NBSE Nagaland Class VIII Exam Question Bank 2024 : nbsenl.edu.in

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Year : 2024
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NBSE Class VIII Question Bank

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NBSE Class VIII English Questions

Section –A (Prose):
1. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives given: 1×3=3

i) Almas Javed was a ten year old student of __________ in Port Blair.
a. Sister’s Convent
b. Carmel Convent
c. St.Paul’s Convent
d. Carmelite Monastery

ii) Where did Parimal Ghose claim to have met Bepin Babu?
a. Kanpur
b. Kolkata
c. Kalicharan’s
d. Ranchi

iii) Between 1822 and 1836 __________ lakh Indians died of starvation.
a. ten
b. twelve
c. fifteen
d. twenty

Answer the following questions in about 15-20 words: 2×3=6
2. What was Mrs. Macpherson’s age in Part- III of the lesson, ‘The Best Christmas Present in the World’? Where was she?
3. Where did the Smith family and the others on the beach go to escape from the Tsunami?
4. Where did Bepin Babu say he went in October ,1958? (Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory)

Answer any one of the following questions in about 30-40 words: 3×1=3
5. a. How do you think her Geography teacher felt when he heard about what Tilly had done in Phuket? (The Tsunami)
Or
b. Do you think the Indian Princes were short-sighted in their approach to the events of 1757? (Glimpses of the Past)

Answer the following questions in about 50-60 words: 4×2=8
6. Mention the following: (Glimpses of the Past)
i. Two examples of social practices prevailing then.
ii. Two oppressive policies of the British.

7. How do you think Bepin Babu reacted when he found out that Chunilal had tricked him?

Answer any one of the following questions in about 70-80 words: 5×1=5
8. a Do you think the soldiers of the two armies are like each other or different from each other? Find evidence from the story to support your answer. (The Best Christmas Present in the World)
Or
b. What are the different ideas about why so few animals were killed in the Tsunami? Which idea do you find more believable? (The Tsunami)

Section –B (Poetry):
9. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives given: 1×2=2
i) Who said ‘I am your servant and friend’?
a. Ant
b. Cricket
c. Both
d. Poet

ii) When the jet sprang into the sky, it was clear why the ________ had developed the way
it had.
a. village
b. country
c. town
d. city

Answer the following questions in about 15-20 words: 2×2=4
10. Find in the poem the lines that mean the same as “neither a borrower nor a lender be”. (The Ant and the Cricket)
11. What was difficult to understand about the earth when the jet was six miles high? (Geography Lesson)

Answer the following question in about 50 – 60 words: 4×1=4
12. The ant tells the cricket to dance the winter away. Do you think the word ‘dance’ is appropriate here? If so why? (The Ant and the Cricket)

Answer any one of the following questions in about 70-80 words: 5×1=5
13. a. When the jet rose six miles high,
it was clear the earth was round
and that it had more sea than land.
But it was difficult to understand
that the men on the earth found
causes to hate each other, to build
walls across cities and to kill. (Geography Lesson)

i. At what height was the jet? (1)
ii. What was clear from that height? (2)
iii. What was difficult to understand from that height? (2)
Or
b. Give a short summary of the poem, “The Ant and the Cricket”. (5)

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