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1st Terminal Examination-2017

Class- VI
ENGLISH I
Time: - 2hr 15 min F.M: 80

1. Quote from your memory of first 10 lines of the poem A piper

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2. Answer the following questions:- 3X10=30

a. How did the animals express their sympathy for the deer?
b. What was the tale of woe related by the deer?
c. What promise or oath did the three friends living in the jungle take?
d. How did the deer friends find out that it by entrapped by the hunters
net?
e. Why was the deer worried about the tortoise coming up to help it?
f. Why was the hunter not able to chase the deer?
g. How do people celebrate Gokul Ashtami?
h. Why do Hindu businessmen consider Diwali an important day?
i. Why do people spray colour on one another at holi?
j. Which are the national holidays observed in our country?

3. Fill up the blanks in the columns below:- 8X1=8

Adjectives Nouns
i. _______________ colour
ii. Important ___________
iii. _____________ season
iv. Different ___________
v. _____________ community
vi. Historical ___________
vii. ____________ Excitement
viii. Religious ___________

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4. Answer the questions below:- 4X7=28

a. Why is Christmas celebrated?

b. Why is Diwali called the festival of Lights?
c. How was the job to be done in the jungle divided among the three
animals?
d. How did the three jungle friends take the oath?
e. Why did the deer exclaim How wonderful. How did the animals rejoice
in their unity?
f. Explain how a pearl divers life is full of danger?
g. Why did the pearl divers carry a strong sharp knife when they went
hunting for pearls.
h. Why were the fights between the divers and the sea monsters very
terrible?

5. Write in past tense:- 4X1=4

1. Swear
2. Try
3. Decide
4. Worry
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