CBSE Class 8 English Sample Paper Set 4

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Section – A

(Comprehension)

1. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: (10marks)

1. I studied up to the eighth class in my village, and then went on to high school in a neighbouring town. I was very surprised when I saw the school there, the children who attended it and the clothes they wore. I felt very shy and almost fearful. It felt good just to climb the stairs and to walk into the classrooms upstairs, in such a big school. But I got used to it soon enough. And I also began to work at my studies eagerly. The children living in the hostel who were the same age as me wore smart clothes and possessed all sorts of finery like jewels and wrist-watches. I thought to myself that they were from upper-caste families.

2. The warden-sister of our hostel could not abide low-caste children. She'd get hold of us and scold us for no rhyme or reason. If a girl tended to be on the plump side, she'd get it even more. "These people get nothing to eat at home; they come here and they grow fat," she would say publicly. It was really embarrassing. We too paid our fees like everyone else, for our food, for this and that. Yet we had to listen to all this as well.

3. When I went home for holidays, if there was an upper caste woman sitting next to me in the bus, she'd immediately ask me which place I was going to, what street. As soon as I said, the Cheri, she'd get up and move off to another seat. Or she'd tell me to move elsewhere. As if I would go! I'd settle into my seat even more firmly. They'd prefer then to get up and stand all the way rather than sit next to me or to any other woman from the Cheri. They'd be polluted, apparently. This happened to me several times. When I came home and told my mother, she advised me, "Say you are from a different caste. They'll never know." The pain I felt was not a trifling one.

4. Many of the children at my school were very poor at their lessons. I studied hard and got the best marks in my class. Because of this, all the children would speak to me and were friendly. The teachers and sisters who taught me often encouraged me and were friendly towards me. This made me even keener about my lessons. They asked me to help the children who were really backward at their lessons. I was overjoyed.

Questions

1. Why did the narrator feel shy and fearful at her new school? (1)

2. How did the warden of the hostel humiliate low caste children? Why did the narrator disapprove of this behaviour? (2)

3. Which line from paragraph three shows the narrator's resistance to the discriminatory attitude of upper caste women in the bus? (1)

4. What did the narrator's mother advise her? (1)

5. How was the narrator able to make friends at school? (1)

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