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CLASS -8
SUBJECT – ENGLISH (TL)
SYLLABUS – KARNATAKA STATE
MODEL QUESTION BANK OF LESSON BASED ASSESSMENT
ONLY FOR PRACTICE
Lesson Based Assessment
Class – 8 | Subject – English (Third Language) | Lesson 1: Tenali Rama
I. Comprehension
A. Multiple Choice Questions (1 Mark Each)
1. Who was Tenali Rama? (Easy)
- a) A king
- b) A warrior
- c) A jester
- d) A farmer
2. In whose court was Tenali Rama a jester? (Easy)
- a) Akbar
- b) Krishnadevaraya
- c) Birbal
- d) Shivaji
3. What was Tenali Rama known for? (Easy)
- a) His strength
- b) His singing
- c) His wit and humour
- d) His anger
4. Who came to Tenali Rama’s house one day? (Easy)
- a) The king
- b) A stranger
- c) His friend
- d) A guard
5. Why did the stranger want to stay at Tenali Rama’s house? (Easy)
- a) To meet the king
- b) To rest for two days
- c) To eat food
- d) To play a game
6. Who sent the stranger to Tenali Rama’s house? (Easy)
- a) Tenali Rama’s friend
- b) The king of a neighbouring kingdom
- c) Tenali Rama’s family
- d) The royal doctor
7. What did the stranger want to do to King Krishnadevaraya? (Easy)
- a) Befriend him
- b) Help him
- c) Kill him
- d) Talk to him
8. What did the stranger write in the letter to the king? (Easy)
- a) Tenali Rama was ill.
- b) Tenali Rama’s wife was ill.
- c) Tenali Rama had visitors.
- d) Tenali Rama was going to his village.
B. Answer in one word, a phrase, or a sentence (1 Mark Each)
9. Who was Krishnadevaraya? (Easy)
10. What was Tenali Rama known for? (Easy)
11. How long did the stranger want to stay at Tenali Rama’s house? (Easy)
12. What medical help did the stranger say Tenali Rama’s wife needed? (Easy)
13. What was the king’s mood when Tenali Rama came to the court? (Easy)
II. Vocabulary
A. Correct Spelling (1 Mark)
14. Choose the correctly spelt word: (Easy)
- a) shalter
- b) shelter
- c) shalltar
- d) sheltr
B. Opposites (1 Mark)
15. Choose the correct opposite from the box: [remember, near, depart, absence, front, soft] (Easy)
far X _________
III. Language / Grammar
A. Prepositions (1 Mark)
16. Fill in the blank choosing appropriate preposition: [with, at, to, off, on, behind] (Easy)
The king was sitting ——– the throne.
C. Answer in two or three sentences (2 Marks Each)
17. What was Tenali Rama’s nature, as described in the story? (Medium)
18. What was the stranger’s real plan, and who sent him? (Medium)
D. Read the extracts and answer the questions (3 Marks)
19. “It is because of you that an attempt was made to kill me.” (Medium)
- a) Who does ‘me’ refer to here? (1 Mark)
- b) Who made an attempt to kill ‘me’? (1 Mark)
- c) Why did the speaker say ‘it is because of you’? (1 Mark)
C. Frame Questions (2 Marks)
20. Frame a question to get the underlined word as an answer: (Difficult)
Tenali Rama’s wife was ill.
Lesson Based Assessment
Class – 8 | Subject – English (Third Language) | Poem: 1 Rain in Summer
I. Multiple Choice Questions (1 Mark Each)
Easy Questions
1. What do some children like to do when it rains? (Easy)
- a) Stay indoors all the time
- b) Make paper boats
- c) Read books
- d) Go to school
2. Who wrote the poem ‘Rain in Summer’? (Easy)
- a) Aesop
- b) H.W. Longfellow
- c) Sunanda
- d) Peter
3. When did Longfellow start publishing his poems? (Easy)
- a) When he was a child
- b) When he was thirteen years old
- c) When he was a professor
- d) After he retired
4. What did Longfellow do in 1854? (Easy)
- a) He started a new job.
- b) He traveled the world.
- c) He gave up his professor job to write poetry.
- d) He became a doctor.
5. How does the street look before the rain comes? (Easy)
- a) Cool and wet
- b) Dusty and hot
- c) Green and fresh
- d) Dark and gloomy
6. Where does the rain gush and struggle out from? (Easy)
- a) From the clouds
- b) From the window pane
- c) From the overflowing spout
- d) From the street
7. How does the water look when it flows down the gutter? (Easy)
- a) Clear and blue
- b) Muddy and wide
- c) Slow and calm
- d) Bright and shiny
8. What does ‘fiery’ mean in the poem? (Easy)
- a) Very cold
- b) Intensely hot
- c) Slightly warm
- d) Rainy
Medium Questions
9. The poet compares the sound of rain on roofs to: (Medium)
- a) A bird singing
- b) The sound of a drum
- c) The tramp of hoofs
- d) Gentle whispers
10. What kind of rain does the poet call it at the end? (Medium)
- a) Sad rain
- b) Welcome rain
- c) Cold rain
- d) Heavy rain
II. Fill in the Blanks (1 Mark Each)
Easy Questions
11. How beautiful is the rain! After the dust and ______. (Easy)
12. In the broad and fiery ______. (Easy)
13. How it clatters along the _______. (Easy)
14. Like the tramp of _______. (Easy)
15. Across the window ______. (Easy)
III. Vocabulary
A. Glossary (1 Mark Each)
16. The word ‘clatter’ means: (Easy)
- a) A soft sound
- b) A rattling noise
- c) A loud roar
- d) A gentle whisper
17. What is a ‘hoof’? (Easy)
- a) A part of a tree
- b) A horny casing of a horse’s foot
- c) A type of shoe
- d) A small river
18. ‘Gush’ means to: (Easy)
- a) Flow out slowly
- b) Flow out suddenly
- c) Stay still
- d) Dry up
B. Rhyming Words (1 Mark Each)
19. Find the word that rhymes with ‘pane’ from the poem. (Medium)
20. Find the word that rhymes with ‘heat’ from the poem. (Medium)
21. Find the word that rhymes with ‘spout’ from the poem. (Medium)
IV. Short Answer Questions (1 Mark Each)
Medium Questions
22. How does the street look before the rain? (Medium)
23. What is the sound of rain compared to in the poem? (Medium)
V. Long Answer Questions (2 Marks Each)
Difficult Questions
24. Based on the poem, how do you know that it was a very hot day before the rain? (Difficult)
Lesson Based Assessment
Class – 8 | Subject – English (Third Language) | LESSON – 2: SANDALWOOD TREES
I. Multiple Choice Questions (1 Mark Each)
Easy Questions
1. What does deforestation primarily mean? (Easy)
- A. Planting trees
- B. Cutting down trees in forests
- C. Protecting forests
- D. Growing crops
2. Where did Sunanda and her parents live? (Easy)
- A. Near Ootacamund
- B. Near Karimunai village
- C. In the Western Ghats
- D. In a city
3. What was the name of Sunanda’s dog? (Easy)
- A. Raju
- B. Ramesh
- C. Gugu
- D. Mudaliar
4. What terrible thing happened when Sunanda was thirteen? (Easy)
- A. A fire broke out
- B. A flood occurred
- C. A landslide happened
- D. A theft took place
5. What was the immediate consequence of the landslide for Sunanda? (Easy)
- A. She lost her home
- B. She lost her eyes
- C. She lost her voice
- D. She lost her dog
6. What was the familiar smell Sunanda noticed near the cut tree? (Easy)
- A. Pine
- B. Sandalwood
- C. Eucalyptus
- D. Jasmine
7. Who was Mudaliar? (Easy)
- A. The village headman
- B. The forest officer
- C. The head constable
- D. A woodcutter
8. What reward did Sunanda receive from the police department? (Easy)
- A. A new house
- B. A sum of money
- C. A medal
- D. A new dog
9. What is the opposite of ‘legal’ from the vocabulary section? (Easy)
- A. Unlegal
- B. Illegal
- C. Dislegal
- D. Inlegal
II. Fill in the Blanks (1 Mark Each)
Easy Questions
10. Cutting trees turns rich and fertile lands into dry, _________ tracts. (Easy)
11. Sunanda’s parents and goats were killed in the _________. (Easy)
12. The brothers had a strange dislike for _________. (Easy)
13. We must always help _________. (Easy)
III. Answer in One Word, a Phrase, or a Sentence (1 Mark Each)
Easy Questions
14. What does deforestation turn rich and fertile lands into? (Easy)
15. What hit Sunanda’s head during the landslide? (Easy)
16. What was the familiar smell Sunanda noticed near her favorite tree? (Easy)
17. What did Mami call Sunanda after she showed her bravery? (Easy)
IV. Write True or False (1 Mark Each)
Easy Questions
18. Sunanda’s parents survived the landslide. (Easy)
19. The phrase ‘one another’ is used for two persons or things. (Easy)
V. Multiple Choice Questions (1 Mark Each)
Medium Questions
20. Why did Sunanda initially refuse to go back to school? (Medium)
- 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
21. What did Raogaru explain as the main cause of landslides? (Medium)
- A. Heavy rain
- B. Earthquakes
- C. Denuding hillsides by cutting trees
- D. Animal grazing
22. Whose voice did Sunanda recognize while overhearing the conversation? (Medium)
- A. Raogaru’s
- B. Ramesh’s
- C. Mudaliar’s
- D. Her mother’s
VI. Short Answer Questions (2 Marks Each)
Medium Questions
23. How did Sunanda lose her eye-sight? (Medium)
24. What was happening in the forest that Sunanda discovered? (Medium)
VII. Long Answer Question (2 Marks)
Difficult Questions
25. Describe the conversation Sunanda overheard in the forest. (Difficult)
Lesson Based Assessment
Class – 8 | Subject – English (Third Language) | POEM – 2: A CHILD’S EVENING PRAYER
I. Multiple Choice Questions (1 Mark Each)
Easy Questions
1. What does the child do before laying its limbs on the bed? (Easy)
- A. Plays
- B. Prays
- C. Reads
- D. Eats
2. What does the child ask God to grant it? (Easy)
- A. Wealth
- B. Grace
- C. Power
- D. Fame
3. For whom does the child first pray after itself? (Easy)
- A. Its father
- B. Its brothers
- C. Its mother
- D. Its friends
4. What does the child wish for its mother? (Easy)
- A. Riches and jewels
- B. Health and strength
- C. A long journey
- D. New clothes
5. What does the child promise to pay its father? (Easy)
- A. Money
- B. Reverence due
- C. Gifts
- D. Attention
6. What does the child want to be for its parents? (Easy)
- A. A burden
- B. A worry
- C. Hope and joy
- D. A challenge
7. What kind of heart does the child ask the Lord to impart? (Easy)
- A. A strong and brave heart
- B. An innocent and grateful heart
- C. A wise and knowing heart
- D. A happy and cheerful heart
8. What does ‘last sleep’ refer to in the poem? (Easy)
- A. Dream
- B. Death
- C. Rest
- D. Night
II. Answer in One Word, a Phrase, or a Sentence (1 Mark Each)
Easy Questions
9. What is the child’s prayer about? (Easy)
10. What does ‘grace’ mean in the poem? (Easy)
11. Who is the child praying to? (Easy)
12. What kind of heart does the child ask for? (Easy)
13. What is the meaning of ‘eternal’? (Easy)
14. Name one famous poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (Easy)
15. What is the noun form of ‘weak’? (Easy)
16. What is the collective noun for ‘players’? (Easy)
III. Short Answer Questions (2 Marks Each)
Medium Questions
17. What does the child pray for its mother and father? (Medium)
18. How does the child express its desire to be a good child to its parents? (Medium)
IV. Fill in the Blanks (1 Mark Each)
Medium Questions
19. And may I my best thoughts _________ To be my parent’s hope and joy! (Medium)
20. That after my last sleep I may Awake to thy _________ day. (Medium)
V. Long Answer Question (3 Marks)
Difficult Questions
21. Explain the meaning of ‘eternal day’ in the context of the poem. (Difficult)