ICSE Class 10 English Literature (Paper 2) Question Paper 2025 with Solutions

About this paper

This is the ICSE Class 10 Literature in English (English Paper 2) question paper from the 2025 examination, paper code T25 012. It carries 80 marks and gives two hours for writing after 15 minutes of reading time. Section A is 16 compulsory multiple-choice questions. Candidates then answer four 16-mark extract questions: one on Julius Caesar, one on the short stories, one on the poems, and one extra from any of those sections. The drama extracts are Antony's funeral speech and the parting of Brutus and Cassius before Philippi. The prose and poetry sections are headed Treasure Trove, and the extracts set are The Elevator, The Last Lesson, The Glove and the Lions and A Considerable Speck. Questions only.

Exam

ICSE Class 10

Subject

English Literature

Year

2025

Paper code

T25 012

Maximum marks

80

Time allowed

2 hours + 15 min reading

Questions

7

Pages

12

Answers included

No, questions only

Paper pattern

• Section A

  16 marks

  Question 1: 16 compulsory multiple-choice questions, one mark each, on Julius Caesar, the short stories and the poems

• Section B – Drama

  Questions 2 and 3: extracts from Julius Caesar (the funeral speech, and Brutus and Cassius before Philippi), 16 marks each; answer at least one

• Section C – Prose

  Questions 4 and 5: extracts from The Elevator and The Last Lesson, 16 marks each; answer at least one

• Section D – Poetry

  Questions 6 and 7: extracts from The Glove and the Lions and A Considerable Speck, 16 marks each; answer at least one

Topics covered

• Julius Caesar
• The Elevator
• The Last Lesson
• With the Photographer
• The Pedestrian
• The Girl Who Can
• Haunted Houses
• The Glove and the Lions
• When Great Trees Fall
• A Considerable Speck
• The Power of Music

Questions from this paper

1. What does Antony say he has come to Caesar's funeral to do, and what does he say he has not come to do? What do you think he is actually there for?
2. How does Brutus die? How does his manner of dying contradict the philosophy by which he had lived his life?
3. At the end of the play, Antony calls Brutus 'the noblest Roman of them all'. Why does he say this, and what does it reveal of Antony's character?
4. What does M. Hamel urge his listeners never to forget? What words does he write on the board at the end of the last French lesson?
5. Who was the 'beauteous lively dame' in 'The Glove and the Lions'? What did she do, and what prompted her to do it?
6. What did the narrator of 'A Considerable Speck' first imagine the speck to be? What made him realise he was dealing with an intelligence?