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ENGLISII AND ENGLISH ESSAY
Time :3 Hours N{axinrumN{arks : 100
Note : All questions are compulsory. Number of marks carried by each question is indicated against
the same. Mention question number and the part number clearly before attempting the
question.The parts of the same questions must be answerd together and must not be interposed
between answer to other questions.
1. Make a precis of the following passage reducing it to one-third of its length. Also assign a
suitable title : 
[20]
lf there be a regal solitude, it is a sick bed. How the patient Lords it there? What caprices he
acts without control? How king like he sways his pillow tumbling and tossing, and shifting and
lowering and the thumping and flatting and moulding it, to the ever varying requisitions of his
throbbing temples. He changes sides oftener than politicians. Now he lies in full length, then
half length, obliquely, transversely, head and feet quite across the bed; and none accuses him
of tergiversation. Within the four curtains he is absolute. They are his mare clausum.
. 
How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! he is his own exclusive
object. Supreme selfish is inculcated upon him as his only duty. He is the two tables of the Law
of him. He has nothing to think of but how to get well. What passes out of the dcors, or within
them, so he hears not the Jarring of them, affects him not.
2. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follcw in your own
words : 
[20]
ln the later half of the seventeenth century and practically the whole of the eighteenth century -
The Augustan age, as they are called - the classics came to exercise a complete hcld over
English Litei'ature. lt was even believed that they represented the highest standards of literary
beauty which English writers had only to follow to attain perfection in their art. To this end
therefore they directed all their energies, conveniently forgetting what their own predecessors
- Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare had achieved without any direct aid from them. There were
two chief reasons for it. One was the excess of the Metaphysical poets and the other the
unprecedented influence of the French Literary modes on the English.
(a) What is the period of Augustan age and Why ?
(b) How do they differ from their predecessors ?
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ENGLISII AND ENGLISH ESSAY
Time :3 Hours N{axinrumN{arks : 100
Note : All questions are compulsory. Number of marks carried by each question is indicated against
the same. Mention question number and the part number clearly before attempting the
question.The parts of the same questions must be answerd together and must not be interposed
between answer to other questions.
1. Make a precis of the following passage reducing it to one-third of its length. Also assign a
suitable title : 
[20]
lf there be a regal solitude, it is a sick bed. How the patient Lords it there? What caprices he
acts without control? How king like he sways his pillow tumbling and tossing, and shifting and
lowering and the thumping and flatting and moulding it, to the ever varying requisitions of his
throbbing temples. He changes sides oftener than politicians. Now he lies in full length, then
half length, obliquely, transversely, head and feet quite across the bed; and none accuses him
of tergiversation. Within the four curtains he is absolute. They are his mare clausum.
. 
How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! he is his own exclusive
object. Supreme selfish is inculcated upon him as his only duty. He is the two tables of the Law
of him. He has nothing to think of but how to get well. What passes out of the dcors, or within
them, so he hears not the Jarring of them, affects him not.
2. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follcw in your own
words : 
[20]
ln the later half of the seventeenth century and practically the whole of the eighteenth century -
The Augustan age, as they are called - the classics came to exercise a complete hcld over
English Litei'ature. lt was even believed that they represented the highest standards of literary
beauty which English writers had only to follow to attain perfection in their art. To this end
therefore they directed all their energies, conveniently forgetting what their own predecessors
- Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare had achieved without any direct aid from them. There were
two chief reasons for it. One was the excess of the Metaphysical poets and the other the
unprecedented influence of the French Literary modes on the English.
(a) What is the period of Augustan age and Why ?
(b) How do they differ from their predecessors ?
(c) What are the two reasons behind the Augustan Age ?
(d) Give the meaning of the following words and use them in sentences :
Classics, attain, predecessors, 
metaphysical, unprecedented
3. write an essay in about 300 words on any one of the following topics :
(a) Beauty is truth, truth beauty
(b) Mob Lynching
(c) New Education Policy in lndia
(d) Tripple Talaq
4 Rewrite the following sentences as directed :
(a) Shut the door (Change the voice)
(b) We ought to hurry ( negative form)
(c) As soon as he came, he fell on the ground (Replace as soon as with no sooner).
(d) He is too weak to walk (Remove too).
(e) He said, "Get 
out of my way." (Change narration)
5. Mention one word substitute :
(a) A person appointed by two parties 
to solve a dispute.
(b) One who leads an austere life.
(c) One who does a thing for pleasure and not as a profession.
(d) Persons living at the same time.
(e) A person who is mentally sick.
6. Use the following idioms into sentences to bring out their meanings :
(a) Hit the nailon the head
(b) Blessing in disguise
(c) Beat around the bush
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ENGLISII AND ENGLISH ESSAY
Time :3 Hours N{axinrumN{arks : 100
Note : All questions are compulsory. Number of marks carried by each question is indicated against
the same. Mention question number and the part number clearly before attempting the
question.The parts of the same questions must be answerd together and must not be interposed
between answer to other questions.
1. Make a precis of the following passage reducing it to one-third of its length. Also assign a
suitable title : 
[20]
lf there be a regal solitude, it is a sick bed. How the patient Lords it there? What caprices he
acts without control? How king like he sways his pillow tumbling and tossing, and shifting and
lowering and the thumping and flatting and moulding it, to the ever varying requisitions of his
throbbing temples. He changes sides oftener than politicians. Now he lies in full length, then
half length, obliquely, transversely, head and feet quite across the bed; and none accuses him
of tergiversation. Within the four curtains he is absolute. They are his mare clausum.
. 
How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! he is his own exclusive
object. Supreme selfish is inculcated upon him as his only duty. He is the two tables of the Law
of him. He has nothing to think of but how to get well. What passes out of the dcors, or within
them, so he hears not the Jarring of them, affects him not.
2. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follcw in your own
words : 
[20]
ln the later half of the seventeenth century and practically the whole of the eighteenth century -
The Augustan age, as they are called - the classics came to exercise a complete hcld over
English Litei'ature. lt was even believed that they represented the highest standards of literary
beauty which English writers had only to follow to attain perfection in their art. To this end
therefore they directed all their energies, conveniently forgetting what their own predecessors
- Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare had achieved without any direct aid from them. There were
two chief reasons for it. One was the excess of the Metaphysical poets and the other the
unprecedented influence of the French Literary modes on the English.
(a) What is the period of Augustan age and Why ?
(b) How do they differ from their predecessors ?
(c) What are the two reasons behind the Augustan Age ?
(d) Give the meaning of the following words and use them in sentences :
Classics, attain, predecessors, 
metaphysical, unprecedented
3. write an essay in about 300 words on any one of the following topics :
(a) Beauty is truth, truth beauty
(b) Mob Lynching
(c) New Education Policy in lndia
(d) Tripple Talaq
4 Rewrite the following sentences as directed :
(a) Shut the door (Change the voice)
(b) We ought to hurry ( negative form)
(c) As soon as he came, he fell on the ground (Replace as soon as with no sooner).
(d) He is too weak to walk (Remove too).
(e) He said, "Get 
out of my way." (Change narration)
5. Mention one word substitute :
(a) A person appointed by two parties 
to solve a dispute.
(b) One who leads an austere life.
(c) One who does a thing for pleasure and not as a profession.
(d) Persons living at the same time.
(e) A person who is mentally sick.
6. Use the following idioms into sentences to bring out their meanings :
(a) Hit the nailon the head
(b) Blessing in disguise
(c) Beat around the bush
t30l
t5l
t5l
tsl
(d) Kill two birds with one stone
(e) Cry over split milk
7. Fill in the blanks with suitable forms of the words from the list given below : 
[5]
fish, trauma, water, monster, part
(a) Critics dislike T.S. Eliot's of language.
(b) He is ............ in the ftower garden.
(c) The ..... department was established in 1995.
(d) The ....... movement brought.........experiences 
in lndia.
8. Correct the following sentences : 
tl 
Ol
(a) She greeted us in a very friendly manner.
(b) That pair of scissors belong to me.
(c) Have you lived at Varanasi long ?
(d) When to you come to see us.
(e) I have had my dinner an hour ago.
(0 This is the car in that we came.
(g) Apples are good to be eaten
(h) Do you have read his latest novel ?
(i) I should like to travel in the abroad.
0) 
I go there very seldomly.