ICSE 10 English Literature (Paper 2) Answer Key 2025: Download FREE PDF

ICSE Class 10th English Literature (Paper 2) Answer Key: The ICSE Class 10 English Literature (Paper 2) examination was conducted on February 21, 2025, from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. The answer key for the ICSE Class 10th English Literature (Paper 2) exam 2025 will be available soon. This answer key will help students check their answers and get an idea of their expected marks. Once it is released, students can compare their responses with the correct answers to assess their performance. Using the answer key also allows students to learn from their mistakes and improve their preparation for upcoming exams. 

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ICSE Class 10th English Literature (Paper 2) Answer Key 2025

We are providing below the complete answer key for the ICSE Class 10th English Literature (Paper 2) exam. Students can download the PDF link for free. 

(Attempt all questions from this Section.)
Question 1
Choose the correct answers to the questions from the given options.
(Do not copy the questions, write ONLY the correct answers.)

(i) What does Antony describe as, 'thou bleeding piece of earth'?
(a) Caesar’s robe that was stained with his blood
(b) The blood-soaked spot on which Caesar lies
(c) The bloodied pedestal on which Caesar fell
(d) Caesar’s lifeless body covered in blood

(ii) When Brutus says, ‘ambition’s debt is paid’, he means that __________.
(a) Caesar’s greed for power and possession had resulted in his death
(b) Caesar had left seventy-five drachmas for every citizen of Rome
(c) Mark Antony would be permitted to speak at Caesar’s funeral
(d) The conspirators would be punished for assassinating Caesar
(iii) After Antony’s speech following Caesar’s assassination, the angry mob kills __________.
(a) Cinna the conspirator
(b) Cinna the poet
(c) Decius Brutus
(d) Cicero
Answers
(i) (b) The blood-soaked spot on which Caesar lies
(ii) (a) Caesar’s greed for power and possession had resulted in his death
(iii) (b) Cinna the poet

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(iv) When Antony says, ‘He must be taught, and train’d, and bid go forth. A barren-spirited fellow’, he refers to __________.
(a) Octavius
(b) Lucilius
(c) Lucius
(d) Lepidus
(v) Who were the members of the Second Triumvirate, formed to rule over Rome after Caesar’s assassination?
(a) Julius Caesar, Crassus, Pompey
(b) Marcus Brutus, Caius Cassius, Casca
(c) Mark Antony, Octavius Caesar, Lepidus
(d) Octavius Caesar, Julius Caesar, Mark Antony
(vi) Which of the following words best describes Cassius’s mood when he says:
‘Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come.
Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius.’
(a) anxious
(b) regretful
(c) fearful
(d) frustrated
(vii) In the poem, ‘Haunted Houses’, what does the speaker see at his fireside that the stranger cannot?
(a) The speaker only sees what is physically present
(b) The stranger can see the spirits while the speaker cannot
(c) The speaker sees both the present and the past
(d) The stranger sees both the present and the future
Answers
(iv) (d) Lepidus
(v) (c) Mark Antony, Octavius Caesar, Lepidus
(vi) (d) frustrated
(vii) (c) The speaker sees both the present and the past

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(viii) In the poem, ‘The Glove and the Lions’, who does Count de Lorge ‘sigh for’?
(a) The lions that ramped and roared
(b) King Francis who loved a royal sport
(c) The nobles who filled the benches
(d) The beauteous lively dame
(ix) 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.
(b) Both (1) and (2) are false.
(c) (1) is true, but (2) is false.
(d) Both (1) and (2) are true.
(x) The poem, ‘A Considerable Speck’, expresses Frost’s __________.
(a) love for the little organism
(b) respect for intelligent life
(c) indifference to the tiny creature
(d) anger at the mite’s escape
Answers
(viii) (d) The beauteous lively dame
(ix) (d) Both (1) and (2) are true
(x) (b) respect for intelligent life

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(xi) 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 turns turtle while
They’re winging.
(a) You’re one month on in the middle of May
(b) Rainbow-tinted circles of light
(c) And life is too much like a pathless wood
(d) The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn
(xii) In the short story, ‘With the Photographer’, the narrator asks the photographer, ‘Is it me?’ because __________.
(a) He is delighted with the photographer’s skill
(b) He looks very handsome in the photograph
(c) He is unable to recognise his face
(d) He is ashamed of how he looks in the picture
(xiii) In the short story, ‘The Elevator’, which of the following does Martin’s father NOT do when Martin expresses his fear of the elevator?
(a) He dismisses Martin’s concerns
(b) He encourages Martin to use the stairs
(c) He tells Martin to grow up and be brave
(d) He watches TV and ignores Martin’s fear
Answers
(xi) (d) The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn
(xii) (c) He is unable to recognise his own face
(xiii) (b) He encourages Martin to use the stairs

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(xiv) 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.
(a) 2, 1, 3, 4
(b) 1, 3, 4, 2
(c) 3,1,4,2
(d) 4, 1, 2, 3
(xv) Where was Adjoa born?
(a) Nigeria
(b) Ghana
(c) Ethiopia
(d) Kenya
(xvi) Why did M. Hamel have to leave the school after forty years of service?
(a) He was not allowed to teach French any longer
(b) He had grown tired of his job as a schoolteacher
(c) He was thought to be too strict in his ways
(d) He wanted to retire and take up farming

Anwers:

(xiv) (c) 3,1,4,2

(xv) (b) Ghana

(xvi) (a) He was not allowed to teach French any longer

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