Achievement Test- QUESTION PAPER

MARTHOMA GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL, KOTTARAKKARA

Achievement Test Oct 2015

ENGLISH

      CLASS: IX                                                                                                        TIME: 1 HR   

                                                                                                                               MARKS: 25

I. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.

                In pursuit of his ambition Private Quelch worked hard. We had to give him credit for that. He borrowed training manuals and stayed up late at night reading them. He badgered the instructions with questions. He drilled with enthusiasm. On route marches he was not only miraculously tireless but infuriated us all with his horrible heartiness ‘what about a song chaps is not greeted politely at the end of thirty miles. His salute at the pay table was a model to behold when officers were in sight he would sing his shinny arms and march to the canteen like a guardsman.

            And day in and day out he lectured to us on every aspect of human knowledge. At first we had a certain respect for him, but soon we lived in terror of his approach. We tried to hit back at him with clumsy sarcasm. The professor scarcely noticed he was too busy for him for his stripe. 

1.  What was the professor’s ambition in the army?                                          (1)

2.  When somebody makes a mistake, how did the professor correct him?   (1)

3.  Why did Private Quelch do in order to fulfill his dream?                                (2)

4.  Clumsy means_____                                                                                          (1/2)

5.  What was Private Quelch nickname?                                                             (1/2)

II. Read the lines from the poem “follower” and answer the questions that follow:

 An expert . He would set the wing

And fit the bright-steel-pointed sock.

The sod rolled over without breaking.

At the head rig, with a single pluck.

Of reins, the sweating team turned around.

And back into the land. His eye

Narrowed and angled at the ground

Mapping the furrow exactly.

6.  Who are referred to as the sweating team? Why are they described so?   (2)

7.  What’s the setting of the poem?                                                                     (1/2)

8.  Find out another expression like ‘clicking Tongue’?                                        (1)

9.  Pick out the words in the poem which refers to work and the effort involved?(1)                                                                                                             

10.       Write the rhyming scheme of the poem?                                                     (1/2)

III. Attempt any one of the following.

11.      Describe the character sketch of Private Quelch?

                         Or

12.       The hollowness of the froth

Rising above the stream of her life….. Comment on the lines.                        (4x 1=4)

IV. Fill in the blanks using appropriate Phrasal Verbs.

       [Put on, put out, put across, put off, put down]

13.       Please ____ the television and do your homework.

14.      They ___ a new newsletter every Friday. Its work reading.

15.       I ____ a beautiful dress and my high heels.

16.        I was trying to ___my point of view but no one was listening.       (1/2x4=2)

V. Look at the following word pyramid.

                                    Sea

                                   A sea

                                A deep sea

                           A deep blue sea

                       A rough deep blue sea

Now construct a similar word pyramid with the word “Traveler”.                  (1x4=4)

VI. The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. Analyses the poem ‘I am the people, the mob’ based on the above statement and attempt an appreciation.                                                              (5x1=5)