
watch ? (My Watch)

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(vi) How have the three passions contributed to
the quality of Russell's life ?
(My Three Passions)

(vii) What is Shelley's attitude towards science ?
(Patterns of Creativity)

11. Write a short note each on any four of the
following : 2×4=8

Simile; Metaphor; Alliteration; Sonnet; Ode;
Irony; Pathos; Satire.

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