Practice Test (English)
Total Marks – 50
Duration – 40 Minutes
1. Answer the following questions in at least two or three lines . (2 × 12 = 24 Marks)
1. How did Caesar greet the narrator when he came home from school?
2. What caused Caesar’s death in the end?
3. Who was Zeus?
4. What happened when Pandora first opened the box?
5. What happened at the end of the story?
6. How did grandmother describe the angel?
7. What did the boy understand when he woke up?
8. What did the boy see in his dream?
9. “Yes I will, since you have been good.”— Who said this to whom? In which context the line was uttered?
10. “[T]hat crow will be the ruin of us”— Who was the speaker? Why did the speaker say this?
11. “[H]e became very angry. He cawed and flapped his wings...”— Who became angry and why?
12. What did Caesar do when he sat on Aunt Mabel’s arm?
13. Who was Prometheus?
14. In which mythology the story of Pandora is found?
15. What comes to your mind when you hear the word ‘mythology’?
16. Where did the narrator find the young crow?
2. Identify the type of phrase in the following sentences. (3 × 2 = 6 Marks)
a) The girl with curly hair is my friend.
b) He walked with great care.
c) The book on the table belongs to me.
3. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb given in brackets. (3 × 2 = 6 Marks)
a) She ______ (write) a story now.
b) We ______ (go) to the zoo yesterday.
c) They ______ (finish) their homework before the teacher arrived.
4. Rewrite the sentences in the tense mentioned in brackets. (2 × 2 = 4 Marks)
a) He eats a banana. (Change into Past Tense)
b) The dog barked loudly. (Change into Future Tense)
5. Identify the adjectives in the following sentences and mention their type. (5 × 2 = 10 Marks)
a) She has three pencils.
b) This book belongs to me.
c) The old man walked slowly. d) My mother is a doctor.
e) There are several birds in the tree.