Clearing in the Sky by Jesse Stuart- Test No 2 -English Part I Test Series

Clearing in the Sky

Test No 2

ENGISH-P 1              

TIME ALLOWED: 40 MIN 

TOTAL MARKS: 35

    Name:                              Roll #:         Section:

Q.1 Mark the correct option:                 [10]              

1. I wiped the stream of sweat to keep them from stinging my eyes.

a. smoothing                  

b. streaming                 

c. sweeping           

d. irritating

2.        Long boughs were fondling the substance of white clouds.

a.   growing                

b.  caressing                  

c.  suppressing                

d.  flowing 

3.        There was a piece of land in the heart of this wilderness right on the mountain top.

a.    wasteland             

b.   strangeness    

c.   pleasantry                

d.   greenish

5.        The old man visited the different doctors from January to April?

a. six                 

b. seven

c. eight

d. nine

6.        The old man took ________ years to make his farm.

a. forty                  

b. thirty 

c. twenty

d. seventy

7.       Above the tomatoes were rows of yams?  

a. two dozen                   

b. a half-dozen  

c. three dozen 

d. four dozen 

8.   The land was fenced by? 

a. the son             

b. the old man               

c. the mother                 

d. the neighbour

9.   They ________ cricket now.  

a. play

b. is playing

c. are playing

d. has played

10.   She has ________ her homework already.  

a. do 

b. doing 

c. done 

d. does

Q.2 Punctuate the following lines.             [5]

i have cheated death many times now i ve reached the years the good book allows to man in his lifetime upon this earth three score years and ten

 

Q.3 Translate into Urdu the following.     [15]

Then he sat down on a big oak stump and I sat down on a small black-gum stump near him. This was the only place on the mountain where the sun could shine to the ground. And on the lower side of the clearing, there was a rim of shadow over the rows of dark stalwart plants loaded with green tomatoes.

Q.4 Answer all the following questions:      [10]

1. Why did the old man not follow the advice of the doctor?
2. Why did the old man take the steep path?
3. Why did the son at the age of six cry? 
4. Why did the old man like the woods?
5. 
   
   Why did the old man take his son to the clearing?
   
   
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