10TH CLASS || ENGLISH || SLIP TEST || UNIT-2 || The Dear Departed || PRACTICE TEST || UNIT WISE TESTS

 Prepared by Harinath Vemula

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT (Slip Test–Unit-2) 

ENGLISH – CLASS – 10 – Marks: 20

(READING COMPREHENSION) 4 X 2 ½ = 10 M

I) Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.                   

Abel : Dear, dear. And what was his name, Ben?

Ben : (at a loss) Er-er. (He crosses to front of table.)

Mrs. Slater : (Right side of table, prompting) Frederick.

Mrs. Jordan : (Left side of table, prompting) Albert.

Ben : Er-Fred –Alb-Isaac.

Abel : Isaac? And where did your brother Isaac die?

Ben : In-er-in Australia.

Abel (rising) : Well, I suppose you’ve only been waiting for me to begin tea. I’m feeling hungry.

Mrs. Slater : (taking up the kettle) I’ll make tea.

Abel : Come along, now, sit you down and let’s be jolly.

(Abel sits at the head of the table, facing spectators.)

Abel : (suddenly recollecting) Ay, Amelia and Henry, what the devil did you mean by shifting my bureau out of my bedroom? (Henry and Mrs. Slater are speechless.) D’you hear me? Henry! Amelia!

Mrs. Jordan : What bureau was that, father?

Abel : Why, my bureau, the one I bought

Mrs. Jordan : (pointing to the bureau) Was it the one, father?

Abel : Ah, that’s it. What’s it doing there? Eh?

(A pause. The clock on the mantelpiece strikes six. Everyone looks at it.)

Drat me if that isn’t my clock, too. What the devil’s been going on in this house?

(A slight pause)

Ben : Well, I’ll be hanged.

Mrs. Jordan : (rising) I’ll tell you what’s been going on in this house, father. Nothing short of robbery.

Mrs. Slater : Be quiet, Elizabeth.

Mrs. Jordan : I’ll not be quiet. Oh, I call it double-faced.

Henry : Now, now, Elizabeth.

Mrs. Jordan : And you, too. Are you such a poor creature that you must do every dirty thing she tells you?

Abel : (rising; thumping the table) Damn it all, will someone tell me what’s been going on?

Mrs. Jordan : Yes, I will. I’ll not see you robbed.

 

1. What does Abel ask about when he remembers his bureau?

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2. Why does Ben seem hesitant when Abel asks about his deceased brother?

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3. Why does Mrs. Jordan get upset with Amelia and Henry?

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4. Which three of the following statements are false based on the passage?

A) Abel is happy to learn about the death of Ben's brother.

B) Mrs. Jordan accuses Amelia and Henry of stealing from Abel.

C) The clock on the mantelpiece belongs to Mrs. Slater.

D) Abel remembers buying the bureau he saw downstairs.

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(GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY) 5 X 1 = 5 M

II) Write as directed.                                                                                                        

When the curtain gets up (5) Mrs. Slater is seen laying the table.  She is a vigorous (6), plump, red-faced, vulgar women (7) prepared to do any amount of straight talking to get her own way. She is in black (8). She goes to the window, opens it and calls into the road (9).

5.     Replace the underlined word with suitable one.

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6.     Write the word that is opposite in meaning of the underlined word.

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7.     Replace the underlined word with right form of the word.

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8.     Give the meaning of the underlined word.

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9.     Replace the underlined word with suitable one.

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 (CREATIVE EXPRESSION) 5 X 1 = 5 M

III) In the lesson, ’The Dear Departed,’ Abel Merry Weather went out to marry at the end of the play. At the end of the one act play, the dear departed, the daughters might have felt guilt for their greed and missing their father. Imagine that they went to his father and apologized. Now, write a possible conversation among Abel (father), Amelia (daughter) and Elizabeth (daughter).