NBSE Nagaland Class XI Exam Question Bank 2025 : nbsenl.edu.in
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Year : 2025
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NBSE Class XI Question Bank
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NBSE Class XI English Questions
Section-A (Literature):
1. Choose the correct option for the following questions: 4×1=4
(a) How does Roger feel at the end of the story?
(i) Angry and resentful.
(ii) Grateful and ashamed.
(iii) Confused and happy.
(iv) Indifferent and unaffected.
(b) The nut in the sleigh in the courtyard was unscrewed by _______.
(i) Denis and Ignashka.
(ii) Mitrofan and Ignashka.
(iii) Denis and Mitrofan.
(iv) One –eyed Simon and Denis.
(c) ‘That’s the most extraordinary thing I ever heard’. Who said this to Albert?
(i) The Vicar.
(ii) The two church Wardens.
(iii)The Bank Manager.
(iv) The cashier.
(d) ‘He was not only close to the great tradition, he was the tradition’. Who is ‘he’ referred in the given line?
(i) John Coetzee .
(ii) V.S Naipaul.
(iii) Pamuk.
(iv) Lessing.
2. Answer the following questions in about 30-40 words: 3×2=6
(a) How do we know that it was not the first time a nut had been taken from the tracks?
(b) What new venture does Albert pursue after losing his job as a verger?
(c) What is Lessing’s opinion of the government of Zimbabwe?
3. Answer the following questions in about 150 words:
a. In the story ‘ Thank You M’am’, Roger change as a character from the beginning to the end of the story. Do you think Roger was compelled to change or did he want to change. Justify.
Or
b. What was the irony of the diamond maker’s life? Do you think he deserved the unhappy circumstances he was in ? Explain.
4. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives given: 3×1=3
a. What does the poem ‘ No Men Are Foreign’ emphasize regarding human experience and emotions?
(i) As unique and separate from one another.
(ii) As united and interconnected.
(iii) As hostile and incompatible.
(iv) As rivals in a perpetual struggle.
b. ‘If you can dream- and not make dreams your master’. In the context of the given line, what do you understand by ‘master’?
(i) A guiding force that inspires and motivates.
(ii) A controlling influence that dominates one’s action.
(iii) A source of entertainment and leisure.
(iv) A measure of success and achievement.
c. ‘And battle –scarred lands that some corner of a vanquished field’. In the given line, what does the word ‘vanquished’ mean?
(i) Pollute
(ii) Conquered
(iii) Harvest
(iv) Forgotten
5. Read the lines from the poem and answer the following questions:
I. If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run’.
(a) Why should ‘all men’ count but ‘none’ too much 1
(b) Why has the minute been called ‘unforgiving’? 1
(c) Explain the last line in your own words. 1
Or
II. Men are so pleasant, so easy to please
Whenever you are with them, you’re always at ease.
Would you be slighted if I didn’t speak for hours?
a) Who says these words and to whom? 1
b) Why did he say men are pleasant and easy to please? 1
c) What is meant by ‘slighted’? 1
6. Answer the following question in about 80- 120 words:
(a) In the poem ‘No Men Are Foreign’, the poet tries to make us understand that the differences in people are superficial. Substantiate with examples from the text.
Or
(b) ‘The golden fields, they lay unreaped and sere’. What cruel side of war does the poetess highlight in this line?
7. ‘Is marriage so demoralizing as that’?
(a) Who says these words and to whom? 1
(b) What is the context in which he says these words? 2
(c) What is the view of marriage that one delivers from the characters in the play?
Or
‘And now I’ll have a cup of tea, and one of those nice cucumber sandwiches you promised me’. What is the comedy created around the cucumber sandwiches? 5
8. Answer any two of the following questions in about 150 words: 5×2=10
(a) Give a pen –portrait of Rajam.
(b) Discuss on the use of humour and comedy in R.K Narayan’s ‘Swami and Friends’.
(c) Discuss the important themes of R.K Narayan’s ‘Swami and Friends’.
Section –B (Reading):
9. The Road not taken.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh , I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost.
a. Based on your reading of the poem, complete the following in the space povided:
The poem is about the _____that one makes in his life. It tells about a man who comes to a fork in the road he is travelling upon. He feels sorry that he cannot travel_____paths as he must choose one.He looks at the two paths and decides to take the trail_____travelled.The poet then says that he will be telling this story with a sigh, someday in the future suggesting that he will wonder what life would have been like if he had ______the more walked path.
b. Find words in the poem that mean the same as: 2×1=2
i. fork
ii. impartial
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