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Council For The Indian School Certificate Examinations (ICSE) Class IX English Paper 2 Specimen Question Papers 2020

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English Paper 2 Question Paper

Section A – Drama:
Answer at least one question from this Section.
The Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare

Question 1:
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Shylock: Therefore I part with him; and part with him
To one that I would have him help to waste
His borrow’d purse- Well Jessica, go in:
Perhaps I will return immediately:
Do as I bid you; shut doors after you:
Fast bind, fast find;
A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.

(i) Shylock says, “Therefore I part with him;” From whom does Shylock part? Why does Shylock not bid a tearful adieu to ‘him’? [3]
(ii) Where is Shylock going? What does Shylock “bid” Jessica to do prior to these lines? [3]
(iii) Explain the line: ‘Fast bind, fast find;’. What does Shylock want to ‘find’? Bring out the irony in these words. [3]
(iv) What reasons does Shylock give for his unwillingness to leave the house? [3]
(v) Racial prejudice is a major theme in the preceding scenes. However, Jessica is portrayed as an exception. Use examples from the text to demonstrate how Jessica is shown to be different from her father and others of her community. [4]

Question 2:
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Arragon: What many men desire! That ‘’many ‘’ may be meant
By the fool multitude, that choose by show,
Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach;
Which pries not to the interior, but like the martlet,
Builds in the weather on the outward wall,
Even in the force and road of casualty.
I will not choose what many men desire,

(i) Why is Arragon in this place? What is the inscription that he has just read, and on which casket was it found? [3]
(ii) List the conditions that Arragon had to promise to abide by before he was allowed to choose a casket. [3]
(iii) Explain in your own words, the comparison that Arragon makes between the martlet and the foolish multitude. [3]
(iv) Which casket does Arragon eventually choose? What does he find inside the casket that he chooses? [3]
(v) How does Arragon respond when he discovers that he had made the wrong choice? What does this reveal about Arragon’s character? [4]

Question 3:
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Nerissa: Your father was ever virtuous: and holy men
at their death have good inspirations:
therefore, the lottery, that he hath devised
in these three chests of gold, silver and
lead, -whereof who chooses his meaning
chooses you, – will, no doubt, never
be chosen by any rightly but one who shall rightly love.

(i) What are the terms of the lottery referred to in the above extract? Who devised it? [3]
(ii) How do you know that Portia was not happy with this lottery? [3]
(iii) Name any six suitors who came to woo Portia. [3]
(iv) What does Nerissa say to comfort Portia? What is Nerissa’s opinion of Portia’s father? [3]
(v) Which casket does the Prince of Morocco choose? What leads him to make this choice? [4]

Section B – Poetry
Answer at least one question from this Section.
A Collection of Poems

Question 4:
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
He plants the forest’s heritage
The harvest of a coming age
The joy that unborn eyes shall see
These things he plants who plants a tree.

(i) Explain how a tree is the ‘forest’s heritage’. [3]
(ii) What is meant by ‘mother-croon of bird’? How do birds sing? When do they sing? [3]
(iii) What is the ‘treble of heaven’s harmony’? [3]
(iv) How far is a tree ‘the harvest of a coming age’? [3]
(v) What stirs the heart of a man who plants a tree? How does a tree planter do civic good? [4]

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