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A Shady Plot
(Based on Literature Reader)
Fiction - 4
CCE
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GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Attempt all questions.
2. All the answers must be correctly numbered as in the question paper
and written in the answer sheet.
3. Attempt all questions in each section before going on the next section.
4. Read each question carefully and follow the instructions.
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Class ........................ Roll No. ........... Grade ............
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Time: 40 Mins
SECTION–A
(Reading)
1. Read the extract given below :
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Apparently Miss Hinkle had not heard my protest. 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.
“Why, she says it’s you, Mr. Hallock. What does she mean? Ouija, won’t you tell us who is
talking?”
I groaned, but that inexorable board continued to spell. I always did hate a spelling match!
Miss Hinkle was again following it aloud: “H-e-l-e-n’. Helen!” She raised her voice until it could
be heard at the other end of the room. “Lavinia, dear, do you know anyone by the name of
Helen?”
“By the name of----?” I can’t hear you.” And my wife made way over to use between the Book
Club’s chairs.
“You know the funniest thing has happened,” she whispered excitedly. “Someone had been
trying to communicate with John through Mrs. Hunt’s and Mrs. Sprinkle’s Ouija! Someone by
the name of Helen----”
“Why, isn’t that curious!”
“What is?”
Miss Hinkle simpered.
“Someone giving the name of Helen has just been calling for your husband here.”
“But we don’t know anyone by the name of Helen----”
Lavinia stopped and began to look at me through narrowed lids much as she had done in the
library the evening before.
And then from different parts of the room other manipulators began to report. Every plagued
one of those five Ouija boards was calling me by name! I felt my ears grow crimson, purple,
maroon. My wife was looking at me as though I were some peculiar insect. The squeak of Ouija
boards and the murmur of conversation rose louder and louder, and then I felt my face twitch in
the spasm of that idiotic grin. I tried to straighten my wretched features into their usual
semblance of humanity, I tried and---“Doesn’t he look sly!” said Miss Hinkle. And then I got up and fled from the room.
I do not know how that party ended. I do not want to know. I went straight upstairs, and
undressed and crawled into bed, and lay there in the burning dark while the last guest gurgled
in the hall below about the wonderful evening she had spent. I lay there while the front door
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shut after her, and Lavinia’s steps came up the stairs--passed the door to the guest room beyond.
And then after a couple of centuries elapsed the clock struck three and I dozed off to sleep.
At the breakfast table the next morning there was no sign of my wife. I concluded she was
sleeping late, but Gladolia, upon being questioned, only shook her head, muttered something,
and turned the whites of her eyes up to the ceiling. I was glad when the meal was over and
hurried to the library for another try at that story.
I had hardly seated myself at the desk when there came a tap at the door and a white slip of
paper slid under it. I unfolded it and read:
“DEAR JOHN”,
“I am going back to my grandmother. My lawyer will communicate with you later.”
“Oh,” I cried, “Oh, I wish I was dead!”
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(A) On the basis of your reading of the above passage, answer the questions that follow:
(a) What was Lavinia’s reply to Miss Hinkle’s query?
(b) What was Lavinia’s reaction when other couples also reported about Helen calling Hallock...?
(c) What did Hallock hear from the last quest?
(d) How did Hallock feel before going off to sleep?
(e) What did the slip declare?
(f) How did Hallock feel at Lavinia’s decision?
(B) Find words from the passage which means the same as:
(a) wrinkled (para 1)
(b) passed (para 14)
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2. Read the poem given below and answer the questions by choosing the most
appropriate option.
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I have a little shadow
That goes in and out with me
And what can be the use of him
Is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me
From the heels up to the head;
And I can see him jump before me,
When I jump into my bed.
The funniest thing about him
Is the way he likes to grow,
Not at all like proper children
Which is always very slow.
For, he sometimes shoots up taller
Like an Indian-rubber ball,
And he sometimes gets so little
That there’s none of him at all.
One morning, very early,
Before the sun was up
I rose and found the shining dew
On every butter-cup
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But my lazy little shadow,
Like an arrant sleepy-head
Had stayed at home behind me
And was fast asleep in bed.
1. When the boy jumps into his bed, the shadow jumps
(a) into the bedcovers
(b) over the bed
(c) in the bed before him
(d) none of the above
2. The growth of the children is quite slow as compared to the growth of
(a) head
(b) heels
(c) a shadow
(d) shadows
3. The shadow shoots up taller like ...... The device used is
(a) metaphor
(b) simile
(c) rhythm
(d) rhyme scheme
4. The shadow does not only shoot up but it also ......
(a) gets up little
(b) grows little
(c) gets so little
(d) grows a little
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5. The poet observed the shiny dew drops when ......
(a) it was noon
(b) it was dawn
(c) it was morning
(d) it was forenoon
6. The shadow was not with him when
(a) he got up in the morning
(b) he went out one morning
(c) dew was on every butter cup
(d) he was sleeping
7. The shadow appeared lazy as it did
(a) not go to work
(b) not like the sun
(c) not accompany him outdoors in the morning
(d) none of the above
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1. _______________________________________
2. _______________________________________
3. _______________________________________
4. _______________________________________
5. _______________________________________
6. _______________________________________
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Class ........................ Roll No. ........... Grade ............
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Time: 30 Mins
SECTION–B
(Writing)
3. You are Henry —a successful businessman. One night the ghost of your friend warns
you to avoid getting excessively materialistic. Write the diary entry.
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4. Given below is a profile of Mrs. Garima Gupta. Write a short bio-sketch of her. You
may take the help of the clues given below :
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Age
Height/Weight
Family
Likes/Dislikes
Hobbies
Prominence
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30 years, well built, impressive personality
160 cm, 70 kg
husband corporate, two school-going kids, joint family
a voracious reader of English literature, especially Shakespeare, Browning,
Ezekiel, employed as a lecturer in English in a girls college, likes to
discharge her duties sincerely, specialises in extra-curricular activities and
cultural functions
— dancing, helping the needy
— large-hearted, benevolent, sociable, cooperative
5. You must have had an encounter with a ghost, yet you never ever thought much of it.
Share your experience by writing an e-mail to your friend that will help you prove
that ‘ghosts’ do visit us.
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6. You have read ‘The Canterville Ghost’ by Oscar Wilde. The librarian has asked you to
make a presentation to the class. Write the presentation based on Wilde’s theme of
life and death to examine the issue of forgiveness.
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Class ........................ Roll No. ........... Grade ............
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Time: 30 Mins
SECTION–C
(Grammar)
7. Choose the most appropriate option given below to complete the following passage.
Trick-or-treating is a customary celebration for children (a) ______ Halloween. Children go in
costumes from house to house, asking (b) _________ treats such as candy or sometimes money
(c) __________ the question, “Trick or treat?” The word “trick” refers to a (mostly idle) “threat”
(d) ________ perform mischief (e) ________ the homeowners or their property if no treat is given.
In some parts of Scotland children still go guising. (f) ________ this custom the child performs
some sort of trick, i.e., sings a song or tells a ghost story.
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(a)
on
in
into
at
(b)
of
for
off
at
(c)
on
in
with
by
(d)
with
too
for
to
(e)
by
on
in
at
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At
For
On
In
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(a) ________________
(e) ________________
(b) ________________
(f) ________________
(c) ________________
(d) ________________
8. Read the passage given below. Edit it by choosing the most appropriate option:
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Correction
Miss Laura Hinkle takes Hallock’s hands
(a) takes
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and hold them in the position desired before
(b) hold
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the Ouija board. When she release them the
(c) release
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board begins to slide around. She asked the
(d) begins
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board to tells them something. Then the board
(e) tells
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began to take life. It begun to fly around very
(f) begun
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(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(a)
take
took
taken
taking
(b)
held
is held
holds
holding
(c)
release
releases
releasing
released
(d)
began
begin
begun
begins
(e)
told
tell
tells
telling
(f)
begin
begins
begun
began
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(a) ________________
(e) ________________
(b) ________________
(f) ________________
(c) ________________
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(d) ________________
9. Rearrange the following words to form meaningful sentences:
1. overwhelming/encounters/be/ghost/very/can
2. people/and/that/cold/during/encounter/they/eerie/the/say/felt an/many/presence
3. gets/because/dangerous/evil/ghosts/that/one/not/are/or
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10. Complete the dialogues between two friends where they indulge in information
exchange on ‘Ghosts’:
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A Ghost is the supposed spirit of somebody who has died
It appears as a shadowy form to cause sounds or (a) ______
I do not think everyone (b) ______
It is the ones who get trapped in the realm between Earth and the Afterlife.
All have to go to the Afterlife which is our true home.
Keep in mind. They are just (c) ______
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Ahab
Babita
Ahab
Babita
Ahab
Babita
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11. Read the following conversation and fill in the blanks to complete the passage given
below:
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Hallock :
Ghost
:
Hallock :
Why do you appear in parts?
Give me time and I will appear in full. In am too tired to materialize in full.
I have lost my wife, my home and happiness because of you.
Hallock asked the ghost (a) ______. She asked him to give (b) ______ appear in full. She further
said that (c) ______ to materialize in full.
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Class ........................ Roll No. ........... Grade ............
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SECTION–D
(Literature)
12. (A) Read the extract and answer the following questions :
“Nothing,” I said. “Absolutely nothing. My dear lady, I was merely waiting for you to tell me
why you had come. And excuse me, but do you always come in sections like this? I should think
your parts might get mixed up sometimes.”
1. The ghost of Helen appeared before the narrator and
2. The ghost of Helen appeared before the narrator
3. The narrator felt his spine cold when the ghost
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12. (B) Read the extract and answer the following questions :
She sighed, and rubbed the end of her long eagle nose with a reminiscent finger. “Those were
terrible days ; the memory of them made me mistake purgatory for paradise, and at last when
I attained my present state of being, I made up my mind that something should be done.”
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1. The ghost in her other life had been a/an
2. ‘That something should be done’ is
3. The purpose behind forming ‘The Writer’s Inspiration Bureau’ is
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12. (C) Read the extract and answer the questions given below:
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“But what have I got to do with this?”
She gave me a pitying look and rose.
“You’re to exert your influence. Get all your friends and acquaintances to stop using the Ouija
board, and then we’ll start helping you to write.”
1. What is ‘this’ here in the first line ?
2. What happens immediately after it ?
3. Why does the ghost want the narrator to stop the usage of Ouija boards by his friends and
acquaintances ?
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13. Answer any two out of three in the following questions in 30–40 words each.
1. What did the ghost tell the narrator of her present assignment and what for did she
request him?
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2. What made Lavinia buy Ouija board ? How did the narrator react to her doing so ?
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3. What for did Lavinia buy the Ouija board for the narrator ? How could he get help
from it ?
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14. Answer any one of the following questions in 150 words.
The ghost of Helen is not a ghost but is like a human being. Explain.
Or
Describe the meeting of the members of the Lavinia’s Book Club at her house with
Ouija boards.
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