Bihar Board Class 10 · English · Matric exam 2027
Bihar Board Class 10 English Question Paper 2021
The board’s 2021 question paper — all 110 questions as printed; 99 objective answers from the board’s own key. Each question names its chapter, where that chapter’s most-asked questions are.
Full marks 100 · Time 3 h 15 min
Section A · Objective questions (99)
To Which country does Aung San Suu Kyi belong?
- (A) Bangladesh
- (B) Myanmar ✓
- (C) Malaysia
- (D) Indonesia
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
Who is the first black woman to receive a Nobel Prize in literature?
- (A) Aung San Suu Kyi
- (B) Toni Morrison
- (C) Amrita Pritam ✓
- (D) Mahadevi Verma
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
When was Aung San Suu Kyi born?
- (A) 19th June, 1945
- (B) 21st July, 1944
- (C) 8th Novermber, 1948
- (D) 25th September, 1946 ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
Humayun Kabir was a
- (A) doctor
- (B) orator
- (C) lawyer ✓
- (D) political thinker
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
Vidyapati is a......... poet
- (A) Oriya
- (B) English
- (C) Maithili ✓
- (D) Bhojpuri
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
The Porter.............. ‘over the rich kingdom of sleep’.
- (A) reigns ✓
- (B) thinks
- (C) cries
- (D) whispers
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
What is the poet's desire in 'God Made The Country"?
- (A) To enjoy luxury
- (B) To enjoy in the countryside ✓
- (C) To eat good food
- (D) To wear good clothes
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
Hours, days and years slide away...........for the happy man.
- (A) hardly
- (B) quickly ✓
- (C) softly
- (D) tensely
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
Halku heard some noises coming from the
- (A) house ✓
- (B) terrace
- (C) groves
- (D) fields
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
The high-pitched strains of the Koel wakes in the poet's soul a thousand
- (A) dreams
- (B) desires
- (C) memories
- (D) regrets ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
Who was Mr. Gessler?
- (A) A goldsmith
- (B) A carpenter
- (C) A shoemaker ✓
- (D) A farmer
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
Martha's stories were about......... and fairies.
- (A) gnomes ✓
- (B) children
- (C) ghosts
- (D) adults
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Which of the following is caused by Allergy?
- (A) Fever
- (B) Hunger
- (C) Sleeplessness ✓
- (D) Fatigue
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
The lawyer read books with............themes in his first year of confinement.
- (A) serious
- (B) violent
- (C) light ✓
- (D) sad
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
The narrator in 'Love Defiled' realised that he was......... from within.
- (A) handsome
- (B) ugly ✓
- (C) charming
- (D) attractive
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
What did the pitchers contain?
- (A) Gold coins
- (B) Silver coins
- (C) Copper coins ✓
- (D) Lead coins
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
What happens when a polythene bag gets a little heated?
- (A) It melts down
- (B) It becomers solid
- (C) It vaporizes ✓
- (D) It becomes slippery
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
What was in the yard in 'Little Girls Wiser Than Men"?
- (A) Cold water
- (B) Hot water ✓
- (C) Dirty water
- (D) Ice water
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
The main character in the play which the author saw in 'The Pace For Living' was a/an......... man.
- (A) Elderly ✓
- (B) Handicapped
- (C) Young
- (D) Diabetic
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Jim asked Mrs. Greene to save the old newspapers for the school.........
- (A) office
- (B) pickup
- (C) children
- (D) library ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
The author admits that quick travel does not give the traveller the real............ of travel
- (A) pains ✓
- (B) pleasure
- (C) feel
- (D) knowledge
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Mr. Johnson was asked to use his car less in order to save the
- (A) environment
- (B) diesel
- (C) weight
- (D) petrol ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
What does the world 'abode' mean in 'Gillu'?
- (A) home
- (B) garden
- (C) foreign ✓
- (D) field
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
In which year was the first short film produced in India?
- (A) 1907 ✓
- (B) 1919
- (C) 1925
- (D) 1949
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
The Koel is desperately looking for his
- (A) beloved
- (B) food
- (C) friends ✓
- (D) rain
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
'The demon Desire now made him mad's is from
- (A) The Empty Heart
- (B) Koel
- (C) Thinner Than a Crescent
- (D) Martha ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
When Martha told her stories, the children stared at her with
- (A) joy ✓
- (B) ease
- (C) tension
- (D) attention
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
The porter is the proud conqueror of
- (A) mountain
- (B) cliff
- (C) sleep
- (D) nature ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
The poem "The Empty Heart" highlights man's insatiable
- (A) food
- (B) hunger ✓
- (C) greed
- (D) nature
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
"I am restless. Where is my Beloved?" is from
- (A) Koel
- (B) Martha ✓
- (C) Thinner Than a Crescent
- (D) Ode on Solitude
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
Katherine Mansfield followed in the footsteps of
- (A) leo Tolstoy
- (B) T.S.Eliot
- (C) Anton Chekov
- (D) Jane Austen ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
"Two Horizons" written by Binapati Mohanty has been translated into English by
- (A) Mahadevi Verma
- (B) Nissim Ezekiel ✓
- (C) Jayanta Mahapatra
- (D) Shiv k. Kumar
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
'It was so typical of her-writty to the hilt, understanding to a fault'-is from
- (A) January Night
- (B) Love Defiled
- (C) Quality
- (D) Two Horizons ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
'What I say is, give up this tenant farming'- Why does Munni say this?
- (A) Because they were poor ✓
- (B) Because they were lazy
- (C) Because the master would threaten and insult them
- (D) Because they were farmers
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
The author in 'Quality' wanted Mr. Gessler to make him a pair of ...... leather boots.
- (A) Chinese
- (B) Japanese
- (C) Russian ✓
- (D) Indian
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
Why was there no one to look after Sun and Moon?
- (A) All were travelling ✓
- (B) All were busy making preparations for a party
- (C) All were sleeping
- (D) All were eating
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
The author was sad that the squirrel would not........after being attacked by the crows.
- (A) sleep ✓
- (B) eat
- (C) live
- (D) run
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Gillu always wanted to catch Mahadevi Verma's
- (A) pen
- (B) sari
- (C) bed cover ✓
- (D) attention
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
Preaching about ecology is easy but it is difficult to abide by the rules of
- (A) preservation
- (B) water wastage ✓
- (C) population growth
- (D) noise pollution
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
Gillu's.............astonished everybody who watched him.
- (A) anger ✓
- (B) weakness
- (C) jumps
- (D) antics
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
The Indian Films imitate stories mostly from
- (A) Tollywood ✓
- (B) Hollywood
- (C) Bollywood
- (D) Kolywood
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Prize was received by her son, because she was in
- (A) home
- (B) prison
- (C) office ✓
- (D) hospital
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
Jim asks Ms. Greene to save............so that they can be made into paper.
- (A) leaves ✓
- (B) garbage
- (C) newspapers
- (D) fruit-skins
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Who was the recipient of Mangala Prasad Prize?
- (A) Mahadevi Verma
- (B) Anita Desai ✓
- (C) Ashapurna Devi
- (D) Nayantara Sahgal
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
"There only minds like yours can do no harm" is from
- (A) Ode on Solitude
- (B) The Sleeping Porter ✓
- (C) Koel
- (D) God Made the Country
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
The man is content to get his food from his
- (A) cattle ✓
- (B) parents
- (C) fields
- (D) relatives
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
'Her tears carved a river- whose tears is the poet referring to ?
- (A) Radha ✓
- (B) Radha's friend
- (C) Radha's sister
- (D) Radha's mother
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
.............causes pain
- (A) Furniture ✓
- (B) Utensils
- (C) House
- (D) Hurt
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
"Eager and anxiously he shamelessly took........" What did the man take?
- (A) Gold coins
- (B) Fancy clothes
- (C) Beautiful gems ✓
- (D) Property
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
Vidyapati was born in
- (A) Bhagalpur ✓
- (B) Motihari
- (C) Darbhanga
- (D) Madhubani
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Halku wanted to save himself and his pet dog Jabra from the biting
- (A) cold
- (B) fire
- (C) hunger
- (D) fog ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
Allergy causes a violent.......against normally harmless substances in our environment
- (A) anger
- (B) roughness
- (C) action ✓
- (D) reaction
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
The banker in 'The Bet' had given a party............years back.
- (A) 10 ✓
- (B) 12
- (C) 15
- (D) 20
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
The author knew Mr. Gessler form his........ days.
- (A) youth
- (B) old
- (C) childhood
- (D) worse ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
The common characteristic of all cultures is
- (A) adjustment ✓
- (B) civilization
- (C) toleration
- (D) unity
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
If the Indian film makers keep their..............open, they are sure to make good films.
- (A) windows ✓
- (B) eyes
- (C) mouths
- (D) doors
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Akoulya's and Malasha's mothers................with each other.
- (A) sat
- (B) laughed
- (C) shopped
- (D) quarrelled ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
Some......... people visited the old woman in 'Once Upon a Time'.
- (A) Young
- (B) old
- (C) gentle
- (D) uncivilized ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
59. The corn-merchant was getting..............by his nephew in 'The Pace for living'.
- (A) beaten up
- (B) scolded
- (C) cheated ✓
- (D) praised
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
60. Mr. Johnson tells Jim that driving his motorbike causes..............pollution.
- (A) noise ✓
- (B) soil
- (C) water
- (D) air
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Direction (61-66): Choose the indirect speech of the given sentences: 61. They said to us, "Good evening".
- (A) They asked us to say good evening
- (B) They wished us good evening ✓
- (C) They wanted to wish good evening
- (D) They were asking to wish good evening
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
62. He said, "I am ill today".
- (A) He said that he was ill that day
- (B) He says that he has been ill
- (C) He is saying that he is ill today
- (D) He will say that he was ill ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
63. Mr. Singh said, "She will dance".
- (A) Mr. Singh says that she will dance.
- (B) Mr. Singh is saying that she is dancing.
- (C) Mr. Singh will say that she is dancing.
- (D) Mr. Singh said that she would dance. ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
64. "You are very intelligent, Mitu," said Meera.
- (A) Meera says to Mintu about her being intelligent
- (B) Meera asked Mitu that she is intelligent
- (C) Meera asked Mitu that she was very intelligent ✓
- (D) Meera said that Mitu is really intelligent
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
65. She said, "I am going home".
- (A) She is saying that she goes home ✓
- (B) She said that was going home
- (C) She will say that she goes home
- (D) She says that she went home.
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
66. He said, "Where is my suitcase?"
- (A) He asked where his suitcase was
- (B) He asking where is my suitcase
- (C) Asking he where is his suitcase ✓
- (D) He may ask about his suitcase.
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
67. The band will play..............request.
- (A) on
- (B) by
- (C) with ✓
- (D) for
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
68. Let us hope..........the best.
- (A) by
- (B) at ✓
- (C) for
- (D) of
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
69. We got..........difficulties.
- (A) into ✓
- (B) at
- (C) by
- (D) with
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
70. What are you looking............?
- (A) by
- (B) in ✓
- (C) with
- (D) at
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
71. He is interested........ music.
- (A) on
- (B) by ✓
- (C) in
- (D) at
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
72. Aim..........doing your work.
- (A) at ✓
- (B) by
- (C) with
- (D) of
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
73. She was called..........an interview.
- (A) by
- (B) at
- (C) for ✓
- (D) of
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
74. Active voice of "you will be given a pen by me" is
- (A) I had given you a pen ✓
- (B) I have to give you a pen
- (C) I shall have given a pen
- (D) I shall give you a pen
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
75. Active voice of "By whom was this book given to you?"
- (A) Who gave you this book?
- (B) who given you this book?
- (C) Who has given this book?
- (D) Book was given by who? ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
76. Passive voice of "Tell him to feed the cow" is
- (A) Let him tell to feed the cow.
- (B) Let him be told to feed the cow
- (C) Feed the cow tell him ✓
- (D) The cow must be fed by him
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
77. Active voice of "I was made to laugh." is
- (A) Laughing is me
- (B) Me is laughed ✓
- (C) He made me laugh
- (D) He should be laugh
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
78. Passive voice of "A reply must be sent." is
- (A) You must send a reply ✓
- (B) You have sent a reply
- (C) You can send reply
- (D) Replying by you is must
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Active voice of "Was a car bought by Suman."
- (A) Do Suman buy a car? ✓
- (B) Suman did buy a car?
- (C) Did Suman buying a car
- (D) Did Suman buy a car
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
बच्चे रोज शतरंज खेलते हैं।
- (A) Children will be playing chess everyday. ✓
- (B) Chess is being played everyday.
- (C) Children play chess everyday,
- (D) Everyday chess played by children.
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
कृपया बैठ जाएँ।
- (A) You are asked to sit down
- (B) Sit down please
- (C) Request you to sit down ✓
- (D) You should sit down
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
उसने मुझे भारत के बारे में कहानियाँ सुनाई।
- (A) He told me stories about India
- (B) He used to tell me stories about India
- (C) Told stories about India by him
- (D) He tell stories about India ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
आज पूरा विश्व कोविड 19 से प्रभावित है।
- (A) The whole world has hit Covid 19 today.
- (B) Today the whole world is affected by Covid 19. ✓
- (C) Today complete world is hit by Covid 19.
- (D) The world is entirely affected by Covid 19 today.
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
वह सोमवार से बीमार है।
- (A) He is ill till Monday.
- (B) He has been ill since Monday.
- (C) He is ill from Monday. ✓
- (D) Ill is he since Monday.
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
क्या तुम पत्र लिख रहे हो?
- (A) Are you writing a letter? ✓
- (B) Letter you writing?
- (C) Writing you letter?
- (D) Letter is you writing?
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
जो वह कहता है, सही है।
- (A) He says is right what.
- (B) What he saying was right.
- (C) What he says is right. ✓
- (D) Which he said is right.
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
We shall get wet if it..............
- (A) rains
- (B) raining
- (C) rained
- (D) will rains ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
The train usually..............at 9 am.
- (A) arrived ✓
- (B) will arrive
- (C) arrives
- (D) arriving
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
While the child played, the mother........ the food
- (A) cooked ✓
- (B) cooking
- (C) will cooking
- (D) hard cook
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Will you mind.......... the door?
- (A) close
- (B) closing
- (C) to close ✓
- (D) closed
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
Keep quiet, we are..............to the radio.
- (A) listen ✓
- (B) listened
- (C) will listen
- (D) listening
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
We have not............him for a year
- (A) saw
- (B) seen
- (C) see
- (D) seeing ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
The news..............alarming
- (A) is
- (B) were ✓
- (C) arc
- (D) has
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
Direction (94-100): Choose the correctly spelt word:
- (A) Impatient ✓
- (B) Empasent
- (C) impetent
- (D) Impecent
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Choose the correctly spelt word :
- (A) Apeal
- (B) Apiel
- (C) Appeal ✓
- (D) Apeil
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
Choose the correctly spelt word :
- (A) Stragal
- (B) Struggle ✓
- (C) Strugle
- (D) Striggle
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
Choose the correctly spelt word :
- (A) Faverite
- (B) Fuverite
- (C) Favourite ✓
- (D) Feverite
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
Choose the correctly spelt word :
- (A) Seige
- (B) Siege ✓
- (C) Sege
- (D) Saege
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
Choose the correctly spelt word :
- (A) Thiner
- (B) Thinar
- (C) Thinner ✓
- (D) Thener
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
Section B · Written questions (11)
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: [passage] Questions: (i) Where is tea now largely grown? (ii) Why is it a popular drink? (iii) What are some of the ways of taking tea? (iv) Where is tea drunk today? OR Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: [passage] Questions: (i) What does the horse feed on? (ii) How is the horse used in cities? (iii) Which horse is used in military? (iv) Name two games where horses play a part.
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: If you wish to be a writer, you must learn to develop your own point of view. All good writers make us see things in a different light. You may be writing about the same things as your classmate, but you presentation must reflect your personality and individuality. There are so many interesting subjects you can write about in different forms. There is a good market for short stories- like humorous stories, domestic stories, adventure stories and mystery stories. Try to make your story interesting. Questions: (i) What do we have to do to become a writer? (ii) How can you be different from your classmate in writing? (iii) What do good writers do? (iv) What are the different types of short stories? OR Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: [passage] Questions: (i) Where do conflicts mostly happen? (ii) What should be done to check fighting? (iii) What should be ensured for all? (iv) Make sentences with 'Representative'. 'Economic'?
Read the poem carefully and answer the questions that follow: Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binding grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen ! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. Questions: (i) What did the poet see in the field? (ii) What was she doing in the field? (iii) What was the whole valley overflowing with? OR Read the poem carefully and answer the questions that follow: [passage] Questions: (i) How does the poet feel when he sees the rainbow in the sky? (ii) What does the poet wish to happen when he grows up? (iii) What does the last line of the poem suggest?
Answer any five of the following questions: (a) Was Gillu in a miserable condition when the author found him? What did she do? (b) How do modern appliances affect ecology? (c) What is the most dominant influence on Indian films? (d) What are the main features of Indian culture? (e) Why is the nightingale mute and dumb in big cities? (f) What does Radha's friend believe in? (g) Why was the Wish-Yielding Tree called unking ? (h) Why were the Koel's wings burnt? (i) What are the lawyer's views on capital punishment? (j) Why does the daughter feel empty and aware all the time?
Write a paragraph on any one of the following in about 60-70 words: (i) Covid 19 and its impact on education (ii) Health is wealth (iii) My Ideal Teacher: (iv) Honesty is the best policy (v) A prize distribution ceremony.
You are Sangeeta, the treasurer of the Cultural Society. Write a notice in about 50-60 words, informing the members to clear their dues.
Write a report in about 60-70 words about your visit to the flood affected areas.
Write an application to your Principal asking for leave due to your illness.
Write a letter to your elder brother to send some notes on Chemistry for your upcoming examination.
You are Sunaina. Write a speech in about 60-70 words on "Need for Sanitation in Villages".
You are Ritik. Write a message in about 30-40 words asking your friend to come to your house for a get-together party.
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