Exam Date - 15/12/2021 (Wednesday)
Cover These Topics for SAT-3 (December) 2021
Poem
- Childhood
Prose
- The Browning Version
MCQ/Very Short Type (5+4=9 marks)
4. Childhood (Markus Natten)
1. Who is the poet of
‘Childhood’?
Ans. Markus Natten
2. What does the poet
wonder about?
Ans. About his childhood
3. At what age did the
poet fear of losing his childhood?
Ans. Eleven
4. What did the poet
realise about?
Ans. About Hell and Heaven
5. What could not be found
in Geography books?
Ans. Hell and Heaven
6. What do the adults talk
and preach of?
Ans. Of love
7. What do the adults not
do?
Ans. They do not act
lovingly
8. Where did the poet go
to find his childhood?
Ans. A forgotten place
9. Where did the poet find
his childhood?
Ans. In an infant’s face
10. What is the poet’s
reaction about the loss of his childhood?
Ans. He is wonder
6. The Browning Version (Terence Rattigan)
1. Who is the writer of
‘The Browning Version”?
Ans. Terence Rattigan
2. Who was Taplow?
Ans. A school boy of
sixteen years
3. When did Crocker-Harris
tell Taplow to come?
Ans. At six- thirty p.m.
4. Who was Taplow waiting
for?
Ans. For Croker-Harris
5. Who does Taplow talk to
while waiting for Croker-Harris?
Ans. Another school
teacher Frank
6. Who is Frank jealous
of?
Ans. Of Crocker Harris
7. What was Taplow hoping
to get the next day?
Ans. His passing
certificate
8. Who is Millie?
Ans. Crocker-Harris’s wife
9. Where does Millie send
Taplow to?
Ans. Chemist
10. Who told a joke in the
class?
Ans. Croker-Harris
11. Which book does Taplow
have with him?
Ans. The Agamemnon
12. What punishment did
Croker-Harris give to Taplow?
Ans. Extra work
13. According to the rule
who should announce the result?
Ans. The Headmaster
14. What will Taplow opt
if his result is favourable?
Ans. Science
Short Type (3x2=6 marks)
4. Childhood (Markus Natten)
1. Why does the poet think that heaven and hell are not real
places?
Ans. The poet feels that Hell and Heaven are not
real places as he could not
find them in geography book. The poet has come to the age to understand and
differentiate between real and unreal. So the poet realises that hell and
heaven are not real places.
2. What do adults usually talk and preach of? How do they differ
in their actions?
Ans. The speaker says that the adults are hypocrites and fail to do what they preach and
teach. He says that though adults say that we should
love each other but do not act lovingly.
3. Why does the poet say that his childhood has gone to ‘some
forgotten place’?
Ans. When the poet crossed the age of eleven years,
he realised that he had lost his childhood and had developed a mind of his own. The poet thinks that his childhood is hidden in the face of an infant child.
6. The Browning Version (Terence Rattigan)
1. Why has Taplow come to the school in the evening?
Ans. Taplow went to school on the last day of school because he was absent from school for few days because he was ill. Taplow had to stay
back in school for extra work so that he could get his remove. This was under the orders of Mr Crocker-Harris
who was a strict teacher.
2. Why did Crocker Harris give extra work to Taplow?
Ans. Crocker Harris gave extra work to Taplow because he was absent few days in the last
week due to illness. Mr. Crocker Harris was a strict teacher. So he gave extra
work to Taplow.
3. Why did Frank feel jealous of Croker?
Ans. Frank, a teacher, is jealous of Mr Crocker
Harris because of his
influence over students. Mr. Crocker Harris was a strict teacher and all
of his students were scared of him and they follow his orders.
4. Who was Millie? What did she tell Taplow?
Ans. Millie was Crocker-Harris's wife. She told Taplow that he should go home since Crocker-Harris had not come. When he did not like that
suggestion, she told him that he should take a 15 minute break and then return
to see if Crocker-Harris had arrived.
5. Where did Millie send Taplow? What was her chief purpose behind
that?
Ans. Millie sent Taplow to get a prescription from a chemists' shop. She did not want him to get bored of waiting for her
husband Mr. Crocker Harris.
Essay Type (5 marks)
1. Write in brief the
summary of ‘The Browning Version’.
Ans. Taplow came to school on the last day of school because he was absent from school for few days due to illness. So Mr. Crocker Harris gave him
extra work to do in the evening after school. Mr. Crocker Harris was a strict teacher. When Taplow was
doing his work another teacher, Frank came there. Frank was jealous of Mr.
Crocker Harris because of his influence over students. Mr. Crocker Harris was a strict teacher and all of his
students were scared of him and they follow his orders. In the Last
Millie came there. Millie was Crocker-Harris's wife. She told Taplow that he should go home since Crocker-Harris had not come. When he did not like that
suggestion, She sent Taplow to get a prescription from a chemists' shop. She did not want him to get bored of waiting for her
husband Mr. Crocker Harris.