Class 9 English: Sample Question Paper Term I- 6 | Sample Papers For Class 9 PDF Download

Class - IX

General Instructions:

1. The Question Paper contains three sections.
2. Section A-READING has 18 questions. Attempt a total of 14 questions, as per specific instructions for each question.
3. Section B-WRITING & GRAMMAR has 12 questions. Attempt a total of 10 questions, as per specific instructions for each question.
4. Section C-LITERATURE has 30 questions. Attempt 26 questions, as per specific instructions for each question.
5. All questions carry equal marks.
6. There is NO negative marking.

Question No. 1 to 10 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:

Tell someone that you are going to a convention of accountants and you might get a few yawns, yet money and how it works is probably one of the most interesting things on earth. It is fascinating and almost magical, how money appeared on our planet. Unlike most developments we enjoy, which can be traced back to a source, civilisation or inventor, money appeared in places then unconnected all over the world in a remarkably similar way.
Consider the American Indians using Wampum, West Africans trading in decorative metallic objects called Manillas, and the Fijians economy based on whale's teeth, some of which are still legal tender; add to that shells, amber, ivory, decorative feathers, cattle including oxen & pigs, a large number of stones including jade and quartz, which have all been used for trade across the world, and we get a taste of the variety of accepted currency.
There is something charming and childlike imagining primitive societies, our ancestors, using all these colourful forms of money. As long as everyone concerned can agree on a value, this is a sensible thing for a community to do.
After all, the person who has what you need might not need what you have to trade. Money solves that problem neatly. Real value with each exchange, and everyone gaining from the convenience. The idea is really inspired, which might explain why so many diverse minds came up with it. Once the money is accepted as a form of exchange, those who produce, loan out, and manipulate the quantity of money are obviously in a very strong position They are the "Money Changers".
"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance," said President James Madison.
Money, money, money, it's always just been there, right? Wrong. Obviously, it's issued by the government to make it easy for us to exchange things. Wrong again!
Truth is, most people don't realise that the issuing of money is essentially a private business and that the privilege of issuing money has been a major bone of contention throughout history.

Q.1: What is meant by the word, concentration? (para 1)
(a) conference
(b) wave
(c) competition
(d) fair

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.2: What is meant by the word, fascinating? (para 2)
(a) republic
(b) attractive
(c) valuable
(d) beautiful

Correct Answer is Option (b)

Q.3: What is meant by convenience?
(a) comfort
(b) transport
(c) clown
(d) escape

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.4: What is meant by the word, Intrigue?
(a) interval
(b) interest
(c) fear
(d) plot

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.5: What is fascinating and almost magical?
(a) Convention of Accountants
(b) Yawning
(c) Evolution of Money
(d) All of these

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Q.6: What is unique about the development of money?
(a) It can be traced back to a source
(b) It has an inventor
(c) It was developed in ancient civilisation
(d) It appeared in unconnected places in a similar way

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.7: Which currencies did the West African use?
(a) Decorative Feathers
(b) Wampum
(c) Whale's Teeth
(d) Manillas

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.8: What is still a legal tender in the Fijian Economy?
(a) Jade and Quartz
(b) Whale's Teeth
(c) Cattle
(d) Shells and Ivory

Correct Answer is Option (b)

Q.9: What is something charming and childlike to imagine?
(a) People living in Primitive Societies
(b) Our ancestors agreeing on common values
(c) All of these
(d) Use of colourful forms of money

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.10: Who are the Money Changers?
(a) People who produce money
(b) All of these
(c) People who manipulate the quantity of money
(d) People who loan out money

Correct Answer is Option (b)

Question No. 11 to 18 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:
What makes a place sacred? A place where meditation is practised over many years automatically acquires certain powers. The place gets charged with the energy and vibrations from peaceful thoughts. Depending on the intensity of meditators, the sanctity and power of a particular place can thus remain charged, exuding powerful vibrations, for thousands of years. The Parshvanath Hills is one such place. Twenty-two of the 24 Jain Tirthankaras attained nirvana on this hill, and these enlightened persons were separated by thousands of years.
When a Tirthankara leaves his body, the equivalent of an atomic explosion takes place. The energy that the united body and soul is released. This power is dispersed on the hill. The whole atmosphere and surroundings get surcharged. What the Parshvanath Hills are to the Jains, the Ganga is to the Hindus. Lord Krishna said, "Among the armed, I am like Ram; I am like a crocodile among fish and the Ganga among rivers. Dear Arjuna, I am the beginning, the end and even the middle of existence". The symbolism of the Ganga is worth understanding. Take away the Ganga from India and all the literature of India will become incomplete. Take away the Ganga and the names of many sages will perish; the

spirit of pilgrimage will be lost. The Ganga has become the symbol of our collective spirit.

What is so special about the Ganga? There are rivers that are much longer, wider, larger, than the Ganga on this planet - the Brahmaputra, the Amazon, the Nile and the Hwang Ho. There is something unique about the Ganga that is not found in any of these great rivers: despite all the pollutants being pumped into the Ganga, it has somehow managed to maintain its relative purity. Chemically, it contains extraordinary properties - its water does not putrefy or deteriorate even if kept bottled for long, unlike the water from other rivers. It is interesting to know that the water of the Ganga has properties different from those of other rivers but which seem to undergo a mystical change once they flow into the Ganga's waters. This is a mystery that even science has not been able to understand, as of

yet.

Q.11: The Ganga symbolizes
(a) faith
(b) purity
(c) all of these
(d) collective spirit

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Q.12: The place which acquires certain powers is ________.
(a) where music is played
(b) where there are statues idols
(c) where meditation is practised
(d) where bells keep ringing

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Q.13: The four rivers as mentioned in the passage are:
(a) The Ganga, the Brahmaputra, the Amazon and the Thames
(b) The Thames, the Saryu, the Yamuna, and the Nile
(c) The Ganga, the Brahmaputra, the Amazon and the Nile
(d) The Ganga, the Brahmaputra, the Krishna and the Nile

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Q.14: Complete the analogy. What the Parshvanath Hills are to the Jains,
(a) the Brahmaputra is to the Hindus
(b) the Saryu is to the Hindus
(c) the Yamuna is to the Hindus
(d) the Ganga is to the Hindus

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.15: All the literature of India will become incomplete if we take away:
(a) the Sarasvati
(b) the Ganga
(c) the Yamuna
(d) the Brahmaputra

Correct Answer is Option (b)

Q.16: Find the word from the passage which means the same as to become worse.
(a) deteriorate
(b) improve
(c) upgrade
(d) tweak

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.17: How many Tirthankaras attained nirvana on Parshvanath hill?
(a) 20
(b) 24
(c) 26
(d) 22

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.18: The mystery of which river that even science has not been able to understand?
(a) The Sarasvati river
(b) The Nile river
(c) The Ganga river
(d) The Amazon river

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Question No. 19 to 24 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:
You saved your pocket money to buy one of your favourite books. You decided to read it on Sundays. But one day on your way back from school you lost the book in your school bus and couldn't find it. You pasted a notice on the notice board and finally, someone returned it to you. You are writing a story based on this whole experience.

Q.19: The most suitable title for this story will be:
(a) My Favourite Book
(b) Lost and Found
(c) My Lucky Book
(d) A Lucky Find

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.20: What should have the notice conveyed to ensure the find a definite one?
(a) A suspension from school
(b) A reward of the same book to the finder
(c) A punishment to one who has the book
(d) A handsome treat to the finder

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.21: What would be the next line of your story after getting back the book:
(a) I rewarded the boy (finder) as promised
(b) I thanked the boy (finder) very much and kept my promise
(c) I acknowledged the boy (finder) for his genuine efforts
(d) I took the boy (finder) to the principal’s office

Correct Answer is Option (b)

Q.22: The plot of the story is based on:
(a) A tensed situation
(b) An imaginary situation
(c) A real-life situation
(d) A dramatic situation

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Q.23: What does the story revolves around?
(a) Your experience
(b) Loosing and finding a favourite thing
(c) Getting and losing a favourite thing
(d) A favourite book

Correct Answer is Option (b)

Q.24: Which of the following should not characterise your story?
i. Plot
ii. Character
iii. Setting
iv. Digression
(a) Option (i)
(b) Option (ii)
(c) Option (iv)
(d) Option (iii)

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Q.25: When he ____ her as a cheater, she _____ him to the headmaster.
(a) called / had complained
(b) has called / complains
(c) called / complained
(d) had called / complained

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.26: My father ________ English at all although he ________ it for three years when he was in high school.
(a) hasn’t been speaking / studies
(b) isn’t speaking / has studied
(c) wasn’t speaking / is studying
(d) doesn’t speak / studied

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.27: Here ________ the mail and newspapers that I picked up for you while you were on vacation.
(a) was
(b) is
(c) are
(d) be

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Q.28: You ________ so fast on such a busy road. You ________ an accident.
(a) can't have driven, would die
(b) shouldn't have driven, might have had
(c) couldn't have driven, could have
(d) mustn't have driven, should have had

Correct Answer is Option (b)

Q.29: You can buy these maps at ______ station. They all have them.
(a) a lot of
(b) several
(c) few
(d) any

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.30: He said, "I shall go as soon as possible".
Reported speech: ________
(a) He said that he would go as soon as it was possible.
(b) He said that he would go as soon as possible.
(c) He said he would go as soon as it was possible.
(d) He said that he will go as soon as it was possible.

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Question No. 31 to 35 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:
On Sunday afternoons Grandmother sent her down to the drawing-room to have a nice talk with Father and Mother. But the little girl always found Mother reading and Father stretched out on the sofa, his handkerchief on his face, his feet on one of the best cushions, sleeping soundly and snoring. She sat on a stool, gravely watched him until he woke and stretched, and asked the time-then looked at her. Don't stare so, Kezia. You look like a little brown owl. One day, when she was kept indoors with a cold, her grandmother told her that father's birthday was next week and suggested she should make him a pin-cushion for a gift out of a beautiful piece of yellow silk.

Q.31: What did Kezia's father do on Sundays?
(a) He used to have sound sleep to take rest.
(b) gossip
(c) He went for movies.
(d) He used to visit his friends.

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.32: How did Kezia's grandmother help her to have a better relation with her father?
(a) by sending her to talk to him in his room
(b) by asking her to complete her homework
(c) by asking her to prepare food for him
(d) all of these

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.33: What did Kezia's grandmother ask her to make for her father?
(a) none of these
(b) a gift of pin cushion
(c) chapati
(d) snacks

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.34: Was she happy with her parents?
(a) may be
(b) no
(c) yes
(d) none of these

Correct Answer is Option (b)

Q.35: Find a word that means undisturbed.
(a) snoring
(b) handkerchief
(c) soundly
(d) stretched

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Question No. 36 to 40 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:
During the annual Shri Sita Rama Kalyanam ceremony, our family used to arrange boats with a special platform for carrying idols of the Lord from the temple to the marriage site, situated in the middle of the pond called Rama Tirtha which was near our house. Events from the Ramayana and from the life of the Prophet were the bedtime stories my mother and grandmother would tell the children in our family.

Q.36: What is the name of the pond?
(a) Rama Tirtha
(b) Kalyanam
(c) Shri Sita Rama
(d) Rama Sita

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.37: Find a word from the passage that means images of God.
(a) Idols
(b) Temple
(c) Lord
(d) Platform

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.38: What type of stories were told to the writer at bedtime?
(a) Events from the Ramayana
(b) Idols of the Lord
(c) About grandmother
(d) Shri Sita Rama Kalyanam Ceremony

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.39: Find the word in the passage which means the same the place where some event takes place.
(a) Site
(b) Platform
(c) Pond
(d) None of these

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.40: What was the annual event held in Rameshwaram?
(a) Shri Radhe Shyam Kalyanam Ceremony
(b) None of these
(c) Shri Ram Lakshman Kalyanam Ceremony
(d) Shri Sita Rama Kalyanam Ceremony

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Question No. 41 to 45 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:
There, look what you did - you threw them all down.
You tore the pages of the books.
You brought rain again.
You are very clever at poking fun at weaklings.

Q.41: Who brought the rain?
(a) ocean
(b) None of these
(c) wind
(d) plants

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Q.42: Who are affected by the wind?
(a) people
(b) strong
(c) things
(d) weak

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.43: Tell a word in the poem which is the antonym of foolish?
(a) clever
(b) cunning
(c) all of these
(d) wise

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.44: Who tore the page of the books?
(a) children
(b) wind
(c) monkey
(d) none of these

Correct Answer is Option (b)

Q.45: What is the moral of this poem?
(a) request the wind
(b) be firm and strong and never be defeated by any obstacle
(c) don't be weak
(d) pray to the wind

Correct Answer is Option (b)

Question No. 46 to 50 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:
"I have a golden bed-room," he said softly to himself as he looked round, and he prepared to go to sleep."

Q.46: Who is the speaker of the above lines?
i. Happy Prince
ii. Swallow
iii. Queen
iv. None of these
(a) Only (iii)
(b) Only (iv)
(c) Only (ii)
(d) Only (i)

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Q.47: Explain, I have a golden bed-room.
(a) The prince had a golden heart.
(b) The feet of the Happy Prince were surrounded with gold.
(c) The statue was made of gold.
(d) There were a lot of gold ornaments on the statue.

Correct Answer is Option (b)

Q.48: Where was he going?
(a) Russia
(b) Antarctica
(c) Australia
(d) Egypt

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.49: Why was he going?
(a) For shelter
(b) For food
(c) For warmth
(d) For charity

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Q.50: Which of the following is an adverb used in the above extract?
(a) Softly
(b) Golden
(c) Prepared
(d) Round

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.51: Margie had to write out her homework
(a) none of these
(b) in English
(c) in Punch code
(d) in Russian

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Q.52: To which the American President did Einstein write a letter about the destructive powers of such atomic bombs? (A Truly Beautiful Mind)
(a) Abraham Lincoln
(b) Theodore Roosevelt
(c) Franklin Pierce
(d) Franklin D. Roosevelt

Correct Answer is Option (c)

At the urging of a colleague, Einstein wrote a letter to the American President Franklin D. Roosevelt explaining to him the destructive power of the atomic bombs on 2nd    August 1939.

Q.53: How many times did Einstein utter a word when he learned to speak?
(a) Once
(b) Twice
(c) Thrice
(d) Four times

Correct Answer is Option (b)

Q.54: Who played Shehnai at King's palace?
(a) A singer
(b) A barber
(c) A courts man
(d) A musician

Correct Answer is Option (b)

Q.55: What weaves their air-threads into woof in the poem Rain on the Roof?
(a) A thousand dreamy fancies
(b) A thousand recollections
(c) A thousand raindrops
(d) A thousand lilies

Correct Answer is Option (b) 

Listening to the refrain made by the rain, a thousand recollections rushes into the  poet's mind and weaves their air-threads into a woof.

Q.56: Saint Peter came to the house of a woman who was a ________ maker. (A Legend of the Northland)
(a) cake
(b) roti
(c) pot
(d) chocolate

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.57: Why did the ticket collector call Toto a dog?
(a) All of these
(b) Because of his dog-like looks
(c) Because he was peeping out of the bag
(d) To fix fare

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.58: Who reached the Kingdom of Fools?
(a) Two young men
(b) A guru and his disciple
(c) Two thieves
(d) Two tradesmen

Correct Answer is Option (b)

Q.59: What were the things that the child saw on his way to the fair? (The Lost Child)
(a) Toys
(b) Sweets and Garlands
(c) All of these
(d) Balloons

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Q.60: Where did the child go with his parents? (The Lost Child)
(a) All of these
(b) Cinema hall
(c) Village fair
(d) Circus

Correct Answer is Option (c)