Amity International School
Viraj Khand-5, Gomti Nagar
Revision Test –2 (2024-2025)
Class: XII, ENGLISH (301)
Time allowed: 1 hour Max. Marks: 30
Instructions:
Check that this question paper contains six main questions.
All questions are compulsory.
Write the question numbers against the attempted questions.
QN Marks
Q1. Read the passage given below and answer the following questions. 8M
1. Subhas Chandra Bose fulfilled a promise to his father that he would sit for
the Indian Civil Service examination in London. He secured the fourth
position in 1920 but then went on to fulfill his own wish. He resigned from
the coveted service the following year, saying “only on the soil of sacrifice
and suffering can we raise our national edifice”. Returning to India, he
plunged into the national struggle and by 1923, was secretary of the Bengal
State Congress and President of All India Youth Congress.
2. By 1927, he emerged, along with Jawaharlal Nehru, as leader of the new
youth movement, which came into its own by playing a major role in the
anti-Simon Commission agitation which swept India that year. He was also
the chief organizer of the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress
(INC) in December 1928, which demanded that the goal of the congress be
changed to ‘Purna Swaraj’ or ‘Complete Independence’.
3. Imprisonment in the Civil Disobedience movement followed by bad health
in 1932 took him to Europe where he observed European politics,
particularly Fascism under Mussolini and Communism in the Soviet Union.
He was impressed by both and believed that authoritarian rule was essential
for achieving radical social goals.
4. In fact, it is in this period that political views of Nehru and Bose begin to
diverge sharply, especially on the issue of Fascism and Nazism. Nehru was
so vehemently opposed to Fascism that he refused to meet Mussolini even
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when the latter sought him out, whereas Bose not only met Mussolini but
was impressed by him. Nehru was sharply critical of the growing danger to
the world from the rise of Hitler. Bose, on the other hand, never expressed
that kind of aversion to Fascism, and was quite willing to seek the support of
Germany and later Japan against Britain. However, he was not happy with
the German attack on Soviet Union in 1941, and that was one reason why he
left Germany for Japan. For Bose, Socialism and Fascism were not polar
opposites, as they were for Nehru.
5. In 1938, Bose was unanimously elected, with the full support of Gandhiji,
as Congress president for the Haripura session. But the next year, he decided
to stand again, this time as a representative of militant and radical groups. An
election ensued which Bose won by 1,580 to 1,377 votes, but the battle lines
were drawn. The challenge he threw by calling Gandhian leaders rightists
who were working for a compromise with the British government was
answered by 12 members of the working committee resigning and asking
Bose to choose his own committee. Nehru did not resign with other members
but he was unhappy with Bose’s casting of aspersions on senior leaders. He
tried his best to mediate and persuade Bose not to resign.
6. The crisis came to a head at Tripuri in March 1939, with Bose refusing to
nominate a new working Committee and ultimately resigning. The clash was
of policy and tactics. Bose wanted an immediate struggle led by Gandhiji,
whereas Gandhiji felt the time was not ripe for struggle.
7. Having burnt his boats with the Congress. Bose went and then to Japan in
1943 to seek help in the struggle against their common enemy, Britain. He
finally went to Singapore to take charge of the Indian National Army (INA)
which had been formed by Mohan Singh in 1941 from Indian prisoners of
war captured by the Japanese. The INA was clear that it would go into action
only on the invitation of the INC; it was not set up as a rival Centre of power.
Bose made this more explicit when on July 6, 1944, in a broadcast on Azad
Hind Radio addressed to Gandhiji, he said, “Father of our Nation! In this
holy war of India’s liberation, we ask for your blessing and good wishes”.
Answer the following questions and choose the most appropriate option:
(a) Subhas Chandra Bose was secretary of the
(i) Bengal State Congress
(ii) All India Youth Congress
(iii) Central India Youth Congress
(iv) None of the above
(b) In which year Subhas Chandra Bose was imprisoned in the Civil
Disobedience Movement
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(i) 1928
(ii) 1930
(iii) 1932
(iv) 1934
(c) Subhas Chandra Bose was not happy with the
(i) Soviet Union attack on German in 1941
(ii) German attack on Soviet Union in 1941
(iii) Soviet Union attack on Japan in 1941
(iv) Japan attack on Soviet Union in 1941
(d) Indian National Army (INA) was formed by
(i) Mohan Singh
(ii) Subhash Chandra Bose
(iii) Jawaharlal Nehru
(iv) Mahatma Gandhi
(e) Authoritarian rule in the above passage means
(i) Autocracy
(ii) Dictatorship
(iii) Tyranny
(iv) Strict and controlling
(f) When was Subhash Chandra Bose elected as Congress President and with
whose support?
(g) What was the address by Bose to Gandhiji on Azad Hind Radio?
(h) Find the word from the passage which means the same as: -to be in jail
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Q2. You are Kavita / Kailash staying at B-101, Yamuna Vihar, Delhi. You find it 5M
disturbing that despite a ban on the use of polythene bags, its use is rampant
in city. Write a letter to the Editor of a National Daily expressing your
concern about the apathy of people towards environmental degradation. Also
suggest ways to mobilize city dwellers for the cause of safe environment
with the help of school children. (Word limit: 120-150 words)
Q3. Choose the correct option: 5M
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i. What is the meaning of ‘epiphany’ in the chapter ’journey to the End of the
Earth’?
a. A moment of shock
b. A moment of great sadness
c. Cacophony
d. A moment of sudden and great revelation or realization.
ii. The synonym of ‘ubiquitous’ is in the chapter ’journey to the End of the
Earth’?
a) Abstract
b) Complex
c) Omnipresent
d) Simple
iii. The Maharaja and the Dewan _____ the British Officer to save the kingdom
in ‘The Tiger King’?
a) entertained
b) bribed
c) pacified
d) confronted
iv. How is ‘Keeping Quiet’ related to life and can change attitude?
a) It helps to think and search soul
b) Helps to scratch one’s soul
c) Helps to develop new thinking process
d) All these
v. The sadness in the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’ is that the poet speaks about is
a) Violence because of inconsiderate behavior of the people
b) Unnecessary movements
c) Speaking aloud
d) Fighting
Q4. Analyse the importance of the dramatic count to twelve in the poem 4M
‘Keeping Quiet’.
Q5. What was ‘Students on Ice Program’ in the chapter ‘Journey to the End of 4M
the Earth’? What was its aim and why it became successful?
Q6. Describe the efforts made by the Tiger King to achieve his target of killing 4M
hundred tigers.
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