10th std 2nd language english-I am the Land unit test question paper and key answers 2017-18 mes

 Academic Year: - 2017 – 18
10th Std.                                               English Unit Test                                                      Marks: 15
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Poem: - I am the Land

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Four alternatives are given below for the each of the following questions/ incomplete statements. Write the correct or the most appropriate answer:-                                                                                                    (2 x 1 = 2)

1. ‘You cannot put a fence, around the planet earth’. Here, expression of the speaker is………….
(a) self assertion    `    (b) weakness
(c) proud        (d) suffocation

2. Here the children are…………..
(a) Dancing                                                                             (b) Praying
(c) Playing                                                                               (d) Skipping

II. Answer the following question in 1 or 2 sentences each:-                                                                     (2 x 2 = 4)

3. ‘You cannot put a fence around the planet earth’. How do you justify this statement?

4. ‘A chain link necklace chokes me now’. Give reason.

III. Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow: -                                                          (2 x 3 = 6)

5. “You come with guns a chain link necklace chokes me now”.
(a) Why do they come with guns?
(b) What is the feeling of the speaker?

6. “You cannot put a fence around the planet earth”
(a) What is the tone of the speaker here?
(b) Why does it feel so?

IV. Answer the following question in 4 or 5 sentences each:-                                                                    (1 x 3 = 3)

7. How does the poet describe that the earth has an ocean of patience in the poem, “I am the land.”


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Academic Year: - 2017 – 18
10th Std.                                               English Unit Test                                                      Marks: 15
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Poem: - I am the Land
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Key Answers


I. Four alternatives are given below for the each of the following questions/ incomplete statements. Write the correct or the most appropriate answer: -                                                                                                   (2 x 1 = 2)

1. (a) self assertion

2. (a) Dancing

II. Answer the following question in 1 or 2 sentences each: -                                                                    (2 x 2 = 4)

3. Earth is very big and knows her unlimited powers. Nobody can bind her or put a fence around her. She is beyond man’s control.

4. Because a chain link necklace is given human attributes, and it chokes the mother Earth like a human.

III. Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow: -                                                         (2 x 3 = 6)

5. (a) The soldiers come with guns fighting for the land.
(b) People fight with guns for the land and mother earth feels suffocated with the action of men.

6. (a) It is a tone of self-assertion.
(b) The speaker mocks at the people who wage wars and build fences on the land to divide nations.

IV. Answer the following question in 4 or 5 sentences each: -                                                                   (1 x 3 = 3)

7. In the poem ‘I am the land’ the poet depicts the mother earth as the speaker. Mother earth tells that she waits with patience when people claim that the land belongs to them. They occupy the land, plough, plant trees, grow fruits and grass. The children dance and play on the land. The land bears everything without a complaint. The soldiers come with guns fighting for the land. People build fences on the land to divide nations, which suffocates like chains in her neck. However, mother earth mocks at the people’s behavior with a tone of self-assertion.










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