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1st Year English Chapter 2 TestUNIT 2: Responsibility of the Youth in Nation-Building

30 marks · 40 minutes · 21 questions. Covers: UNIT 2: Responsibility of the Youth in Nation-Building.

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1st Year English Chapter 2 Test

1st Year · English · Punjab (PTB)

Name: ____________Roll No: ________Class/Section: ________Date: ________Total marks: 30Time: 40 minutes

Q1. Multiple choice questions (Attempt all · 10 × 1 = 10)

  1. Why are students exploited by others?

    1. They are rich

    2. They are jobless and hopeless

    3. They are powerful

    4. They refuse help

  2. Right-thinking people deplore such actions.

    1. Approve of

    2. Praise

    3. Regret

    4. Expect

  3. What must students learn when judging others? They must look for......

    1. Emotions

    2. Fame

    3. Truth and honesty

    4. Wealth

  4. Why is it important that Quaid speaks as a friend, not a ruler? It shows his......

    1. Political goals

    2. Personal connection

    3. Emotional distance

    4. Hesitation

  5. You must understand the implications of this change.

    1. Outcomes

    2. Importance

    3. Rules

    4. Instructions

  6. Why does Quaid compare an M.A. to a taxi driver? It highlights......

    1. Value of skills

    2. Insult to education

    3. Joy of driving

    4. Job crisis

  7. You now stand at the threshold of life.

    1. Front

    2. Edge

    3. Beginning

    4. Top

  8. What alternative fields does Quaid suggest?

    1. Music and arts

    2. Farming and fishing

    3. Trade and industry

    4. Acting and media

  9. Why does Quaid repeat "our State is our own State"? It shows his......

    1. Grief

    2. Doubt

    3. National pride

    4. Poetic style

  10. He did it as a duty incumbent on every Muslim.

    1. Forbidden

    2. Optional

    3. Necessary

    4. Requested

Q2. Short questions (Attempt any 6 of 8 · 6 × 2 = 12)

  1. What was Quaid's final emphasis in his advice?

  2. What example did Quaid give of a successful youth?

  3. Why did Quaid discourage blind pursuit of government jobs?

  4. Why did Quaid-e-Azam choose to speak informally instead of giving a formal academic address?

  5. Discuss the contrast he draws between the militant spirit of pre-independence days and the constructive spirit required in a sovereign state.Why is the latter more challenging?

  6. What role does Quaid assign to students in a free state?

  7. What congratulatory message did Quaid offer to the graduates?

  8. Why does Quaid ask youth to learn how to judge true patriots?

Q3. Long questions (Attempt any 2 of 3 · 2 × 4 = 8)

  1. You will be far more happy and far more- prosperous with far more opportunities to rise if you take to commerce and industry and will thus be helping not only yourselves but also your State. I can give you one instance. I know a young man who was in Government service. Four years ago, he went into a banking corporation on the hundred rupees, because he had studied th subject of banking and today, he is Manager on one of their firms and drawing fifteen hundred rupees a month in just four years. There are the opportunities to have, and I do impress upon you now to think in these terms ...

  2. As your vice chancellor has rightly stated the main object of the old system of education and the system of government existing hitherto was really to have well trained well equipped clerks

  3. It is far more difficult to construct than to have a militant spirit for the attainment of freedom. It is easier to go to jail or fight for freedom than to run a Government. Let me tell you something of the difficulties that we have overcome and of the dangers that still lie ahead. Thwarted in their desire to prevent the establishment of Pakistan, our enemies turned their attention to finding ways and means to weaken and destroy us. Thus, hardly had the new State came into being when came the Punjab and Delhi holocaust.