NEB Class 11 · Past paper
The complete NEB Class 11 2071 exam paper for English, all 12 questions with solved model answers.
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[Major (Optional) English, Grade XI]
Authority and the taboos of well-meaning parents: Authority is the recognised power or right of a person or institution to give orders, make decisions and expect obedience. It exists in the family, the school, religion, the law and the s...
[Major (Optional) English, Grade XI] 2. Write short notes on any three of the following: [3 X 5 = 15] a. W.B. Yeats b. William Shakespeare c. Frankenstein d. Samuel Beckett e. A Tale of Two Cities f. The Pied Piper of Hamelin
a. W.B. Yeats: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was a great Irish poet and dramatist and a leading figure of twentieth-century literature. Deeply attached to Irish myth, nationalism and mysticism, he wrote famous poems such as "The Secon...
[Major (Optional) English, Grade XI] 3. Discuss why the publication of the first edition of the lyrical ballads (1798) came as a shock. [15] OR Introduce Samuel Butler and describe his works in brief.
Why the first edition of Lyrical Ballads (1798) came as a shock: Lyrical Ballads, published jointly by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1798, is regarded as the work that began the Romantic movement in English poetry. It...
[Major (Optional) English, Grade XI] 4. Answer any three of the following: [3 X 5 = 15] a. Explain how the poem 'When Icicles Hang' presents the harshness of winter without actually using the words like 'cold', 'unpleasant' etc. b. Show the difference between "Blue-eyed Boy" and "Mister Death". (Buffalo Bill's) c. What does the poet Robert Burns compare love to? (Oh, My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose) d. Explain the three dangers Havel identifies, and explain why each has come into existence at this particular time? (Vaclav Havel, The Velvet Hangover) e. Explain briefly the poem entitled "Dream Variations" by Langston Hughes.
a. Harshness of winter in 'When Icicles Hang' (Shakespeare's 'Winter'): Shakespeare conveys the bitter harshness of winter not by naming it directly but through concrete images of everyday country life. Icicles hang by the wall, the shep...
[Major (Optional) English, Grade XI] 5. Briefly answer any five of the following questions: [5 X 5 = 25] a. What aspects of the women make her suitable for such a superior man? (Ian McEwan, Dead as They Come) b. How does the poet identify you as 'Nobody' of 'Somebody' in the text? (Emily Dickinson's Nobody) c. Describe the nature of Sybil's fantasy of Jim's future. (Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray) d. What does the pronoun 'It' in the line 'Thankful For It In Any Case' stand for? Why is Winnie thankful for it? (Samuel Beckett - Happy Days) e. What does Konrad Lorenz like to convey through Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins? How is it relevant to our own context? f. Do you support the speech made by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons during the Second World War? Give reasons for your answer. g. Why do you think 'Everything Turns Away Quite Leisurely from the Disaster' in W.H. Auden's "Musee Des Beaux Arts"?
b. 'Nobody' and 'Somebody' (Emily Dickinson): In her poem 'I'm Nobody! Who are you?', Emily Dickinson playfully takes the side of being a 'Nobody'. She greets the reader as a fellow 'Nobody' and warns not to tell, or 'they'd banish us'. ...
[Major (Optional) English, Grade XI] 6. Write an essay in 'Domestic Violence' in Nepal. [15] OR Sketch the life of the girls or women who are victimized due to trafficking.
Domestic Violence in Nepal Domestic violence is any form of physical, mental, sexual or economic abuse committed within the family, most often against women and children. In Nepal it remains a serious and widespread social problem, thoug...
[Major (Optional) English, Grade XI, Supplementary]
P.B. Shelley and John Keats: major works and ideas Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) and John Keats (1795-1821) are two of the greatest poets of the second generation of English Romanticism, both of whom died young yet left immortal poetr...
[Major (Optional) English, Grade XI, Supplementary] 2. Write short notes on any three of the following: [3 X 5 = 15] a. T.S. Eliot b. Matthew Arnold c. Restoration drama d. Churchyard school of poets e. Christopher Marlowe f. Middle English prose
a. T.S. Eliot: Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) was an American-born British poet, critic and dramatist and a leader of the modernist movement. His major works include the long poems 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', 'The Waste Land...
[Major (Optional) English, Grade XI, Supplementary] 3. Do you have the idea of some people who have recently moved to Australia for a better life? How are their experiences similar or different to the experiences of the family that Nicholasa Mohr describes? [15] Or Give your comment on the topic "The Television as a rival to the theatre".
Television as a rival to the theatre: Television and the theatre are both powerful forms of drama and entertainment, but in the modern age television has become a strong rival to the theatre, and in many ways it has overshadowed it. Tele...
[Major (Optional) English, Grade XI, Supplementary] 4. Answer any three of the following. [3 X 5 = 15] a. How do tourists bring different needs and expectations to Antigua than those of native Antiguans? Explain. (A Small Place) b. What do you think of Mr. Princey's character the way he likes his house and position in the village but he dislike very much his family? (Wet Saturday) c. What role does Tay Soon's wife play in contributing to the entire disaster? Explain. (Paper) d. Why is it significant that fighting cocks receive care and attention equal to that given to human babies? Discuss. (Of Cocks and Men) e. What effect does Natsumi Soseki achieve by attribution consciousness to the cat? (I am a Cat)
b. Mr. Princey's character (Wet Saturday): In John Collier's story 'Wet Saturday', Mr. Princey is a cold, proud and calculating man who cares far more for his house, his name and his social position in the village than for his own family...
[Major (Optional) English, Grade XI, Supplementary] 5. Sketch the life of a person who is happy to embrace any types of hardship to fulfill the ambition in his/her life. [15] OR Discuss in detail how the readers get meaning form the texts they read.
How readers get meaning from the texts they read: A text by itself is only a set of words printed on paper; it truly comes alive and gains meaning only in the mind of the reader. The making of meaning is therefore an active partnership b...
[Major (Optional) English, Grade XI, Supplementary] 6. Briefly answer any five of the following questions: [5 X 5 = 25] a. What is the poet's attitude to environment? (Philip Larkin: Going, Going) b. What similarities and differences do you notice between two texts about war? Explain. (Isaac Rosenberg: Returning, we Hear the Larks; Siegfried Sassoon: Everyone sang) c. Note the positive and negative possibilities the Hatter sees in the act of authority as used by the royalty. (L. Carroll: Alice in Wonderland) d. Enumerate different types of ambitions as given in different texts under the heading of 'Ambitions'. e. Which of the texts do you find most effective in terms of the theme of "Rebellion"? (George Orwell: Animal farm, John Milton: Paradise Lost, Shakespeare: Macbeth) f. What is the attitude of Macbeth to war? Does he glorify it or refute it? (Shakespeare: Macbeth) g. Sketch the image of Harriet as given by Iris Murdoch. (The Sacred and Profane Love Machine)
a. Larkin's attitude to the environment ('Going, Going'): In 'Going, Going', Philip Larkin shows a sad, pessimistic and anxious attitude towards the environment. He mourns the way England's green fields, meadows, villages and natural bea...