THE STEPPING STONE

Where Education Evolves Creativity ENGLISH TEST THE SICK ROSE MCQ / SA: 15 X 1 = 15 Grammar: 10 X 1 = 10 Descriptive: 5 X 3 = 15 Total: 40 Time: 100 minutes From Q1 Q15 marks: 1 From Q16 Q19 marks: 5 From Q20 Q29 marks: 1 1. The rose is sick with a. Shame. b. Joy. c. Tiredness. d. None of them. 2. The worm evokes the image of a. God. b. Satan. c. Adam. d. Eve. 3. The word invisible describes a. The worm. b. The rose. c. Bed. d. Experience. 4. O Rose, thou art sick an example of a. Irony. b. Allegory. c. Apostrophe. d. Imagery. 5. The rhyme scheme of the poem a. Abba - cddc. b. Abcb - defe. c. Cddc - ccdc. d. Abab - abcd. 6. What does the rose symbolize according to Blake? 7. Why is the rose sick? 8. Why is the worm invisible? 9. What is the source of the poem? 10. How does the rose effect on worm? 11. How does the worm appear in roses life? 12. Why is the love dark and secret?

13. Find two pair of words from the poem which are contrast to each other. 14. What does the crimson joy connote? 15. What does the howling storm embark on? 16. Consider Blake as a visionary poet with reference to The Sick Rose. 17. Bring out the significance of the title of the poem The Sick Rose. 18. What is the effect of worm on the rose? What is the effect of rose on the worm? 19. What is the allegorical significance of the poem The Sick Rose? 20. The invisible worm, / That flies in the night / In the howling storm / Has found out thy bed / Of crimson joy; ( Make it a simple sentence) 21. His dark secret love / Does thy life destroy. (Make adjective of destroy.) 22. The world has been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. (Change the voice) 23. His company made her supremely happy. (Make adjective of supremely) 24. Warden wants you in the front office, said the guard, taking Jimmys arm. (Change the narration) 25. The warden gave him a railroad ticket, a five-dollar bill, a cheap cigar, and a handshake.(Change the voice) 26. Sir Mohan Lal looked at himself in the mirror of a first-class waiting room at the railway station. The mirror was obviously made in India. (Turn into a complex sentence) 27. As soon as he had gone, she hailed a passing railway coolie. (Make it negative) 28. After washing, she dried her mouth and hands with the loose end of the sari, and walked back to her steel trunk, belching and thanking the gods for the favor of a filling meal.(Turn into a Complex sentence) 29. As we have gathered here together to thank God for the Nobel Peace Prize I think it will be beautiful that we pray the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi which always surprises me very much. (Split up three or more than three sentences)