ICSE 10 English Literature Answer Key 2025 (Available): Unofficial Key PDF Link

1

What does Antony describe as, thou bleeding piece of earth,'?

 (D) Caesar's lifeless body covered in blood

2

When Brutus says, 'ambition's debt is paid', he means that

(A) Caesar's greed for power and possession had resulted in his death

3

After Antony's speech following Caesar's assassination, the angry mob kills

(B) Cinna the Poet

4

When Antony says, 'He must be taught, and train'd, and bid go forth: A barren-spirited fellow, ' he refers to

(D) Lepidus

5

Who were the members of the Second Triumvirate, formed to rule over Rome after Caesar's assassination?

(C) Mark Antony, Octavius Caesar, Lepidus

6

Which of the following words best describes Cassius's mood when he says:

Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius,'

(D) Frusted

7

In the poem, 'Haunted Houses', what does the speaker see at his fireside that the stranger cannot?

(C) the speaker sees both the present and the past

8

In the poem, 'The Glove and the Lions', who does Count de Lorge sighfor "?

(D) The beauteous lively dame

9

Select the option that shows the correct relationship between Statements (1) and (2) from Maya Angelou's poem, 'When Great Trees Fall':

Statement 1: When great trees fall, the world is left permanently

unstable.

Statement 2: In the poem, the natural world is depicted as reacting with fear and uncertainty when great trees fall.

(A) 1 is False but 2 is True

10

The poem, A Considerable Speck, expresses Frost's -----

(B) Respect for Intelligent Life

11

Which of the given options contains the figure of speech that appears in the following line from the poem, 'The Power of Music"?

And in the sky the feathered fly turn turtle while They're winging,

(A) You're one month on in the middle of May

12

In the short story, 'With the Photographer', the narrator asks the photographer, "Is it me?" because

(C) He is unable to recognise his own face

13

In the short story, 'The Elevator', which of the following does Martin's father NOT do when Martin expresses his fear of the elevator?

(B) He encourages Martin to use the stairs

14

Choose the option that lists the sequence of events from Ray Bradbury's short story, 'The Pedestrian':

1. One night, as he was nearing home, he was stopped by a police car.
2. Since his answers were considered odd and unacceptable, he was forced to enter the car and taken away.
3. Leonard Mead loved to walk through the empty streets at night.
4. A metallic voice from the car asked him a series of questions.

(C)  3,1,4,2

15

Where was Adjoa born?

(B) Ghana

16

Why did M. Hamel have to leave the school after forty years of service?

(A) He was not allowed to teach French any longer