SOME SAMPLE QUESTIONS FOR CLASS IX

Unit Test 1 (Class Ix)

FM :   20          Time : 40 mins.                     

1. Read the passage and answer the following questions:

a) One evening, Bhola Grandpa was returning from the weekly market. Suddenly at a distance of about five yards behind him, he heard the growl of a Royal Bengal tiger. Bhola Grandpa turned and found the bright gaze of the tiger on his face. Bhola Grandpa instantly climbed up a nearby tree. The tiger roared and circled the tree about a hundred times. Then it settled down under a bush without taking its eyes off him. With nightfall, the forest grew dark and silent. Bhola Grandpa could hear the tiger beating its tail on the dry leaves. Hours passed.

i) Where from was Bhola Grandpa returning? ii) What did he hear? iii) What did he do after finding the bright gaze? iv) What did the tiger do after that? v) How was the forest with nightfall? vi) What did the Bhola Grandpa hear at night? vii) Who is writer of the story?

2. I love to see the cottage smoke

    Curl upwards through the naked trees,

    The pigeons nestled round the cote

    On dull November days like these;

    The cock upon the dung-hill crowing,

   The mill sails on the heath a-going.

   The feather from the raven’s breast

   Falls on the stubble lea,

   The acorns near the old crow’s nest

   Fall pattering down the tree;

   The grunting pigs, that wait for all,

  Scramble and hurry where they fall.

i) Who is the poet of the poem? ii) What does the poet love to see? iii) Where do the pigeons nestle? iv) What is the cock doing? v) Where and how do the acorns fall? vi) What do the grunting pigs do? vii) Where from does the feather fall on the stubble lea?

3. Bhola Grandpa and his wife lived at the western end of our village. A large bokal tree overshadowed their hut. In the bokal tree lived a small troop of monkeys. Bhola Grandpa and his wife did not mind it. One moonlit night, we are returning from a festival. The road was long and foggy. I was riding on the village chowkidar’s shoulders.

i) Where did Bhola grandpa live? ii) Who lived in the bokal tree? iii) Who are “we”? iv) How was the road? v) How was the narrator returning from festival? vi) How was the night?

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UNIT TEST 

CLASS IX

TIME – 1 hour and 20mins.                                                   FM – 40

1.ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS FROM THE PASSAGES :

a)       It was as if a hurricane had lost its sound. There were no motions or tremor but peace. The world grounded to a standstill. The silence was so immense one would feel as if the ears had been stuffed. The children put their hands to their ears. They stood apart. The door slid back. The smell of the silent, waiting world came to them. The sun came out.

i) What was compared to a hurricane? ii) How immense was the silence? iii) When did smell of silent world reach the children? iv) What happened after coming out of the smell? v) Write down the name of the story and the author of the piece?

b)      He stepped slowly out to the brink of the ledge. He stood on one leg with the other leg hidden under his wing. Closing one eye and then the other, he pretended to be falling asleep. Still his parents took no notice of him. He saw his two brothers and his sister lying on the plateau. They were dozing with their heads sunk into their wings. His father was preening his feathers on his white back. Only his mother was looking at him. She was standing on a little high hump on the plateau, eating a piece of fish. The sight of the food maddened him.

i) Write down the name of the story and the writer of the piece? ii) What did he pretend on the brink of the ledge? iii) What were his brothers and sisters doing? iv) What was his mother doing? V) What maddened him?

c)       He thought that he had found symptoms of stomach trouble. He began to grow hopeful. However the symptoms soon grew feeble and wholly went away. Tom thought further. Suddenly he discovered something. One of his upper front teeth was loose. He felt lucky. He was about to begin to groan when it occurred to him that if Aunt Polly was to know she would surely pull it out and that would hurt. Tom thought he would hold the tooth in reserve for the present. He remembered hearing from a doctor that a certain ailment could lay up a patient for three days and make him lose a finger.

i) Why did Tom grow hopeful? ii) What did he discover suddenly? iii) Why was he reluctant to tell Aunt Polly about his tooth? iv) What did he hear from a doctor? v) Write down the name of the story and the author of the piece?

d) I watch this cloudy evening fall,

After a day of rain

Blue mists, sweet mists of summer pall

The horizon’s mountain chain

i) Write down the name of the poem and the poet? ii) What time of the day was it? iii) What is the poet watching? iv) How was the day? V) What do the mists cover?

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UNIT 4

TIME: 50 MINS.                                                          FM: 40

1. Do as directed:                                                25*1=25                                

•       i.        She is doing the sums carefully. (make it noun)
•     ii.        Everyone can do this. (make it interrogative)
•    iii.        Draw the line. (voice change)
•    iv.        Only the cowards die many times. (make it negative)
•      v.        The load is too heavy for the porter to carry. (make it negative)
•    vi.        As soon as the teacher came to the class, students became silent. (change the degree)
•   vii.        How happy we are here! (make it assertive)
•  viii.        They turned the pages which were yellow and crinkly. (make it simple)
•    ix.        He made a foolish comment. (make it complex)
•     x.        Ram likes me more than Shyam. (make it positive)
•    xi.        The man heard the news. He fainted. (join into a simple sentence)
•  xii.        Take your coat off or I shall do it for you. ( omit ‘or’)
• xiii.        He is one of the mightiest boys in the class. (make it comparative)
• xiv.        She tried every plan. (make it negative)
•   xv.        As soon as the sun rose, the fog dispersed. (Replace it by scarcely...)
• xvi.        The shepherd boy told the lie intentionally. (make it noun)
• xvii.        His statement is true. (make it complex)
• xviii.        He ran quickly. ( make it interrogative)
• xix.        He can never forget my name. ( make it affirmative)
•  xx.        Who can bear such insult? (make it assertive)
• xxi.        We call the tiger our national animal. (voice change)
• xxii.        Do and die. (omit ‘and’)
• xxiii.        You said to me,” I was disturbing you yesterday.” (change the speech)
• xxiv.        Who does not know his evil intention? (make it affirmative)
• xxv.        She gave a wise judgment. (make it verb)

2. Write a letter to the headmaster for leave of absence.                                          7

3. Write a newspaper report using the following points:                                                          8

Date & time : 12^th July, 2:35 p.m.

Place : Uttarpara More, near Berhampore

Cause : a loaded lorry collided with a bus.

Casualty : 26 died and many more injured

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UNIT – II

(Grammar)

TIME -50 mins.                     F.M. – 25

• 1. Change the mode of narration:                                                                         1*7=7
• a)    Salim said to me, “Yes, I went with you to your house.”
• b)   He said to me, “Wait here till I come back.”
• c)    Ramesh said to his father, “Let me invite some of my friends on my birthday-party.”
• d)   Rajam said, “Goodbye, Mani.”
• e)   The commander said, “What a win we have, my boys!”
• f)    The vendor said, “How many will you eat, old man?”
• g)   “I was watering the plants yesterday”, said the boy.

2. Change the mode of voice:                                                                               1*7=7

• a)    I do not know his name.
• b)   They toss their heads in sprightly dance.
• c)    He gives his harness bells a shake.
• d)   Police persuaded the villagers to lift the blockade.
• e)   Do not forget my words.
• f)    One of her forebears was bestowed the title of Bahadur by the British.
• g)   Was I not making you fool?

3. Do as directed:                                                                                                      1*7=7

• a)    As soon as the teacher came the students stood up. (Omit “as soon as”)
• b)   I am too old a bird to be caught with chaff. (Omit “too...to”)
• c)    Do or die. (omit “or”)
• d)   Do and die. (omit “and”)
• e)   Who does not know the name of Tagore? ( Make it affirmative)
• f)    She cannot but shed tears. ( Replace “but” by “help”)
• g)   Only Bengali is taught here. ( omit “only”)

4. . Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles & preposition:                            ½*8= 4

a)      My elder brother reads in _1_ University. It is _2_ Midnapore. One day I went there _3_ my elder brother. We roamed here and there _4_ _5_ hour. Suddenly it began _6_ rain. I had _7_ umbrella _8_ me.

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UNIT – II

(Grammar)

TIME - 40 mins.                               F.M. – 20

1. Change the mode of Voice:                                          1*10=10                 

• a)    He knows me well.
• b)   Never do it again.
• c)    Go there at once.
• d)   The tiger is looking for a safe shelter.
• e)   John ploughed the land with a heavy heart.
• f)    Bholenath gave a loud wail.
• g)   This boy could do the work very well.
• h)   He sells rice in the market.
• i)     They have given me a new book.
• j)    Please drop the gun.
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2. Do as directed:                                                      1*10=10                        

• a)    He is too tiny to climb up the tree. ( omit too…to)
• b)   As soon as the sun rose the fog dispersed. (omit as soon as)
• c)    Hurry or you will be late. (omit or)
• d)   Who does not need money? ( Make it affirmative)
• e)   Who can forget Netaji? ( Make it affirmative)
• f)    He could not but make me laugh. ( Replace “but” by “help”)
• g)   Only Bengali is taught here. (omit only)
• h)   As soon as the destruction was over Newton came back. (omit as soon as)
• i)     I was too tired to walk any more. ( omit too…to)
• j)    Take this and you will be free to go anywhere. ( omit and)

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