Academic Year: - 2017 – 18
10th Std. English Unit Test Marks: 15
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Prose: - There is a Girl by the Tracks!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. “There’s a girl by the tracks, “the voices cried out. The voices were of ..............
(a) railway employees (b) train passengers
(c) truck drivers (d) the truck driver
2. Baleshwar had revisited the spot to .................
(a) investigate (b) look for her belongings
(c) get assurance (d) meet someone
II. Answer the following question in 1 or 2 sentences each:- (2 x 2 = 4)
3. What did Baleshwar Mishra notice from his compartment?
4. Why, according to Baleshwar Mishra, people of Mumbai don’t help the accident victims?
III. Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow:- (2 x 3 = 6)
5. ‘Oh, I couldn’t thank him’.
(a) Who is the speaker?
(b) Who did the speaker want to thank ‘him’?
6. ‘I think it is an astonishing thing that a stranger jumped off a moving train and risked his life for me’.
(a) What happened to Baleshwar as soon as he jumped off a moving train?
(b) How did Baleshwar help Roma Talerja?
IV. Answer the following question in 4 or 5 sentences each:- (1 x 3 = 3)
7. Give a brief account of how Baleshwar helped the girl on the tracks. Or Baleshwar was God sent to
Roma. Justify.
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Academic Year: - 2017 – 18
10th Std. English Unit Test Marks: 15
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Prose: - There is a Girl by the Tracks!
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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) train passengers
2. (b) look for her belongings
II. Answer the following question in 1 or 2 sentences each: - (2 x 2 = 4)
3. Baleshwar Mishra was travelling in a train. He saw a young woman in a black salwar kameez lying next to the tracks.
4. According to Baleshwar Mishra people of Mumbai are afraid of being trapped in the courts or with the police. Hence, they don’t offer help even during accidents.
III. Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow: - (2 x 3 = 6)
5. (a) Baleshwar Mishra.
(b) The speaker wanted to thank the tempo truck driver.
6. (a) A soon as Baleshwar jumped off the moving train, he hurt his leg.
(b) Baleshwar carried the wounded Roma Talreja up to the main road, and later admitted her to hospital to get treatment.
IV. Answer the following question in 4 or 5 sentences each: - (1 x 3 = 3)
7. When Baleshwar saw the girl lying on the tracks, he jumped down from the moving train and ran towards her. There was no help in sight so he lifted her up, crossed the tracks and walked till he reached the road. He waited patiently with the girl in his arms for a long time. He stopped a number of motorists but no one heeded to his call. Finally, a tempo truck driver stopped and helped him to take the girl to a hospital nearby where she was given first aid. The doctor there advised him to take her to a larger hospital. Baleshwar did this and the girl got the necessary medical care. Within a few days, she recovered finally.
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