Monthly test (October 2024)

                      Monthly Test October 2024
Sub.-English.          F.M.- 20.         Time- 45 mins.

1. Answer any Five (05) questions.       (2×5)
i) What is the custom of calling the roll at Harrow?
ii) Whom does he give the credit of his success in the entrance examination and why?
iii) What reason does the writer give for his not    doing well in examinations?
iv) How did Churchill win a prize at school?
v) Why was Peter Gilligan weary night and day?
vi) What does the line 'My body spake, not I',      mean?
vii) What made Peter Gilligan kneel and pray?
2. Multiple choice questions.                  (1×10)
i)The poem "The Ballad of Father Gilligan" is written by________.
(a) Robert Frost                (b) W.B. Yeats 
(c) W.W. Jacobs                (d) W.B. Yeart
ii)Whom did God have pity on? 
(a) The sick man (b) Father Gilligan 
(c) The sick man's wife (d) Father Gilligan's church
iii)What does the "moth-hour of eve" signify? 
(a) Evening time (b) Morning time 
(c) Night time     (d) Day time
iv)Who did Churchill give credit for his passing into Harrow? 
(a) His father              (b) His headmaster 
(c) His Latin Teacher (d) His English teacher
v)How old was Churchill when he entered the inhospitable regions? 
(a) Ten                          (b) Thirteen
(c) Twelve                    (d) Fifteen
vi)What was/were the weaker boys taught? 
(a) Greek and Latin       (b) Latin and French 
(c) French and English (d) English
vii)If he _____, I will tell him the news.
a) come.                 b) comes
c) will come.          d) coming
viii) If I _____ you, I would apologize immediately.
a) am.       b) was.        c) were.           d) will be
ix)She wouldn’t have been late if she ______ earlier.
a) wakes up.                 b) woke up
c) had woken up.         d) would wake up
x)If you ______ your homework, you won’t be allowed to play.
a) don’t finish.             b) won’t finish
c) didn’t finish.            d) wouldn’t finish

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