Academic Year: - 2017 – 18
10th Std. English Unit Test Marks: 15
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Poem: - Off to Outer Space Tomorrow Morning
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I. Four alternatives are given below for the each of the following questions/ incomplete statements. Write the
correct or the most appropriate answer:- (2 x 1 = 2)
1. Every………. on the earth can go and blow your top.
(a) one `
(b) Soul
(c) body (d) person
2. Day light will be on the switch and………….. under lock.
(a) summer (b) rainy
(c) winter (d) daily
II. Answer the following question in 1 or 2 sentences each: - (2 x 2 = 4)
3. ‘You can start the countdown; you can take a last look; you can cross out my name from the telephone book’. What could be the reason for the space traveler to have such a feeling?
4. ‘The poet is off to outer space tomorrow morning’. What does he ask the readers to do?
III. Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow: - (2 x 3 = 6)
5. ‘In solitary confinement as complete as any gaol’.
(a) What is referred to as ‘Solitary confinement’?
(b) Why does the speaker say so?
6. ‘For with nobody to visit me and not a friend in hail, In solitary confinement as complete as any gaol?’
(a) What feelings do these lines convey?
(b) What two aspects are compared in the second line?
IV. Answer the following question in 4 or 5 sentences each: - (1 x 3 = 3)
7. How has the poet described the life in space?
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Academic Year: - 2017 – 18
10th Std. English Unit Test Marks: 15
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Poem: - Off to Outer Space Tomorrow Morning
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Key Answers
I. Four alternatives are given below for the each of the following questions/ incomplete statements. Write the correct or the most appropriate answer: - (2 x 1 = 2)
1. (b) Soul
2. (c) winter
II. Answer the following question in 1 or 2 sentences each: - (2 x 2 = 4)
3. When the space traveler reaches the space nobody can contact him. He cannot have any friends through letters or mails and is not definite of returning from space.
4. The poet will be off to outer space tomorrow morning. We can start the countdown. We can have a last look at him. He asks us to pass him helmet from its plastic hook. We cannot communicate with him. So we can cross out his name from the telephone book.
III. Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow: - (2 x 3 = 6)
5. (a) Going in a spacecraft.
(b) When the speaker is alone in the space he feels as though he is inside a gaol.
6. (a) It conveys the feelings of loneliness.
(b) The two aspects compared in the second line are loneliness and gaol.
IV. Answer the following question in 4 or 5 sentences each: - (1 x 3 = 3)
7. He has mentioned that there is absence of gravitation pull in space. Everything keeps on swirling inside the rocket. The concept of day and night does not apply in space. There will be no communication in the form of letters and mails with the outer world. Calendars and clocks are useless in space. Totally, we can say that life in space is totally in contrast to life on earth.
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