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ENGLISH literature:
SECTION A - DRAMA
Shakespeare : As You Like It

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‟. [3]

(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‟. [3]

(iii) Who had given a similar warning to Orlando earlier? Briefly state what that
person had said to Orlando. [3]

(iv) Why does Adam call Orlando an „unhappy youth‟? What advice does
Adam give Orlando? [3]

(v) What does Orlando finally decide to do along with Adam? Describe
Adam‟s sense of devotion to duty. [4]

8 ICSE Specimen Question Paper
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? [3]

(ii) What does Rosalind reveal about the contents of the letter which Silvius
has given her? [3]

(iii) How does Oliver, who enters the scene a little later, recognize Rosalind
and her companion? [3]

(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. [3]

(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?

(i) Where is the slave at this moment? Describe his present condition. [3]
(ii) Explain the first two lines of the extract. Why are the caravans described
as „tinkling‟? [3]
(iii) What images and sounds of the wildlife of his native land pass through the
slave‟s dream „like a glorious roll of drums‟? [3]
(iv) What causes a tear to fall from the sleeper‟s lids? [3]
(v) Contrast the slave‟s earlier life as a king with his present pathetic
condition. What are your feelings for him at the end of the poem? [4]

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where is the slave at this moment ? Describe his present condition