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FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT (Slip Test–Unit-8) – ENGLISH – CLASS – 10 – Marks:
20
(READING
COMPREHENSION) (4 X 2 ½ = 10 M)
I) Read the following passage and
answer the questions that follow.
Was it that even as a boy he sensed that in his own country
he would be at the white man's beck and call? Could he, at his age, divine a
difference between himself and the white boy? And did the little white
youngster, so young, such a baby, realize that he would grow to dominate the
black man? Was there an indefinable quality in the white man that enabled his
baby, smaller and younger than his playmate, to make him his slave? I could
find no answer. I could not bring myself to believe such a thing, and yet, with
my own eyes I had seen a little dark boy take orders from a little white boy —
a little white boy, obviously his social equal, and younger and smaller. Were
we, as a race, really inferior? So inferior that even in our infancy we
realised our deficiencies, and accepted a position as the white man's servant?
For a whole day I puzzled over this problem. For a whole day
my faith in my people was shaken. When I passed by that afternoon the little
boys were not there. That evening I thought deeply on the subject.
The next morning the boys were there again, and a man was
standing at the gate watching them. I stopped and looked, just to see what the
white boy was making his little servant do. To my utter astonishment the little
dark boy was striding imperiously up and down the lawn, while the white
youngster walked abjectly behind him.
'Get me a banana!' The little boy ran into the house and
reappeared shortly with a banana. 'Peel it for me!' the little white boy peeled
the banana and handed it to his dark master.
1.
How did the way the boys played make the author feel?
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2.
Why do you think the author changed his mind about what the boys were doing the
next day?
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3.
What does the detail about the man watching the boys tell you?
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4. What lesson do you think the author
wants readers to learn from this story?
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(GRAMMAR &
VOCABULARY) (5
X 1 = 5 M)
II) Rewrite as
directed.
The
housewife searched frantically (5) for her certificates in
the almirah — pattu saris, chiffon
saris, handloom saris, voile saris, different (6) blouses,
petticoats, bangles, beads, pearls, pins, kumkum
barinas, silver plates, silver containers to keep sandalwood paste,
ornaments all things arranged in an order (7) fashion.
Nowhere could she found (8) her certificates. Yes — after
marriage she had ever (9) bothered to carry those
certificates here.
5. Write a synonym for the underlined word.
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6.
Replace with an antonym that best fits.
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7.
Replace
the underlined word with right form of the word.
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8.
Replace with correct form.
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9.
Replace
with the correct word.
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(CREATIVE
EXPRESSION)
(5 X 1 = 5 M)
III) Imagine that you are
the president of the Health Club in your school. Most of the students are not
cleaning or washing their hands and plates before meal and found that they who
don’t maintain personal hygiene often fall sick. Now prepare a poster in
order to make the students aware of “Personal Hygiene” in your school to
display on the notice board.
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