ICSE Class 10 2013 Question Paper Literature in English (English Paper - 2)

ICSE Class 10 2013 Question Paper Literature in English (English Paper - 2). Students can download the last year question papers using the link below. Free download of examination question papers with solutions. Last 10 year question papers should be practised to get better marks in examinations.

LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

ENGLISH Paper – 2

(Two hours)

You must attempt one question from each of the Sections A, B and C and any two other questions. The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets [ ].

Section A - DRAMA

Question 1

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

Orlando : Why, what‟s the matter?

Adam : O unhappy youth!

Come not within these doors; within this roof

The enemy of all your graces lives.

(i) Who is the enemy of Orlando‟s graces? Briefly state how that person has come to be Orlando‟s „enemy‟. 

(ii) Why does Adam say that Orlando should not come „within these doors‟? Mention another instance from an earlier part of the play where the „enemy‟ had planned harm against Orlando‟s „graces‟. 

(iii) Who had given a similar warning to Orlando earlier? Briefly state what that person had said to Orlando. 

(iv) Why does Adam call Orlando an „unhappy youth‟? What advice does Adam give Orlando? 

(v) What does Orlando finally decide to do along with Adam? Describe Adam‟s sense of devotion to duty. 

Question 2

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

Silvius: My errand is to you, fair youth

My gentle Phebe did bid me give you this: [giving a letter]

I know not the contents; but, as I guess

By the stern brow and waspish action

Which she did use as she was writing of it,

It bears an angry tenor : pardon me;

I am but as a guiltless messenger.

Rosalind: [Reading the letter] Patience herself

would startle at this letter, …….

(i) Where are Silvius and Rosalind at this time? Who else is with Rosalind? What had Rosalind been complaining about prior to Silvius‟ entrance?

(ii) What does Rosalind reveal about the contents of the letter which Silvius has given her? 

(iii) How does Oliver, who enters the scene a little later, recognize Rosalind and her companion? 

(iv) What was Oliver‟s feelings for Orlando in the earlier part of the play? What is his feeling towards Orlando now? Briefly mention how this change in Oliver was brought about. 

(v) What has Oliver brought for Rosalind from Orlando? What effect does this have on Rosalind and what light does this throw on Rosalind‟s character? 

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