HS English Question paper 2022 with Answer
HS English Question paper 2022 with Answer
Part – B
1. Complete each of the following sentences, choosing the correct option from the alternatives provided :
(i) The narrator had compartment to himself up to
(a) Saharanpur
(b) Dehradun
(c) Rohana
(d) Mussorie
Ans : (c) Rohana
OR
The girl in the train compartment thought the narrator to be
(a) gallant
(b) serious
(c) gallant and serious
(d) pretentionus
Ans : (c) gallant and serious
(ii) Abdul Kalam’s father would convey complex spiritual concepts in simple down-to-earth
(a) Arabic
(b) Urdu
(c) Tamil
(d) Telugu
Ans : (c) Tamil
(iii) Kalam’s ancestral house was built in
(a) mid 19th century
(b) late 19th century
(c) early 20th century
(d) early 19th century
Ans : (a) mid 19th century
(iv) The wounded man was actually
(a) enemy of the hermit
(b) enemy of the Tsar
(c) friend of the Tsar
(d) disciple of the hermit
Ans : (b) enemy of the Tsar
HS English Question paper 2022 with Answer
HS English Question paper 2022 with Answer
2. Answer any four of the following questions, each in a complete sentence :
(i) Who was the priest of the Rameswaram temple?
Ans : Pakhhi Lakshana Sastry
(ii) How did the girl describe the narrator?
Ans : As a very gallant young man bot to serious.
(iii) Why did the Tsar put on simple cloth before meeting the hermit?
Ans : Because the hermit received none but common folk.
(v) Who did the narrator of “The Eyes Have It” think to be formidable creatures?
Ans : The girls aunt.
(vi) Where was the girl in the story “The Eyes Have It” getting off?
Ans : At Saharanpur
(vii) What, according to the hermit is the most important thing to do?
Ans : To do him good.
(viii) What was the hermit doing when the Tsar came to take leave of him?
Ans : The hermit was outside, on his knees, sowing seeds in the bees.
(ix) What did Abdul Kalam’s father use to avoid?
Ans : All inessential comforts and luxuries.
HS English Question paper 2022 with Answer
3. Complete each of the following sentences, choosing the correct option from the alternatives provided :
(i) The marks of wound of the soldier are
(a) on his head
(b) on his chest
(c) in his side
(d) in his leg
Ans : (c) in his side
OR
The darling buds are shaken by rough winds in
(a) March
(b) april
(c) May
(d) Jume
Ans : (c) May
(ii) Nature is pleaded to keep the soldier
(a) pleasant
(b) warm
(c) asleep
(d) peaceful
Ans : (b) warm
(iii) Nature’s changing course is
(a) dimmed
(b) temperate
(c) untrimmed
(d) lovely
Ans : (c) untrimmed
(iv) Being tired, the grasshoopper rests beneath
(a) green hedge
(b) bushes
(c) pleasant weed
(d) grassy hills
Ans : (c) pleasant weed
HS English Question paper 2022 with Answer
4. Answer any four of the following questions, each in a complete sentence :
(i) From where is the shrill song the cricket heard in “The Poetry of Earth”?
Ans : From the stove, the cricket song is heard.
(ii) What does the ‘eye of heaven’ refer to?
Ans : the sun
(iii) How long will the young man be remembered in Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 18?
Ans : So long as men can breathe or eyes can see
(iv) Why is the soldier pale?
Ans : he is dead
(v) Where does the soldier lie stretched?
Ans : In the heavy undergrowth
(vi) Where does the stream leave ‘long strands of silver’?
Ans : On the bright grass.
(vii) What shall death not brag about in Shakespeare’s poem?
Ans : The life of the friend of the poet.
(viii) Whrer do the birds hide when they are ‘faint with the hot sun’?
Ans : Hide in cooling trees.
(ix) What kind of a poem is ‘shall I compare three to a summer’s day?
Ans : Shakes pearean Sonnet
HS English Question paper 2022 with Answer
5. Complete each of the following sentences, choosing the correct option from the alternatives provided :
(i) The worst of Lomov’s physical problems is
(a) the way he sleeps
(b) his palpitations
(c) his headache
(d) his limp
Ans : (b) his palpitations
(ii) Chubukov said that Lomov’s younger aunt had run away with
(a) a hunter
(b) a drunkard
(c) a count
(d) an architect
Ans : (d) an architect
(iii) Lomov went to his neighbour, Chubukov’s house
(a) to borrow money
(b) to settle a dispute
(c) to give a marriage proposal
(d) to complain
Ans : (c) to give a marriage proposal
(iv) Lomov’s aunt’s name is
(a) Natalya Stemanova
(b) Natasha Vassilevitch
(c) Nastasya Mihailovna
(d) Natalya Mihailovna
Ans : (c) Nastasya Mihailovna
