12th Standard - English - Unit-3 - Weekly Test Question paper - Samacheer Kalvi

 

XII English      Weekly Test     Marks-25

I. Answer the following questions (10 X 1 = 10)

1. What are the characteristics of this stage?

2. How does the boy go to school?

3. What is the soldier ready to do?

4. Explain ‘bubble reputation’.

5. Whom does justice refer to?

6. Describe his appearance.

7. How does he behave with the people around?

8. What does he do to show his wisdom?

9. What do the words ‘exits’ and ‘entrances’ mean?

10. Why is the last stage called second childhood?

II. Explain with reference to the context. (2 X 3 = 6)

1. “They have their exits and their entrances;

     And one man in his time plays many parts,”

2. “Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,

      Seeking the bubble reputation”.

III. Identify the figures of speech (4 X 1 = 4)

1. “And shining morning face, creeping like snail”

2.  “All the world's a stage”

3. “Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,”

4. “Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel.”

IV. Answer in a paragraph    (1 X 5 = 5)

Describe the various stages of a man’s life.