LIVE

Karnataka 2nd PUC English Answer Key 2026 (OUT) LIVE: Paper Solving Ends, Check Your Marks, Analysis

Q1) In 'Romeo and Juliet', ______ is described as 'gentle....

b) night

Q2) In 'Too Dear!', ______ was the initial punishment to the criminal.

c) death sentence

Q3) According to the speaker in 'On Children', 'life does not tarry ______'.

d) yesterday

Q4) Match the items in Column A with Column B....

b) A-iii, B-i, C-ii

Q5) In ‘The Gardener’, ______ bedecked himself....

c) Basavaiah

Q6) In the interview, Borges does not make this statement about books:

c) Modern developments would replace books with more dynamic things

Q7) The life of ______

a) pedestrians

Q8) In the story ‘The Voter’, ______

b) Maduka

Q9) The secondary school teacher mentioned in the essay, ‘Where There Is A Wheel’ is ______.

d) Fatima

Q10) According to the poem ‘water’, ______ is a witness to the centuries of social injustice.

c) Water

Q11) Fill in the blanks with the passive form of the verbs given in the brackets:

1. was supported 2. was opposed 3. were composed

Q12) Fill in the blanks with appropriate expressions:

1. swept across 2. brain child

Q13) Match the pronouns in column A with the nouns/noun phrases in column B...

a - iii (Dr. Goldsmith) b - v (House) c - ii (poor woman) d - i (poor woman's husband) e - iv (a small box)

Q14) Name any two images that Romeo uses to describe Juliet’s beauty in ‘Romeo and Juliet’.

1. A rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear 2. A snowy dove trooping with crows

Q15) According to the prophet in ‘On Children’, who bends the bow and why?

God (the Archer) bends the bow so that His arrows (children) may go swift and far.

Q16) According to Vandana Shiva, what had logging led to in the Himalayan region?

Logging led to landslides, floods, and scarcity of water, fodder, and fuel.

Q17) Which is the mighty movement mentioned in the poem ‘water’? Where did it happen?

The Chundur March (Dalit movement); it happened in Chundur (Andhra Pradesh).

Q18) Note on Vandana Shiva’s Navdanya Farm

Started in 1987 in Doon Valley, it is a sanctuary for biodiversity and organic farming. It has conserved over 3,000 rice varieties and promotes "Earth Democracy."

Q19) Why Don Gonzalo’s cousin left Valencia

He fled after a duel with a merchant (a suitor to Laura). He hid for a while, then joined the army in Africa, where he supposedly died.

Q20) How the poet’s love is different in ‘When You Are Old’

Unlike others who loved her "glad grace" or beauty, the poet loved her "pilgrim soul" and the sorrows of her changing face as she grew old.

Q21) Life of the foot in the shoe

The foot loses its childhood dreams of being a butterfly; it becomes a "blind reptile," grows calloused, and is imprisoned in a shoe until death.

Q22) Heaven lies all over!' illustration

The poet Kuvempu argues heaven exists on earth through nature: the roaring stream, the sun-drenched forests, and the gentle moonlight.

Q23) Why Japanese are 'well-mannered'

George Mikes notes their "mania for bowing." They show deep respect through constant, disciplined bowing, even in crowded public spaces.

Q24) Criminal's arguments for staying in prison

He argued his character was ruined, no one would hire him, and the government broke their deal by removing his guard; he demanded a pension.

Q25) How Dona Laura "decorates" her funeral

She claims she sat on a rock by the sea, wrote her lover's name in the sand with a cane, and let the rising tide sweep her away.

Q26) How Tammanna avenged himself

He composed ballads to make Basavaiah feel small, then "died" to his old life and walked away, leaving Basavaiah with no rival to compete against.

Q27) Irreplaceable function of books

Borges states books are an extension of imagination and memory. Unlike the phone or sword, they are sacred, magical, and cannot be replaced.

Q28) Why Umuofians underrated the ballot

They initially saw voting as a favor for friends; they only realized its "market value" and power when politicians began offering money for it.

Q29) Role of Arivoli Iyakkam in Pudukkottai

This literacy movement gave women the "metaphor for freedom" by teaching them cycling, which provided mobility, independence, and confidence.

Q30) Passage: V.S. Naipaul (9 Questions)

a) Trinidad b) BBC c) 1971 d) 'A House for Mr. Biswas' e) His father f) Disintegration of tradition g) insensitives/disconnect h) Darker/pessimistic i) Nobel Prize

Q31) A) Preposition / Rearrange B) Linkers

A: i) on foot ii) I came and shut the door of my home / and shut my daughter in. B: and, but, At last.

Q32) A) Question Tag / 'Wh' Question B) Rectify Errors

A: i) do I? ii) What was the policeman clearing? B: i) Children like sweets. ii) The sun rises in the east.

Q33) Note Making: The Phantom

1. Lee Falk 2. Mr. Walker (The Ghost who walks) 3. American 4. Mandrake the magician.

Q34) Reported Speech (Roof/Ezenwa)

Roof said he had given them 3 shillings and asked what else they expected. Ezenwa said they wouldn't have asked more if Marcus was/were poor.

Q35) Dialogue Completion

Mayura: Hi, you look stunning today. Madhura: Thank you so much! Madhura: Yes, it is my birthday.