SAMPLE QUESTIONS CBSE –CLASS-X-ENGLISH

A) Read the given extracts
and answer the following questions-

1)
“Higher and higher every day

Till over the most at noon

The wedding guest here beat his breast

For he heard the loud bassoon.”

a)
In the first line who or
what goes higher and higher –

I.
Albatross

II.
Sun

III.
Moon

IV.
Mariner

b)
The loud bassoon refers to –

I.
Sound coming from the ship

II.
Sound of waves

III.
Sound of music to welcome
his birds.

IV.
All of the above.

c) Why did the wedding guest
beat his breast?

I.
He was frustrated that he
that he couldn’t attend the wedding

II.
He was feeling sick

III.
The wedding guest was angry
to hear the mariners tale

IV.
None of the above

2. “Half sunk, a shattered visage lies

Whose frown and wrinkled lip

And sneer of cold command

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless thing.”

a) Whose ‘visage’ lies half
sunk? –

i)
An idol

ii)
Ozymandias

iii)
Poet

iv)
A tourist.

b) What expression does the
visage wield?

i)
gaiety

ii)
grief

iii)
zeal

iv)
Contempt.

c) This man whose statue is
half sunk in the desert was –

i)
kind

ii)
patient

iii)
humble

iv)
Arrogant.

3) “The thing was going around faster than ever and she
was reading the message silently, with her brow corrugated, and the light of
the huntress in her pale blue eyes.”

a) What is the thing here –?

i)
Hallock’s pen

ii)
Helen’s spirit

iii)
Ouija board

iv)
Laura’s finger

b) Who is she here –?

i)
Lavinia

ii)
Helen

iii)
Mrs. Hunt

iv)
Laura.

c) What message was she
reading? –

i)
Hallock must stop taking
help of ghosts

ii)
Hallock must stop the party

iii)
Hallock was a traitor

iv)
Helen was trying to catch
attention of Hallock.