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ICSE English Literature Question Paper 2011 Solved for Class 10 ICSE English Literature Previous Year Question Paper 2011 Solved for Class 10 Section A – Drama Loyalties : John Galsworthy Question 3: Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:  [Lady Adela goes out into her room and closes the door] Winsor: Look here, De Levis! This isn’t a hotel. It’s the sort of thing that doesn’t happen in a decent house. Are you sure you’re not mistaken, and didn’t have them stolen on the course? De Levis: Absolutely. I counted them just before putting them under my pillow; then I locked the door and had the key here. There’s only one door, you know. Winsor: How was your window? De Levis: Open. Winsor: [Drawing back the curtains of his own window] You’ve got a balcony like this. Any sign of a ladder or anything? (i) Where are Winsor and De Levis at this time? Who is De Levis? What has happened to De Levis? [3] (ii) Who is Lady Adela? What instruct...

ICSE English Literature Question Paper 2002 Solved for Class 10 ICSE English Literature Previous Year Question Paper 2002 Solved for Class 10 Section A – Drama The Merchant of Venice : Shakespeare Question 1: Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:  Bassanio: Be assured you may. Shylock: I will be assured I may; and that I may be assured. I will bethink me. May I speak with Antonio? Bassanio: If it please you to dine with us. Shylock: Yes, to smell pork; to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What news on the Rialto? Who is he comes here? (i) Where are Bassanio and Shylock at this time? What is the purpose of their meetting? [3] (ii) Why does Bassanio say, “Be assured you may?” What has Shylock said earlier about Antonio’s ventures? [4] (iii) Wh...

ICSE English Literature Question Paper 2001 Solved for Class 10 ICSE English Literature Previous Year Question Paper 2001 Solved for Class 10 Section A – Drama The Merchant of Venice : Shakespeare Question 1: Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: But mercy is above this sceptred sway. It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself. And earthly power doth then show likest God’s When mercy seasons justice. (i) Why does Portia speak about mercy in the extract? [4] (ii) Give the meaning of the following : But Mercy is above this sceptred sway. It is enthroned in the hearts of kings. [2] (iii) Who else had appealed for mercy earlier? What was the outcome of the appeal? [2] (iv) One should stand for justice. Referring only to the extract, state why, according to Portia, mercy should season justice. [4] (v) When Shylock refuses to show mercy, what legal tactics does Portia use to free Antonio? [4] Answer: ...

ICSE English Literature Question Paper 2000 Solved for Class 10 ICSE English Literature Previous Year Question Paper 2000 Solved for Class 10 Section A – Drama The Merchant of Venice : Shakespeare Question 1: Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:  Portia: O me the word ‘choose’! I may neither choose who I would nor refuse who I dislike: so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father. (i) Where are Porita and Nerissa? Why are they there? [3] (ii) Earlier, in what way did Nerissa try to cheer Portia? What was Portia’s reaction to what Nerissa had said? [5] (iii) State in your own words what Portia means by ‘the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.’ [2] (iv) Immediately after this extract, what reasons does Nerissa give to Portia to justify ‘the will of a dead father’? Do you think that the justification proved correct? Give reasons for your answer. [3] (v) Towards the end of the ...

ICSE English Literature Question Paper 1999 Solved for Class 10 ICSE English Literature Question Paper 1999 Solved for Class 10 Section A – Drama The Merchant of Venice : Shakespeare Question 1: Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:  Portia: Go, draw aside the curtains, and discover The several caskets to this noble prince. (The curtains are drawn back) Now make your choice. Morocco: Some god direct my judgement! Let me see : I will survey the inscriptions back again. (i) Where are Portia and Morocco at this time? [1] (ii) Which are ‘the several caskets’? What are the inscriptions that Morocco has just read on ‘the several caskets’? [4] (iii) Why does Morocco say: ‘Some god direct my judgement!’? What are the conditions Morocco had to abide by, before making his choice of the caskets? [4] (iv) Morocco later says, ‘As much as I deserve’. What does he deserve? [2] (v) Which casket does Morocco finally choose? What two reasons...

ICSE English Literature Question Paper 1998 Solved for Class 10 ICSE English Literature Question Paper 1998 Solved for Class 10 Section A – Drama The Merchant of Venice : Shakespeare Question 1: Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:  Shylock: Gaoler, look to him : tell me not of mercy : This is the fool that lent out money gratis : Gaoler, look to him. Antonio: Hear me yet, good Shylock : Shylock: I’ll have my bond : speak not against my bond. I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond. (i) Where are Antonio, Shylock and the gaoler? Why was the gaoler present? [4] (ii) What are the three things about Antonio that Shylock tells the gaoler? [3] (iii) Why does Antonio say ‘Hear me yet’? Why does he call Shylock ‘good Shylock’? [2] (iv) What is Shylock’s attitude towards Antonio in this extract? What were the two main reasons for this attitude of Shylock towards Antonio? [3] (v) Later in the scene Solanio tries to bring hope to...

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ICSE English Language Question Paper 2019 Solved for Class 10 ICSE English Language Previous Year Question Paper 2019 Solved for Class 10 PAPER – 1 (Two hours)   • Answers to this Paper must be written on the paper provided separately.   • You will not be allowed to write during the first 15 minutes.   • This time is to be spent in reading the question paper.   • The time given at the head of this Paper is the time allowed for writing the answers.   • Attempt all five questions.   • The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets [ ].   • You are advised to spend not more than 30 minutes in answering Question 1 and 20 minutes in answering Question 2. Question 1. (Do not spend more than 30 minutes on this question.) [20] Write a composition of (300 – 350 words) on any one of the topics given below: (a) Write an original short story in which two children and their Grandfather are the main chara...

ICSE English Language Question Paper 2016 Solved for Class 10 ICSE English Language Previous Year Question Paper 2016 Solved for Class 10 ICSE Paper 2016 ENGLISH-I Answers to this Paper must be written on the paper provided separately, You will not be allowed to write during the first 15 minutes. This time is to be spent in reading the question paper. The time given at the head of this Paper is the time allowed for writing the answers. Attempt all four questions. The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets [ ]. You are advised to spend not more than 35 minutes in answering Question 1 and 20 minutes in answering Question 2. Question 1:                                                                                     ...