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CBSE Class 10 English Extract Based Questions Answer 2023 Board Exams

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CBSE Class 10 Extract Based Questions Answer

Part-1 [Question No. 1-5]

CBSE Class 10 Extract Based Questions Answer 2023 Board Exams, which will give you an idea how extract based questions are asked in the cbse class 10 board exams 2023.

1. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.

Max bit his lip nervously. The knocking was repeated. “What will you do now, Max?‘‘ Ausable asked. ‘‘If I do not answer the door, they will enter anyway. The door is unlocked. And they will not hesitate to shoot‘‘.

(a) Who is Max?

(i) a spy (ii) a tourist

(iii) a businessman (iv) A waiter

(b) Max became nervous because:

(i) he got scared of Ausable. (ii) he thought the police had come.

(iii) the door was unlocked. (iv) Ausable did not get up to open the door.

(c) Actually the door was knocked at by the ….. .

(d) Which word in the extract is opposite in meaning to the word ‘confidently‘?

……. Winds rust to meet them.

The moon is broken like a mirror,

Its pieces flash now in the crown of the tallest oak.

(a) The above lines were written by

(i) Robert Frost (ii) John Berryman

(ii) Robin Klein (iv) Adrienne Rich

(b) The crown of the oak lies in its

(i) top must branch (ii) roots

(ii) rich and tasty fruit (iv) broad leaves

(c) The winds are rushing to meet the ………..

(d) Find the word from the extract which means the same as ‘‘shine‘‘.

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2. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.

I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition.

(a) The poet who has written these lines is ……………

(i) Robert Frost (ii) Carbolyn Wells

(iii) Walt Whitman (iv) Ogden Nash

(b) Who are ‘they’ referred to here?

(i) Animals (ii) Tigers

(iii) Ananda’s friends (iv) Wanda’s dresses

(d) Which word in the extract means ‘complain‘?

And as the light came on. Fowler had his first authentic thrill of the day. For halfway across the room, a small automatic pistol in

his hand, stood a man. Ausable blinked a few times.**

(a) Who was standing in the room with a pistol in his hand?

(i) Ausable (ii) Fowler

(iii) Max (iv) A waiter

(b) Ausable blinked because he:

(i) was getting adjusted to the light (ii) got afraid of the man with a pistol

(iii) was thrilled to have reached his room (iv) started thinking of how to get rid of the man.

(c) Fowler was thrilled because what he saw looked like a…………….

(d) Which word in the extract means the same as ‘genuine/real’?

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3. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.

The baker usually collected his bills at the end of the month. Monthly accounts used to be recorded on some wall in pencil. Baking was indeed a profitable profession in the old days. The baker and his family never starved. He, his family and his servant always looked happy and prosperous. Their plump physique was an open testimony to this. Even today any person with a jackfruit-like physical appearance is easily compared to a baker.

(a) Where did the baker record his accounts?

(b) Why did the baker and his family never starve?

(c) Which word in the extract is a synonym of ‘rich’?

(d) How can a baker be identified in Goa?

Now the name of the little black kitten was Ink.

And the little gray mouse, she called him Blink.

And the little yellow dog was sharp as Mustard,

But the dragon was a coward, and she called him Custard.

(a) Name the poem and its poet.

(b) What is the colour of Belinda’s dog?

(d) Which word in the stanza is the antonym of ‘dull’?

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4. Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.

When I casually mentioned this to a friend, he casually replied that I had better get one in the Tigris marshes, for there they were as common as mosquitoes, and were often tamed by the Arabs. We were going to Basra to the Consulate- General to collect and answer our mail from Europe. At the Consulate-General we found that my friend‘s mail had arrived but that mine had not.**

(a) What was ‘they‘?

(b) Where could the author get ‘one‘?

(c) Find the exact word from the extract which means ‘domesticated’?

(d) What did the author find at the Consulate- General?

(There is a languide, emerald sea, where the sole inhabitant is me a marmaid drifting blissfully.)

(a) Who does ‘me‘ stand for?

(b) How does ‘me‘ feel?

(c) Who is ‘me‘ compared to?

(d) Which word in the extract means opposite of ‘sorrowfully‘?

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5. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.

‘‘But, please, Stephen Stepanovitch, he can they be yours? Do be a reasonable man ! My anunt‘s grandmother gave the Meadows for the temporary and free use of your grandfather‘s peasants. The peasants used the land for forty years and got accustomed to it as if it was their own, when it happened that ………….

(a) Who is the speaker of the above lines?

(b) Why did his aunt‘s grandmother give the meadows?

(c) Why did the peasant treat the land as their own?

(d) What light do these lines throw on the speaker‘s character?

Belinda tickled him, she ticked him

unmerciful, Ink, Blink and Mustard, they

rudely called him Percival. They all sat

laughing in the little red wagon

At the realio, trulio cowardly dragon.

(a) Who was tickled by Belinda?

(b) Why did she tickle ‘him‘?

(c) Who are Ink, Blink and Mustard?

(d) Why did they all laugh at ‘him‘?

Answer & Explanation – 1

(a) (i) a spy

(b) (ii) he thought the police had come

(d) nervously

(a) (iv) Adrienne Rich

(b) (i) top most branch

(d) flash

Answer & Explanation – 2

(a) (iii) Walt Whitman

(b) (i) animals

(d) whine

(a) iii. Max

(b) iv. started to think of how to get rid of the man.

(c) looked like a real thriller scene finally. The kind of action and scene he had been expecting while he was on his way.

(d) authentic

Answer & Explanation – 3

(a) The baker recorded his accounts on some wall in pencil.

(b) The baker and his family never starved because baking was a profitable profession in the old days.

(d) A baker can be identified in Goa if he has a jackfruit- like physical appearance.

(a) The name of the poem is ‘The Tale of Custard the Dragon’ and the poet is Ogden Nash.

(b) The color of the Belinda’s dog is yellow.

(d) Antonym of the word ‘dull’ is sharp.

Answer & Explanation – 4

(a) ‘They’ refers to Camusfearna.

(b) The author could better get one in the Tigris marshes.

(d) At the Consulate-General they found that the author’s friend’s mail had arrived but his hadn’t.

(a) ‘Me‘ stands for the child, Amanda.

(b) She feels that she should also be free and relaxed as a mermaid sailing in the sea freely.

(d) ‘Blissfully’ is the word opposite to sorrowfully.

Answer & Explanation – 5

(a) Lomov is the speaker of the above lines.

(b) Lomov‘s aunt‘s grandmother gave the meadows to his grandfather‘s peasants in return for making bricks for her. The land was for free and temporary use.

(d) The speaker comes across as a logcial and courteous person. The speaker‘s character can be depicted as that of a rational yet polite man.

(a) Custard, the dragon, was tickled by Belinda.

(b) She tickled him to tease him and make fun of him.

(d) Custard, the dragon was a coward, hence, they all laughed at him.