8th English (TL) LBA 2.SANDALWOOD TREES

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CLASS -8

SUBJECT – ENGLISH (TL)

SYLLABUS – KARNATAKA STATE 

MODEL QUESTION BANK OF LESSON BASED ASSESSMENT

ONLY FOR PRACTICE

Class 8 English: Sandalwood Trees – Lesson Based Assessment

Lesson Based Assessment

Class – 8 | Subject – English (Third Language) | LESSON – 2: SANDALWOOD TREES

Learning Outcomes:

  1. To understand the harmful effects of deforestation.
  2. To identify the main characters and their roles in the story.
  3. To explain the cause and consequences of the landslide.
  4. To describe Sunanda’s journey of overcoming adversity.
  5. To recognize the importance of honesty and courage.
  6. To understand the concept of illegal felling and rackets.
  7. To apply vocabulary and grammar concepts from the lesson.

I. Multiple Choice Questions: Choose the most appropriate option.

1. What does deforestation primarily mean?

  • A. Planting trees
  • B. Cutting down trees in forests
  • C. Protecting forests
  • D. Growing crops

Difficulty: Easy

2. According to the pre-reading, who warned the Greeks against cutting down trees?

  • A. Plato
  • B. Aristotle
  • C. Socrates
  • D. Alexander

Difficulty: Easy

3. Where did Sunanda and her parents live?

  • A. Near Ootacamund
  • B. Near Karimunai village
  • C. In the Western Ghats
  • D. In a city

Difficulty: Easy

4. What was the name of Sunanda’s dog?

  • A. Raju
  • B. Ramesh
  • C. Gugu
  • D. Mudaliar

Difficulty: Easy

5. What terrible thing happened when Sunanda was thirteen?

  • A. A fire broke out
  • B. A flood occurred
  • C. A landslide happened
  • D. A theft took place

Difficulty: Easy

6. What was the immediate consequence of the landslide for Sunanda?

  • A. She lost her home
  • B. She lost her eyes
  • C. She lost her voice
  • D. She lost her dog

Difficulty: Easy

7. Who brought Sunanda to his house after the tragedy?

  • A. Mudaliar
  • B. Ramesh
  • C. Raogaru
  • D. Her uncle

Difficulty: Easy

8. Why did Sunanda initially refuse to go back to school?

  • A. She was too sad
  • B. She felt different from other girls
  • C. She wanted to stay with Gugu
  • D. She didn’t like studying

Difficulty: Average

9. What did Raogaru explain as the main cause of landslides?

  • A. Heavy rain
  • B. Earthquakes
  • C. Denuding hillsides by cutting trees
  • D. Animal grazing

Difficulty: Average

10. What was Sunanda’s favorite resting place?

  • A. Near the river
  • B. A cluster of shady trees
  • C. Her old house
  • D. The village school

Difficulty: Easy

11. What made Sunanda realize that the tree was cut?

  • A. She saw the stump
  • B. She heard men cutting it
  • C. She couldn’t lean against it
  • D. Her bird-friend was silent

Difficulty: Average

12. What was the familiar smell Sunanda noticed near the cut tree?

  • A. Pine
  • B. Sandalwood
  • C. Eucalyptus
  • D. Jasmine

Difficulty: Easy

13. Who was Mudaliar?

  • A. The village headman
  • B. The forest officer
  • C. The head constable
  • D. A woodcutter

Difficulty: Easy

14. What noise did Sunanda hear when she slipped out of the house at night?

  • A. A low whirring noise
  • B. Animal sounds
  • C. People singing
  • D. Rain falling

Difficulty: Easy

15. Whose voice did Sunanda recognize while overhearing the conversation?

  • A. Raogaru’s
  • B. Ramesh’s
  • C. Mudaliar’s
  • D. Her mother’s

Difficulty: Average

16. What percentage of money did Mudaliar demand from Ramesh?

  • A. Five percent
  • B. Ten percent
  • C. Fifteen percent
  • D. Twenty percent

Difficulty: Average

17. Where did Raogaru decide to take up the matter after Sunanda told him everything?

  • A. Village police station
  • B. Forest department
  • C. Police headquarters at Ootacamund
  • D. Local court

Difficulty: Easy

18. What reward did Sunanda receive from the police department?

  • A. A new house
  • B. A sum of money
  • C. A medal
  • D. A new dog

Difficulty: Easy

19. Where did Raogaru decide to admit Sunanda for her future?

  • A. A regular school
  • B. A vocational training center
  • C. The National School for the Blind
  • D. A college

Difficulty: Easy

20. What is the meaning of ‘denudation’ as explained in the lesson?

  • A. Protecting trees
  • B. Making something bare, stripping off
  • C. Planting new trees
  • D. Building houses

Difficulty: Average

21. The word ‘racket’ in the glossary means:

  • A. A loud noise
  • B. A sports equipment
  • C. A dishonest way of making money
  • D. A type of music

Difficulty: Easy

22. Which word means ‘something that supports or proves a statement’?

  • A. Rumour
  • B. Whirring
  • C. Evidence
  • D. Haunt

Difficulty: Easy

23. What is the opposite of ‘legal’ from the vocabulary section?

  • A. Unlegal
  • B. Illegal
  • C. Dislegal
  • D. Inlegal

Difficulty: Easy

24. Which pair of words has nearly the same meaning?

  • A. Buy, desire
  • B. Learn, remember
  • C. Clean, create
  • D. Show, reveal

Difficulty: Average

25. What is the other gender for ‘father’?

  • A. Son
  • B. Mother
  • C. Daughter
  • D. Parent

Difficulty: Easy

26. What is the noun form of ‘honest’ by adding ‘-ness’ or ‘-ity’?

  • A. Honesty
  • B. Honestness
  • C. Honesting
  • D. Dishonest

Difficulty: Easy

27. The phrase ‘each other’ is used when we speak of:

  • A. More than two persons or things
  • B. Two persons or things
  • C. One person only
  • D. No persons or things

Difficulty: Easy

28. A group of trees is called a:

  • A. Herd
  • B. Flock
  • C. Cluster
  • D. Swarm

Difficulty: Easy

29. Choose the correct word: Alice and ___________ (her, she) friend danced together.

  • A. her
  • B. she
  • C. herself
  • D. him

Difficulty: Easy

30. Complete the sentence with a suitable question word: ___________is your birthday?

  • A. Who
  • B. Where
  • C. When
  • D. How

Difficulty: Easy

31. What was the rumbling sound Sunanda and her parents heard?

  • A. A train passing
  • B. The start of a landslide
  • C. Animals running
  • D. People talking

Difficulty: Average

32. Why did Mudaliar ask Raogaru to tell Sunanda not to spread rumours?

  • A. He believed Sunanda was wrong
  • B. He was involved in the illegal felling
  • C. He wanted to protect the forest
  • D. He didn’t like Sunanda

Difficulty: Difficult

33. What useful vocation would Sunanda learn at the National School for the Blind?

  • A. Singing
  • B. Teaching
  • C. A skill for a job
  • D. Cooking

Difficulty: Average

34. The word ‘haunt’ in the glossary refers to a place that creates feelings of:

  • A. Joy and happiness
  • B. Worry or fear
  • C. Peace and calm
  • D. Excitement and adventure

Difficulty: Easy

II. Answer the following questions in a word, a phrase or a sentence each: (1 Mark)

1. What does deforestation turn rich and fertile lands into?

Difficulty: Easy

2. Who owned a piece of land on the hill slopes?

Difficulty: Easy

3. What hit Sunanda’s head during the landslide?

Difficulty: Easy

4. What was the name of the headmaster of the village school?

Difficulty: Easy

5. What did Sunanda miss after the landslide?

Difficulty: Easy

6. What was the familiar smell Sunanda noticed near her favorite tree?

Difficulty: Easy

7. What sound did Sunanda hear before seeing the men cutting trees?

Difficulty: Easy

8. What did Raogaru do after Sunanda told him about Mudaliar?

Difficulty: Average

9. What did Mami call Sunanda after she showed her bravery?

Difficulty: Easy

10. What did Raogaru decide to do with Sunanda’s reward money?

Difficulty: Easy

11. What is the other gender for ‘husband’?

Difficulty: Easy

12. What is the noun form of ‘equal’ by adding ‘-ness’ or ‘-ity’?

Difficulty: Easy

III. Answer the following questions in two to three sentences each: (2-3 Marks)

1. How did Sunanda lose her eye-sight?

Difficulty: Average

2. What was happening in the forest that Sunanda discovered?

Difficulty: Average

3. How was Sunanda rewarded by the police department?

Difficulty: Average

4. Explain why landslides occur according to Raogaru.

Difficulty: Average

5. Describe the conversation Sunanda overheard in the forest.

Difficulty: Difficult

6. “I’m so different from the other girls now.”

  • a. Who said this?
  • b. Why is the speaker different?
  • c. When was it said?

Difficulty: Average

7. “He says no one can break a single twig.”

  • a. Who does ‘he’ refer to?
  • b. To whom was this said?
  • c. Why did ‘he’ say so?

Difficulty: Average

IV. Fill in the blanks with the correct answers:

1. Cutting trees turns rich and fertile lands into dry, _________ tracts.

Difficulty: Easy

2. Sunanda’s parents and goats were killed in the _________.

Difficulty: Easy

3. Trees help to keep the mountain mass _________.

Difficulty: Average

4. The brothers had a strange dislike for _________.

Difficulty: Easy

5. We must always help _________.

Difficulty: Easy

6. A _________ of keys.

Difficulty: Easy

7. _________ are teachers of our school. (Choose: these, this)

Difficulty: Easy

8. _________ are you going? (Choose: Who, Where)

Difficulty: Easy

V. Match the following:

1. Match the words with their meanings:

Column AColumn B
1. to tenda. false information
2. rumourb. to take care of
3. whirringc. a dishonest way of making money
4. racketd. sound made by a machine

Difficulty: Average

2. Match the words with their opposites:

Column AColumn B
1. comforta. impossible
2. curableb. discomfort
3. steadyc. incurable
4. possibled. unsteady

Difficulty: Average

3. Match the collective nouns:

Column AColumn B
1. a fleet ofa. stamps
2. a library ofb. rain
3. a shower ofc. ships
4. a collection ofd. books

Difficulty: Easy

VI. Write True or False for the following statements:

1. Socrates encouraged cutting down trees for timber.

Difficulty: Easy

2. Sunanda’s parents survived the landslide.

Difficulty: Easy

3. Mudaliar was genuinely protecting the sandalwood trees.

Difficulty: Average

4. Sunanda’s reward money was used to buy her a new house.

Difficulty: Average

5. The phrase ‘one another’ is used for two persons or things.

Difficulty: Easy

Answer Key

I. Multiple Choice Questions:

  1. B. Cutting down trees in forests
  2. C. Socrates
  3. B. Near Karimunai village
  4. C. Gugu
  5. C. A landslide happened
  6. B. She lost her eyes
  7. C. Raogaru
  8. B. She felt different from other girls
  9. C. Denuding hillsides by cutting trees
  10. B. A cluster of shady trees
  11. C. She couldn’t lean against it
  12. B. Sandalwood
  13. C. The head constable
  14. A. A low whirring noise
  15. C. Mudaliar’s
  16. B. Ten percent
  17. C. Police headquarters at Ootacamund
  18. B. A sum of money
  19. C. The National School for the Blind
  20. B. Making something bare, stripping off
  21. C. A dishonest way of making money
  22. C. Evidence
  23. B. Illegal
  24. D. Show, reveal
  25. B. Mother
  26. A. Honesty
  27. B. Two persons or things
  28. C. Cluster
  29. A. her
  30. C. When
  31. B. The start of a landslide
  32. B. He was involved in the illegal felling
  33. C. A skill for a job
  34. B. Worry or fear

II. Answer the following questions in a word, a phrase or a sentence each:

  1. Dry, barren tracts.
  2. Sunanda’s father.
  3. A stone.
  4. Raogaru.
  5. Her parents and her world.
  6. Sandalwood.
  7. A low whirring noise.
  8. He decided to take it up with the police headquarters at Ootacamund.
  9. Brave girl.
  10. He decided to put it in the bank for her future.
  11. Wife.
  12. Equality.

III. Answer the following questions in two to three sentences each:

  1. Sunanda lost her eye-sight when a landslide occurred. A stone hit her head during the explosion, causing her to lose her vision.
  2. Sunanda discovered that sandalwood trees were being illegally cut down in the forest. She overheard a conversation between Mudaliar and another person, revealing a sandalwood racket.
  3. Sunanda was rewarded with a sum of money by the police department. This was because she helped them unravel a sandalwood racket by bravely gathering evidence.
  4. According to Raogaru, landslides occur because man has thoughtlessly spoiled nature by cutting down trees. Trees help to keep the mountain mass together, and without them, disturbances under the earth’s surface cause land to slide down.
  5. Sunanda overheard Mudaliar and Ramesh talking. Mudaliar demanded ten percent of the money Ramesh earned from selling sandalwood, threatening to alert authorities if he didn’t comply. This confirmed his involvement in the illegal felling.
  6. a. Sunanda said this. b. She felt different because she had lost her eyesight in the landslide. c. It was said when Raogaru wanted to send her back to school after the accident.
  7. a. ‘He’ refers to Mudaliar, the head constable. b. This was said to Raogaru. c. Mudaliar said this to dismiss Sunanda’s claims about trees being cut, trying to cover up his own illegal activities.

IV. Fill in the blanks with the correct answers:

  1. barren
  2. landslide
  3. together
  4. each other
  5. one another
  6. bunch
  7. These
  8. Where

V. Match the following:

  1. 1-b, 2-a, 3-d, 4-c
  2. 1-b, 2-c, 3-d, 4-a
  3. 1-c, 2-d, 3-b, 4-a

VI. Write True or False for the following statements:

  1. False
  2. False
  3. False
  4. False
  5. False
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