The document contains a model paper for a 1st PUC English mid-term exam with multiple choice and short answer questions, as well as longer answer questions requiring paragraphs and essays. The questions cover topics from various short stories and poems, testing comprehension and analysis. The exam contains sections for one-sentence answers, paragraph answers, essay questions, grammar fill-in-the-blank exercises, and a letter writing exercise.

1. 1st PUC English
Mid -Term Exam
MODEL PAPER

2. Answer all the questions in a word, phrase or a sentence. (1x12=12)
1.What fate awaited the man each time he built a new house?
Ans. The other animals in the jungle overpowered him and
confiscated his house.
2.Who encroached on the man’s hut after he built the hut the second
time?
Ans. Mr. Rhinoceros
3.Name the bird that sings with the poet?
Ans. Skylark
4.Who does the child ask not to nip his buds ?
Ans. His parents
5.How many wallets did the man takeout from his pocket?
Ans. Five

3. 6. At what age did Babar Ali start his school?
Ans. Nine year old
7.Who is Tulu Rani Hazara?
Ans .An illiterate fishmonger
8. What is sheltered inside the cow’s body?
Ans. Thousands of Gods
9.Who would not turnback taking the speaker for a dog eater?
Ans. Mother Earth
10. What was the name of the king in ‘Watchman of the Lake’?
Ans. Rukmangada
11.What was Mara’s last wish?
Ans.To make his son and the forth coming generation as the watch man of the
lake.
12.Name Mara’s son?
Ans Ganga

4. II Answer any eight from the following questions in a paragraph of 80-100 words: (8x4=32)
How did the man finally outwit the gentlemen of the jungle?
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How did the man secure justice for himself, in ‘The Gentlemen of the Jungle’?
OR
How did the man finally buy peace, in ‘The Gentlemen of the Jungle’?
Answer:After being repeatedly pushed out of his own huts, the man thinks of a
plan to safeguard his rights. He knows that he cannot put up a fight against the
powerful animals. Hence, he made a clever . He builds a hut which is big enough
to accommodate all the animals. As he had expected, all animals, including Mr
Lion, come to the hut and soon started to claim the hut. Making use of the
opportunity, the man sets his hut on fire and along with the hut, all animals
gathered in it are also dead. What the man couldn’t achieve by using muscle
power, he achieves by using brainpower. Thus, the man gets justice by taking law
into his own hands.

5. Why would mother earth not flee according to the speaker Mudnakudu
Chinnasawamy?
Ans: The speaker feels that trees life is more meaningful and beautiful than
being born as a low caste member in human society. This is because humans
have built barriers among themselves based on their castes. The upper caste
individuals feel that they are superiors and enjoy the privileges. In contrast, the
lower caste people are denied their rights. Besides, this discrimination further
divides human society making the life of the suppressed even more miserable. In
the poem the mother earth wouldn’t flee when the roots of the tree branch out.
The mother earth nourishes and sustains every living organism without any
discrimination. Nature has a wonderful system of coordination and peaceful co-
existence. So, the mother earth wouldn’t flee. This is in total contrast with the
human world where the high caste member runs for a holy bath on encountering
a lower caste individual. The poet finds nature to be a perfect haven to be
without facing any insult and humiliation

6. III Answer the following in about two hundred words. (6x1=1)
What were the incidents that led the king to build the shrine in ‘Watchman of the
Lake’?
Watchman of the Lake’ by R.K. Narayan enacts the legendary story of the
martyrdom of Mara, an innocent villager of Sakkarepatna situated in the eastern
base of Baba Sudan Hills, in Karnataka. It was once the capital of a king called
Rukmangada.
One afternoon, Mara, looking at the clouds gathering in the sky, realized that it
was going to rain very heavily that evening and called his son back into the hut
and both of them stayed indoors. Soon after that, there was a torrential downpour
and a shrieking storm. Late in the night, when the winds rocked his hut, Mara
came out of the hut and saw the river water flooding the tank and the water level
was a hair’s breadth below the shore. He concluded that the river might heave
and flow over the tank any moment.

7. Immediately, Mara knelt on the ground and prayed to the Goddess. The Goddess
stood before him, wielding a sword in her hand.
She asked him to move out of the hut at once, as she intended to destroy the tank.
Mara pleaded with her earnestly to save the people, but she refused to grant his
wish. Then Mara requested her to give him an assurance that she would stay her
hand until he returned from the king’s palace after informing him about it. She
granted his wish and Mara hurried to the king’s palace.
When Mara gave the king the message of the Goddess, the king was shocked.
Then Mara told the king that he had a plan to save the tank and the kingdom. He
requested the king to get him executed and make it impossible for him to return.
If he did not return, the Goddess would stay her hand and the tank would not be
destroyed. Though the king was reluctant to do so, Mara persuaded the king to
get him executed for the sake of his people. Thus , the king built a shrine in
honour for the Goddess and Mara also placed the statue of both . The king gave
orders that worship is should be performed on every Tuesday and Friday.

8. IV. Read the following passage and answer the questions set on it.
(Unseen passage) (10x1=10)
V.A. Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles and prepositions given in the
brackets. (1X4= 4)
I have always regarded it as my duty to protect the interests of my friends and this appears
to have caused a misunderstanding between my friends and myself. (the , to , the , a ,
between)
B. Fill in the blanks with suitable form of the verbs given in brackets. (4x1=4)
35. It was a busy restaurant. The owner gave (give) a loud guffaw startling everyone around.
He caught (catch) the narrator by the lapels of his coat and shook (shake) him. He told (tell)
him to put the money down and go.

9. C. Choose the correct form of the verb that agrees with the subject. (3X1=3)
36. Babar Ali __gives____ (gives/give) lessons just the way he has heard them from
his teachers. There__is___ (is/are) no building for his school. But he ______ (has/have)
managed to run classes for hundreds of students.
D. Correct the following sentences and rewrite them.
37. Give me an another book.
Ans. Give me another book or Give me a book.
E. Rewrite as directed. (6x1=6)
39. (Fill in the blank with appropriate word given in the brackets.)
The principle_ (principle/principal) lesson here is to learn homophones.
40. Complete the sentence with the right form of word given in the brackets.
Everything would end to the satisfaction_(satisfy) of all.

10. 41. (Rearrange the segments to form a meaningful sentence.)
kingdom/lion/tranquility/wanted/the/peace.
Ans. The Lion wanted peace and tranquility.
42. Add a question tag
I am now narrating an experience which I had, aren’t I?
43. Change into a question beginning with the right form of ‘do’
He brought a whole bundle
Ans. Did he bring a whole bundle?
44. He enters the a crowded restaurant.
Ans. Does he enter the crowded restaurant?

11. VII. A. 47. Match the expressions under column A to its corresponding language function
under column B. (1x5=5)
Expressions Functions
A B
1. Hello, Good Morning a. Introducing (2)
2. Meet my friend Mohan. b. Disagreeing (4)
3. You look nice in this dress. c. Leave taking (5)
4. I beg to differ with you. d. Greeting (1)
5. Good night. e. Complimenting (3)

12. B. 48. Complete the dialogue. (4x1=4)
Principal : You are late again to college, John.
John : Madam, I ……………………………
Principal : John, ……………………………
John : Sorry, ……………………………….
Principal : …………………………………………..
B. 46. Write a letter to the corporator, Municipal Corporation Mangalore,
requesting him to take serious step to issue of garbage dumping in your
locality. Your letter should include the following points. (5x1=5)
# Bad odour
# Serious health Hazards
# Inconvenience to the public