Andhra Pradesh Board Class 12 English Core Sample Papers 2007

Sample QUESTION PAPER
  English Core
Time : 3 Hours        Max Marks : 100

I.     Annotate with reference to the context any three of the following 
        passages in about 100 words.        3 x 5 = 15 Marks
a) How dull it is to pause, to make an end
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
b) For in everything he did he served the Greater
Community.
c) Surely some revelation is at hand
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
d) Thank God the scorpion picked on me And spared my children.
e) Silence, Silenced transmission of
Pressurized good-breeding.
II. Answer any three of the following in a paragraph in about 100
words each.        3 x 5 = 15 Marks
a) What is the dramatic value of the young priest in Riders to the Sea?
b) Describe Gandhi’s experiments with music.
c) compare the smile of Theodore Roosevelt with that of Woodrow
Wilson.
d) What were the feelings of the Prisoner during the first and second
year of his solitary confinement ?
e) Describe the disappointment of the artist and his wife as the visitors
leave without buying a picture.
f) Does Alice enjoy the tea-party ? Give reasons for your answer.III. Answer any one of the following in about 200 word.
      1 x 10 = 10 Marks
a) Explain the prophetic vision of Yeats in the poem “The Second
Coming”.
OR
b) How does T.S. Eliot develop the idea that “a man’s destination is
his own village”?
IV Answer any one of the following in about 200 words.
      1 x 10 = 10 Marks
a) Write an essay on Wole Soyinka’s “Telephone Conversation”
commenting on the satire in the poem.
OR
b) Analyse “Night of the Scorpion” as an exploration of Indian
sensibility.
V Answer any one of the following in about 200 words.
      1 x 10 = 10 Marks
a) “The Bet” is a study in human behaviour. Discuss.
OR
b) What are the experiences of Alice at the tea-party ?
VI. Answer any one of the following in about 200 words. 
      1 x 10 = 10 Marks
a) Narrate the events that made Perceval modify the will of the
sponsor.
OR
b) Show how the play Riders to the Sea depicts the dramatic
excitement of the spectacle of man in conflict with fate.VII. Answer any one of the following in about 200 words. 
      1 x 10 = 10 Marks
a) Though Caesar is killed by the conspirators, he dominates the whole
play. Explain.
OR
b) Discuss the ideology of Brutus.
VIII. Write short notes on any four of the following in about 100
words each.        4 x 5 = 20 Marks
a) Historical sources of Julius Caesar.
b) Antony’s glorification of Caesar.
c) Write briefly on the role of any two conspirators.
d) Character of Calphurnia.
e) Supernatural element in the play.
f) Comment on the role of the Soothsayer.
g) Explain the changing reactions of the Roman mobs.
h) Consequences of Caesar’s assassination.