LEELA’S FRIEND: Latest Questions

A.      SAQ

Answer each of the following questions in a single sentence: (Each question carries 1 mark.)

1.       Where does Mr. Sivasanker first meet Sidda ?

2.       What is Mr Sivasanker’s first impression of Sidda ?

3.       List Sidda’s chores in the Sivasanker household.

4.       What do you understand about Sidda from his conversations with Leela ?

5.       How did Sidda react when Leela’s mother asked him about the chain ?

6.       What kind of job did Sidda do in the Sivasanker household ?

7.       Where did Leela’s mother find the chain ?

8.       Why did Sidda leave the old master’s house ?

9.       Who asked Sidda to throw the ball into the sky ?

10.   Where did Sidda’s old master, the doctor, live ?

11.   How old was Leela ?

12.   “Now come with me” – Where did Sidda take Leela?

13.   What was Leela’s box filled with?

14.   How many letters did Leela know?

15.   What did Sidda go out to buy one evening?

16.   What did Leela request her mother to tell a story about?

17.   Why had Sidda been in jail half a dozen times before ?

18.   Why did Mr Sivasanker say that the police would pick up Sidda very soon?

19.   Which game did Leela and Sidda play together?

20.   Where does Mr Sivasanker first meet Sidda?

21.   Why did Sidda escape from the house of Mr Sivasanker?

22.   Why did Leela’s mother give her a slap?

23.   Why did Leela long for Sidda’s company?

24.   What did Mr Sivasanker come to know about Sidda from police?

B.      DAQ

Answer each of the following questions in not more than 100 words: (Each question carries 5 marks)

1.       How did Leela try to make Sidda write? What was the result?

2.       List the ways in which Sidda’s company makes Leela “supremely happy”.

3.       What message is conveyed by Mr Sivasanker’s final words in the story, “In any case, we couldn’t have kept a criminal like him in the house.”

4.       How do Mr and Mrs Sivasanker react to Leela’s missing chain? How does Leela herself react? What does this suggest about each of them?
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LEELA’S FRIEND: Data Bank for MCQ and SAQ

LEELA’S FRIEND: Data Bank for MCQ and SAQ

Writer: R K Narayan (1906-2001)

Source: Lawley Road (Originally), but Malgudi Days (Later)

Setting: Probably in the town of Malgudi

Main Characters: Leela, Sidda, Mr Sivasanker and Mrs Sivasanker

Leela: Only child (five-year-old daughter) of Mr and Mrs Sivasanker

Sidda: A servant in Mr Sanker’s household

Mr Sivasanker: A rich man

Mrs Sivasanker: An ordinary housewife

Sidda worked before: in a doctor’s house

Sidda was given by Mr Sanker: Two meals a day and four rupees a month

Sidda had to: Wash clothes, tend the garden, run errands, chop wood and look after Leela

Sidda and Leela played: With a red ball

Leela held a class: For Sidda at dusk

Leela’s box contained: Catalogues, illustrated books and stumps of pencils.

At bed time Sidda used to tell Leela: Incomparable stories of animals in the jungle, of gods in heaven, of magicians who could conjure up golden cstles and fill them with little princesses and their pets.

Sidda slept: Outside the house

Leela accompanied: Sidda when he went out to buy sugar one evening

Leela’s mother noticed: That a gold chain Leela had been wearing was missing when she came home with Sidda.

Sidda was accused of: Stealing the gold chain

A complaint was lodged: By Mr Sivasanker to the police.

Sidda was arrested: Four days later

Ultimately the chain was found inside: A tamarind pot by Mrs Sivasanker
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LEELA’S FRIEND: Latest Questions

DAYBREAK by H W Longfellow: Quiz No.2

DAYBREAK by H W Longfellow: Quiz No.1

DAYBREAK by H W Longfellow: Latest Questions

A. Complete the sentences which follow, choosing the correct answers from the alternatives given: (Each question carries 1 mark) 
1.        What does ‘Daybreak’ mean? 

2.       What type of poem is ‘Daybreak”? 
3.       Who announces Daybreak? 
4.       Whom does the wind first address in the poem? 
5.       Whom does the wind tell to make room for him ? 
6.       Whom does the wind hail on the sea? 
7.       What does the wind advise the mariners? 
8.       “Sail on, Ye mariners, …” – What does the word ‘Ye’ mean? 
9.       “And hurried landward far away” – Why is the wind in haste? 
10.   What does the wind say to the forest ? 
11.   “Hang all your leafy banners out !” – What are ‘leafy banners’? 
12.   How does the wind try to awaken the sleeping bird? 
13.    “It touched the wood-bird’s folded wing” – What does the expression ‘folded wings’ signify? 
14.   What does the wind ask the wood-bird to do? 
15.    How can ‘chanticleer’ herald the arrival of the daybreak? 
16.   What is the ‘clarion’ of the chanticleer? 
17.   What is the meaning of ‘clarion’? 
18.   Why does the wind ask the fields of corn to bow down? 
19.   What is ‘belfry-tower’? 
20.   “Proclaim the hour.” – Who is called to proclaim the hour? 
21.   Where does the wind finally reach? 
22.   How does the wind express his sorrow for the dead ? 
23.   What does the wind tell the dead souls lying in the grave? 
24.   Give an example of ‘personification’ from the poem. 

B. Answer the following questions in not more than 100 words each: (Each question carries 5 marks)

(i) The poet personifies the wind in “Daybreak”. How does he do this ? Or, How is the wind personified in Longfellow’s poem “Daybreak”? Or, Describe the activities of the wind as you find in Longfellow’s poem “Daybreak”. Or, Give an account of the activities of the wind in the sea and on land as described in Longfellow’s poem “Daybreak”? Or, Discuss the journey of the wind, carrying the message of daybreak in Longfellow’s poem, “Daybreak”.
(ii) Explain the significance of the title of the poem “Daybreak”.

(iii) Consider Longfellow as a poet of Nature with reference to the poem, “Daybreak”.
Or, What picture of dawn does the poem ‘Daybreak” present?
(iv) “It crossed the churchyard with a sigh …” – Who crossed the churchyard? Why did it sigh ? What did the wind say while crossing the churchyard? Why did it say so?     1+1+1+2

Class-XI Annual Exam, 2015 (English B) New Syllabus, WBCHSE : Question Pattern and Division of Marks

Academic Year: 2014-2015

Written Exam : 80 Marks

 LITERATURE: 50 MARKS

Division of Marks

• Prose: 20 Marks
• Poetry: 20 Marks
• Rapid Reader: 10 Marks

Question Pattern

PROSE: 20 Marks

MCQ [Multiple Choice Questions; one from each textual piece; 4 options in each question] ==> 1x5=5

SAQ [Short Answer Questions; two from each textual piece; any 5 to be answered in a complete sentence each] ==> 1x5=5

D/AQ [Descriptive/Analytical Questions; to be answered in about 100 words; two out of five; marks division like 2+3, 3+2, 1+4, 5+0 etc permissible; part marking to be shown clearly on answer scripts] ==> 5x2=10

POETRY: 20 Marks

MCQ [Multiple Choice Questions; one from each textual piece; 4 options in each question] ==> 1x5=5

SAQ [Short Answer Questions; two from each textual piece; any 5 to be answered in a complete sentence each] ==> 1x5=5

D/AQ [Descriptive/Analytical Questions; answer in about 100 words; two out of five; marks division like 2+3, 3+2, 1+4, 5+0 etc permissible; part marking to be shown clearly on answer scripts] ==> 5x2=10

RAPID READER: 10 Marks (Passage from the text will not be given)

MCQ [Multiple Choice Questions; two from each five stories; any 5 to be answered out of ten; 4 options in each question] ==> 1x5=5 DQ [Only Descriptive Type Questions; no Analytical Questions; to be answered in about 100 words; one from each five stories; any one to be answered out of five; marks division like 2+3, 3+2, 1+4, 5+0 etc permissible; part marking to be shown clearly on answer scripts] ==> 5x1=5

LANGUAGE: 30 MARKS

a) Textual Grammar: 10 Marks

• Voice change [one question on this topic; one out of one] ==> 1x1=1
• Change the mode of narration [one question on this topic; one out of one] ==> 1x1=1
• Transformation of sentences [(a) simple, complex,compound sentences (b) change of degrees of comparison (c) Interchange of parts of speech (d) Affirmative to negative and vice versa (e) Exclamatory to assertive and vice versa (f) Infinitive, gerund, participle], [Joining of sentences (simple, complex, compound)], [Splitting of sentences into two or more simple sentences];[five questions from the given topics; answer five out of five] ==> 1x5=5
• Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles and prepositions [six blanks]    0.5x6=3

b) Writing: 10 Marks

Paragraph Writing [Descriptive / Narrative / Current Affairs / Reflective / Argumentative (For/Against); one paragraph to be set in the question paper; hints will be given with the question; answer to be written in about 150-200 words] ==> 10 OR Story writing from a given outline [division into paragraphs is permitted; dialogues can be introduced to enliven the situation; moral to be given only if specially asked to; only one story writing is to set in the question paper; characters may be given names; personification may be used; answer to be written in about 150–200 words] ==> 10

c) ESP: 10 Marks

1. Newspaper Advertisement [all types, classifieds; not to read like a paragraph; not to write complete sentences indiscriminately; answer to be written in about 50 words; one out of two] ==> 5
2. Commercial Leaflet [may be visually attractive with varying font sizes, a mix of capital and small letters, using bubbles, using pen only; bullets forms allowed, no need of complete sentences; answer to be written in about 50 words; one out of two] ==> 5

Project Work : 20 Marks (Internal Assessment)

• One project work in an academic year
• Obtained marks to be added to the Annual Examination marks
• Schools can devise their own methods of internal assessment
• The Project should be written in about 1000–1500 words
•  The Project to be prepared preferably at home, individually under the supervision of the school teacher.

 Students can opt any one of the following topics:

• Developing a Story with the beginning given in 2-3 sentences
• Dramatizing a story [From within the syllabus or outside the syllabus; stage directions (what is on the stage after curtains are drawn & the location) to be mentioned; topics to be selected by students; the story to divided into scenes; scenes to be created according to the incidents narrated in the story; the story to be represented in a manner as if enacted on the stage; dialogues to be introduced; original innovations to be encouraged with a little disgression from the main story]
• Writing an autobiography [of an object (coin, book, river, tree etc.)/ persons (a student can write an autobiography of himself / herself)]

Parameters for Assessment of Project Work: 

• Imagination and originality ==> 5 marks
• Organisation ==> 5 marks
• Language and Expression ==> 5 marks
• Viva Voce ==> 3 marks
• Neatness (File Presentation) ==> 2 marks
• Total ==> 20 marks

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LEELA'S FRIEND by R K Narayan: A Quiz

NEW AND UPDATED SYLLABUS: Class XI, English B, WBCHSE, w.e.f. Session 2013-2014

Division of marks
Prose : 20 marks
Verse : 20 marks
Rapid Reader : 10 marks
Textual Grammar : 10 marks
Writing (paragraph/story)  : 10 marks
ESP Newspaper advertisement : 05 marks
Commercial leaflet  : 05 marks
Project  : 20 marks
Total : 100 marks

Prose

1. Leela's Friend -- R. K. Narayan
2. Karma -- Khushwant Sing
3. Alias Jimmy Valentine -- O Henry
4. Nobel Lecture -- Mother Teresa
5. The Place of Art in Education -- Nandalal Bose (Speaking of Art, Viswa Bharati -- 1999 edition), (Pages--23 to 26 upto first paragraph ending with......"according to the location" on page 26).

Verse

1. Upon the Westminster Bridge -- William Wordsworth
2. Meeting at Night -- Robert Browning
3. The Sick Rose -- William Blake
4. Brotherhood -- Octavio Paz
5. Daybreak -- H W Longfellow

Rapid Reader (Any One)

Tales from Shakespeare -- Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb (edited version)

 Macbeth, Othello, The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, Twelfth Night.

Textual Grammar

Text based grammatical questions on Voice Change, Narration Change, Transformation of sentences, Joining of sentences, Splitting of sentences, Appropriate articles and prepositions, etc.

Writing

Paragraph writing / Story writing ( about 150-200 words)

ESP

Newspaper Advertisement : All types, classifieds (within 50 words)

Commercial Leaflet : Opening of a showroom /Institution/ Training centre, Launching tour programmes by travel agency, Discount sale (within 50 words).

Project (1000-1500 words) (Any one) : 

• Dramatizing a story from within the syllabus or outside the syllabus
• Developing a story with the beginning given in 2-3 sentences
• Writing an autobiography of an object / persons / self

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UPON THE WESTMINSTER BRIDGE by William Wordsworth : An Analysis

Westminster Bridge

The Author:

William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (1770-1850), a poet belonging to the first generation of the English Romantic poets.

The Source:

       The poet William Wordsworth was greatly charmed by the early morning scene of London watched from a coach while crossing the Westminster Bridge on the way to Dover on 31^st July, 1802. He immediately wrote a poem reflecting his personal feelings, perceptions and fascinations. The poem was Upon the Westminster Bridge. The poem got its final form when Wordsworth and Dorothy were returning from France on 3^rd September, 1802. Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journal supports these facts.

The Substance:

         The poet is crossing the Westminster Bridge over the Thames in a coach early in the morning. The sun is just rising up and the great city of London is bathed in its first light. The poet is deeply moved by the beauty of the scene. It appears to him to be the loveliest sight. Nobody can ignore this unparalleled and splendid sight. And if there is any, he is definitely devoid of any sense of natural beauty. The city seems to wear a dress of golden sunbeams.      The city is totally silent and clearly visible. The sky is clear having no dust and no smoke. There is no noise in the atmosphere. All is calm and quiet. Everything of the city such as ships, towers, domes, theaters, temples etc is clearly visible even from the green fields that lie in distance in the unpolluted air of the early morning. All are brilliantly shining in the golden rays of the rising sun.       The valley, rock and hill look lovely at sunrise. But the city of London is the loveliest. The river (Thames) flows freely. Its course is not obstructed by the movements of boats or ships. The very houses seem to be sleeping. London, the heart of the country, remains calm and quiet as if a roaring giant is stilled. The poet makes an impassioned address to God, the creator of all beauty upon the earth, to express his sincere gratitude to Him.

The Features:

         The poem Upon the Westminster Bridge is a perfect sonnet. It has a regular pattern following the Italian model. The simple diction, meter and style of the poem enhance the simplicity, frankness and beauty of the theme. The poem is a pleasant one to read and perceive. It is also a brilliant romantic poem. Wordsworth, a romantic poet, creates a purely romantic expression throughout the poem. Nature is all alive to him. The beautiful objects of nature stir his inner soul and make him fascinated towards them.

The city of London:

  The poet, Wordsworth gives a fine pen-picture of the city of London in his poem “Composed Upon the Westminster Bridge”. He is deeply moved by the natural beauty of the city as seen from the Westminster Bridge in the early morning. London looks beautiful in the splendour of the rising sun. It seems as if the city of London has clothed itself in the beauty of the morning. A profound calm prevailed there. Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples are glittering brightly in the smokeless air. The city has become merged with adjacent green fields and the clear sky overhead. It seems that the sun has never shone more beautifully. The poet has never felt such a calmness as this before. The river Thames flows freely. The restful condition of the city inspires the poet to rejoice. He thanks God for such a rare experience.

The Simile

  “The city now doth like a garment wear

    The beauty of the morning; silent, bare."

The above lines are an extract of Wordsworth’s poem “Composed Upon the Westminster Bridge”. Here the poet describes the city of London in the early morning. He uses a fine image/simile to beautify the city. The poet views the city from the Westminster Bridge over the Thames. The sun has just come out. Its golden rays fall on the city which looks bright and beautiful. The poet is greatly pleased to observe that beauty in the smokeless air. That beauty gives him so much pleasure that he personifies the city, and he imagines that the city wears the beauty of the sun-lit morning like a garment. By comparing the morning beauty to a garment, he wants to glorify the city of London. By the simile, the poet imagines the city as a fair lady. And by making her wear the garment of the morning beauty, he wants to make the city look more attractive. 
 

The Title 

  The poem, “Composed Upon the Westminster Bridge”, depicts Wordsworth’s reaction to the amazing beauty of the city of London. On his way to Dover from London along with his sister Dorothy in a coach in 1802, he is deeply moved by the incomparable beauty of the city viewed from Westminster Bridge over the thames early in the morning. The spectacle was wonderful. The sun was shining brightly. Everything in the city was glittering in the smokeless air. It seemed to wear a new dress. It became one with the adjacent fields and the sky overhead. The serene silence all around soothed his soul. This evoked his joy and wonder which promoted him to pen this sweet sonnet. Infact, the title clearly indicates the occasion. From that point of view it is appropriate.

The Personification

  Personification is a literary style to impose human qualities on inanimate objects. In the poem, “Composed Upon the Westminster Bridge”, Wordsworth uses personifications to present a live picture of the beautiful city of London in the sun-lit morning. The poet gives life to the sun, the river, the houses and finally to the whole city which has a symbolic heart. He uses personal pronominal adjectives to personify the sun and the river. The sun has never shone more beautifully. The river Thames flows freely at ‘his own sweet will’. The city wears a garment like a far lady. The city’s mighty heart is ‘lying still’. Hence, by using personifications, Wordsworth enlivens the city.

The MCQ & SAQ DATA BANK

• Date of composition ==> September 3, 1802 ( July 31, 1802 in another opinion)
• Year of publication ==> 1807 in “Poems in Two volumes”
• Westminster Bridge ==> It is a bridge in England crossing the river Thames near Westminster Abbey and leading to the road to Dover.
• Occasion of composition ==> While going to France, on his way from London to Dover, Wordsworth looked at the city of London from Westminster Bridge. It was early morning and he was moved by the beauty of the city. He stopped his horse carriage on the bridge and wrote the poem.
• Poet’s companion ==> Dorothy, the poet’s sister.
• Type of the poem ==> It is a Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet having 14 lines divided into Octave (first eight lines) and Sestet (last six lines). The Octave follows the rhyme scheme abba-abba while the sestet keeps to cdcdcd.
• Use of Personification ==> The city of London wears a new garment. The river Thames is gliding on his own free will. The houses of London are fast asleep.
• This city ==> The city of London.
• Garment ==> The beauty of the morning covers the city just as a dress covers the body.
• Domes ==> The dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral.
• The river ==> The Thames, a river of Southern England flowing from the Costworlds in Gloucestershire through London to the North Sea.
• Steep ==> to submerge or cover; to radiate; to immerse.
• Bare ...clothed ==> The city of London has been described as both ‘bare’ and ‘clothed’. This is a case of paradox.
• Dear God ! ==> The poet addresses God out of joy and wonder. It is an exclamation.
• Glittering ==> Dazzling
• Majesty ==> Magnificence
• Will ==> Desire
• Still ==> Silent
• Mighty ==> Large, gigantic.
• Mighty heart ==> Huge heart [Here, the city has been compared to a giant with a huge heart. When the city is full of commercial activity, it assumes an ugly shape like that of a giant. It is an example of a metaphor.
• Glideth ==> Flows
• The city now doth like a garment wear ==> The city of London here is imagined as a fair lady. The poet imagines that the city wears a garment. It is a grand example of simile.
• The very houses seem asleep ==> Here, houses are personified as ‘asleep’. The houses are asleep for the members are sleeping. So the houses are calm and tranquill.
• The river glideth at his own sweet will ==> Here, the river Thames is personified, for as if he is in charge of his own movement.
• In his first splendour ==> Here, the sun is personified. The sun is shining in its full radiance.
• Never did the sun more beautifully steep ==> It is an example of metaphor to emphasise how attractive the sunlight is. He wants to show how everything in the city is immersed in sunlight. As a result, the city of London is glowing in its radiating beauty.
• Earth has not anything to show more fair ==> It is an example of hyperbole. Here we find Wordsworth exault in ecstasy.