G's Help Desk for English Core - XI: Practice Paper

Bluebells School International

Practice Paper – The Address

Time: 60 minutes

Name: ____________________ Date: __________________

Class: ____________________ Teacher: Ms. Geetanjali Kumar

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Q.1. Please identify the following statements as true or false: ½ m x 4 = 2m

a) The story is about the Holocaust and the plight of the Jews at the time. ________________

b) The story is about the emotional aftermath of the Holocaust survivors. ________________

c) Mrs. Dorling did not welcome the narrator into her home because she ________________

did not wish to associate with Jews anymore.

d) Mrs. Dorling’s daughter was well aware of the narrator’s connection to ________________

the items the former used on a daily basis.

Q.2. Why did the narrator take so long to visit Mrs. Dorling? When she finally found what she had come

for, why did she not claim them as her own? (80-100 words)

Mrs. Dorling comes to know of the narrator’s second visit. She feels humbled by the fact that the

narrator did not take away the items that originally belonged to Mrs. S, the narrator’s mother. Write a

letter as Mrs. Dorling to the narrator in the wake of this realization. 3m

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Q.3. Please answer the following questions in about 35-40 words: 2m x 10 = 20m

i) Who was Mrs. Dorling? How did she come to possess Mrs. S’s household items?

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ii) How did Mrs. Dorling treat the narrator on the latter’s first visit and why?

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iii) During the first visit, how did the narrator come to realize that she was indeed at the correct

address?

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iv) What all was different about the narrator’s life after the holocaust?

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v) Why did the narrator not wish to claim her mother’s belongings immediately after the war?

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vi) Who met the narrator on the second visit? What did the narrator realize almost immediately after

meeting this person?

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vii) What did the narrator feel about the way her mother’s things were displayed at the Dorling residence?

Why do you think she felt this way?

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viii) What did the narrator realize by the end of her interaction with Mrs. Dorling’s daughter?

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ix) Which values do you think Mrs. Dorling lacked? Which values can we learn from the narrator’s

final decision?

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x) What is your opinion of Mrs. S? Which values do you think she demonstrated and lacked?

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G's Help Desk for English Core - XI

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Practice Paper - The Address

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