AMRITA VIDYALAYAM SENIOR SECONDARY CBSE

RAMANATHAPURAM
Periodic Test 1 (2024-25)
ENGLISH ANSWER KEY
Class: XII Time: 1 1/2Hrs
Marks: 40 Date:19.07.2024
SECTION – A 10 Marks
On the basis of your understanding of the above passage, answer the
questions given below:
1. Complexity in language is inherent to......a. all the languages SECTION – C 26 Marks
2. The Cherokee pronoun system can distinguish between....d. All of these
3. Based on your understanding of the passage, choose the option that lists LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
the correct sequence of the sentences associated with the formation/ 3. A. Read the extract and answer the following: 4×1=4
creation of grammar. c. 4, 1, 2, 3 i) Why does the narrator refer to M. Hamel as ‘Poor man!’?
4. All the following sentences about Nicaraguan sign language are true c. He feels sorry for M. Hamel as it was his last French lesson.
except: ii ) Assertion ( A): The old men of the village were sitting there in the back
a. the language has been created since 1979 of the room.
5. Which option represents who partly invented the complex grammar Reason ( B) : This was because they were sorry, too, that they had not
gone to school more.
system even for the most widespread languages?
c) ( A) is true and ( R) is false iii) Concluding his last lesson by
c. image 3
writing ‘Vive la France!’ on the
6. Some of the most recent languages evolved due to the...... blackboard shows that M. Hamel
a. Atlantic slave trade d. wanted to teach French participles through it.
7. What is common to all languages? iv) “It was in honor of this last lesson that he had put on his fine Sunday
c. grammar is common to all languages clothes.” Which of the following best captures M. Hamel on the last day
8. According to the passage what can be attributed as a consequence of the of school?
Atlantic slave trade? b. patient, dignified, emotional,
b. evolution of some of the most recent languages B. Read the extract and answer the following: 4×1=4
a) Comment on the literary device “Young trees sprinting.”
9. Pick the option that correctly tells how the younger children’s mind work “Young trees sprinting”- A personification and a speed imagery. It
in the absence of grammatical knowledge. . b. 1 and 3 suggests young life full of vigour and energy unlike the pale and ‘ashen’ face of the
10. What are creoles? poet’s mother. Personification- while travelling in a car, it seems that the trees are
b. complex grammar systems which emerge from pidgins also rushing past. A speed imagery- passing of time suggesting the journey of life in
a flash.
CREATIVE WRITING SKILLS b) Identify the sentence that does not use the word ‘sprinting’ in its
2. proper context:
iv. The clock was making a sprinting sound
 c) Assertion: The expression on the mother’s face was of lack of energy 5. Answer any two of the following questions, in about 120-150
and vigour. words: 2×4=8
Reason: She thought her daughter was selfish as the latter is going a) Imagine yourself as the poet Kamala Das. Write a diary entry about
away. your feelings on the eve of departing from her.
iii. Assertion is true but Reason is false Format of the diary entry is to be adhered to. To be written in first person.
d) The word “spilling” here connotes: i. a zeal for life Students may begin like this: My heart is still heavy as I board the flight from
Cochin. I can see the face of the only treasure that I have now- Amma waving at me
C. Read the extract and answer the following: 4×1=4 through the opaque glass window. What if she isn’t there the next time I come to
Cochin? No, it’s too painful. Let me not think about it. Better to switc on my tab and
a) Who does ‘I’ refer to in the given extract? ‘I’ refers to the narrator. work o my unfinished manuscript…
b) The extract given above is not an example of -------------- b) Do you think that the third level was a medium of escape for Charley?
iii. Allegory Why?
yes, I think that the third level was a medium of escape for Charley. The
c) In this extract the narrator --Talks about Grand Central third level is an escape for Charley from the modern setting of worry and insecurity.
d) Explain: ‘ Grand Central has been an exit’ a way of escape’ . It is an escape from the unhappy contemporary world that is full of insecurity, fear,
war, and worry. He had always desired to live his life peacefully as he did in
Grand Central is a figment of imagination that acts as a medium of
Galesburg. Charlie was so upset and frustrated with modern life and the way of
escape for people. living that he wanted to move back into the past. Thus, in his mind, he has forever
wanted to go back in time, so he found the third level as a realization of his dream.
4. Answer the following questions, in about 40-50 words: 3×2=6 c) ‘If one can hold fast to their language, it is as if they have the key to
a) How does the “wan, pale face of the mother connect to the poet’s the prison’ Elucidate the statement in the light of the lesson “ The
“childhood fear”? Last Lesson”.
Like every child, the poet had a fear of losing her mother in her childhood. The
Language is a powerful tool to face the atrocities of invaders. It is a
old fear resurfaces and overwhelms her now. But there is a difference. If the poet
symbol of Patriotism . M.Hamel praised French language and said that it was the
loses her mother now, the loss will be irrevocable. This haunts the daughter and
most beautiful language in the world — the clearest, the most logical; that we must
poet.
b) Describe the first day cover that the narrator found among his guard it among us and never forget it, because when people are enslaved, as long
collection. as they hold fast to their language it is as if they had the key to their prison.
The first day cover envelope was dated July 18, 1894. It was addressed to
his grandfather in Galesburg. It carried a letter from Sam addressed to Charley. The
stamp was a six cent, dull brown, with a picture of President Garfield.
c) ‘What a thunderclap these words were to me!’ Why does Franz say so?
M. Hamel said “My children, this is the last lesson I shall give you. The
order has come from Berlin to teach only German in the schools of Alsace and
Lorraine. The new master comes tomorrow. This is your last French lesson.” This
was a thunderclap for Franz.