1. Match the following poems under Column A with the poets under Column B and select the
correct code:
Column A Column B
(a) A Psalm of Life 1. Khalil Gibran
(b) The Man He Killed 2. Douglas Malloch
(c) Be The Best 3. Thomas Hardy
(d) Earth 4. H.W. Longfellow
(a) (b) (c) (d)

2. Which one of the following options is not a famous tragedy of William Shakespeare?

3. Acquiring knowledge is one's primary duty-not only for one's success in the examination but also for one's life.
What is one's primary duty?

4. Kalpana Chawla was a famous

5. Who is the 'Bird Man' of India?

6. 'Where the clear stream of reason
has not lost its way into the dreary desert
sand of dead habit'
These lines are taken from the poem

7. 'The 16th century palace complex was built by the Nayaks and later renovated by the Marathas'.
Who renovated the palace complex?

8. Match the authors given under Column A with the characters given under Column B and choose the correct answer from the codes given:
Column A Column B
(a) Sundara Ramasamy 1. Hughie
(b) Oscar Wilde 2. Mark Antony
(c) William Shakespeare 3. Gunga Ram
(d) Kushwant Singh 4. Rowther
(a) (b) (c) (d)

9. 'I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him'
Whose words are these?

10. 'Good Heavens! I gave him a sovereign!'.
Identify the speaker.