BSEB Class 12 English Question Paper 2021

1. Who says 'A clean knowledge of the past is a prerequisite to the building of a great future'?

1. (A) Mahatma Gandhi
2. (B) Jawaharlal Nehru
3. (C) Dr. Zakir Husain
4. (D) S. Radhakrishnan

2. Dr. Zakir Husain delivered the speech 'Bharat is My Home' after taking the oath of the ____.

1. (A) Prime Minister
2. (B) President
3. (C) Chief Minister
4. (D) Governor

3. According to 'A Pinch of Snuff', Daya's wife was ____.

1. (A) very talkative
2. (B) very quiet
3. (C) very intelligent
4. (D) very foolish

4. Martin Luther King Jr. belonged to ____.

1. (A) America
2. (B) Africa
3. (C) England
4. (D) India

5. Bertrand Russell was a famous ____.

1. (A) Poet
2. (B) Novelist
3. (C) Philosopher and Writer
4. (D) Scientist

6. The Artist' is a story about the life of a ____.

1. (A) Teacher
2. (B) Doctor
3. (C) Painter
4. (D) Musician

7. Which book is mentioned in 'A Child is Born' that talks about the new life?

1. (A) The Bible
2. (B) The Quran
3. (C) The Holy Vedas
4. (D) The Upanishads

8. The writer of 'How Free is the Press' is ____.

1. (A) Dorothy Parker
2. (B) D.H. Lawrence
3. (C) John Keats
4. (D) Doris Lessing

9. John Donne is a renowned ____ poet.

1. (A) Romantic
2. (B) Metaphysical
3. (C) Victorian
4. (D) Modern

10. Walt Whitman is the author of ____.

1. (A) Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe
2. (B) Ode to Autumn
3. (C) Song of Myself
4. (D) The Soldier

11. The poem 'Now the Leaves are Falling Fast' speaks about the ____ of life.

1. (A) Joy
2. (B) Sorrow
3. (C) Cycle
4. (D) Beauty

12. John Keats is famous for his ____.

1. (A) Odes
2. (B) Sonnet
3. (C) Ballads
4. (D) Epics

13. Who wrote 'An Epitaph'?

1. (A) Walter de la Mare
2. (B) John Donne
3. (C) Walt Whitman
4. (D) Rupert Brooke

14. 'The Soldier' is a ____ poem.

1. (A) Love
2. (B) Patriotic
3. (C) Nature
4. (D) Sad

15. T.S. Eliot is the author of ____.

1. (A) Snake
2. (B) Macavity: The Mystery Cat
3. (C) Fire-Hymn
4. (D) My Grandmother's House

16. The poet of 'Fire-Hymn' is ____.

1. (A) Keki N. Daruwalla
2. (B) D.H. Lawrence
3. (C) John Keats
4. (D) Walt Whitman

17. D.H. Lawrence wrote the poem ____.

1. (A) Snake
2. (B) The Soldier
3. (C) An Epitaph
4. (D) Song of Myself

18. Kamala Das wrote ____.

1. (A) Snake
2. (B) Fire-Hymn
3. (C) My Grandmother's House
4. (D) Macavity: The Mystery Cat

19. The passive voice of 'He is writing a letter' is:

1. (A) A letter is written by him.
2. (B) A letter was written by him.
3. (C) A letter is being written by him.
4. (D) A letter has been written by him.

20. Choose the correct form of the verb: She ____ to Delhi yesterday.

1. (A) go
2. (B) goes
3. (C) went
4. (D) gone

21. He is proud ____ his achievements.

1. (A) of
2. (B) on
3. (C) in
4. (D) about

22. The train ____ before I reached the station.

1. (A) will leave
2. (B) leaves
3. (C) had left
4. (D) has left

23. The opposite of 'ancient' is ____.

1. (A) old
2. (B) modern
3. (C) new
4. (D) recent

24. Someone who knows everything is called ____.

1. (A) Omniscient
2. (B) Omnipotent
3. (C) Optimist
4. (D) Pessimist

25. The synonym of 'curious' is ____.

1. (A) Bored
2. (B) Indifferent
3. (C) Interested
4. (D) Lazy

26. He said, 'I am ill'. He said that he ____ ill.

1. (A) is
2. (B) was
3. (C) were
4. (D) had been

27. The idiom 'to cut a sorry figure' means ____.

1. (A) to be very happy
2. (B) to be unsuccessful
3. (C) to be very rich
4. (D) to be very brave

28. The adjective form of 'beauty' is ____.

1. (A) beautify
2. (B) beautiful
3. (C) beauteous
4. (D) beautyful

29. She is ____ honest.

1. (A) a
2. (B) an
3. (C) the
4. (D) no article

30. Select the correct spelling.

1. (A) Achivement
2. (B) Achievment
3. (C) Achievement
4. (D) Acheivment

31. Mahatma Gandhi views Indian civilization as superior because it elevates the ____.

1. (A) moral being
2. (B) materialistic pursuit
3. (C) military power
4. (D) western lifestyle

32. In 'Bharat is My Home', Dr. Zakir Husain pledges himself to the totality of ____ culture.

1. (A) western
2. (B) Indian's
3. (C) ancient
4. (D) modern

33. In 'A Pinch of Snuff', who went to the minister's office with Nanu Kakka?

1. (A) Sohanlal
2. (B) Ratiram
3. (C) The narrator
4. (D) Mohanlal

34. Martin Luther King Jr. appeals for justice so that freedom rings from every hill and molehill of ____.

1. (A) Mississippi
2. (B) London
3. (C) Paris
4. (D) Tokyo

35. According to Bertrand Russell, which invention was the most important in the early history of man?

1. (A) Fire
2. (B) Language
3. (C) Wheel
4. (D) Agriculture

36. Seibei's hobby of collecting gourds brought him frequent scoldings from his ____.

1. (A) father
2. (B) teacher
3. (C) friend
4. (D) uncle

37. In 'A Child is Born', the continuity of life is maintained through ____.

1. (A) tradition
2. (B) children
3. (C) money
4. (D) technology

38. Pearl S. Buck came to India to see and listen to ____.

1. (A) politicians
2. (B) ordinary Indians
3. (C) the rich elite
4. (D) foreign tourists

39. In 'Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe', John Donne says that death will not be able to divide him and his beloved because they are ____.

1. (A) brave
2. (B) together in soul
3. (C) not afraid
4. (D) still young

40. In 'Song of Myself', the speaker celebrates ____ and sings for himself.

1. (A) nature
2. (B) himself
3. (C) America
4. (D) freedom

41. The falling of leaves in 'Now the Leaves are Falling Fast' signifies the swift approach of ____.

1. (A) spring
2. (B) death
3. (C) summer
4. (D) rain

42. In 'Ode to Autumn', autumn is a close bosom-friend of the ____.

1. (A) sun
2. (B) wind
3. (C) moon
4. (D) frost

43. The lady resting in the grave in 'An Epitaph' belonged to the ____ country.

1. (A) West
2. (B) North
3. (C) East
4. (D) South

44. In 'The Soldier', the speaker thinks of England as a dust made blest by ____.

1. (A) its rivers
2. (B) its sun
3. (C) an English mother
4. (D) its kings

45. Macavity is described in T.S. Eliot's poem as a master criminal and a ____.

1. (A) monster of depravity
2. (B) harmless pet
3. (C) clumsy thief
4. (D) gentle stray

46. Choose the correct sentence: He speaks English ____.

1. (A) fluent
2. (B) fluently
3. (C) fluency
4. (D) more fluent

47. Choose the correct preposition: She is fond ____ music.

1. (A) at
2. (B) in
3. (C) of
4. (D) on

48. Choose the correct passive voice of: 'The teacher praised the boy.'

1. (A) The boy is praised by the teacher.
2. (B) The boy was praised by the teacher.
3. (C) The boy has been praised by the teacher.
4. (D) The boy praises the teacher.

49. Choose the correct indirect speech of: He said to me, 'Where are you going?'

1. (A) He asked me where I was going.
2. (B) He told me where you are going.
3. (C) He asked me where am I going.
4. (D) He said where I was going.

50. Choose the correct antonym of the word 'artificial':

1. (A) Fake
2. (B) Natural
3. (C) Man-made
4. (D) False

51. Choose the correct synonym of the word 'abandon':

1. (A) Keep
2. (B) Leave
3. (C) Hold
4. (D) Start

52. Give one-word substitution for: 'A person who writes books.'

1. (A) Painter
2. (B) Author
3. (C) Actor
4. (D) Singer

53. Choose the correct spelling:

1. (A) Begining
2. (B) Beginning
3. (C) Begening
4. (D) Beginng

54. Choose the correct form of the verb: Look, the bird ____ in the sky.

1. (A) fly
2. (B) is flying
3. (C) flew
4. (D) has flown

55. Choose the correct article: He wants to become ____ engineer.

1. (A) a
2. (B) an
3. (C) the
4. (D) no article

56. Mahatma Gandhi was primarily a ____ rather than a politician.

1. (A) leader
2. (B) spiritual leader
3. (C) philosopher
4. (D) social worker

57. In 'Bharat is My Home', Dr. Zakir Husain considers India as his ____.

1. (A) home
2. (B) country
3. (C) motherland
4. (D) kingdom

58. In 'A Pinch of Snuff', what did Nanukaka keep in his pocket?

1. (A) Money
2. (B) Keys
3. (C) An old notebook
4. (D) A box of snuff

59. Martin Luther King Jr. wants his children to be judged by the content of their ____.

1. (A) character
2. (B) education
3. (C) wealth
4. (D) speech

60. According to 'Ideas that Have Helped Mankind', what caused the survival of early human beings?

1. (A) fire
2. (B) tools
3. (C) language
4. (D) cooperation

61. In 'The Artist', Seibei spent most of his time collecting ____.

1. (A) stamps
2. (B) coins
3. (C) gourds
4. (D) stones

62. In 'A Child is Born', traditional societies view pregnancy as a natural and ____ event.

1. (A) magical
2. (B) frightening
3. (C) ordinary
4. (D) public

63. The author of 'How Free is the Press' states that a free press is essential for a ____.

1. (A) dictatorship
2. (B) monarchy
3. (C) free society
4. (D) wealthy nation

64. In 'India Through a Traveller's Eyes', Pearl S. Buck talks about the Indian ____.

1. (A) villages
2. (B) cities
3. (C) temples
4. (D) hospitals

65. In 'Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe', the poet is not going because he is weary of ____.

1. (A) life
2. (B) his beloved
3. (C) the world
4. (D) travelling

66. In 'Song of Myself', the poet says that every atom belonging to him as good belongs to ____.

1. (A) you
2. (B) nature
3. (C) God
4. (D) the world

67. In 'Now the Leaves are Falling Fast', the travellers are the ____.

1. (A) birds
2. (B) old people
3. (C) young people
4. (D) human beings

68. John Keats' poem 'Ode to Autumn' is rich in ____ imagery.

1. (A) auditory
2. (B) visual
3. (C) sensuous
4. (D) abstract

69. In 'An Epitaph', the poet expresses his sadness over the death of a ____ lady.

1. (A) beautiful
2. (B) wealthy
3. (C) kind
4. (D) young

70. The passive voice of 'The hunter killed the tiger' is:

1. (A) The tiger is killed by the hunter.
2. (B) The tiger was killed by the hunter.
3. (C) The tiger has been killed by the hunter.
4. (D) The tiger had been killed by the hunter.

71. Choose the correct form of the verb: He acts as if he ____ mad.

1. (A) is
2. (B) was
3. (C) were
4. (D) has been

72. Fill in the blank with suitable preposition: She is angry ____ me.

1. (A) at
2. (B) with
3. (C) on
4. (D) to

73. Choose the correct indirect speech of: He said, 'I am going home.'

1. (A) He said that he is going home.
2. (B) He said that he was going home.
3. (C) He says that he was going home.
4. (D) He told that he is going home.

74. The antonym of the word 'transparent' is:

1. (A) clear
2. (B) opaque
3. (C) bright
4. (D) visible

75. The synonym of the word 'rapid' is:

1. (A) slow
2. (B) quick
3. (C) steady
4. (D) gentle

76. Give one-word substitution for: 'A speech delivered without preparation.'

1. (A) Dialogue
2. (B) Monologue
3. (C) Extempore
4. (D) Prologue

77. Choose the correctly spelled word:

1. (A) Beginning
2. (B) Begining
3. (C) Begninig
4. (D) Begening

78. Choose the correct article: He reads ____ Quran every morning.

1. (A) a
2. (B) an
3. (C) the
4. (D) no article

79. What is the meaning of the idiom 'a piece of cake'?

1. (A) A delicious sweet
2. (B) A difficult task
3. (C) An easy task
4. (D) A small gift

80. The noun form of the word 'strong' is:

1. (A) strongly
2. (B) strengthen
3. (C) strength
4. (D) stronger

81. In 'Indian Civilization and Culture', what does Mahatma Gandhi state that the mind is?

1. (A) A restless bird
2. (B) A quiet ocean
3. (C) A steady mountain
4. (D) A closed book

82. In 'Bharat is My Home', Dr. Zakir Husain pledges his loyalty to which of the following?

1. (A) The Constitution of India
2. (B) The British Parliament
3. (C) The United Nations
4. (D) The ruling party

83. In 'A Pinch of Snuff', what relation was Nanukaka to the narrator?

1. (A) Maternal uncle
2. (B) Paternal uncle
3. (C) Grandfather
4. (D) Father

84. In 'I Have a Dream', Martin Luther King Jr. looks forward to a day when his children will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their...

1. (A) Character
2. (B) Wealth
3. (C) Education
4. (D) Family

85. According to Bertrand Russell in 'Ideas that Have Helped Mankind', what first made man capable of numbers?

1. (A) Language
2. (B) Counting fingers
3. (C) Trade
4. (D) Writing

86. In 'The Artist', what did the teacher confiscate from Seibei?

1. (A) A gourd
2. (B) A book
3. (C) A painting
4. (D) A flute

87. In 'A Child is Born', in traditional societies, where does a pregnant woman usually go to give birth?

1. (A) Her mother's house
2. (B) A modern hospital
3. (C) Her in-laws' home
4. (D) A foreign country

88. In 'How Free is the Press', the author points out that newspapers are controlled by two main factors: advertisers and...

1. (A) Wealthy proprietors
2. (B) The government
3. (C) Foreign powers
4. (D) Religious leaders

89. In 'The Earth', what did Johnson want to buy from Bensi?

1. (A) Land
2. (B) Cows
3. (C) House
4. (D) Car

90. In 'India Through a Traveller's Eyes', Pearl S. Buck says that the basic quality of Indian life is...

1. (A) Faith
2. (B) Wealth
3. (C) Technology
4. (D) Aggression

91. In 'Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe', John Donne tells his beloved that he is tired of...

1. (A) Not being tired, but seeking better love elsewhere
2. (B) The world's cruelty
3. (C) His long journeys
4. (D) His failing health

92. In 'Song of Myself', the poet invites his soul and leans and loafs at his ease observing a...

1. (A) Spear of summer grass
2. (B) River flowing by
3. (C) Bird flying high
4. (D) Star in the sky

93. In 'Now the Leaves are Falling Fast', who are the 'trolls' that pluck the flowers?

1. (A) Cold hands of death
2. (B) Wicked people
3. (C) Angry neighbours
4. (D) Wild animals

94. In 'Ode to Autumn', autumn conspires with the sun how to load and bless with fruit the vines that round the...

1. (A) Thatch-eves run
2. (B) Garden walls grow
3. (C) Tall trees climb
4. (D) Old fences bend

95. In 'An Epitaph', the poet says that beauty passes and...

1. (A) Vanishes
2. (B) Remains
3. (C) Grows
4. (D) Shines

96. Choose the correct indirect speech of: He said, 'I am reading a book.'

1. (A) He said that he was reading a book.
2. (B) He says that he is reading a book.
3. (C) He said that he is reading a book.
4. (D) He said that he had read a book.

97. Choose the correct passive voice of: 'She wrote a letter.'

1. (A) A letter was written by her.
2. (B) A letter is written by her.
3. (C) A letter has been written by her.
4. (D) A letter writes her.

98. Choose the correct preposition: He is capable ____ doing this work.

1. (A) of
2. (B) in
3. (C) at
4. (D) for

99. Choose the correct synonym of 'abandon':

1. (A) Forsake
2. (B) Keep
3. (C) Hold
4. (D) Maintain

100. Give one-word substitution for: 'A person who does not believe in the existence of God.'

1. (A) Atheist
2. (B) Theist
3. (C) Optimist
4. (D) Pessimist