Unit 1 - 1.5 Joan of Arc - Maharashtra Board STD 10 English Questions

Q 1Views and Counterviews OR Drafting a Speech:5 Marks

Joan (Girl): Good morning. Captain Squire... upto
....Joan: (simply) Polly and Jack have promised to come with me.
Write a summary of that part of the script in Indirect Speech in 15-20 lines.

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Q 2Language Study: (Simple Activities)1 Mark

Prepare a word chain using the following nouns : Denmark, France, Austria, England, Korea, Alaska.
France →

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Q 3Language Study: (Simple Activities)1 Mark

Write the present and past participles of 'stop'.

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Q 4Language Study: (Simple Activities)1 Mark

Write the following words in alphabetical order understand, steward, window, squire.

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Q 5Language Study: (Simple Activities)1 Mark

Identify the type of sentence: I don't think it can be very difficult.

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Q 6Language Study: (Simple Activities)1 Mark

Spot the error and rewrite the correct sentence: I is taking a big chance.

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Q 7Language Study: (Middle Level Activities)2 Marks

Change the following sentences into indirect speech: Robert asked. 'Joan, how old are you?" "I am 13 years old," she replied.

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Q 8Language Study: (Middle Level Activities)2 Marks

Prepare a word register of 4 words relating to war from the lesson.

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Q 9Language Study: (Middle Level Activities)2 Marks

Use the following word and its homograph in two separate sentences: lock

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Q 10Language Study: (Challenging Activities)2 Marks

Lack of rain could cause drought. (Nov. '20) (Pick out the modal auxiliary and state its function).

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Q 11Language Study: (Challenging Activities)2 Marks

Analyse the sentence : Stay within call and keep your eye on her.

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Q 12A1 : Simple Factual Activity2 Marks

What dress did Joan want?

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Q 13A1 : Simple Factual Activity2 Marks

Complete the table :

The words...	Who said...	To Whom...
(1) This may all be nonsense.
(2) I wash my hands of it.
(3) How is she to get into the royal presence?
(4) And the dress?

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Q 14A1 : Simple Factual Activity2 Marks

Pick out the statements that are True:
(1) Joan was unsure about her ideas.
(2) Joan had no belief in God.
(3) The soldiers called Joan 'the Maid'.
(4) Robert had a poor opinion of English soldiers.

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Q 15A1 : Simple Factual Activity2 Marks

Complete the following:
(1) The Squire's opinion of miracles was _______________________.
(2) Robert accused Poulengey __________________.

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Q 16A1 : Simple Factual Activity2 Marks

What/Whom do the underlined pronouns stand for?
(1) Her words have put fire into me.
(2) I feel sure enough to take her to
(3) He beat the English at Montargis. Dauphin
(4) I feel like a fool.

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Q 17A2 : Complex Factual Activity2 Marks

Give reasons:
(1) Robert finally agreed to the plan.
(2) Captain Squire Robert said, "I wash my hands of it."

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Q 18A2 : Complex Factual Activity2 Marks

From the extract, find what the following are compared to and why:
(1) as easy as...
(2) The enemy soldiers will be driven away like...

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Q 19A2 : Complex Factual Activity2 Marks

Explain :
(a) why the French soldiers were always beaten.
(b) how one knows that Joan is a person of immense faith.

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Q 20A2 : Complex Factual Activity2 Marks

From the passage, find what the following are compared to and why:
(1) as mad as...
(2) The Dauphin in Chinon is like...
(3) Joan of Arc is a bit of a...

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Q 21A2 : Complex Factual Activity2 Marks

Give reasons:
(a) The Dauphin was not fit to be the king and heir.
(b) Poulengey, Jack and Dick had offered to accompany Joan.

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Q 22A3 : Activity based on Vocabulary2 Marks

Use the following words in separate sentences, with the words having different meanings:
(1) fire (2) dress

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Q 23A3 : Activity based on Vocabulary2 Marks

Pick the odd man out from each group:
(1) gravely, always, heard, very
(2) they, see, you, them

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Q 24A3 : Activity based on Vocabulary2 Marks

Make sentences of your own using the words/ expressions given below:
(1) cowed (2) obstinately (3) worth trying (4) out of your mind

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Q 25A3 : Activity based on Vocabulary2 Marks

Pick out the antonyms of the following words from the passage:
(1) exit (2) request (3) advance (4) slowly

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Q 26A3 : Activity based on Vocabulary2 Marks

Pick out four adverbs of manner from the passage.

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Q 27A4: Activity based on Contextual Grammar2 Marks

Pick out the modal auxiliary and state its function.
Even the Dauphin might believe it.

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Q 28A4: Activity based on Contextual Grammar2 Marks

Make the following sentence Affirmative without changing the meaning:
I can do no more.

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Q 29A4: Activity based on Contextual Grammar2 Marks

Rewrite sentences the following as Assertive sentences:
(1) Have you ever seen English soldiers fighting?
(2) Have you ever seen them plundering, burning, turning the countryside into a desert?

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Q 30A4: Activity based on Contextual Grammar2 Marks

Make the following sentence Affirmative without changing the meaning:
I don't remember.

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Q 31A4: Activity based on Contextual Grammar2 Marks

I tell you nothing can save our side now but a miracle. (Rewrite using 'only'.)

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Q 32A5: Activity based on Personal Response, Expression, Creation and Imagination,2 Marks

Do you think that Joan succeeds in her plan?

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Q 33A5: Activity based on Personal Response, Expression, Creation and Imagination,2 Marks

Do you think that soldiers should run away to 'save their skins'?