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ICSE Board
Board Paper 2015
Class X EnglishLiterature
(Two hours)
General Instructions: Total Marks: 80
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 the paper is the time allotted for writing the answers.
Attempt five questions in all.
You must attempt One question from each of the Sections A, B and C
and any two other questions.
The intended marks of questions or parts of questions are given in brackets [ ].

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Section : I
Section A - DRAMA
The Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare

Qstn #1
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Portia: ….. But this reasoning is not in the fashion to choose me a husband. O me, the
word “choose” ! I may neither choose whom I would, nor refuse whom I
dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
Is it not hard, Nerissa, that I cannot choose one, nor refuse none?

#1-i [3]
What test had Portia’s father devised for her suitors? What oath did the suitors have to
take before making their choice?

#1-ii [3]
Who is Nerissa? What does she say to cheer up Portia?

#1-iii [3]
Why does Portia disapprove of the County Palatine? Whom would she rather marry?

#1-iv [3]
How, according to Portia, can the Duke of Saxony’s nephew be made to choose the
wrong casket? What do these suitors ultimately decide? Why?

#1-v [4]
Whom does Portia ultimately marry? Who were the two other suitors who took the
test? Why, in your opinion, is the person whom she marries worthy of her?

Qstn #2
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Duke : What, is Antonio here?
Antonio : Ready, so please your grace.
Dyke : I am sorry for thee: thou art come to answer
A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch
Uncapable of pity, void and empty
From any dram of mercy.

#2-i [3]
What are the terms of the bond that Antonio has signed?

#2-ii [3]
Why does the Duke call Shylock 'inhuman' What does the Duke expect Shylock
to do?

#2-iii [3]
What reason does Shylock give for choosing rotten flesh over money? What are the
things hated by some people?

#2-iv [3]
State three examples Antonio gives to illustrate Shylock’s stubborn attitude.

#2-v [4]
How is Shylock’s property distributed at the end by Antonio.
Do you think Shylock deserves the punishment given to him?
Give a reason to justify your answer.
Loyalties: John Galsworthy

Qstn #3
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Lady Adela : Oh! Charlie, he did look so exactly as if he’d sold me a carpet when I
was paying him
Winsor : [changing into slippers] His father did sell carpets, wholesale, in the
City.
Lady Adela : Really? And you say I haven’t intuition! [With a finger on her lips]
Morison’s in there.
Winsor : [Motioning towards the door, which she shuts] Ronny Dancy took a
tenner off him, anyway, before dinner.