XI Standard(+1) English - Previously asked questions - Unit 3,4 - Samacheer Kalvi

 

Unit-3 - Prose

Forgetting

Synonyms

1. Delinquent – offender

2. efficiency – ability

3. reluctant –unwilling

4. eccentric -tending to act strangely

5. prosaic -dull

 

Antonyms

1. Audacious X timid

2. Eccentric X common

3. Fact X fiction

 

 

 

Short Answers

1. How do psychologists interpret forgetfulness?

2. When does human memory work with less than its usual capacity?

3. The list of articles lost in trains suggest that sportsmen have worse memories than their ordinary serious-minded fellows. Why does Lynd say this?

4. What are our memories filled with?

5. Name a few things that a person remembers easily. 

 

Poem-3

Lines Written in the Early Spring

Appreciation Questions 

1. And I must think, do all I can,

That there was pleasure there…

(a) What did the poet notice about the twigs?

(b) What was the poet’s thought about then?

(c) Pick out the alliteration in the given lines.

 

2. I heard a thousand blended notes

(a) Who heard thousand blended notes?

(b) Explain: blended notes

 

3. The birds around me hopp’d and play’d

Their thoughts I cannot measure,

(a) Whose thoughts cannot be measured?

(b) Who does ‘I’ refer to?

 

4. And ‘tis my faith that every flower

Enjoys the air it breathes…

(a)What is the poet’s faith?

(b)  What trait of Nature do we see here?

 

5. If this belief from heaven be sent,

If such be Nature’s holy plan.

(a)What does ‘heaven’ refer to?

(b)Why does the poet call it ‘holy’?

 

Explain the following lines with reference to the context. 

1. And much it grieved my heart to think

2. And I must think, do all I can,

That there was pleasure there.

3. Have I not reason to lament

What Man has made of Man?

 

 

Prose 4

Tight Corners

Synonyms

1. prosperous – rich

2. Persuaded - induced

Antonyms

Non-chalantly X concerned

Prosperous X poor

 

Short answers

1. What is a tight corner? What happens when one finds oneself in a tight corner?

What was the narrator’s financial condition?

 

Poem – 4

Macavity

Appreciation questions

1. For he’s a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity.

a)How is the cat described in this line?

b) Explain the phrase ‘monster of depravity’.

c) Identify the poem and the poet

 

2. His brow is deeply lined with thought, his head is highly domed; 

His coat is dusty from neglect, his whiskers are uncombed.

a) How is the cat described in the above lines?

b) Why is his coat dusty?

3. He’s the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad’s despair:

 For when they reach the scene of crime — Macavity’s not there!..

a)What is ‘Scotland Yard’?

b) W hy does the flying squad feel disappointed?

c) Why do they need his footprints?

 

Explain the following lines with reference to the context. 

He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare