Diamond Academy
Subject: English
2021/22 Second Term Worksheet 5
Name: __________________________
Grade: 11 Section: ___
Time Allotted:
Total Points: 30%
Date:
Directions: Match the following items. Neatness counts.
1. White hand
2. Incarnadine
3. Repentance
4. Supper
5. Wilderness
6. Aureate
7. Abode
8. Scorn
9. Sans
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10.Scorn
11.Thrust
12.Insolence
13.Mourn
14.Urn
15.Obliterated
16. Veil
17. Elegy
A. symbol of hindrance
B. uninhabited
C. lament
D. disdain
E. a symbol of death
F. a symbol of purity
G. tan
H. regretting ( of misdeeds)
I. a symbol for earthly demands
J. brilliance
K. discourtesy
L. efface
M. demolish
N. home
O. without
P. thrown away forcibly
Q. Prudence
R. ephemeral
S. a poem unfolding grief
Directions: Choose the correct answers based on the excerpts (quatrains ) of
the Rubaiyat of OMAR Khayam . Neatness counts.
Some for the Glories of This World; and some
Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come;
Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go,
Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
18. All the thoughts below are coherent to the quatrain except:
A. Heeding the future is connoted positively.
B. Battered embellishments are impermanent.
C. Grappling to size our future is positively unfolded.
D. "Take the cash" line three indicates the impartation of the persona's advice
to focus on attainable things.
E. Earthly demands are bountifully strown everywhere.
Look to the blowing Rose about us--"Lo,
Laughing," she says, "into the world I blow,
At once the silken tassel of my Purse
Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw."
19. Which one of the following is true about the quatrain above?
A. Worldly allurements are downplayed by human beings.
B. The discontinuance and fulfillment of earthly goals are underscored.
C. Material possession desiccates with the swift passage of time.
D. The center of learning in life is fundamentally accompanied by alms.
Before the phantom of False morning died,
Methought a Voice within the Tavern cried,
"When all the Temple is prepared within,
Why nods the drowsy Worshipper outside?"
20. We can deduce from the quatrain that:
A. Disregarding their blissfulness, people are wistful for something aloof.
B. The word "Tavern" may symbolize our sour existence.
C. "False morning" symbolizes the ephemeral life of humanness.
D. Material possession is the panacea of every arduousness in life.
And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before
The Tavern shouted--"Open then the Door!
You know how little while we have to stay,
And, once departed, may return no more."
21. Which one of the following is an interpretation about the poem?
A. The cock possibly symbolizes someone who endeavors to awake the seed of
wisdom inside us
B. The tavern possibly symbolizes the earthly form of human beings.
C. "Departed" line 4 is a signifier of human perishability.
D. Line three is an emphatically stated theme that the duration of human beings
on earth is ephemeral.
E. All the choices are possible answers.
Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
Where the White Hand Of Moses on the Bough
Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.
22. Of the following themes can be drawn from the quatrain:
A. With the accompaniment of our foes, we can develop the sense of enmity.
B. We can get reignited to pursuit our goals when others back us.
C. Excessive accompaniment paves the path of sluggishness.
D. It is implausible to refurbish our old desires
E. No answer is given.
Iram indeed is gone with all his Rose,
And Jamshyd's Sev'n-ring'd Cup where no one knows;
But still a Ruby kindles in the Vine,
And many a Garden by the Water blows,
23. Which one of the following is incorrect about the quatrain above?
A. All the resources in this world are not sufficient to sustain animals and
plants.
B. Someone who gulped with Jamshyd’s cup was believed to own an
immortal soul.
C. There are enough resources to sustain the lives on earth.
D. No answer is given.
E. All are possible answers.
And David's lips are lockt; but in divine
High-piping Pehlevi, with "Wine! Wine! Wine!
Red Wine!"--the Nightingale cries to the Rose
That sallow cheek of hers t' incarnadine.
24. Based on the quatrain, all are wrong except:
A. David is meandering incontrovertibly.
B. ‘Wine’ may symbolize the actual alcoholic beverage.
C. It is believed that the nightingale got its breast pierced by thorn and ebbed its
blood to whiten the red rose to hand it to the boy who was rejected by the
school girl.
D. True love (deed) does not involve reciprocation.
E. No answer is given.
Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring
Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To flutter--and the Bird is on the Wing.
25. Based on the quatrain, which one of the following is does not sound natural?
A. The persona is advised to not live dwell in the past.
B. The recipient is a sort of bird who flies swiftly.
C. Time is a formidable foe-it never waits for no one.
D. Time is always fleeting and so is life.
E. No answer is given.
Whether at Naishapur or Babylon,
Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run,
The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop,
The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
26. It is possible to unearth from the quatrain that:
A. Naishapur is a city symbolizing sacred deeds.
B. Babylon in this context connotes sacredness.
C. Irrespective of your location and economic status, you cannot escape
death.
D. Time may tarry to those who missed its presence timely.
E. No answer is given.
Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say;
Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?
And this first Summer month that brings the Rose
Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away.
27. We can deduce from the quatrain that:
A. Lingering in the past is not that much poisonous.
B. In order fruit to be yielded, flowers die first.
C. The flowers that smile today are impermanent.
D. Mighty Kings can succumb to oblivion.
E. Each day broods incalculable hopes, opportunities and blissfulness to us:
however, we remain immodest and live in our past WRONG DOINGSregretting.
Directions: Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.
There was a Boy
BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
There was a Boy; ye knew him well, ye cliffs
And islands of Winander! many a time,
At evening, when the earliest stars began
To move along the edges of the hills,
Rising or setting, would he stand alone,
Beneath the trees, or by the glimmering lake;
And there, with fingers interwoven, both hands
Pressed closely palm to palm and to his mouth
Uplifted, he, as through an instrument,
Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls
That they might answer him.—And they would shout
Across the watery vale, and shout again,
Responsive to his call,—with quivering peals,
And long halloos, and screams, and echoes loud
Redoubled and redoubled; concourse wild
Of jocund din! And, when there came a pause
Of silence such as baffled his best skill:
Then, sometimes, in that silence, while he hung
Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise
Has carried far into his heart the voice
Of mountain-torrents; or the visible scene
Would enter unawares into his mind
With all its solemn imagery, its rocks,
Its woods, and that uncertain heaven received
Into the bosom of the steady lake.
This boy was taken from his mates, and died
In childhood, ere he was full twelve years old.
Pre-eminent in beauty is the vale
Where he was born and bred: the churchyard hangs
Upon a slope above the village-school;
And through that churchyard when my way has led
On summer-evenings, I believe that there
A long half-hour together I have stood
Mute—looking at the grave in which he lies!
28. The speaker recounts the experiences of the boy in the poem with:
(A) mock heroic tones (B) resentful disdain
(C) nostalgic reverence (D) gently controlled pity
(E) faint satiric humor
29. Which of the following illustrates the rhetorical device of apostrophe?
(A) "ye knew him well, ye cliffs" (line 1)
(B) "when the earliest stars began to move" (lines 3-4)
(C) "with fingers interwoven" (line 7)
(D) "they would shout/Across the watery vale" (lines 11-12)
(E) "the voice/Of mountain-torrents" (lines 20-21)
30. The phrase "Rising or setting" (line 5) modifies which of the following?
(A) "evening" (line 3) (B) "stars" (line 3) (C) "edges" (line 4) (D) "hills" (line 4)
(E) "he" (line 5)
31. As determined by context, which of the following would best fit between
"owls" (line 10) and "That" (line Il)?
(A) until (B) in (C) when (D) so (E) if
32. Which of the following is the best rendering of the phrase "concourse wild
Of jocund din" (lines 15-16)?
(A) A deafening clatter of wings
(B) A tumultuous, loud, gleeful noise
(C) A painful mixture of sharp sound
(D) An aggressive, threatening, vocal attack
(E) A witty and mocking conversation
33. The word "din" (line 16) is most strongly reinforced by which of the
following pairs of lines?
(A) 3 and 4 (B) 5 and 6 (C) 9 and 10 (D) 14 and 15 (E) 20 and 21
34. In context, the word "baffled" (line 17) is best interpreted to mean:
(A) defied (B) confused (C) reflected (D) strengthened (E) induced
35. The phrase "his best skill" (line 17) is an oblique reference to which of the
following?
(A) "To move along the edges" (line 4)
(B) "would he stand alone" (line 5)
(C) "with fingers interwoven" (line 7)
(D) "as through an instrument" (line 9)
(E) "Blew mimic hootings"-(line 10)
36. The heaven is "uncertain" (line 24) in the sense that it:
(A) is a reflection that moves
(B) is of doubtful existence for the speaker
(C) is a metaphor for fate
(0) threatens the speaker
(E) reflects various colors
37. The speaker's experience described in lines 19·25 ("a gentle shock ... the
steady lake") is best characterized as:
(A) a delusion induced by a powerful artist
(B) a mystical experience resulting from prayer
(C) a heightened consciousness of the beauty of nature
(D) an indifference to a force that no longer responds to him
(E) a growing resentment at his own insignificance.
Analyze the following quatrains ( excerpts of the Rubaiyat of OMAR
Khayam) thematically and compare and contrast to the real world life
experience. (5 points each)
38. And we, that now make merry in the Room
They left, and Summer dresses in new bloom,
Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth
Descend—ourselves to make a Couch—for whom?
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39. Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie,
Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and—sans End!
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40. Alike for those who for to-day prepare,
And those that after some to-morrow stare,
A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries,
“Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There.”
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41. Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss’d
Of the Two Worlds so wisely—they are thrust
Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn
Are scatter’d, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.
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42. Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same door where in I went.
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Write a poetic essay on “The Rubaiyat of OMAR Khayam ” and unveil your
personal feelings on it. Introduction, three main body paragraphs and concluding
paragraph count. Neatness, handwriting, spelling and every technical aspect count.
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