উচ্চমাধ্যমিক তৃতীয় সেমিস্টার ইংরাজি প্রশ্ন (সেট ১)

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উচ্চমাধ্যমিক তৃতীয় সেমিস্টার ইংরাজি প্রশ্ন (সেট ১) :

1. Where did the narrator spend his summer vacations during his college days?

(A) Deoli

(B) Dehra

(D) Delhi

Answer: (B) Dehra (at his grandmother’s place)

2. At what time did the train usually reach the small station of Deoli?

(A) Midnight

(B) About five in the morning

(D) Dusk

Answer: (B) About five in the morning

3. What was the girl at Deoli station selling?

(A) Clay toys

(B) Hot tea

(D) Fresh fruits

Answer: (C) Cane baskets

4. How was the girl at Deoli dressed?

(A) In a silk saree

(B) A shawl thrown across her shoulders with bare feet

(D) In a heavy woolen coat

Answer: (B) A shawl thrown across her shoulders with bare feet

5. How much did the narrator pay for the basket he bought?

(A) One rupee

(B) Two annas

(D) Fifty paise

Answer: (C) One anna

6. Why did the narrator never break his journey at Deoli in the end?

(A) He forgot about the girl

(B) He feared discovering the bitter reality and preferred keeping the romance alive

(D) He had no money

Answer: (B) He feared discovering the bitter reality and preferred keeping the romance alive

7. The girl at Deoli had—

(A) bright and dark eyes that met the narrator’s directly

(B) pale blue eyes

(D) small, sleepy eyes

Answer: (A) bright and dark eyes that met the narrator’s directly

8. Kalam’s father, Jainulabdeen, would start his daily routine at 4 a.m. by—

(A) reading the Quran

(B) praying the namaz

(D) having morning tea

Answer: (B) praying the namaz

9. Kalam’s mother, Ashiamma, belonged to a family where one of the forebears was bestowed the title of—

(A) Rai Bahadur

(B) Bahadur by the British

(D) Zamindar

Answer: (B) Bahadur by the British

10. The Shiva temple, which made Rameswaram famous to pilgrims, was about a—

(A) five-minute walk from Kalam’s house

(B) ten-minute walk from Kalam’s house

(D) twenty-minute walk from Kalam’s house

Answer: (B) ten-minute walk from Kalam’s house

11. Who was the high priest of Rameswaram temple and a close friend of Kalam’s father?

(A) Ramanadha Sastry

(B) Pakshi Lakshmana Sastry

(D) Ahmed Jallaluddin

Answer: (B) Pakshi Lakshmana Sastry

12. According to Jainulabdeen, when trouble comes, people look for—

(A) an escape

(B) a helper or a go-between

(D) solitude

Answer: (B) a helper or a go-between

13. Kalam’s father used to walk how many miles every morning to reach their coconut grove?

(A) 2 miles

(B) 4 miles

(D) 10 miles

Answer: (B) 4 miles

14. What was the central philosophy Kalam inherited from his father regarding human existence?

(A) Accumulate wealth

(B) A divine power exists within us that can lift us up from confusion and misery

(D) Detach completely from society

Answer: (B) A divine power exists within us that can lift us up from confusion and misery

15. What issue was being discussed during the party that led to the bet?

(A) War and peace

(B) Capital punishment vs Life imprisonment

(D) Distribution of wealth

Answer: (B) Capital punishment vs Life imprisonment

16. How much money was wagered in the bet between the banker and the young lawyer?

(A) One million rubles

(B) Two million rubles

(D) Ten million rubles

Answer: (B) Two million rubles

17. What was the duration of the lawyer’s voluntary solitary confinement?

(A) Five years

(B) Ten years

(D) Twenty years

Answer: (C) Fifteen years

18. In the first year of confinement, what did the lawyer mostly read and play?

(A) Books with a light character; played the piano

(B) Philosophy and science

(D) Law and economics

Answer: (A) Books with a light character; played the piano

19. In the eleventh year of his imprisonment, what single book did the lawyer spend a whole year reading?

(A) Shakespeare’s plays

(B) The New Testament

(D) The History of Philosophy

Answer: (B) The New Testament

20. Why did the lawyer walk out five minutes before the completion of the term?

(A) He was afraid the banker would shoot him

(B) He had grown to despise worldly wealth and pleasures, thus renouncing the money

(D) He forgot the exact time

Answer: (B) He had grown to despise worldly wealth and pleasures, thus renouncing the money

21. The creeper winding around the Casuarina tree is compared to a huge –

(A) dragon

(B) python

(D) rope

Answer: (B) python

22. Which bird’s song greets the dawn in “Our Casuarina Tree”?

(A) Nightingale

(B) Skylark

(D) Cuckoo

Answer: (C) Kokila

23. What animal is seen sitting like a statue on the top of the Casuarina tree?

(A) A gray baboon

(B) A white owl

(D) An eagle

Answer: (A) A gray baboon

24. Why is the Casuarina tree so dear to the poetess’s soul?

(A) For its immense height

(B) Because beneath it she played with her beloved siblings in childhood

(D) Because it was planted by her father

Answer: (B) Because beneath it she played with her beloved siblings in childhood

25. In the poem, the poet hears the “eerie murmur” of the tree which sounds like—

(A) thunder

(B) the sea breaking on a shingle beach

(D) chirping insects

Answer: (B) the sea breaking on a shingle beach

26. The poet desires to consecrate a lay unto the tree like the trees in the Valley of—

(A) Borrowdale

(B) Avon

(D) Grasmere

Answer: (A) Borrowdale

27. Ulysses complains that it little profits an “idle king” to govern an—

(A) ancient kingdom

(B) uncivilized

(D) island of slaves

Answer: (B) uncivilized

28. Complete the quote: “I cannot rest from travel: I will drink / Life to the…”—

(A) brim

(B) lees

(D) depths

Answer: (B) lees

29. The phrase “all experience is an arch wherethrough / Gleams that untravelled world” implies that—

(A) experience is finite

(B) knowledge is limitless and urges one to explore further

(D) old age should rest

Answer: (B) knowledge is limitless and urges one to explore further

30. To whom does Ulysses leave the sceptre and the isle of Ithaca?

(A) Achilles

(B) His son, Telemachus

(D) Nestor

Answer: (B) His son, Telemachus

31. What are the “Happy Isles” mentioned by Ulysses?

(A) The Greek capital

(B) The mythical paradise

(D) Ithaca’s port

Answer: (B) The mythical paradise

32. The closing line of the poem is: “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to…”—

(A) yield

(B) fail

(D) mourn

Answer: (A) yield

33. What is the geographical setting of the play Riders to the Sea?

(A) Dublin city

(B) An island off the west coast of Ireland

(D) London

Answer: (B) An island off the west coast of Ireland

34. What was Cathleen doing at the opening of the play?

(A) Washing fishnets

(B) Spinning and making a cake in the pot-oven

(D) Weeping by the shore

Answer: (B) Spinning and making a cake in the pot-oven

35. What was inside the bundle given to Nora by the young priest?

(A) Bread and milk

(B) A shirt and a plain stocking taken from a drowned man in Donegal

(D) A pair of shoes

Answer: (B) A shirt and a plain stocking taken from a drowned man in Donegal

36. How did Nora identify that the clothes belonged to her lost brother Michael?

(A) By his written name

(B) By counting the stitches

(D) By a patch on the sleeve

Answer: (B) By counting the stitches (dropping four stitches in the knit)

37. Why was Bartley adamant about going to the Galway fair despite the rough sea?

(A) To buy fishing boats

(B) To sell the red mare and the gray pony

(D) To look for Michael

Answer: (B) To sell the red mare and the gray pony

38. What terrible vision did Maurya see at the spring well?

(A) A sea monster

(B) Michael riding behind Bartley on the gray pony wearing fine clothes

(D) Lightning striking the boat

Answer: (B) Michael riding behind Bartley on the gray pony wearing fine clothes

39. How many sons did Maurya lose to the merciless sea in total?

(A) 4

(B) 6

(D) 2

Answer: (B) 6

40. What is Maurya’s final realization in the concluding lines of the play?

(A) She will buy new boats

(B) “They are all gone now, and there isn’t anything more the sea can do to me.”

(D) She leaves the island

Answer: (B) “They are all gone now, and there isn’t anything more the sea can do to me.”