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Balbharti Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Solutions Kumarbharati Chapter 2.4 The Fall of Troy Notes, Textbook Exercise Important Questions and Answers.

Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Kumarbharati Solutions Chapter 2.4 The Fall of Troy

English Kumarbharati 9th Solutions Chapter 2.4 The Fall of Troy Textbook Questions and Answers

Warming up:

Building a Story :
Form groups of eight. The group leader prepares slips of paper for each of the seven points given below and distributes them among the others. The group sits in a circle, taking their seats according to the number on the slip they have. Then each one completes the sentence on his/her slip without sharing it with the others. The group leader collects the slips and reads all the sentences aloud as one continuous passage. Does the story make sense? The group then works on the story to make it more meaningful and interesting.

This game may be played again, changing the groups, to form new stories.

1. Once there was a ……………………….
2. Who lived in a ……………………….
3. He/She ate ……………………….
4. She/He went ……………………….
5. There she/he saw ……………………….
6. She/He was …………………………
7. That is why ……………………….

Question 1.

1. Once there was a ……………………….
2. Who lived in a ……………………….
3. He/She ate ……………………….
4. She/He went ……………………….
5. There she/he saw ……………………….
6. She/He was …………………………
7. That is why ……………………….

Answer:

1. Once there was a beautiful princess.
2. Who lived in a dirty old shoe in a park.
3. He/She ate nails and screws and paper.
4. She/He went on a plane to the Arctic Circle.
5. There she/he saw green mountains, lush forests and thundering waterfalls.
6. She/He was very happy to go to Mars in the spaceship.
7. That is why the doctor gave me the bitter medicine.

The sentences as one continuous passage :

Once there was a beautiful princess who lived in a dirty old shoe in a park. She/He ate nails and screws and paper. She went on a plane to the Arctic Circle. There she saw green mountains, lush forests and thundering waterfalls. She was very happy to go to Mars in the spaceship. That is why the doctor gave me the bitter medicine.

The sentences read as one continuous passage do not make sense. However, if we make changes in the story, the passage will make sense.

1. Once there was a beautiful princess.
2. Who lived in a beautiful palace in a large forest.
3. She ate only fresh fruits, vegetables and salads for every meal.
4. She went on a voyage to the Arctic Circle.
5. There she saw frozen seas, ice bergs and a variety of sea animals.
6. She was thrilled to see so many different things, which she had never seen before.
7. That is why she decided to visit a new place every year.

When we put these sentences given above as a continuous passage, they form a small and sensible story.
(Students can play the game again, changing the groups, to form new stories.)

Interviews:

(a) Why? : Form groups of five. Choose a familiar character from any one of the epics you know. One person from the group plays the role of that character. Others in the group frame questions related to that character’s life. The condition is that all the questions should begin with ‘Why …?‘. They interview the character using these ‘Why -?‘ questions. Practise and present the interview in the classroom.
(b) How? : Follow the above procedure. Now all questions should begin with ‘How -?‘
(c) Prepare a short script of your interviews.

Question a.
Why?
Answer:
Form groups of five. Choose a familiar character from any one of the epics you know. One person from the group plays the role of that character. Others in the group frame questions related to that character’s life. The condition is that all the questions should begin with a ‘Why…’? They interview the character using these ‘Why?’ questions. Practice and present the interview in the classroom.
Example: Questions for Lord Rama. Epic: Ram ay an

1. Why did you marry Sita?
2. Why did your father ask you to leave the kingdom?
3. Why did your stepmother want you to leave the kingdom?
4. Why did Lakshman accompany you to the forest?
5. Why did Lakshman leave Sita alone in the hut?

Question b.
How? : Follow the above procedure. Now all questions should begin with ‘How -?‘
Answer:
Example :

1. How did you marry Sita?
2. How many brothers did you have?
3. How did your stepmother make you leave the kingdom?
4. How did Ravana trick Sita?
5. How did Hanuman help you?

Question c.
A short script of the interviews:
Answer:
Example :

Question 1.
Why did your father ask you to leave the kingdom?
Answer:
My father fulfilled my stepmother Kaikeyi’s wish and banished me from Ayodhya.

Question 2.
Why did your stepmother want you to leave the kingdom?
Answer:
My stepmother Kaikeyi wanted her son Bharat to become the king. This would not have been possible if I had been in Ayodhya. Hence she wanted me to leave the kingdom.

Question 3.
Why did Lakshman accompany you to the forest?
Answer:
Lakshman loved me and wanted to ensure my safety in the forest. Hence he accompanied me to the forest.

Part – I

English Workshop:

1. Read the passage and name the following.

(a) He composed the Illiad and Odyssey: ……………….
(b) He persuaded Helen to elope wjth him: ……………….
(c) She was wife of the King Menelaus: ……………….
(d) He led the defence of Troy for nthe years: ……………….
(e) He was killed by a poisoned arrow that entered his heel: ……………….

Question 1.
(a) He composed the Illiad and Odyssey: ……………….
(b) He persuaded Helen to elope with him: ……………….
(c) She was wife of the King Menelaus: ……………….
(d) He led the defense of Troy for nine years: ……………….
(e) He was killed by a poisoned arrow that entered his heel: ……………….
Answer:
(a) He composed The Iliad and – The Odyssey Homer
(b) He persuaded Helen to elope with him. Paris
(c) She was the wife of King Menelaus. Helen
(d) He led the defense of Troy for nine years Hector
(e) He was killed by a poisoned arrow that entered his heel. Achilles

2. Find antonyms of the following from the passage.
(a) barren × ……………..
(b) offended × ……………..
(c) cowardly × ……………..
(d) peace × ……………..
(e) surrender × ……………..
(f) exposed × ……………..
(g) defenceless × ……………..

Question 1.
Find antonyms of the following from the passage.
(a) barren × ……………..
(b) offended × ……………..
(c) cowardly × ……………..
(d) peace × ……………..
(e) surrender × ……………..
(f) exposed × ……………..
(g) defenceless × ……………..
Answer:
(a) barren × fertile
(b) offended × pleased
(c) cowardly × brave
(d) peace × war
(e) surrender × attack
(f) exposed × protected.
(g) defenceless × safe.

3. From other sources find synonyms of the following words used in the story.
(a) great (hero)
(b) beautiful (woman)
(c) fight (verb)
(d) rich (city)
(e) safe
(f) strong (city)
(g) brave

Question 1.
From other sources find synonyms of the following words used in the story.
(a) great (hero)
(b) beautiful (woman)
(c) fight (verb)
(d) rich (city)
(e) safe
(f) strong (city)
(g) brave
Answer:
(a) great – gallant (hero)
(b) beautiful – entrancing (woman).
(c) fight – attack (verb)
(d) rich – prosperous (city)
(e) safe – sheltered.
(f) strong – well-protected (city)
(g) brave – courageous.

4. Correct the following sentences using facts from the passage.
(a) Troy traded in cattle and grass, with other cities.
(b) During war, Trojans jumped over the fort gates to fight die enemy.
(c) Helen eloped with Menelaus.
(d) Troy was attacked because it was a strong. rich city.
(e) The Greek armies and heroes always defeated the Trojans.
(f) Both the enemies were eager to continue fighting.
(g) The great heroes avoided one another.
(h) Achilles was killed by an arrow that pierced his heart.

Question a.
Correct the following sentences using facts from the passage.
(a) Troy traded in cattle and grass, with other cities.
(b) During war, Trojans jumped over the fort gates to fight die enemy.
(c) Helen eloped with Menelaus.
(d) Troy was attacked because it was a strong. rich city.
(e) The Greek armies and heroes always defeated the Trojans.
(f) Both the enemies were eager to continue fighting.
(g) The great heroes avoided one another.
(h) Achilles was killed by an arrow that pierced his heart.
Answer:
(a) Troy traded in goods and grain with other cities.
(b) During the war, Trojans came out of the open fort gates to fight the enemy.
(c) Helen eloped with Paris.
(d) Troy was attacked because its Prince Paris had! persuaded Helen, the wife of a Greek king Menelaus, to elope with him.
(e) Sometimes the Trojans seemed to have the better of the fight and sometimes the Greeks.
(f) The Trojans were tired of being shut up in their city and the Greeks were longing to see their homes again.
(g) Sometimes there were single fights, between two great heroes.
(h) Achilles was killed by an arrow that pierced his heel.

5. State the counter-action for the following actions.

Question 1.
State the counter-action for the following actions.

Answer:

Action	Counter-action
1. Helen eloped with Paris.	Greece declared war against the Troy.
2. The Greeks sailed to Troy and attacked it.	The Trojans fought hard and the siege continued for ten years.
3. Hector was killed by Achilles.	Achilles himself was killed later by a poisoned arrow.
4. The siege continued for ten long years.	The Trojans fought hard and the fighting went on daily.

6. From either of our two Indian epics, find out which battle/war lasted the longest? Write down about its cause, the enemy armies, its heroes, its duration and the final outcome.

7. Complete the following sentences with reference to the passage.
(a) Epics are long poems that ………………… .
(b) They may be composed and sung or recited for many years before …………….. .
(c) Nobody knows for certain who ………………………….. .
(d) It is believed that ……………. Homer, who ………….. and who ……………… to all who ……………. .
(e) At the back rose the high peak of Mount Ida, from which ………….. .

Question 1.
Complete the following sentences with reference to the passage.
(a) Epics are long poems that ………………… .
(b) They may be composed and sung or recited for many years before …………….. .
(c) Nobody knows for certain who ………………………….. .
(d) It is believed that ……………. Homer, who ………….. and who ……………… to all who ……………. .
(e) At the back rose the high peak of Mount Ida, from which ………….. .
Answer:
(a) Epics are long poems that relate the deeds of a great national hero or a great national war.
(b) They may be composed and sung or recited for many years before they are actually written down.
(c) Nobody knows for certain who the author of these early epics is.
(d) It is believed that The Iliad and The Odyssey were composed and recited by a blind poet named Homer, who lived about 900 BCE and who wandered from one Greek city or village to another, singing his poems to all who would receive him in their homes.
(e) At the back rose the high peak of Mount Ida, from which flowed many rivers and streams.

Underline the clauses in the above sentences and also the words that link or connect the clauses.

Question 1.
Epics are long poems that relate the deed of a great national hero or a great national war.
Answer:
Epics are long poems – Clause
that relate the deed of a great national hero or a great national war – Clause

Question 2.
They may be composed and sung or recited for many years before they are actually written down.
Answer:
They may be composed – Clause (they may be)
sung – Clause (they may be)
recited for many years – Clause
before they are actually written down – Clause

Question 3.
Nobody knows for certain who the author of these early epics is.
Answer:
Nobody knows for certain – Clause
who the author of these early epics is – Clause

Question 4.
It is believed that The Iliad and The Odyssey were composed and recited by a blind poet named Homer, who lived about 900 BCE and who wandered from one Greek city or village to another, singing his poems to all who would receive him in their homes.
Answer:
It is believed – Clause
that The Iliad and The Odyssey were composed – Clause
(that The Iliad and The Odyssey were)
recited by a blind poet named Homer – Clause
who lived about 900 BCE – Clause

Question 5.
At the back rose the high peak of Mount Ida, from which flowed many rivers and streams.
Answer:
At the back rose the high peak of Mount Ida – Clause
from which flowed many rivers and streams – Clause

Part – II

1. Find and write the Greek and Trojan names used in the story (Part I and II).

Question 1.
Find and write the Greek and Trojan names used in the story (Part I and II).

2. List all the words related to ‘war’ from both parts of the story.

Question 1.
List all the words related to ‘war’ from both parts of the story.

3. Note the following constructions carefully and then use them to express your ideas:

Question 1.
Note the following constructions carefully and then use them to express your ideas:

4. Put the following events in the order in which they took place. Number them accordingly.

Question 1.
(a) The Trojans found a Greek man under the big wooden horse. [ ]
(b) They broke down part of the wall and brought the horse in. [ ]
(c) The cunning Odysseus thought of a plan. [ ]
(d) The Greeks burnt their tents and sailed away. [ ]
(e) Troy was burnt down. [ ]
(f) The Greeks built a big wooden horse. [ ]
(g) The great heroes hid inside the horse. [ ]
(h) The priest warned the Trojans not to break the wall. [ ]
(i) The Trojans were happy to see the Greek ships go. [ ]
(j) The Trojans slept soundly. [ ]
(k) The Greeks came out of the horse and opened the gates. [ ]
(l) The Greek army entered the city. [ ]
Answer:
(a) The Trojans found a Greek man under the big wooden horse. [f]
(b) They broke down part of the wall and brought the horse in. [h]
(c) The cunning Odysseus thought of a plan. [a]
(d) The Greeks burnt their tents and sailed away. [d]
(e) Troy was burnt down. [i]
(f) The Greeks built a big wooden horse. [b]
(g) The great heroes hid inside the horse. [c]
(h) The priest warned the Trojans not to break the wall. [g]
(i) The Trojans were happy to see the Greek ships go. [e]
(j) The Trojans slept soundly. [i]
(k) The Greeks came out of the horse and opened the gates. [j]
(l) The Greek army entered the city. [k]

5. Form pairs. Imagine you are a pair of Trojans and you have come to know about Odysseus’s plan. Make a counter plan to defeat the Greeks. Write down your plan as you would explain it to your fellow Trojans.

Question 1.
Form pairs. Imagine you are a pair of Trojans and you have come to know about Odysseus’s plan. Make a counter plan to defeat the Greeks. Write down your plan as you would explain it to your fellow Trojans.

6. Identify one example of a main clause and one example of a dependent clause from page 46. (Read the entry regarding clause in the Language Study pages.)

Question 1.
Identify one example of a main clause and one example of a dependent clause from page 46. (Read the entry regarding clause in the Language Study pages.)
Answer:
Many of the Trojans were killed before they could put on their armour.
Many of the Trojans were killed – Main Clause before they could put on their armour – Dependent Clause

7. Be a writer.
(a) Now read the beginning and end of a sci-fi story given below and complete the story using your imagination.

Question a.
Now read the beginning and end of a sci-fi story given below and complete the story using your imagination.
Answer:
‘The Magic Glasses’
After ten years of diligent experimenting on ‘light’, Jayant, a brilliant scientist, created a pair of eye-glasses that would enable him to see through all opaque objects, doors, walls, metal structures, etc. .
On Monday, he put on his ‘magic’ glasses and stepped into the busy street outside …

Everything seemed normal – the traffic, the crowds, etc. Suddenly, Jayant tripped over something and he looked down. It was the metal covering of a manhole. As he looked, he saw a strange sight. There were three little children below, deep under the footpath! How was that possible? Why was no one helping them? They were crying and wailing, sitting in the mess inside the drain. He looked up, and then realized that he had seen them because of his magic eye-glasses.

“Come on, help!” he shouted. “There are children trapped under this footpath, inside this drain!”
Several people stopped. “How do you know?” asked a non-believer.
“What is going on here?” asked an officious- looking policeman.
“Don’t talk – just help!” snapped Jayant, trying to prise open the manhole cover. It was heavy, and several good Samaritans stepped forward to help. Within a few moments, the heavy lid was in their hands.
Everyone peered into the dark, gloomy and smelly drain. They could hear the faint sounds of crying. “I’m going down,” said Jayant. “Those little ones will not be able to bear the poisonous gases much longer.”
With the help of the cooperative by-standers, Jayant went down into the manhole and rescued the little kids – all of whom were below the age of five. Everyone clapped when he came out, dirty and smelly, with the three half-conscious kids.
And so, Jayant received the ‘State Award for Brave Citizens’. ………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. .

Question b.
Read the following and observe the use of tenses.
‘Last week I witnessed a strange accident. Let ¡ne tell you about it. The signal flashes green. Vehicles start from the opposite direction. They ¡nove fast. Suddenly a speeding motorcyclist tries to cut across, from the wrong side. He is about to collide with a loaded truck. He applies the brakes. He falls and slides out with his bike from under the truck. He comes out unscathed on the other side.’ When an event, which has occured in the past, is narrated in the Present Tense to create a dramatic effect its Tense is called the ‘Dramatic Present Tense’ Now try to relate Jayant s sci-fI story, in brief, in the dramatic past tense.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Answer:
Jayant wears his magic glasses and steps into the street. He trips over a manhole and looks down. What! Are there three little kids trapped inside the drain under the footpath? Jayant looks around for help, but there are non – believers around him. He tries to prise open the manhole cover. Suddenly, willing hands help him.

The cover is open, and they hear the sounds of children crying. Jayant bravely lowers himself down the dirty drain. He soon rescues the three kids trapped inside. As he hands over the kids to the policeman, the people around clap for him. He is a hero. Jayant later receives the ‘State Award for Brave Citizens’.

English Kumarbharati 9th Digest Chapter 2.4 The Fall of Troy Additional Important Questions and Answers

Read the following passages carefully and complete the activities :

Simple Factual Activity :

1. Name the following :
(The answers are given directly and underlined.)

1. The language of The Iliad and The Odyssey : Ancient Greek
2. The language of The Mahabharata : Sanskrit
3. The most beautiful woman in the world : Helen of Troy.

2. Complete the following sentences :
(The answers are given directly and underlined.)

1. Odysseus thought of a plan to obtain victory.
2. Troy was taken, not by force but by a trick.
3. Two great heroes, Menelaus and Odysseus, entered the horse.
4. Only one man was left behind to persuade the Trojans to drag the horse into their city.

3. Write the correct number against the sentences in the order in which it happened :

1. They found a Greek with his hands tied together. ]2]
2. Let us make a hole in the wall and drag the horse in. [4]
3. They saw the huge, wooden horse. [1]
4. The Greek told them his tale. [3]

4. Complete the web:
(The answers are given directly and underlined.)

Complex Factual Activity :

Question 1.
How were epics transmitted from generation to generation?
Answer:
Epics were transmitted from generation to generation through songs and recitals for many years before they were actually written down.

Question 2.
Why is Homer honoured with the title ‘Father of European Poetry?’
Answer:
It is believed that the two great epics of European literature, The Iliad and The Odyssey, were composed and recited by Homer. Hence he has been honoured with the title ‘Father of European Poetry’.

Question 3.
How did Odysseus plan to defeat the Trojans ?
Answer:
Odysseus advised the Greeks to build a great wooden horse, big enough to hold men inside it. Some of their best fighters would hide inside the horse. Then they would burn their tents and pretend to sail away in their ships. But instead of sailing away, they would return at midnight. One man would be left behind with the horse to persuade the Trojans to drag the horse into their city.

After the horse with the soldiers had entered the city, at the appropriate time, the door in the horse would be opened and the soldiers hiding inside would attack Troy. The gates would be opened to allow the remaining Greek soldiers from the ships into the city. The combined force of the Greeks would defeat the Trojans and they would destroy the city of Troy.

Question 4.
What was the reason for Troy to rejoice and celebrate?
Answer:
The Trojans rejoiced and celebrated because after ten long years, the siege was finally over. The tents of the Greeks had been burnt. The shore was deserted. The Greek ships had all gone. The Trojans could go out on the plain and move around as they pleased.

Activities based on Vocabulary :

Question 1.
Find the synonyms of the following words used in the story :
famous
Answer:
famous – well-known

Question 2.
Write the adjective forms of the following words :

1. hospitality
2. hero
3. history
4. poem

Answer:

1. hospitality – hospitable
2. hero – heroic
3. history – historical
4. poem – poetic.

Question 3.
Write from the passage words that sound the same (homophones) as the following :

1. grate
2. sale
3. would
4. site

Answer:

1. great
2. sail
3. wood
4. sight.

Question 4.
Use the phrase ‘enough to’ in your own sentence :
Answer:
Our school auditorium was big enough to hold a grand function.

Question 5.
Give one word from the passage for :

1. great surprise
2. pulled out forcibly

Answer:

1. great surprise – astonishment
2. pulled out forcibly – dragged

Question 6.
Use these phrases in your own sentences :
(Please refer to textbook page 47 for examples.)

1. tired of
2. afraid of
3. too … to …

Answer:

1. We were tired of the long wait for the bus.
2. The children were afraid of the commotion.
3. The bed was too big to be kept in the room.

Question 7.
Use the phrases in your own sentences :

1. so … that
2. as soon as
3. all that day
4. in order to

Answer:

1. The teenagers were so excited that it was difficult to control them.
2. I opened my umbrella as soon as it began to rain.
3. Though their mother shouted at them, the girls lazed about all that day.
4. We have to work hard in order to do well in life.

Activity-based on Contextual Grammar :

Question 1.
Change the voice of the following sentences :

1. It is believed that The Iliad and The Odyssey were composed by Homer.
2. Nobody knows who the author of these epics is.

Answer:

1. People believe that Homer composed The Iliad and The Odyssey.
2. It is not known who the author of these epics is.

Question 2.
When the Trojans are asleep, we will attack the city. (Pick out and name the clauses.)
Answer:
we will attack the city – Main Clause.
When the Trojans are asleep – Subordinate Adverb Clause of Time.

Question 3.
The Greek leaders decided to follow the advice of the wise Odysseus. (Frame a Wh-question to get the underlined part as the answer.)
Answer:
Whose advice did the Greek leaders decide to follow?

Question 4.
Rewrite the sentence using ‘no sooner than’ :
As soon as they were hidden by an island, they had lowered their sails.
Answer:
No sooner were they hidden by an island, than they had lowered their sails.

Question 5.
Rewrite the sentence using ‘too … to’ :
They were so excited that they paid no attention to his words.
Answer:
They were too excited to pay any attention to his words.

Personal Response :

Question 1.
Have you seen any of the stories mentioned in the passage in TV serials or movies?
Answer:
Yes, I have seen both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata as TV serials.

Question 2.
Who are considered to be the authors of the epics ‘Ramayana’ and ‘Mahabharata’ respectively?
Answer:
Sage Valmiki is considered to be the author of ‘The Ramayana’ and Ved Vyasa is considered to be the author of ‘The Mahabharata’.

Question 3.
What do you think about Odysseus?
Answer:
I think that Odysseus was cunning and used underhand methods to win the war. The war should have been fought and won honestly, not by the use of a trick. Odysseus should not have given such advice and the Greeks should not have taken it.

Question 4.
What, do you think, is needed for a city to be prosperous?
Answer:
To be prosperous, a city must be well situated and have good natural resources, like water and fertile land. It should be safe from enemies. The people and the rulers should be intelligent, sensible and honest. They should also be hard-working. If all these factors are present, then a city will become prosperous.

Question 5.
Do you think that wars can solve problems?
Answer:
No, they cannot. Problems can be solved only by sitting around a table and sorting out the disputes. The practice of ‘an eye for an eye’ will only end up making the whole world blind. Wars kill people and destroy civilizations.

Question 6.
Do you think the Greeks and Trojans were superstitious? Give reasons for your answer.
Answer:
There is nothing to indicate that the Greeks were superstitious. But the Trojans were superstitious and believed that the wooden horse would bring them luck if they dragged it into their city.

Question 7.
How could the fall of Troy been avoided?
Answer:
The fall of Troy could have been avoided if the Trojans had been wise enough to detect the ‘wooden horse plot’ hatched by the Greeks. They should also not have been stupid enough to believe the silly story told by the lone Greek. They should at least, have listened to their wise priest who had warned them that the horse could be a trick to destroy Troy.

Question 8.
What do you think the Trojans should have done when they found the horse?
Answer:
The Trojans should not have believed the Greeks. They should have been cautious and examined the horse minutely. They should also not have been superstitious enough to bring the horse into the city, expecting good luck. They should have heeded the words of the wise priest.

Complex Factual Activities :

Question 1.
How did the location of Troy help it to grow into a very rich, prosperous city?
Answer:
Troy was well situated. In front of it was the sea over which sailed the ships of Troy, carrying goods and grain. At the back rose the high peak of Mount Ida, from which flowed many rivers and streams. The valleys were well-watered and fertile. Cattle fed on the rich grass of the meadows while sheep fed on the slopes of the hills. Thus, it was well situated, both for commerce and agriculture, and grew into a rich, prosperous city.

Question 2.
How were the Trojans protected during wartime?
Answer:
The Trojans had built a strong wall around the city so that no enemy should attack them from the sea. There were huge gates in the wall. In times of war, the gates would be closed, and then the city was like a strong fortress, quite safe from all attack.
It was thus protected by the walls around it as well as by the hills behind.

Question 3.
Was it enough to use the wooden horse to hide? What was done to make the Trojans take it inside the city?
Answer:
It was not enough to use the wooden horse to hide. It had to be taken inside the city. To achieve this, a Greek, who had been left behind for this very purpose, said that the horse had been left behind as an offering to the god of the sea. It had been made very big so that the Trojans could not take it inside their city. If they did so, the luck would go to the Trojans and not to the Greeks. When they heard this, the Trojans wanted to take the wooden horse inside the city, and they broke their walls to do so.

Question 4.
How did the cunning Greek explain the presence of such a large wooden horse?
Answer:
The cunning Greek said that the Greeks who had left were afraid of the long voyage home. They had made the horse and left it behind as an offering to the god of the sea. It had been made very big so that the Trojans could not take it inside their city. If they did so, the luck would go to the Trojans and not to the Greeks.

Question 5.
What was the cause of the ten-year-old war between the Greeks and the Trojans?
Answer:
Paris, a prince of Troy, had persuaded Helen, wife of a Greek King called Menelaus, to elope j with him. He had brought her to Troy. The Greeks wanted to take revenge on Troy for the wrong done to Menelaus. This was the cause of the ten-year-old war between the Greeks and the Trojans.

Question 6.
What reckless, thoughtless step did the Trojans take?
Answer:
The reckless/thoughtless step that the Trojans took was to break down part of their wall and drag the wooden horse into the city. They also celebrated and slept soundly.

Question 7.
How did the Greeks enter the city of Troy?
Answer:
When the cunning Greek who had been left behind saw the Greek fleet returning to the shores of Troy, he crept to the wooden horse and gave the signal. The side of the horse opened, and the Greeks who were inside climbed out and opened the gates. * The whole Greek army entered the city.

Question 8.
How did the Greek ships remain hidden from Troy?
Answer:
As soon as the Greek ships were hidden : by an island, they lowered their sails and dropped anchor. Thus they remained hidden from Troy.

Activities based on Contextual Grammar :

Question 1.
Round their city the Trojans had built a strong wall. (Pick out the verb and state its tense.)
Answer:
had built – past perfect tense.

Question 2.
The wall was so broad that people could stand on it. (Pick out the modal auxiliary and state what it indicates.)
Answer:
could – indicates ability.

Question 3.
Pick out the clauses from the following sentence and state their type :
He spoke and told them this false tale.
Answer:
He spoke – Main Clause.
(He) told them this false tale – Main Clause.

Question 4.
Rewrite the sentence using ‘which’ :
They saw on the sands the huge, wooden horse.
Answer:
They saw on the sands a huge horse which
was made of wood.

Question 5.
He had brought her to Troy.
(Rewrite beginning ‘She …’)
Answer:
She had been brought to Troy (by him).

Question 6.
The fighting went on daily, but the siege did not end. (Rewrite replacing the underlined word with its verb form.)
Answer:
They fought daily, but the siege did not end.

Question 7.
Write two present participles from the passage, used as adjectives. Also, write the nouns they modify:
Answer:

Present Participles used as Adjectives	Nouns they modify
1. leaping	flames
2. weeping	women
3. sleeping	Trojans

Simple Activities :

Question 1.
Write two compound words of your own.
Answer:
walking stick, fire engine

Question 2.
Make a meaningful sentence using the phrase : ‘among the hills’
Answer:
The tribal communities living among the hills are very poor.

Question 3.
Spot the error and correct the sentence :
It is believe that The Iliad and The Odyssey were compose by Homer.
Answer:
It is believed that The Iliad and The Odyssey were composed by Homer.

Question 4.
Pick out a present participle from the given sentence :
The valleys were fertile, with corn growing in the fields.
Answer:
present participle – growing.

Question 5.
Identify the type of sentence :
But all the kings and heroes had declared war against the Trojans.
Answer:
Assertive sentence

Question 6.
Find out two hidden words from the word ‘hospitality
Answer:
hospitality – hospital, soapy, (spoil, host)

Question 7.
Form a present participle in which the last letter is doubled.
Answer:
hit-hitting

Question 8.
Write the following words in alphabetical order.
great, grain, final, fight
Answer:
fight, final, grain, great.

Question 9.
Make a word chain of four more abstract nouns:
revenge →
Answer:
revenge → empathy → youth → health → humility

Question 10.
Write two compound words of your own.
Answer:
policeman, washing machine

Question 11.
Make a meaningful sentence using the phrase : ‘to follow the advice’
Answer:
Our parents told us to follow the advice of the counseller.

Question 12.
Spot the error and correct the sentence :
Paris himself were killed, also by a poisoned arrow.
Answer:
Paris himself was killed, also by a poisoned arrow.

Question 13.
Use the word ‘sleeping’ as a gerund in your own sentence :
Answer:
I love sleeping.

Question 14.
Identify the type of sentence, and state ; whether it is affirmative or negative :
The Greeks have gone and the walls are no longer necessary.
Answer:
Assertive sentence (negative)

Question 15.
Find out two hidden words from the word :
celebration
Answer:
celebration – liberate, berate, (clear, brain).

Question 16.
Pick out the verb from the following that forms its past participle by doubling the last letter :
mail, cut, hit, rot
Answer:
rot (rotted)

Question 17.
Arrange these words in alphabetical order :
wooden, walls, terror, tower
Answer:
terror, tower, walls, wooden

Medium-Level Activities :

Question 1.
Use the word ‘peak’ and its homophone in two separate sentences :
Answer:
(a) Mt. Everest is one peak I wish to climb.
(b) I might take a peek at the proposed site.

Question 2.
The Trojans fought hard. (Use the past perfect progressive tense of the verb.)
Answer:
The Trojans had been fighting hard.

Question 3.
Prepare a word register for all the words related to ‘war’ from the lesson.
Answer:
war-enemy, attack, fortress, soldiers, siege, battles, armies, heroes, fought, fighting, killed, taken, victory, fighters, terror, death, weapons, armour, conquerors.

Question 4.
Use the word ‘sail’ and its homophone in two separate sentences :
Answer:
(a) The sea gull sat on the sail of the boat.
(b) There is a wonderful sale at the mall this week.

Question 5.
The Greeks burned their tents.
(Use the present perfect tense of the verb.)
Answer:
The Greeks have burned their tents.

Question 6.
“ But why did the Greeks make such a huge horse?” some of the Trojans asked.
(Rewrite using reported speech.)
Answer:
Some of the Trojans asked why the Greeks had made such a huge horse.

Question 7.
Prepare a word register of all the Greek and Trojan names in the story.
Answer:
Greek and Trojan names – Odysseus, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Troy, King Priam, Hector, Helen, Aphrodite, Iliad, Odyssey, Achilles, Homer, Ilium, Aegean Sea, Mount Ida, Greece, Paris.

Challenging Activities :

Question 1.
Use the word ‘force’ as a noun and a verb in two separate sentences.
Answer:
(a) The policeman had to use a lot of force ; to open the door, (noun)
(b) Parents should not force children into careers j that the children do not like, (verb)

Question 2.
The Trojans too fought hard and the siege j continued for ten long years. (Pick out the clauses j and write the type of sentence.)
Answer:
The Trojans too fought hard – Coordinate Clause the siege continued for ten long years – Coordinate Clause ; Compound Sentence

Question 3.
Use the words ‘rejoicing’ and ‘voyage’ in a single sentence.
Answer:
There was a lot of rejoicing by the seamen on the voyage home.

Question 4.
It may be a trick that will ruin us. (Pick out the modal and state its function.)
Answer:
may-possibility

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Balbharti Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Solutions Kumarbharati Chapter 4.1 Please Listen Notes, Textbook Exercise Important Questions and Answers.

Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Kumarbharati Solutions Chapter 4.1 Please Listen!

English Kumarbharati 9th Solutions Chapter 4.1 Please Listen! Textbook Questions and Answers

Warming Up:

1. Form groups of 6-8. One person (leader) chooses one item – a picture, a paragraph or a lesson from any one of the 9th standard textbooks and writes the reference on a piece of paper and folds it. Others ask him/her questions and try to guess what it is, from his/her answers. Example: (The leader thinks and writes something on a piece of paper. He folds it and keeps it on the table. Others ask questions.)

Question 1.
Is it something from social studies?
Answer:
No.

Question 2.
From Science or Maths?
Answer:
No.

Question 3.
Languages?
Answer:
Yes.

Question 4.
From the English Kumarbharati?
Answer:
Yes.

Question 5.
A prose lesson?
Answer:
No.

Question 6.
A nature poem?
Answer:
No.

Question 7.
Is it in the first unit?
Answer:
No.

Question 8.
Second unit?
Answer:
Yes.

Question 9.
Inspirational poem?
Answer:
Yes.

Invictus!!
Leader shows the folded paper; answer is Invictus!

Agreements and Disagreements.

2. Form pairs. List the things on which you ! have the same opinion and also the ones on which you have different opinions. Prepare a list of ten things in all and see how far you agree or disagree with your friend. Some useful phrases are given alongside.

Question 1.
Form pairs. List the things on which you ! have the same opinion and also the ones on which you have different opinions. Prepare a list of ten things in all and see how far you agree or disagree with your friend. Some useful phrases are given alongside.
You could talk about:

1. Clothes, latest fashion.
2. Performance of sportsmen and women.
3. Trafficll’ransport in your area.
4. Cleanliness and hygiene in your area.
5. Future occupations/Careers.
6. Latest news items.
7. TV programmes
8. Mobile Apps
9. Any subject of your choice.

English Workshop:

1. The poet uses a free, conversational style in his poem. It is also called Colloquial style. Pick out and write down such lines or expressions that support the above statement.

Question 1.
The poet uses a free, conversational style in his poem. It is also called Colloquial style. Pick out and write down such lines or expressions that support the above statement.
(a) ………………………. You have not done what I asked.
(b) ……………………………………………………………………..
(c) ……………………………………………………………………..
(d) ……………………………………………………………………..
(e) ……………………………………………………………………..
(f) ……………………………………………………………………..
Answer:
(a) You have not done what I asked.
(b) You are trampling on my feelings.
(c) All that I ask is that you listen.
(d) When you do something for me that I can and need to do for myself, you contribute to my fear and inadequacy.
(e) But when you accept as a simple fact that I feel what I feel.
(f) then I can stop trying to convince you have not done what I asked.

2. Put the following expressions in a table of Dos and Don’ts as expressed by the poet.

Question 1.
Put the following expressions in a table of Dos and Don’ts as expressed by the poet.
(a) Please listen.
(b) give me advice.
(c) tell me why.
(d) solve my problem
(e) just hear me.
(f) accept as a simple fact
(g) contribute to my fear
(h) wait a minute

Answer:

Dos	Don’ts
1. please listen	1. give me advice
2. just hear me	2. tell me why
3. accept my feelings as a simple fact	3. solve my problem
4. wait a minute	4. contribute to my fear

3. Write in your own words.

Question a.
What does the listener do when the poet asks him to just listen? Give 3 points.
Answer:
When the poet asks the listener to just listen, the listener either:

1. gives advice
2. tells him why he shouldn’t feel that way, or
3. tries to solve the; poet’s problem.

Question b.
Why does the poet remark that advice is cheap?
Answer:
The poet remarks that advice is cheap because everyone is willing to give advice. You only had to write to the agony column of any newspaper with your problems and you could get advice from the columnists. You had to spend just 20 cents to buy the paper.

Question c.
Which two facts show that the poet is confident of overcoming his irrational feelings?
Answer:
The two facts that show that the poet ; is confident of overcoming his irrational feelings 5 are : first, he says he will understand what is behind these feelings. Second, he says that when the answers become obvious, he will not need any advice.

4. According to the poet, how does God help people when they pray to Him for help?

Question 1.
According to the poet, how does God help people when they pray to Him for help?
Answer:
According to the poet, God doesn’t try to give advice or fix things. He is silent and let’s one work things out by oneself. That is how God helps people when they pray to Him for help.

5. Why should one learn to tackle one’s problems by one’s own self?

Question 1.
Why should one learn to tackle one’s problems by one’s own self?
Answer:
When one tackles one’s problems by oneself, one overcomes feelings of fear and inadequacy. Hence one should learn to tackle one’s problems by one’s own self.

6. Why should seniors not over-protect or over-pamper juniors?

Question 1.
Why should seniors not over-protect or over-pamper juniors?
Answer:
If seniors over-protect or over-pamper juniors, the juniors will be unable to stand on their own feet and face the world. They will not be able to overcome their feelings of fear and inadequacy. They will not become confident. Hence, seniors should not over-protect or over-pamper juniors.

7. Find out and write down some proverbs/ axioms/quotations that convey a message similar to ‘Self-help is the best help.’

Question 1.
Find out and write down some proverbs/ axioms/quotations that convey a message similar to ‘Self-help is the best help.’
Answer:
Examples:

1. God helps those who help themselves.
2. Self-help is the root of all success.

8. Maintain a diary for at least a week. Write about your interactions with other people in your surroundings in 3-4 lines. Also write whether you find the interactions happy – unhappy, satisfactory – unsatisfactory, enjoyable – stressful, etc.

Question 1.
Maintain a diary for at least a week. Write about your interactions with other people in your surroundings in 3-4 lines. Also write whether you find the interactions happy – unhappy, satisfactory – unsatisfactory, enjoyable – stressful, etc.
Answer:
Jan. 1: Today is New Year’s day. Holiday for J everyone. Mummy baked a yummy cake. I helped her. Papa and I went for a long walk in the park. Have made heaps of resolutions. Intend to keep every one of them. Am full of determination. Have decided to ‘ ask Seemadidi for help. A wonderful day!

Jan. 2: Not such a good day. Broke my first resolution. Overslept and had to rush to school with my shoes in my hand! Luckily my homework was all done. Kept my resolution of doing my studies before going out to play football. Had an argument with Sahil on the ground. But it ended well.

9. Write an informal letter from a teenager to his/her parent expressing a few thoughts from the poem.

Question 1.
Write an informal letter from a teenager to his/her parent expressing a few thoughts from the poem.
Answer:
Room No. 3
Ladies’ Hostel
Aundh Road
Pune – 411 007.
14th October, 2020

Dearest Mom,

Hi! Sorry, sorry, dear Mom. Are you surprised to see this letter? I wanted to talk to you about this, but then I thought I will be able to express myself better in a letter.

Mom, when I told you about the problems I was having 1 with my roommate here at the hostel, I only wanted j you to listen. I knew I was being irrational at times, and I was trying to understand this feeling. It would have taken me some time, but I would have finally got things sorted out on my own. I’m sorry, but I did not need advice, or any solutions. Now I’ve solved my problem and I am at peace.

I’m sorry, Mom, if I’ve hurt you by snapping at your good intentions. But I’m learning. I still need your support, but I have to make my own way in this world, and this is the first step. Please try to understand this.

Love you always.
Your loving daughter,
Ananya

10. Read aloud a couple of stanzas of the poem j ‘Invictus’ and ‘Please Listen’. In what ways do j they differ? Think and fill up the table with a ‘Yes’ or ‘No’.

Question 1.
Read aloud a couple of stanzas of the poem ‘Invictus’ and ‘Please Listen’. In what ways do j they differ? Think and fill up the table with a ‘Yes’ or ‘No’.

‘Invictus’ is an example of Traditional Poetry. ‘Please Listen’ is an example of Free Verse.
Answer:

	Invictus	Please Listen
1. Rhyming lines	Yes	No
2. Steady rhythm	Yes	No
3. Uniformity in length of lines	Yes	No
4. Uniformity in number of lines in each stanza	Yes	No
5. Figurative language	Yes	No
6. Example of	Traditional poetry	Free verse

English Kumarbharati 9th Digest Chapter 4.1 Please Listen Additional Important Questions and Answers

Simple Factual Activity:

Question 1.
Say whether the following statements are True or False:
Answer:

1. The poet wants advice from the listener – False
2. The poet wants sympathy from the listener – False
3. The poet wants solutions from the listener – False
4. The poet wants the listener to listen to him silently – True

Complex Factual Activity.

Question 1.
How old is the speaker in the poem?
Answer:
The speaker must be a teenager or a young person who is impatient and does not want advice or solutions.

Question 2.
Who is he/she talking to?
Answer:
He /She is talking to someone older a parent or a friend.

Activities based on Poetic Devices.

Question 1.
Pick out the two verbs that are repeated ; throughout the extract.
Answer:
The verbs ‘ask’ and ‘listen’ are repeated throughout the extract.

Question 2.
What style is the poem written in?
Answer:
The poem is written in the conversational or colloquial style.

Simple Factual Activity.

Question 1.
Fill in the blanks with the correct words:
Answer:
1. The poet says that he may be discouraged and faltering, but he is not helpless.
2. The poet accepts that he has irrational feelings.

Complex Factual Activities.

Question 1.
Is the speaker aware of his shortcomings?
Answer:
Yes, the speaker is aware of his/her shortcomings.

Question 2.
What must have happened before the speaker says all this?
Answer:
The speaker must have had some emotional stress and problems, some feelings that he/she could not find reasonable explanations for.

Activities based on Poetic Devices.

Question 1.
Is there any figurative language in the poem?
Answer:
No, there is not much figurative language in the poem.

Simple Factual Activity.

Question 1.
Complete the web:
(The answers are given directly and underlined.)

Think discuss and answer:

Question a.
Does he/she want to improve?
Answer:
Yes, he/she wants to improve.

Question b.
Is he/she confident that he/she can improve?
Answer:
Yes, he/she is confident that he/she can improve.

Question c.
How does he/she want to work it out?
Answer:
He/She wants to work it out on his/her own.

Question d.
Is the poet willing to listen to others?
Answer:
Yes, the poet is willing to listen to others.

Answer the following questions:

Question 1.
Discuss how you can be a good listener.
Answer:
To be a good listener, we must pay attention to what a person is saying without interruption. We must only listen and not try to form replies and counter-arguments in our own mind. We must also nod and show correct expressions to encourage the speaker.

Activities based on Poetic Devices:

Question 1.
The poet uses a free, conversational style in his poem. It is also called Colloquial style. Pick out and write down such lines or expressions that support the above statement.
Answer:
1. So please listen, and just hear me
2. And if you want to talk, wait a minute for your turn – and I will listen to you.

Question 2.
Comment upon the length of lines and the number of lines in each stanza.
Answer:
There is no uniformity in the length of lines or the number of lines in each stanza. It appears as if the poem has first been written in prose and then broken up into separate lines.

Point Format (for understanding).

• Title: Please Listen!
• Poet: Unknown (anonymous)
• Rhyme Scheme: The poem is in free verse. Hence there is no rhyme scheme.
• Figure of Speech: Repetition. ‘When I ask you to listen to me’. This line has been repeated in the poem for emphasis.
• Theme/Central idea: The poet tells us how he just wishes that people would listen to a person’s problems silentiy, instead of giving advice.

The poet is confident that he will find out the reasons behind his irrational feelings and then he will be able to solve his problems by himself. He feels that prayers probably work because God just listens to us silently when we pray and then lets us work things out ourselves. Through the poem, the poet implies that we too should work things out ourselves when we are faced with difficulties or have some irrational feelings.

Paragraph Format.

The poem ‘Please Listen!’ is written by an unknown poet (anonymous).

The poem is in free verse. Hence there is no rhyme scheme. There are not many figures of speech. The important Figure of Speech is Repetition: ‘When I ask you to listen to me’. This line has been repeated in the poem for emphasis.

The poet tells us how he just wishes that people would listen to a person’s problems silently, instead of giving advice. The poet is confident that he will find out the reasons behind his irrational feelings and then he will be able to solve his problems by himself. He feels that prayers probably work because God just listens to us silently when we pray and then lets us work things out ourselves. Through the poem, the poet implies that we too should work things out ourselves when we are faced with difficulties or have some irrational feelings.

Vocabulary Focus.

Question 1.
What is the difference between ‘hear’ and ‘listen’?
Answer:

1. ‘To hear’ means to receive with the ear the sound made by someone or something; to be aware of some sound.
2. ‘To listen’ means to consciously give one’s attention to a sound and try to understand it.

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Balbharti Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Solutions Kumarbharati Chapter 4.2 The Storyteller Notes, Textbook Exercise Important Questions and Answers.

Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Kumarbharati Solutions Chapter 4.2 The Storyteller

English Kumarbharati 9th Solutions Chapter 4.2 The Storyteller Textbook Questions and Answers

Warming Up:

1. Short stories are of many types. Match the type of story in Column A with its description in Column B:

Question 1.
Short stories are of many types. Match the type of story in Column A with its description in Column B:

Answer:

Story type (A)	Description (B)
1. Anecdote	(a) serious and ends in tragedy
2. Fable	(b) untrue but realistic
3. Parable	(c) short amusing account of an incident
4. Myth	(d) where vices and folly are ridiculed
5. Legend	(e) moral bearing story with animal characters
6. Fairy Tale	(f) having historical base/characters but may not be true
7. Tragic Tale	(g) having religious base and a message or moral
8. Fiction	(h) exaggerated comedy
9. Farce	(i) having supernatural characters/ a moral for children
10. Satire	(j) originated in ancient time, authorship unknown

1. Anecdote – (c) short amusing account of an incident
2. Fable -(e) moral bearing story with animal characters
3. Parable – (g) having religious base and a message or moral
4. Myth-(j) originated in ancient time, authorship unknown
5. Legend – (f) having historical base/characters but may not be true
6. Fairy Tale – (i) having supernatural characters/a moral for children
7. Tragic Tale – (a) serious and ends in tragedy
8. Fiction – (b) untrue but realistic
9. Farce -(h) exaggerated comedy
10. Satire -(d) where vices and folly are ridiculed

2. Complete the following story using the verbs in the brackets in their proper form:

Question 2.
Complete the following story using the verbs in the brackets in their proper form:

Footprint

One night a man ………………………….. (have) a dream. He …………………………….. (dream) that he was …………………. (walk) along the beach with god. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene, he noticed two sets of foot prints in the sand; one …………………….. (belong) to him and the other, to God.

After the last scene ………………………….. (flash), he looked back at the footprints in the sand. He ………………………….. (observe) that many times along the path of his life there ………………………….. (be) only one set of footprints and that it ………………………….. (happen) at the saddest, most ………………………….. (trouble) times of his life.

He ………………………….. (question) God about it. “God, you ………………………….. (say) that once I ………………………….. (decide) to follow you, you ………………………….. (will) walk with me all the way. So I don’t understand, why you ………………………….. (leave) me alone, when I ………………….. (need) you most.”

God replied, “During your times of trials and sufferings, where you ………………………….. (see) only one set of footprints, they ………………………….. (be) mine for it was then that I ………………………….. (carry) you in my arms.”
Answer:

Footprint

One night a man had a dream. He dreamt that he was walking along the beach with God. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene, he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand; one belonging to him and the other, to God.

After the last scene had flashed, he looked back at the footprints in the sand. He observed that many times along the path of his life there were only one set of footprints and that it had happened at the saddest, most troubled times of his life.

He questioned God about it. “God, you said that once I decided to follow you, you would walk with me all the way. So I don’t understand why you left me alone when I needed you the most.”

God replied, “During your times of trials and sufferings, where you saw only one set of footprints, they were mine, for it was then that I carried you in my arms.”

English Workshop:

1. From the story (Part I and Part II), find 4 words that begin with the prefIx ‘un-‘ and write their opposites.

Question 1.
From the story (Part I and Part II), find 4 words that begin with the prefIx ‘un-‘ and write their opposites.

1. ………….. × …………..
2. ………….. × …………..
3. ………….. × …………..
4. ………….. × …………..
5. ………….. × …………..
6. ………….. × …………..

Answer:

1. unsympathetic × sympathetic
2. unable × able
3. unenterprising × enterprising
4. uninteresting × interesting
5. unexpected × expected
6. unhappy × happy

2. Find one example/examples of the following punctuation marks from the story and copy the lines in which they are used:

Question 1.
Find one example/examples of the following punctuation marks from the story and copy the lines in which they are used:
(a) colon
(b) semi-colon
Answer:
(a) colon – Bertha was terribly frightened and thought to herself ;
(b) semi-colon – The first thing that it saw in the park was Bertha;

3. Read the following pieces from the story and suggest a title for each as shown in the first one:

Question 1.
Read the following pieces from the story and suggest a title for each as shown in the first one:

Answer:

From	Up to	Title
1. It was a hot afternoon ……….	………….. said the aunt weakly.	‘Children pester their aunt’.
2. The smaller girl created a diversion …………..	………….. likely to lose his bet.	‘The irritating little girl.’
3. In a low confidential voice ……………	………….. it was so stupid,” said Cyril.	‘Aunt tells a story.’
4. She (Bertha) did all that she was told …………..	………….. must be an extra good child.	‘The horribly good Bertha.’
5. The storyteller paused to let …………..	………….. popular tunes of the day.	‘Bertha’s outing at the park.’
6. Bertha was trembling very much …………..	……… the three medals for goodness ……….	‘The punishment.’

4. Write your opinion, in your own words:

Question a.
Why, do you think, did the children dislike their aunt’s story?
Answer:
The story was uninteresting and unenterprising. The children did not like the good little girl in the story. She appeared to be too good. Besides, the aunt could not satisfy the questions that they asked. Obviously, not only was the aunt a very bad story-teller but the story too was boring. Hence the children disliked the story.

Question b.
Why did they appreciate and praise the stranger’s story?
Answer:
The children were probably tired of the moral education imparted by the aunt. So when they came across a girl who was ‘horribly’ good, and who met a terrible end, they were thrilled. Moreover, the stranger narrated the story well. Hence they appreciated and praised the story.

Question c.
Do you think Bertha should have met such a gory end to her life? Justify your answer.
Answer:
No, I don’t think that Bertha should have met such a gory end to her life. After all, she was only a small child and it was probably not her fault that she was vain about her goodness. She should have merely been frightened by the wolf, not devoured by it.

Question d.
What did the aunt fail to realize in Bertha’s story?
Answer:
The aunt failed to see Bertha’s pride in herself; she only saw that Bertha was good, but had j yet met a gory end. The aunt failed to realize that Bertha met a gory end as a punishment for her vanity.

Question e.
What is that one vice that nullifies all virtues that a person has?
Answer:
Pride is the one vice that nullifies all the virtues that a person has. However good or talented a person is, he/she is not liked if he/she is proud or vain. Many tragic heroes in fiction and history were the victims of their own pride. It is often said that ‘Pride comes before a fall’.

Question f.
Write down two or three proverbs/axioms that suit the message in Bertha’s story;
Answer:

1. “Pride goes before a fall.”
2. “Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.”
3. “Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”

5. Write three to five sentences about each of the following characters:

Question 1.
Write three to five sentences about each of the following characters:
1. The Aunt ………………………………………………………….
……………………………………………………………………………….
……………………………………………………………………………….
……………………………………………………………………………….

2. The Bachelor …………………………………………………..
……………………………………………………………………………….
……………………………………………………………………………….
……………………………………………………………………………….

3. Cyril …………………………………………………………………..
………………………………………………………………………………..
………………………………………………………………………………..
………………………………………………………………………………..

4. Bertha ………………………………………………………………..
…………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………
Answer:
1. The Aunt: The aunt was a meek and mild woman. She did not understand children, and could not control them. She had no imagination to make up a story, and no skills to present the story in an interesting manner. She believed that children needed a strict moral upbringing. She was upset with the bachelor’s story and thought that it was improper.

2. The Bachelor: The bachelor was impatient with the aunt’s inability to control the children. He understood kids well and knew what type of story they wanted. He was resourceful and found a method to keep the children quiet for ten minutes. He also enjoyed the fact that the children would now trouble their aunt for an improper story.

3. Cyril: Cyril was a normal, naughty and restless boy. He had many questions to ask and wanted answers for all those questions. He was quite outspoken in saying that he found the aunt’s story stupid. He found the bachelor’s unusual story beautiful.

4. Bertha: Bertha was a very, very good little girl. She was so good that she was horrible. She was also obedient and punctual. She won many medals for her good qualities. But she had one bad quality, and that was pride. However, the moment she was in danger, she wished that she had not been so extraordinarily good. She was finally devoured by the wolf.

6. Say whether you agree or disagree.

1. The children would have behaved well in the train if their aunt had scolded them harshly – Disagree
2. The youngest child was most irritating – Agree
3. Being a bachelor, the stranger had no patience with children – Disagree
4. The children showed disinterest even in the bachelor’s story-telling, throughout – Disagree
5. Bertha was very good but very proud too – Agree
6. The Prince had rare, uncommon likes and dislikes – Disagree
7. The wolf could not trace Bertha because she was behind a myrtle bush – Agree
8. The bachelor had narrated an improper story to the children – Disagree

7. ‘The Storyteller’ has a story within a story.

Question 1.
‘The Storyteller’ has a story within a story. Search from the internet or your library books for other stories which have another story within. Enlist at least 3 to 5 of them.
Answer:
Ramayan. Mahabharat, Panchatantra.

8. List all the verbs related to ‘say’ or ‘tell’ from the passage.

Question 1.
List all the verbs related to ‘say’ or ‘tell’ from the passage.
Answer:

1. Verbs related to ‘say’ or ‘tell’: said, exclaimed, added, asked, protested.
2. Verbs related to ‘say’ or ‘tell’: demanded, admitted, said
3. Verbs related to ‘say’ or ‘tell’: said, retort, demanded, began, asked.
4. Verbs related to ‘say’ or ‘tell’: continued, quoted, demanded, said.
5. Verbs related to ‘say’ or ‘tell’: said

9. Read: ‘The Open Window by H.H. Munro (Saki).

English Kumarbharati 9th Digest Chapter 4.2 The Storyteller Additional Important Questions and Answers

Simple Factual Activities:

Question 1.
Complete the following:
Answer:

1. The next stop of the train was at Templecombe.
2. Most of the remarks of the aunt seemed to begin with ‘Don’t’.
3. The bachelor said nothing out loud.
4. The child moved reluctantly to the window.

Complex Factual Activity:

Question 1.
How many occupants did the compartment have?
Answer:
The compartment had five occupants.

Question 2.
Why did the aunt have to use the word ‘Don’t’ so often?
Answer:
The children were very bored and restless and indulged in irritating activities like smacking the cushions of the seats. Hence the aunt had to use the word ‘Don’t’ very often.

Activities based on Vocabulary:

Question 1.
Write the antonyms of the following words using prefixes :
1. occupied
2. limited
Answer:
1.  occupied × unoccupied
2. limited × unlimited

Activities based on Contextual Grammar:

Question 1.
Rewrite the following as indirect speech:
“But there is lots of grass in that field,” protested the boy.
Answer:
The boy protested that there was lots of grass in that field.

Question 2.
Find an example of the following punctuation mark from the passage and copy the sentence in which it is used: semi-colon
Answer:
“But there is lots of grass in that field,” protested the boy; “There’s nothing else but grass there.”

Personal Response:

Question 1.
Do you like to travel long distances by train?
Answer:
Yes, I do. Every year, we go to my native place by train, and we have a lovely time. Since we go during the Diwali holidays, the route along the Konkan Railway is very beautiful and scenic at that time. We watch the scenery flash by, and play card games when it gets dark.

Simple Factual Activities:

Question 1.
Write whether the following statements are True or False:
Answer:

1. The bachelor was irritated with the situation – True
2. The aunt was able to satisfy Cyril’s curiosity – False
3. The smaller girl knew only one line of the poem – True
4. They could see very few cows from the windows – False

Complex Factual Activity:

Question 1.
To which question from Cyril was aunt unable to give a reasonable answer?
Answer:
Aunt was unable to give a reasonable answer to Cyril’s question: ‘Why is the grass in the other field better?’

Question 2.
How did the smaller of the two girls irritate the bachelor?
Answer:
The smaller of the two girls began to recite the poem ‘On the Road to Mandalay’. She only knew the first line, but she repeated the line over and over again, in a dreamy but resolute and very audible voice. This irritated the bachelor.

Activities based on Vocabulary:

Question 1.
List all the verbs related to ‘say’ or ‘tell’ from the passage.
Answer:
Verbs related to ‘say’ or ‘tell’: suggested, exclaimed, persisted, repeated, said.

Activities based on Contextual Grammar:

Question 1.
Rewrite the following as indirect speech:
“Perhaps the grass in the other field is better,” suggested the aunt fatuously.
Answer:
The aunt suggested fatuously that perhaps the grass in the other field was better.

Question 2.
Find an example of the following punctuation mark from the passage and copy the sentence in which it is used:
semi-colon.
Answer:
She repeated the line over and over again, in a dreamy but resolute and very audible voice: it I seemed ……… .

Question 3.
Rewrite the following sentence using ‘not’:
She only knew the first line.
Answer:
She did not know any other line except the first.

Personal Response:

Question 1.
What is your opinion of the aunt?
Answer:
I feel very sorry for the aunt. She was very meek and completely unable to handle the three children. Knowing that she was going on a train journey with three small children, she should have brought something along to keep them occupied.

Who said the following words?

Question 1.
“Wouldn’t they have saved her if she hadn’t been good?”
Answer:
the bigger of the two girls

Question 2.
“Well, yes,”
Answer:
the aunt

Question 3.
“I didn’t listen after the first bit.”
Answer:
Cyril

Question 4.
“It’s the stupidest story I’ve ever heard.”
Answer:
the bigger of the two girls

Complex Factual Activity:

Question 1.
How did the children show their disapproval of the aunt’s story?
Answer:
The children interrupted the story at frequent intervals with loud, petulant questionings. After the story was over, the bigger girl said that it was the stupidest story she had ever heard. Cyril agreed with her that it was stupid. The smaller girl had stopped listening and was repeating her favourite line from the poem.

Activities based on Vocabulary:

Question 2.
Give the noun forms of the following words:
1. moral
2. stupid
Answer:
1. moral – morality
2. stupid – stupidity

Activities based on Contextual Grammar:

Question 1.
Rewrite the following as indirect speech:
“Wouldn’t they have saved her if she hadn’t been good?” demanded the bigger of the small girls.
Answer:
The bigger of the small girls demanded whether they wouldn’t have saved her if she hadn’t been good.

Question 2.
Frame Wh-questions to get the underlined parts in the following sentences as the answers:
1. Her reputation as a story-teller did not rank high.
2. In a low, confidential voice she began the story
Answer:
1. What did not rank high?
2. How did she begin the story?

Factual Activities:

Question 1.
Write four words to describe Bertha to complete the web:
Answer:

Complex Factual Activity:

Question 1.
What did the bachelor not agree with?
Answer:
The aunt said that it was a very difficult thing to tell stories that children can both understand and appreciate. The bachelor did not agree with this statement.

Question 2.
What roused the children’s interest in the story?
Answer:
The bachelor said that the good little Bertha was ‘horribly’ good. When the children heard this, their interest was roused. The word ‘horrible’ in connection with goodness was something new that they appreciated and found acceptable.

Activities based on Vocabulary:

Question 1.
Write the gender of the following :

1. bachelor
2. aunt
3. children
4. infant

Answer:

1. bachelor – masculine gender
2. aunt – feminine gender
3. children – common gender
4. fant – common gender.

Activities based on Contextual Grammar:

Question 1.
Rewrite the following as indirect speech:
“Was she pretty?” asked the bigger of the small girls.
Answer:
The bigger of the small girls asked whether she was pretty,

Question 2.
Find an example of the following punctuation mark from the passage and copy the sentences in which it is used:
semi-colon.
Answer:
1. The children’s momentarily-aroused interest began at once to flicker; all stories seemed………
2. There was a wave of reaction in favour of the story; the word horrible in connection with goodness…………

Question 3.
Rewrite the following sentences using ‘not only … but also …’ :
1. She was always truthful, she kept her clothes clean.
2. It’s a very difficult thing to tell stories that children can both understand and appreciate.
Answer:
1.She was not only always truthful, but she also kept her clothes clean.
2. It’s a very difficult thing to tell stories that children can not only understand but also appreciate.

Personal Response:

Question 1.
Do you like stories that have a moral or a message?
Answer:
That depends on the way the story is narrated and the message that is in the story. I don’t like the usual fairy-tale stories or the do-good type stories now; I like stories that make me think about something or affect me positively in some way.

Simple Activities:

Question 1.
Punctuate:
dont cyril dont exclaimed the aunt as the small boy began sacking the cushions of the seat
Answer:
“Don’t, Cyril, don’t,” exclaimed the aunt, as the small boy began sacking the cushions of the seat.

Question 2.
Make a meaningful sentence using the I phrase ‘over and over again’:
Answer:
The little girl repeated the answer over and over again.

Question 3.
Spot the error and correct the sentence:
I doesn’t agree with you,” said the bachelor.
Answer:
“I don’t agree with you,” said the bachelor.

Question 4.
Pick out the present participle/s from the given sentence:
She began an unenterprising and uninteresting story about a little girl who was good.
Answer:
unenterprising, uninteresting

Question 5.
Identify the type of sentence:
Why is it better?
Answer:
Interrogative sentence

Question 6.
Find out two hidden words from the word ‘character’.
Answer:
character-react, chart (heart, charter).

Question 7.
Form the present participle of a verb from the lesson in which the last letter is doubled.
Answer:
begin -beginning.

Question 8.
Write the following words in alphabetical order:
fatuously, inevitable, interest, estimation.
Answer:
estimation, fatuously, inevitable, interest.

Question 9.
Make a word chain of about four adjectives of your own.
Answer:
polite → excellent thoughtful → lovely → youthful

Medium-Level Activities:

Question 1.
Use the word fast in two separate sentences, the word having different meanings (homographs):
Answer:
(a) “This is a fast train and doesn’t stop at all the stations,” said the woman.
(b) The saint refused to break his fast.

Question 2.
“Why is the grass in the other field better?” persisted Cyril. (Rewrite using indirect speech.)
Answer:
Cyril asked persistently why the grass in the other field was better.

Question 3.
The children moved listlessly. (Use the past continuous tense of the verb.)
Answer:
The children were moving listlessly.

Challenging Activities:

Question 1.
Use the following word in two separate sentences, once as a noun and once as a verb: interest
Answer:
(a) I have no interest in politics, (noun)
(b) Military history doesn’t really interest me. (verb)

Question 2.
This is the stupidest story I’ve ever heard. (Change the degree of comparison.)
Answer:
(a) I’ve never heard a story as stupid as this. (Positive)
(b) This story is stupider/more stupid than any story I’ve ever heard. (Comparative)

Simple Factual Activities:

Question 1.
Write if the following statements are True or False:
Answer:

1. There were no sheep in the park – True
2. Bertha was allowed to walk in the park twice a week – False
3. There were no animals at all in the park – False
4. Bertha had the most medals in the town – True

Complex Factual Activity:

Question 1.
For which three values did Bertha win medals? What was exceptional about it?
Answer:
Bertha won medals for obedience, punctuality and good behaviour. This was exceptional because no other child in the town where she lived had as many as three medals, which Bertha had.

Question 2.
How did the Prince reward Bertha?
Answer:
The Prince rewarded Bertha by allowing her to walk in his beautiful park once a week. As no children were ever allowed in it, this was great honour for Bertha.

Activities based on Vocabulary:

Question 1.
Write the plural of the following words:

1. country
2. dress
3. storyteller
4. punctuality

Answer:

1. country – countries
2. dress – dresses
3. storyteller – storytellers
4. punctuality – punctuality

Activities based on Contextual Grammar:

Question 1.
Find example /examples of the following punctuation marks from the story and copy the lines in which they are used:
1. colon
2. semi-colon
Answer:
1. colon – then he resumed
2. semi-colon – sink into the children’s imaginations

Question 2.
Rewrite the following as indirect speech:
“Were there any sheep on the park?” demanded Cyril.
Answer:
Cyril asked in a demanding tone if there were any sheep in the park.

Question 3.
No other child in the town had as many as three medals. (Rewrite beginning ‘She was….’.)
Answer:
She was the only child in the town who had as many as three medals.

Personal Response:

Question 1.
Do you like listening to stories?
Answer:
I generally don’t like listening to stories; but if they are short and interesting, then I listen. It also depends on the narrator; if it is narrated well, then I like to listen. I used to listen to a lot of stories in my childhood, told by my grandmother.

Simple Factual Activities:

Question 1.
Answer what the following things are, in one or two words:
Answer:

1. Bertha was sorry about the absence of this. flowers.
2. Bertha meant to keep this. her promise.
3. The flowers had been eaten by these. the animals.
4. They clinked against one another. the medals.

Complex Factual Activity:

Question 1.
Why did the children approve of the Prince’s decision?
Answer:
Maybe the children liked animals better than they liked flowers. Besides, they were probably happy that the good Bertha had no flowers she couldn’t pick. Hence they approved of the Prince’s decision.

Activities based on Vocabulary:

Question 1.
Fill in the blanks with the correct adjectives:

1. ……………….. things
2. ……………….. birds
3. ………………….. parrots
4. ………………. tunes

Answer:

1. delightful things
2. hummingbirds
3. beautiful parrots
4. popular tunes

Question 2.
Match the words with the parts of speech they belong to, with reference to the passage:

A	B
1. with	(a) adverb
2. approval	(b) adjective
3. rather	(c) preposition
4. green	(d) noun

Answer:

1. with – preposition
2.  approval – noun
3. rather – adverb
4. green – adjective

Activities based on Contextual Grammar:

Question 1.
Find example/examples of the following punctuation marks from the story and copy the j lines in which they are used:
1. colon
2. semi-colon
Answer:
1. colon: Bertha walked up and down and enjoyed herself immensely, and thought to herself
2. semi-colon: There was a murmur of approval at the excellence of the Prince’s decision

Question 2.
Rewrite the following as indirect speech:
“Because the animals had eaten them all,” said the bachelor promptly.
Answer:
The bachelor promptly said that it was because the animals had eaten them all.

Question 3.
It made her feel silly to find that there were no flowers to pick.
(Replace the underlined words with gerunds.)
Answer:
Finding that there were no flowers for picking made her feel silly.

Simple Factual Activities:

Question 1.
Complete the following statements:
Answer:

1. An enormous wolf came prowling into the park.
2. The wolf came after her with huge leaps and bounds.
3. Bertha managed to reach a shrubbery of myrtle bushes.
4. Bertha hid herself in one of the thickest of the bushes.

Complex Factual Activity:

Question 1.
Why did Bertha wish she had never come to the park?
Answer:
Bertha saw an enormous wolf come stealing towards her. She was terribly frightened and wished she had never come to the park.

Question 2.
Why was the wolf unable to trace Bertha?
Answer:
The scent of the myrtle was so strong that the wolf could not sniff out where Bertha was hiding. The bushes were also too thick for him to see her.

Activity-based on Vocabulary:

Question 1.
Match the words in Columns A, B and C correctly:

A	B	C
1. white	myrtle	eyes
2. pale	little	bushes
3. thick	clean	animal
4. fat	grey	pinafore

Answer:

1. white – clean – pinafore
2. pale – grey – eyes
3. thick – myrtle – bushes
4. fat – little – animal.

Do as Directed:

Question 1.
The scent of the myrtle was so strong that the wolf could not sniff out where Bertha was hiding. (Rewrite using ‘too … to …’.)
Answer:
The scent of the myrtle was too strong for the wolf to sniff out where Bertha was hiding.

Question 2.
She managed to reach a shrubbery of myrtle bushes and she hid herself in one of the thickest of the bushes. (Rewrite as a simple sentence.)
Answer:
Managing to reach a shrubbery of myrtle bushes, she hid herself in one of the thickest of the bushes.

Personal Response:

Question 1.
Do you like Bertha? Why?
Answer:
No, I don’t like Bertha. She is too good to be true. She also knows that she is good and she is proud of this fact. This makes her irritating and horrible.

Who said the following:

Question 1.
Unhappy woman!
Answer:
the bachelor

Question 2.
The story began badly.
Answer:
the bigger of the small girls

Question 3.
A most improper story.
Answer:
the aunt

Question 4.
I kept them quiet for ten minutes.
Answer:
the bachelor

Complex Factual Activity:

Question 1.
What gave Bertha away and how did she meet her end?
Answer:
The clinking of her medals gave Bertha away. The wolf dashed into the bush in which she was hiding, dragged her out and devoured her to the last morsel.

Question 2.
What impact did the story have on the children?
Answer:
The children loved the story and said it was the most beautiful story they had ever heard. It had also kept them quiet for the remainder of the train journey.

Question 3.
Why was their aunt annoyed with the bachelor?
Answer:
Their aunt had probably always been telling the children the advantages of having a good moral character. Now, in the bachelor’s story, the extremely good Bertha had met a terrible end. So the aunt was annoyed with the bachelor for undermining the effect of years of her careful teaching.

Activities based on Vocabulary:

Question 1.
List all the verbs related to ‘say’ or ‘tell’ from the passage.
Answer:
Verbs related to ‘say’ or ‘tell’: said, observed.

Question 2.
Pick out at least six abstract nouns from the passage :
Answer:
Abstract nouns are: obedience, conduct, punctuality, ferocity, triumph, goodness, (decision, opinion)

Activities based on Contextual Grammar:

Question 1.
Find example/examples of the following punctuation marks from the story and copy the ! sentence in which they are used: semi-colon
Answer:
1. The wolf was just moving away, when he heard the sound of the medals clinking and stopped to listen;
2. “Unhappy woman!” he observed to himself as he walked down the platform of Templecombe station.

Question 2.
Rewrite the following as indirect speech:
“Unhappy woman!” he observed to himself.
Answer:
He observed to himself that she was an unhappy woman.

Simple Activities:

Question 1.
Punctuate:
it is the only beautiful story ive ever heard said cyril
Answer:
“It is the only beautiful story I’ve ever heard,” said Cyril.

Question 2.
Make a meaningful sentence using the phrase ‘from a great distance’.
Answer:
The frightened king watched the lion from a great distance.

Question 3.
Spot the error and correct the sentence:
So many people would has decided the other way.
Answer:
So many people would have decided the other way.

Question 4.
Pick out the infinitive in the given sentence and use it in a sentence of your own:
She had meant to keep her promise.
Answer:
The maid was not allowed to keep the clothes in the cupboard.

Question 5.
Identify the type of sentence:
Why weren’t there any flowers?
Answer:
Interrogative sentence

Question 6.
Find out two hidden words from the word ‘belongings’.
Answer:
belongings – belong, longing (going, single)

Question 7.
Form the present and past participle of a verb in which the last letter is doubled.
Answer:
excel – excelled, excelling

Question 8.
Write the given words in alphabetical order: approval, animals, enormous, beautiful
Answer:
animals, approval, beautiful, enormous

Medium-Level Activities:

Question 1.
Use the word ‘rage’ in two separate sentences, the word having different meanings (homographs) :
Answer:
(a) Thick denims soon became a great rage all over the world.
(b) She walked off the stage in a rage.

Question 2.
“The story began badly,” said the smaller of S the small girls. (Rewrite using indirect speech.)
Answer:
The smaller of the small girls said that the story had begun badly.

Question 3.
She had meant to keep her promise.
(Use the present tense of the verb.)
Answer:
She means to keep her promise.

Question 4.
Everybody talked about her goodness.
(Change the voice beginning ‘Her….’.)
Answer:
Her goodness was talked about by everybody.

Challenging Activities:

Question 1.
Use the word ‘park’ in two separate sentences, once as a noun and once as a verb :
Answer:
(a) Children love going to the park to play. (noun)
(b) The driver was looking for a place to park the car. (verb)

Question 2.
Use the words ‘immense’ and ‘beautiful’ in a single sentence of your own.
Answer:
The immense mountain had beautiful flowers on its slopes.

Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Solutions

Balbharti Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Solutions Kumarbharati Chapter 2.3 Somebody’s Mother Notes, Textbook Exercise Important Questions and Answers.

Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Kumarbharati Solutions Chapter 2.3 Somebody’s Mother

English Kumarbharati 9th Solutions Chapter 2.3 Somebody’s Mother Textbook Questions and Answers

Warming up :

1. Read the following proverb that has a biblical reference.
‘Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.’ Now find at least 5 other proverbs/axioms/quotations which convey the same message. Search the internet/dictionary of proverbs.
……………………………………………………………………….
……………………………………………………………………….
……………………………………………………………………….
……………………………………………………………………….
……………………………………………………………………….

Question 1.
‘Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.’ Find at least five other proverbs/ axioms/quotations that convey the same message.
Answer:

1. They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.
2. Life is an echo – what you send out comes back.
3. As you sow, so shall you reap.
4. Love begets love.
5. Love your neighbour like yourself.

2. Study the following sets of words :
Set A – pleased, happy, joyful, ecstatic
Set B – letter, word, sentence, paragraph
Note: The words in these sets are arranged in an ascending order, each word showing a higher degree than the previous one. Now rearrange the following groups of words in the ascending order.

Question 1.
Arrange the following groups of words in the ascending order : (The answer is given directly.)
Answer:

Question 2.
Prepare similar word chains using the following ideas : (The answer is given directly and underlined.)

Answer:

English Workshop:

1. Pick out lines from the poem that help create images of the following in our mind and write them in the table.

Question 1.
Pick out lines from the poem that help create images of the following in our mind and write them in the table.
Answer:

Old Woman	The Street	School Boys
1. The woman was old and ragged and grey And bent with the chill of a winter’s day	The streets were white with a recent snow	Down the street with laughter and shout
2. At the crowded crossing she waited long, Jostled aside by the careless throng	At the crowded crossing she waited long	Came happy boys, like a flock of sheep,
3. Her aged hand on his strong young arm She placed, and so without hurt or harm He guided the tremblIng feet along	Came happy boys, like a flock of sheep, Hailing the snow piled high and deep	Past the woman so old and grey, Hastened the children on their way

2. Write at least 5 rhymes from the poem.

Question 1.
Write at least five rhymes from the extract.
Answer:

1. Rhymes: troop – group, low – go, arm – harm, along – strong, went – content.
2. Rhymes: gray – day, snow – slow, long – throng, by – eye, shout – out.

3. Give, in your own words, TWO reasons for each of the following :

Question a.
The woman was reluctant to cross the street by herself.
Answer:
The woman was reluctant to cross the street by herself because …

1. the road was slippery because of the snow.
2. there was heavy traffic of horse carriages on the road.

Question b.
The school boys were in a happy mood.
Answer:
The school boys were in a happy mood because …

1. school was over for the day.
2. the snow was piled high on the road.

Question c.
One of the schoolboys helped the old woman cross the street.
Answer:
One of the schoolboys helped the old woman cross the street because …

1. she was old and afraid to cross on her own
2. he hoped someone, sometime, may lend a hand to his own mother when he was not around.

Question d.
We must help those who are in need.
Answer:
We must help those who are in need because …

1. we too may need help one day.
2. we must show compassion to those in need.

4. Think and write In 5-6 lines, why most of the people on a road/street Ignore those In need of help. What about you? Write about your feelings after you have helped! not helped, when needed.
……………………………………………………………………………………………..
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……………………………………………………………………………………………..

Question 1.
Think and write in 5-6 lines, why most of the people on a road/street ignore those in need of help. What about you? Write about your feelings after you have helped/not helped when needed.
Answer:
People, especially in the larger cities and towns, are always in a hurry to reach their place of work or their home. Hence they don’t have time to spare to help strangers. Some people may be purely selfish and don’t have compassion for others.

I always try to help people who genuinely need help. Once I lent a hand to an old man to get onto a bus. He was very grateful and thanked me. I felt very good about it.

I did not help a woman who had slipped and fallen down on the footpath during the monsoon. I just walked past her, ignoring her. I felt very guilty about it later. I wondered how I would feel if I had been in her place and had not got any help.

5. Read the poem: ‘Home they brought her warrior dead’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Question 1.
Read the poem: ‘Home they brought her warrior dead’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson

English Kumarbharati 9th Digest Chapter 2.3 Somebody’s Mother Additional Important Questions and Answers

Simple Factual Activity :

Question 1.
Write whether the following statements are True or False :
Answer:

1. The woman’s feet were slow because of the snow. False
2. The people around her did not bother about her. True
3. The schoolboys were happy. True
4. A boy came immediately to help the old woman. False

Guess the following, using references from the poem :

Question 1.
The setting-the region, the locality.
Answer:
The setting is a busy street, covered with a layer of fresh snow. The area is very crowded and there is a school nearby.

Question 2.
The time – the time of the year and the day.
Answer:
It is winter. The time of the day is probably late afternoon or early evening.

Activities based on Poetic Devices :

Question 1.
From the extract, pick out and explain an example of:

i. Simile –
Answer:
‘Came happy boys, like a flock of sheep.’ The happy boys have been directly compared to a flock of sheep.

ii. Alliteration –
Answer:
‘Should trample her down in the slippery street.’ Repetition of the sound of ‘s’ at the beginning of the words.

Simple Factual Activity :

Choose the correct alternative for each statement :

Question 1.
The person who helped the old lady was :
(i) hurt and harmed
(ii) kind and compassionate
(iii) slow and proud
(iv) dear and Jar away
Answer:
(ii) kind and compassionate

Question 2.
The old lady crossed the road :
(i) but fell down on the way
(ii) all by herself
(iii) with a merry troop
(iv) without hurt or harm
Answer:
(iv) without hurt or harm

Question 3.
The old lady was helped by :
(i) a group of young boys
(ii) a proud and nobleman
(iii) a strong and young boy
(iv) somebody’s mother
Answer:
(iii) a strong and young boy

Question 4.
The old lady at night :
(i) asked for blessings for the young boy
(ii) asked for a mother for the young boy
(iii) helped the young boy’s mother
(iv) helped somebody’s mother
Answer:
(i) asked for blessings for the young boy

Answer the following :

Question 1.
Was the old lady grateful to the young boy who had helped her? How do you know?
Answer:
Yes, the old lady was grateful to the young boy who had helped her. We know this because that night, in her home, she prayed to God to be kind to him.

Activities based on Poetic Devices :

Question 1.
From the extract, pick out and explain an example of:

i. Alliteration –
Answer:
‘His young heart happy and well-content.’ Repetition of the sound of ‘h’ at the beginning of the words.

ii. Inversion –
Answer:
‘Then back again to his friends he went.’ The correct prose order is : He then went back again to his friends.

Paragraph Format:

The poem ‘Somebody’s Mother’ is by Mary Dow Brine. The Rhyme Scheme of stanzas 3 and 6 is aabbcc. All the other stanzas have the rhyme scheme aabb. A Figure of Speech is Inversion: ‘At the crowded crossing she waited long.’ The correct prose order is She waited long at the crowded crossing. Other figures of speech are Simile and Alliteration.

The poem describes an incident in which a young boy helps a frightened old lady to cross the street when she was being ignored by everyone else. He tells his young friends that he hopes that when his own mother is old and needs help, someone will help her too if he is not at hand.

Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Solutions

Balbharti Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Solutions Kumarbharati Chapter 2.2 A True Story of Sea Turtles Notes, Textbook Exercise Important Questions and Answers.

Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Kumarbharati Solutions Chapter 2.2 A True Story of Sea Turtles

English Kumarbharati 9th Solutions Chapter 2.2 A True Story of Sea Turtles Textbook Questions and Answers

Warming up

It is our world, too!

1. Observe the following photographs. What is common among all these animals? They are all endangered species. They are likely to die out completely, one of the reasons being human activity in their habitat. If these animals could think and speak like humans, what would they say?

Form groups of 5 – 8. Prepare short autobiographical speeches for each of these animals (10 – 15 lines). Use the following points:

• How the animal lives – It’s the only way he/she can.
• How he interacts with nature and other animals.
• How humans interact with that species – whether it is fair, necessaiy or desirable, etc.
• The possible ill effects of the way human beings treat the animals, for the whole living world.
• The animal getting ready to bid farewell to this world.

Question 1.
Form groups of 5 – 8. Prepare short autobiographical speeches for each of these endangered animals (10 – 15 lines). Use the points given on page 30 of the textbook.
(Note: A complete autobiographical speech is given only for (c). Students may write the others based on the given points.)
Answer:
(a) Tiger:
(Points: lives in tropical, evergreen forests – eats different types of prey, mostly other large mammals – humans hunt them for their skin and destroy their habitats – if extinct, other species will run wild – ecosystem damaged.)

(b) Monkey:
(Points: proper name rhesus macaque – herbivorous – eats fruits, seeds, roots, . bark, cereals, etc. – found mostly in Asia – friendly and comes close to human habitations – in demand for research programmes because close to humans in behaviour – intelligent – fear of diseases being spread through these animals – important part of ecosystem.)

(c) Indian wild dog or the Dhole:
Hi there! You may wonder who I am, for I am not as popular as some of the other animals. I am called ‘dhole’, or the red wolf, or the Indian wild dog. I live only in Asia, in the mountainous regions, generally in the forested areas.

I am a very social animal and live together with my whole family. I am reddish in colour, and my home is a ‘den’. I am carnivorous, and mostly hunt during the day. My food is deer, monkeys, buffaloes, etc. I compete with tigers and leopards for food. I am endangered today because of the loss of the habitat in which I live and lack of food.

There is severe competition from other species too. I am also hunted for fun by humans. Unfortunately, many diseases have been transferred to me from domestic dogs, and many of my family members are dying due to these diseases. Today, there are less than 2,500 of us adults left. I ask you for your help in my conservation. Thank you.

(d) Whale:
(Points: marine animal – mammal – largest animal on earth – extinction due to overfishing, pollution, etc. – help regulate the flow of food – ensure that certain species do not overpopulate the ocean and threaten others.)

2. Hold a classroom discussion on the following topics and later on, expand the themes on your own. (10 – 15 lines)

• Why human beings need to use more and more natural resources.
• Should we conserve only the most beautiful and most useful things in nature?
• What is ‘beautiful’ or ‘useful’? Who has the right to decide that?

Question 1.
Hold a classroom discussion on the following topics and later on, expand the themes on your own. (10-15 lines)
Answer:
(a) Why human beings need to use more and more natural resources.
(Points: we don’t need to use more natural resources but to conserve them – we must conserve wood, oil, minerals, forests, water, etc. – we cannot create these things quickly – take years and years to form – must use them sparingly.)

(b) Should we conserve only the most beautiful and most useful things in nature?
(Points: what is beautiful to one may be dangerous to others – example: leopards seem beautiful to city dwellers but are dangerous to villagers – many animals like pollinating insects, bees, slugs – not beautiful but useful – nothing useless – every animal and plant contributes to the ecosystem in some way or the other – nothing should be allowed to become extinct.)

(c) What is ‘beautiful’ or ‘useful’? Who has the right to decide that?
(Points: no one is judge of what is useful and what is beautiful – no one has the right to decide that – beauty lies in the eyes of beholder – what is beautiful to one may be dangerous to others – we: must live in such a way so as to conserve as much flora and fauna as possible.)

English Workshop:

1. Form groups. Discuss the first two paragraphs. Try to present their content in the form of a series of conversations among the (a) volunteers (b) the volunteers and the villagers.

Question 1.
Form groups. Discuss the first two paragraphs. Try to present their content in the form of a series of conversations among the (a) volunteers (b) the volunteers and the villagers.
Answer:
a. Conversation between volunteers:
Answer:

• Volunteer A: Look, what are these things here? They look like egg shells! Where have they come from?
• Vol. B: Eggshells? Where? Oh, yes, there they are. Deep in that pit in the sand!
• Vol. C: I have never seen so many egg shells around here before!
• Vol. A: It’s certainly unusual. Let’s ask these villagers about it.
• Vol. B: I just asked. They say that they are turtle egg shells.
• Vol. C: But we have never come across any turtle eggs in all our walks along the beaches of this region.
• Vol. A: I wonder how this is possible.
• Vol. B: I made some more enquiries. This beach has been sealed to the public for nearly one month.
• Vol. C: Why?
• Vol. B: To prevent the smuggling of silver bricks, it seems.
• Vol. A: That means that these eggs are seen only after the beach has been sealed to the public,
• Vol. C: Oh, Oh. Do you know what that implies?

b. Conversation between the volunteers and the villagers:
Answer:

• Villager 1: Why have you brought us here ?
• Volunteer A: We wanted to ask you about these egg shells. What are they?
• Vill. 2: These are turtle egg shells, sir.
• Vol. B: We have never seen them before, in all our walks along the Konkan coast.
• Vill. 3: Well, sir, this beach has been sealed to the public since the past month to prevent smuggling activities.
• Vol. C: Turtle eggs? But turtles are a protected species.
  (Students may continue the conversation of your own.)

2. Prepare a short note on sea turtles with the help of the information given in the passage.

Question 1.
Prepare a short note on sea turtles with the help of the information given in the passage.
Answer:
There are seven types of sea turtles in the world, five of which are found in India. The Olive Ridley turtles nest along the entire coastline of Maharashtra. Green turtles and Hawkbills have also been found. When the female turtle reaches maturity at about the age of fifteen years, she returns to the shore to lay her eggs at the same place where she was born. The female comes to the shore just to make a nest in the sand and lay her eggs and immediately returns to the sea. She does not return to the nest after that.

The eggs hatch after a period of 40-50 days, using natural heat. Innumerable dangers await the eggs on the land and the hatchlings in the deep sea, and they have to face them all on their own. Their survival rate is therefore very low. Turtles perform an important function – they keep the sea clean. Thus they occupy an important place in marine ecology.

3. Prepare a poster to illustrate how the turtle eggs were/are protected. Include the following in the poster.

• Some pictures of sea turtles and their habitat
• Information about turtle nests and eggs
• A picture and information about a ‘protected nest’
• Appeal to the public to spread awareness about their conservation
• Some data (figures) regarding the achievements so far

Question 1.
Prepare a poster to illustrate how the turtle eggs were/are protected. Include the following in the poster.

• Some pictures of sea turtles and their habitat
• Information about turtle nests and eggs
• A picture and information about a ‘protected nest’
• Appeal to the public to spread awareness about their conservation
• Some data (figures) regarding the achievements so far

4. Prepare a simple brochure regarding the ‘homestay’ facilities made available in the villages. Form groups and discuss the points you will use in the brochure. Remember to include the precautions that tourists have to take at the site, in your brochure.

Question 1.
Prepare a simple brochure regarding the ‘homestay’ facilities made available in the villages. Form groups and discuss the points you will use in the brochure. Remember to include the precautions that tourists have to take at the site, in your brochure.
(An example is given below.)
Welcome to: Kasav Mahotsav
Homestay facilities: ‘Nisarg’ Homestay

• Close to the beach
• SpacIous arid clean rooms
• Private toilets for every room
• Delicious, fresh, home-cooked food
• Green surroundings

A home away from home!

Additional facilities:

• 24-hour wifi
• tour guides

• boat ride in the sea

Precautions:

• No flash to be used while photographing the hatchlings
• Restricted entry into the sea
• Barricades and rules to be respected

Contact us on:
Mobile: 98194 xxxxx
Email: nisargforyou@xxx.com

5. Explain the idea of conservation of Nature through Livelihood’ briefly, using the example given here.

Question 1.
Explain the idea of conservation of Nature through Livelihood’ briefly, using the example given here.
Answer:
Nature has to be conserved and protected. If, while doing this, people are also provided with employment, it becomes sustainable. In Velas village, tourists came in hordes to see the turtle hatchlings. These tourists were given food and accommodation by the villagers. This brought in business and money for them. However, in order to earn that money, it was important to protect the hatchlings, which the tourists came to see. Therefore, they took pains to protect the turtles, hence conserving this bit of nature. This is the idea of ‘Conservation of Nature through Livelihood’.

6. Prepare bullet point presentations on the following:
(a) Scope for tourism in your locality
(b) Prudent utilisation of natural resources .

Question 1.
Prepare bullet point presentations on the following:

• Scope for tourism in your locality
• Prudent utilization of natural resources.

(Students may complete this activity in the computer labs.)

7. Read the following entries in the ‘Language Study pages :
(a) clause (b) sentence
Underline the main clause in the following sentences.
1. There are a few people in every village who keep combing the beach in the early hours of the morning, throughout the year.
2. When the female turtle comes onshore to nest and to lay eggs, she leaves behind a trail just like a track of wheels on the sand.
3. The egg hunters follow this trail right up to the nest which is about half a meter deep.

Question 1.
Underline the main clause in the following sentences:
(The answers are underlined directly.)
Answer:
1. There are a few people in every village who keep combing the beach in the early hours of the s morning, throughout the year.
2. When the female turtle comes on shore to nest and to lay eggs, she leaves behind a trail just like the track of wheels on the sand.
3. The egg hunters follow this trail right up to the nest which is about half a metre deep.
4. Enquiries with the villagers revealed that they s were turtle eggs.

8. Read: ‘Last Chance to See’ by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine

Question 1.
Read: ‘Last Chance to See’ by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine

English Kumarbharati 9th Digest Chapter 2.2 A True Story of Sea Turtles Additional Important Questions and Answers

Read the following passages carefully and complete the activities:

Simple Factual Activity:

Question 1.
Complete the following statements:
(The answers are given directly and underlined.)
Answer:

1. The volunteers were surveying the white-bellied sea-eagles in the summer that year.
2. The volunteers had never come across turtle eggs in their walks in all the years.
3. Turtles nest along the entire coastline of our state.
4. The stolen turtle eggs are either eaten or sold in the market.

Question 2.
Why have these turtles been protected in India?
Answer:
The eggs of the turtles are stolen by egg hunters and then either eaten or sold in the market. If a turtle is spotted while it is still laying eggs, it is killed and eaten after it has finished laying the eggs. The turtles are an important part of the marine food chain. Hence they have been protected in India.

Activity-based on Vocabulary:

Question 1.
Match the adjectives in Column A with the nouns in Column B:

A	B
1. shallow	(a) practice
2. unusual	(b) pits
3. ruthless	(c) bricks
4. silver	(d) occurrence

Answer:

A	B
1. shallow	(b) pits
2. unusual	(d) occurrence
3. ruthless	(a) practice
4. silver	(c) bricks

Personal Response:

Question 1.
Do you think that we, in India, look after and nurture the flora and fauna around us?
Answer:
No, we don’t. People poach endangered species for the money they can earn from the skin, furs, etc. Trees are routinely cut down for agriculture, roads, buildings, and so on. In cities, trees are pruned very haphazardly and concrete is often poured round their roots. Domestic animals roam around the streets eating from garbage dumps. The list is endless. I think that people should be educated to respect nature.

Simple Factual Activity:

Question 1.
State whether the following statements are Right or Wrong:
Answer:

1. Turtles are a protected species in India. Right
2. Many of the elderly villagers had seen hatchlings. Wrong
3. In the first year, the volunteers protected 500 nests. Wrong
4. The volunteers had no experience regarding sea turtles. Right

Complex Factual Activity:

Question 1.
Why were the people asked to look for the eggs or nests in the morning?
Answer:
Sea turtles usually come ashore at night to lay eggs. The people who were asked to .look for the eggs or nests in the morning, carefully removed the eggs from the nest and buried them in a similar pit. This new pit was protected with wire fencing to prevent thefts.

Question 2.
The elderly persons had seen the hatchlings for the first time. What does it indicate?
Answer:
This indicates that the theft of turtle eggs was so common that no eggs had been allowed to hatch for many years in the past.

Activities based on Vocabulary:

Question 1.
Form adverbs from the following words:

1. secret
2. serious
3. special
4. careful

Answer:

1. secret – secretly
2. serious – seriously
3. special – specially
4. careful – carefully.

Question 2.
Form adjectives from the following words:

1. secret
2. spectacle
3. protection
4. information

Answer:

1. secret – secret/secretive
2. spectacle – spectacular
3. protection – protective
4. information – informative.

Activities based on Contextual Grammar:

Question 1.
Rewrite the following sentence using ‘never’:
It was for the first time that they had seen the hatchlings rushing to the sea.
Answer:
They had never before seen the hatchlings rushing to the sea.

Question 2.
Frame a Wh-question to get the underlined part as the answer:
They had to watch over the protected nest to prevent thefts.
Answer:
Why did they have to watch over the protected nest?

Personal Response:

Question 1.
“Have you seen any turtles? If so, where? If not, would you like to see?
Answer:
I have seen turtles only at the zoo, in pictures and on TV. I am very fond of animals and I would certainly like to see turtles in their natural habitat. I would love to see the hatchlings rushing out to meet the sea.

Simple Factual Activity:

Choose the correct alternatives:

Question 1.
The Olive Ridley turtles nest along
(a) the hilly areas of Maharashtra
(b) the coastline of Maharashtra
(C) the Interiors of Maharashtra
Answer:
(b) the coastline of Maharashtra

Question 2.
The turtles reach maturity at the age of about
(a) one or two years
(b) 40-50 days
(c) 15 years
Answer:
(c) 15 years

Question 3.
The turtle eggs hatch after
(a) 40-50 days
(b) five to seven days
(c) 15 days
Answer:
(a) 40-50 days

Question 4.
ProtectIon to the turtle was offered In – villages.
(a) 80
(b) 40-50
(c) all
Answer:
(a) 80

Complex Factual Activity:

Question 1.
Why was it necessary to undertake turtle protection on a large scale?
Answer:
Turtles perform an important function-they keep the sea clean. Thus, they occupy an important place in marine ecology. However, there are innumerable dangers awaiting the turtles, their eggs and the young hatchlings. The survival rate of the hatchlings is as low as just one or two turtles out of a thousand. Considering all these factors, it was necessary to undertake their protection on a large scale.

Activity-based on Vocabulary:

Fill in the blanks using the phrases given in the brackets:
(The answers are given directly and underlined.)
(to the shore, after a period of, on their own, to spread the message)

1. It is necessary to spread the message of peace all over the world.
2. You can withdraw your money after a period of three years.
3. The boat returned to the shore after a long time.
4. Students must learn to do their homework on their own.

Personal Response:

Question 1.
Why were those who had stolen the eggs earlier, Involved In the work of protection? Give at least two reasons.
Answer:
The first reason is that those who had stolen the eggs earlier, knew the exact details of where and I when the turtles would lay their eggs. The second reason was to give them a sense of responsibility, so ‘ that they would not continue to steal the eggs.

Simple Factual Activity :

Name the following :
(The answers are given directly and underlined.)

1. The Turtle festival: Kasav Mahotsava
2. Accommodation for tourists in the homes of villagers: Homestay
3. A sum of money saved for the protection of turtles: Turtle Protection Fund
4. The organization that took the initiative to save turtles: Sahyadri Nisarg Mitra

Complex Factual Activities :

Question 1.
What do the ‘homestay’ families do?
Answer:
The ‘homestay’ families provide accommodation to the tourists. These families also give ten percent of their income from ‘homestay’ for the Turtle Protection Fund.

Question 2.
Why was the project entrusted to the local people?
Answer:
The project was entrusted to the local people because it was believed that it is only the local villagers who can offer excellent protection to the local species.

Activity-based on Vocabulary:

Question 1.
Match the meanings of the following expressions with reference to the passage :

A	B
1. novel concept	(a) volunteered
2. unique spectacle	(b) new idea
3. came forward	(c) possible to be maintained
4. become sustainable	(d) unusual sight

Answer:

A	B
1. novel concept	(b) new idea
2. unique spectacle	(d) unusual sight
3. came forward	(a) volunteered
4. become sustainable	(c) possible to be maintained

Activity-based on Contextual Grammar:

Rewrite using the noun form of the underlined words: 

Question 1.

1. The tourists were accommodated in the homes of the villagers.
2. We are happy to see the project running smoothly.

Answer:

1. The tourists were given (provided) accommodation in the homes of the villagers.
2. It gives us happiness to see the project running smoothly.

Simple Activities:

Question 1.
Make a meaningful sentence using the following phrase:
throughout the year
Answer:
Nowadays, mangoes are available throughout the year

Question 2.
Spot the error and correct the sentence:
Turtles nests along the entire coastline of our state.
Answer:
Turtles nest along the entire coastline of our state.

Question 3.
Punctuate the following:
as soon as the eggs are laid it is caught and then killed and eaten
Answer:
As soon as the eggs are laid, it is caught and then killed and eaten.

Question 4.
Pick out the infinitive in the following sentence:
They had to prevent thefts.
Answer:
Infinitive – to prevent.

Question 5.
Identify the type of sentence:
We had never come across turtle eggs in our walks.
Answer:
Assertive sentence

Question 6.
Find out two hidden words from the word ‘organisation’
Answer:
organization- organ, grain, (rain, nation)

Question 7.
Find a verb from the lesson that forms its past and present participles by doubling the last letter.
Answer:
spot – spotted, spotting

Question 8.
Arrange the words in alphabetical order:
turtle, trail, ruthless, response
Answer:
response, ruthless, trail, turtle

Medium-Level Activities:

Question 1.
A comprehensive booklet and a short film was prepared to spread the message.
(Change the voice beginning ‘We……’)
Answer:
We prepared a comprehensive booklet and a short film to spread the message.

Question 2.
Use the word ‘leaves’ in two separate sentences, the word having different meanings (homographs):
Answer:
(a) The leaves of many trees turn yellow in autumn.
(b) A smart thief never leaves any clues behind.

Question 3.
They gave ten percent of their income from ‘homestay’ for the Turtle Protection Fund.
(Use the future continuous form of the verb.)
Answer:
They will be giving ten percent of their income from ‘homestay’ for the Turtle Protection Fund.

Question 4.
Some of the elderly villagers confessed that it was the first time that they had seen the hatchlings rushing to the sea.
(Rewrite indirect speech.)
Answer:
“It is the first time we have seen the hatchlings rushing to the sea,” confessed some of the elderly villagers.

Challenging Activities:

Question 1.
Use the word ‘harm’ as a noun and a verb in two separate sentences.
Answer:
(a) “You will come to no harm if you obey the rules,” said the teacher, (noun)
(b) If we harm the environment, we will suffer for it. (verb)

Question 2.
A Turtle Friends Club was established in each village. (Rewrite using a modal auxiliary for advice.)
Answer:
A Turtle Friends Club should be established in each village.

Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Solutions

Balbharti Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Solutions Kumarbharati Chapter 3.2 Reading Works of Art Notes, Textbook Exercise Important Questions and Answers.

Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Kumarbharati Solutions Chapter 3.2 Reading Works of Art

English Kumarbharati 9th Solutions Chapter 3.2 Reading Works of Art Textbook Questions and Answers

Warming Up:

Question 1.
Complete the following idioms using the appropriate colour term. (blue, black, green, red)

1. give someone a ……….. look (a look of anger. dislike, etc.)
2. the ……….. sheep (of the family a person who brings disgrace to the family)
3. a …………. list (a list of defaulters)
4. a ………….. belt (area of fields, woods. etc. around a city)
5. to have ……………. fingers (be good at gardening)
6. be ………….. with envy (feel very jealous)
7. give someone/get the signal (give/get pemilssion to do something)
8. a bolt from the ………….. (a sudden shock. surprise)
9. out of the ………….. (suddenly. unexpectedly)
10. once in a ……………. moon (very rarely)
11. vanish into the …………… (leave without any trace)
12. ………….. blood (royal blood. aristocratic origin)
13. …………. eyed boy (favourite person)
14. catch someone …………. handed (catch someone in the act of doing something wrong)
15. roll out the ……………. carpet (give a special welcome)
16. a …………….. herring (something that diverts attention from the main issue)
17. see …………… (become angry)

Answer:

1. give someone a black look.
2. out of the blue
3. the black sheep (of the family)
4. once in a blue moon
5. a black list
6. vanish into the blue
7. a green belt
8. blue blood
9. to have green fingers
10. a blue-eyed boy
11. be green with envy
12. catch someone red-handed
13. give someone/get the green signal
14. roll out the red carpet
15. a bolt from the blue
16. a red herring
17. see red

Question 2.
What are you reminded of when you think of the following colours.

1. purple
2. orange
3. yellow
4. pink
5. white

Answer:

1. purple – royalty
2. orange – fire
3. yellow – the sun
4. pink – sweetness
5. white – purity

English Workshop:

1. Spot the error in the spelling of these words with reference to the passage and rewrite them correctly.

Question 1.
Spot the error in the spelling of these words with reference to the passage and rewrite them correctly.

1. renouned
2. geomatric
3. feetures
4. figars
5. circals
6. acheiving

Answer:

1. renowned
2. geometric
3. features
4. figures
5. circles
6. achieving

2. Complete the following with reference to the passage:

Question 1.
Complete the following with reference to the passage:

Answer:

3. Complete the following diagram

Question 1.
Complete the following diagram.

Answer:

4. Complete the following with reference to the passage:

Question 1.
Complete the following with reference to the passage:
(a) Raza’s paintings do not depict ………….. .
(b) Raza’s paintings are done in the ……….. style.
(c) Raza’s paintings are not inspired by …………… .
(d) Raza’s paintings present images from his own …………. .
(e) Raza’s paintings radiate ……………… .
(f) The ……………. became the core of Raza’s paintings.
(g) For an artist like Raza. his work, or paintings are an effective ……………… .
Answer:
(a) Raza’s paintings do not depict lifelike human figures or copies of scenes from his environment.
(b) Raza’s paintings are done in the abstract style.
(c) Raza’s paintings are not inspired by any external factor.
(d) Raza’s paintings present images from his own inner mind.
(e) Raza’s paintings radiate peace and life at the same time.

5. Write about the important features of Gond art with reference to the passage.

Question 1.
Write about the important features of Gond art with reference to the passage.
Answer:
Gond art involves natural techniques of preparing colours and the use of several mediums. They are transferred from generation to generation in a smoothly flowing process. It is a medium of j recording and preserving what is seen.

6. Why does the author think that the roots of folk art lies in women’s chores?

Question 1.
Why does the author think that the roots of folk art lies in women’s chores?
Answer:
Natural colours available in various things around the house are used in Gond art. The pictures drawn are lively and attractive and depict simple things. The different colours, various textures and patterns were used year after year. The pictures were drawn on the walls of the home earlier. All this makes the author think that the roots of folk art lies in women’s chores.

7. From the passage, list the words related to:

Question 1.
From the passage, list the words related to:
(a) Geometry
(b) colours
(c) designs
Answer:
(b) colours – blue, orange, colour combinations.
(c) designs – abstract, scenes, geometric.

8. These two passages are examples of a short introduction to works of art a short review. They cover the following points:

Question 1.
These two passages are examples of a short introduction to works of art a short review. They cover the following points:

• The creator
• The theme or subject matter
• Type of ail
• Individual style tÐ1tjf
• Presentation techniques SIlO 3DF
• Its effect on viewers
• Message or interpretation

Compare the points with those you used for a book review and the review of a play. Present the comparison in the form of a chart.

Answer:

Book Review	Review of a Play	Review of a Painting
1. Title of the book	Name of the play/skit	The name of the artist
2. Author / Authors	Important characters	The theme or subject matter
3. Genre/category of the book	Any famous actors/actresses	Type of art
4. Target group written for	Theme	Individual style
5. Setting and time of the story	Climax	Presentation techniques
6. Central idea of the story	Ending	Its effect on viewers
7. Important characters	Use of lights and special effects if any	Medium – e.g. oil on canvas
8. Style of writing	Use of background music and sound effects if any	Message / Interpretation
9. Some special features	The costumes, make up, etc. of the characters	Colour composition
10. Publisher, year of publication	How well the actors present the play and behave on the stage?	Texture / Strokes
11. Your own opinion	Your own opinion about the play.	Your opinion

9. Using the Information given in the passage, write a short note on the following in your mother tongue:

Question 1.
Using the Information given in the passage, write a short note on the following in your mother tongue:
(a) The paintings of Raza
(b) Gond art.
(Students may attempt this In their notebook.)

10. Gather Information on any of the following by talking to your elders, family members and from other sources in your mother tongue and write a short note on it in English.

Question 10.
Gather Information on any of the following by talking to your elders, family members and from other sources in your mother tongue and write a short note on it in English.
Answer:

1. a special type of embroidery
2. a special dish that is prepared on a special occasion at home.
3. something that you use to decorate your home on special occasions.

11. Read the following from the Language Study pages:

Question 1.
Read the following from the Language Study pages:

1. adjective clause
2. adverb clause
3. noun clause.

Find an example of each of the following i from the passage and underline the linking words:
Answer:
1. My work is my own inner experience and Involvement with the mysteries of nature and form which is expressed In colour, line, space and light. which Is expressed in colour, line, space and light – Adjective clause
2. They originate when the artist tries to peep into his own inner mind. when the artist tries to peep into his own inner mind – adverb clause.
3. We realize that the painting is a visible form of very deep thought that the painting is a visible form of very deep thought – noun clause.

English Kumarbharati 9th Digest Chapter 3.2 Reading Works of Art Additional Important Questions and Answers

Activities based on Contextual Grammar.

Question 1.
His pictures seem to radiate peace and life. (Rewrite, beginning with ‘Peace and life’ …)
Answer:
Peace and life seem to be radiated from his pictures.

Personal Response:

Question 1.
Do you like to draw and paint? Elaborate on your answer.
Answer:
Yes, I do. I go to a drawing class regularly and my teacher says I am quite good at it. I also participate in drawing competitions and have won many prizes.

Simple Factual Activity:

Question 1.
‘Complete the following with reference to the passage: (The answers are given directly and underlined.)
Answer:

1. The ‘bindu’ or point became the core of Raza’s paintings.
2. For an artist like Raza, his work, or paintings, are an effective medium of communication.
3. Raza was born in a small village in Madhya pradesh.
4. Raza won many national & international awards.

Complex Factual Activity:

Question 1.
Name some of the awards won by Raza.
Answer:
Raza was honoured with the Padma Shri, the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Vibhushan.

Question 2.
How did the artist himself describe his work?
Answer:
Raza described his work in these words: My work is my own inner experience and involvement with the mysteries of nature and form which is expressed in colour, line, space and light.

Activity-based on Vocabulary:

Question 1.
Spot the error in the spelling of these words with reference to the passage and correct them :

1. penting
2. vilage
3. innar
4. dicided

Answer:

1. painting
2. village
3. inner
4. decided.

Activities based on Contextual Grammar.

Question 1.
Find an example of each of the following from the passage and underline the linking words :
1. adverb clause
Answer:
1. Sometimes, an artist’s thoughts appear to be too complex or even complicated when they are expressed through words. when they are expressed through words – adverb clause.

Question 2.
Join the sentences using ‘not only … but also …’ Raza had great creativity. His paintings are very expressive.
Answer:
Raza not only had great creativity but his paintings are also very expressive.

Personal Response.

Question 1.
What is your opinion about abstract art?
Answer:
I do not understand abstract art. I prefer paintings of animals and natural scenes. However, I am sure abstract art is also very great. One has to learn to understand it.

Simple Factual Activity:

Question 1.
Write if the following sentences are True or False: (The answers are given directly and underlined.)
Answer:

1. The Gond language is similar to Tamil – False
2. Gond art has spread mainly in North India – False
3. Gond art is a tribal art – True
4. Gonds have been residing in India for thousands of years – True

Activities based on Vocabulary:

Question 1.
Spot the error in the spelling of these words with reference to the passage and correct them:

1. mediam
2. tribel
3. mithology
4. erthen

Answer:

1. medium
2. tribal
3. mythology
4. earthen.

Question 2.
Write the noun forms of the following:

1. developed
2. preserved
3. similar
4. pleasant

Answer:

1. developed – development
2. preserved – preservation
3. similar – similarity
4. pleasant – pleasantness.

Activities based on Contextual Grammar.

Question 1.
Find two examples of noun clauses from the passage and underline the linking words :
Answer:
1. We learn that they have lived in India for thousands of years.
that they have lived in India for thousands of years – noun clause
2. Art is a medium of recording and preserving what is seen.
what is seen – noun clause

Question 2.
Frame a Wh question to get the underlined part as the answer:
It has been developed and preserved by the Gond tribal people.
Answer:
By whom has it been developed and preserved? OR Who has developed and preserved it?

Personal Response:

Question 1.
‘A house decorated with beautiful pictures creates a pleasant atmosphere’. Do you agree with this? Explain your answer.
Answer:
Yes, I agree with this statement. In my house, there are many paintings of beautiful scenes. When you look at these paintings of nature, you feel soothed and happy. However, I feel this is true only with those people who love art.

Simple Factual Activity:

Question 1.
Complete the web: (The answers are underlined directly.)
Answer:

Complex Factual Activity.

Question 1.
Write about the important features of Gond art with reference to the passage.
Answer:
Natural colours available in various things around the house are used in Gond art. The different colours, various textures and patterns were used year after year. The outlines may vary a little from artist to artist, but the pictures are lively and attractive. The designs include simple textures using dots, straight lines, dotted lines, curvy shapes and circles. Special attention is given to the choice of colours.

Activities based on Vocabulary.

Question 1.
Spot the error in the spelling of the following words with reference to the passage and rewrite them correctly:

1. diffarent
2. stright
3. amasing
4. decorateing

Answer:

1. different
2. straight
3. amazing
4. decorating.

Question 2.
From the passage, list the words related to:
1. colours
2. designs
Answer:
1. colours – colours, shades.
2. designs – patterns, Gond styles.

Activities based on Contextual Grammar.

Question 1.
Find an example of each of the following from the passage and underline the linking words :
1. noun clause
2. adverb clause
Answer:
1. We realize that a picture drawn this way or the other can look equally beautiful.
that a picture drawn this way or the other can look equally beautiful. – noun clause
2. Special attention is given to the choice of various colours so that the total effect is amazing and beautiful. so that the total effect is amazing and beautiful – adverb clause

Question 2.
The designs include simple textures. (Rewrite using the noun form of the underlined word.)
Answer:
There is an inclusion of simple textures in the designs.

Simple Activities.

Question 1.
Write two compound words of your own.
Answer:
lifelike, coastline

Question 2.
Make a meaningful sentence using the phrase ‘at the same time’.
Answer:
It is not possible to be at two different places at the same time.

Question 3.
Spot the error and correct the sentence: Art are a medium of recording and preserving what is seen.
Answer:
Art is a medium of recording and preserving what is seen.

Pick out the gerund from the given sentence:

Question 1.
The roots of folk arts lie in women’s chores like cleaning.
Answer:
cleaning – gerund.

Question 2.
Identify the type of sentence: What a deep thought it conveys!
Answer:
Exclamatory sentence

Question 3.
Find out two hidden words from the word ‘complicated’.
Answer:
complicated-complicate, clamp (leapt, pleat).

Question 4.
Form a present participle in which the last i letter is doubled.
Answer:
run-running

Question 5.
Arrange the following in Alphabetical order:
colour, composition, combination, captivating.
Answer:
captivating, colour, combination, composition.

Question 6.
Make a word chain of verbs starting with : the following verb:
reward →
Answer:
reward → disappear → remain notice → empathize

Medium-Level Activities.

Question 1.
He won many awards.
(Change the voice beginning ‘Many ….’)
Answer:
Many awards were won by him.

Question 2.
He studied art at Nagpur. (Use the past | perfect continuous tense of the verb.)
Answer:
He had been studying art at Nagpur.

Question 3.
Prepare a word register for ‘geometry’ with words from the lesson.
Answer:
geometry – shapes, circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, lines, dots, straight lines, dotted lines, curvy slopes, circles, point, bindu, space.

Challenging Activities.

Question 1.
Use the following word as a verb and a noun in two separate sentences : draw
Answer:
(a) The match ended in a draw. (noun)
(b) The teacher asked the children to draw a monkey. (verb)

Question 2.
We see that the outlines may vary a little. (Pick out the modal and state the function.)
Answer:
may – possibility

Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Solutions

Balbharti Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Solutions Kumarbharati Chapter 1.2 A Synopsis – The Swiss Family Robinson Notes, Textbook Exercise Important Questions and Answers.

Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Kumarbharati Solutions Chapter 1.2 A Synopsis – The Swiss Family Robinson

English Kumarbharati 9th Solutions Chapter 1.2 A Synopsis – The Swiss Family Robinson Textbook Questions and Answers

Warming Up:

1. Do you know any stories about people who were lost in uninhabited places and were later rescued? Name them.

Question 1.
Do you know any stories about people who were lost in uninhabited places and were later rescued? Name them.
Answer:
(Some examples: Captain Nemo, Gulliver, Robinson Crusoe, etc.)

2. Think of one of your favourite interesting stories and fill in/draw an outline-chart like the one shown below.

Many times, the climax is near the end. A few stories end with a climax to achieve greater effect.

Find the meaning of ‘anticlimax’.

Question 1.
Think of one of your favourite interesting stories and fill in/draw an outline-chart like the one shown below.

Answer:
Title of the story: Crooked House
Author: Agatha Christie

1. Change/problem/challenge: To find out the person who murdered rich Mr. Leonides.
2. Scene 1: The narrator, Charles, meets Sophia, the girl whom he wants to marry.
3. Scene 2: Sophia’s grandfather, the rich Mr. Leonides, is murdered. Sophia will not marry Charles till the murderer is found.
4. Scene 3: Charles tries to help Scotland Yard in the investigation.
5. Scene 4: Family secrets tumble out. Everybody seems to be a possible killer.
6. Scene 5: There is an accident to a member of the family and another death. Everyone is tense and there is suspicion all around.
7. Climax: The mystery is solved, with a thrilling climax.
   (Students may write as many scenes as there are in the story after reading some stories.)

Question 2.
Find the meaning of ‘anticlimax’.
Answer:
‘Anticlimax’ with reference to stories means a disappointing or tame end to an exciting story or an impressive, thrilling series of events.

3. Divide the class into groups of 4-6. Each group selects for itself, one of the difficult situations listed below. Each group imagine themselves to be in that situation.

• Describe their surroundings in 4-5 sentences.
• Write the reactions of the companions using exclamations.
• Using your imagination, write what is the only ray of hope for them.
• Two members of the group are going out to try to get help. They can take any five things with them. Write what they choose, and why they choose it.

Question 1.
Divide the class into groups of 4-6. Each group selects for itself one of the difficult situations given on Textbook page 5. Each group imagines themselves to be in that situation. Each group now :
Answer
(a) marooned on an island: A group of people are marooned on an island in the middle of the ocean.
(Points: Tiny island – 10 people marooned- only water all around – cannot be drunk – but small freshwater lake on island – some afraid, some hopeful, some ill – ray of hope is that there are plenty of fruit trees and vegetables – see land in the distance – they plan to make a reft – two people to go for help – take food, water, some medicines, etc. – make fire on island – see some planes go by)

(b) lost in a forest: A group of people walking through a thick jungle have lost their way.
Answer:
1. Oh, look at these huge trees, with so many leaves – there is barely any sunlight at the bottom here! What are those queer noises? There seem to be thousands of creepy-crawly insects and birds! What if there are poisonous snakes? Dangerous carnivorous animals?

2. “Ouch! What was that!” said Reena.
“Oh my God! Are there tigers and lions here?” said Mohan.
“Someone please save me!” shrieked Ria.

3. The only ray of hope was the probable return of the guide before the sun went down. He would then take us to our camp, which was a safe haven, with boundary walls and guards.

4. Mohan and Sandeep are going for help. They will take a lantern and matches, in case it gets dark? before they can get help. They will take stout sticks to protect themselves from animals, and food and water to keep themselves from starving. They will also take one of the whistles to tell us where they are.

(c) stranded on the highway: A team of players from an office have got down at the wrong place on a highway at night. It is a lonely spot.
(Points: Five people – chess players – though highway lit by lights, no humans or cars in sight – suddenly see a group of men on motorcycles – players afraid they are thieves – try to hide – successful – plan to remain in hiding – two members will walk along the road – other two will follow at a distance – carry sticks, stones, etc.)

English Workshop :

1. Two separate words combine together to make a new word with a different meaning. They form Compound Words. Using a dictionary, find the meanings of the following compound words.

• armloads …………… .
• footprints …………….. .
• driftwood ……………. .
• fireplace ……………… .
• cross – currents ……… .
• spyglass …………… .

Question 1.
Two separate words combine together to make a new word with a different meaning. They form Compound Words. Using a dictionary, find the meanings of the following compound words.
armloads …………… .
footprints …………….. .
driftwood ……………. .
fireplace ……………… .
cross – currents ……… .
spyglass …………… .

2. The following words can be used as nouns as well as verbs. Make two sentences of your own, using them as a noun in one and a verb in another.
(a) hold : (a) Noun – She has a strong hold over her children
(b) Verb – Let me hold the bag for you

(b) value :
(a) Noun – ………………………..
(b) Verb – ………………………..

(c) knot :
(a) Noun – ………………………..
(b) Verb – ………………………..

(d) travel :
(a) Noun – ………………………..
(b) Verb – ………………………..

(e) return :
(a) Noun – ………………………..
(b) Verb – ………………………..

(f) reach :
(a) Noun – ………………………..
(b) Verb- …………………………

(g) knock :
(a) Noun – ………………………..
(b) Verb – ………………………..

(h) attack :
(a) Noun – ………………………..
(b) Verb – ………………………..

(i) mark :
(a) Noun – ………………………..
(b) Verb – ………………………..

Question 1.
The following words can be used as nouns as well as verbs. Make two sentences of your own, using them as a noun in one and a verb in another:
Answer:
(b) value :
(a) Noun – Do you know the value of this land?
(b) Verb – We must value our senior citizens, for they have a lot of experience.

(c) knot.
(a) Noun – There was a big knot in the wire we had bought.
(b) Verb – Can you please knot these two ribbons together?

(d) travel.
Answer:
(a) Noun – Train travel can be a very interesting experience.
(b) Verb – I travel regularly to foreign countries.

(e) return.
Answer:
(a) Noun – The return of the lost boy brought happiness to everyone.
(b) Verb – Please return the book to me soon.

(f) reach.
Answer:
(a) Noun – Our goal was within reach when our leader gave up.
(b) Verb – Reach the appointed place on time, please.

(i) mark.
Answer:
(a) Noun – The tight elastic has left a mark on my arm.
(b) Verb – The teacher asked Rohan to mark the swampy area neatly with chalk.

3. Given in a mixed order below are some good human attributes of the family. Pick out each from the box and write it against each line that reflects it.

(a) The father told Fritz, the gourds would make excellent bowls and spoons and they cut them into various utensils …………..
(b) After some days, Elizabeth informed that she wanted the family to move to a safer place. …………..
(c) Thinking ahead of winter, father decided to create a place safe from the elements …………..
(d) Father taught the boys geometry and how to use triangles to measure big objects. …………..
(e) ………….. he believed, his daughter was still alive, after three years.
(f) Ten years had passed and the young boys grew to be young men and their parents were proud of them …………
(g) Fritz felt that someone needed his help and he was determined to find the sender …………..

Question 1.
Given in a mixed order below are some good human attributes of the family. Pick out a suitable one from the box and write it against each line that reflects it :
Answer:
(a) The father told Fritz that the gourds would make excellent bowls and spoons and they cut them into various utensils, resourcefulness.
(b) After some days Elizabeth informed them that she wanted the family to move to a safer place. cautiousness.
(c) Thinking ahead of winter, father decided to create a place safe from the elements. foresight.
(d) Father taught the boys geometry and how to use triangles to measure big objects, knowledge and its application.
(e) …… he believed his daughter was still alive, after three years, perseverance and positive attitude.
(f) Ten years had passed and the young boys grew to be young men and their parents were proud of them, family bonds.
(g) Fritz felt that someone needed his help and he was determined to find the sender. humanity and sensitivity.

4. Write in your own words, how the Robinson family made each of their homes.

Question 1.
First home:
Answer:
The Robinson family’s first home was a tent on the island. They cut and spread armloads of grass to serve as their beds and soften the floor of the tent.

Question 2.
Second home :
Answer:
Their second home was a tree whose trunk was nearly 40 ft. in diameter. The branches were long and extended straight out from the trunk, making them perfect platforms for a structure. After determining the height of the lowest branch from the ground, they made a ladder. They discovered how to make candles. They also made a sledge to help them transport materials.

Question 3.
Third home :
Answer:
The Robinson family’s third home was a cave they carved out in the rock abutting their camping site. They made an opening on the smooth face of the rock. Then they cut windows in the rock to allow for cross-currents of air and sunlight to enter the cave. They made four rooms, complete with a fireplace. They hung a huge oil lamp at the top of a bamboo pole for light. This was their winter home, a place safe from the elements and a strong storage spot to protect themselves and their belongings.

Question 4.
Fourth home :
Answer:
They used four strong trees growing in a square near one another as the foundation for their fourth home. The trees were of equal size, approximately twelve feet apart. Thus they built another safe home.

5. Expand the following ideas in a paragraph or two:
1. Where there is a will, there is a way.
2. Courage and resourcefulness are the keys to overcome problems.

Question 1.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Answer:
This proverb means that if one really wants to do something, one can. If we read the biographies of great men and women like Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Mother Teresa and Abraham Lincoln, we will find that it is their strong will which has helped them overcome great difficulties and setbacks, and helped them find a way to achieve their goals.

All of us wish to achieve many things in life, but we may not succeed. When this happens, we tend to blame our luck, our circumstances and our fate. We do not realize that the fault lies within us. Every student thinks that getting a high score in examinations is beyond his or her capacity.

But if a student resolves firmly to achieve his or her goal and works towards it sincerely and wholeheartedly, he or she is certain to achieve success. If one comes across any obstacle and can’t climb over it, one must walk around it. There is always a way, if there is the will!

Question 2.
Courage and resourcefulness are the keys i to overcome problems.
Answer:
When we talk of courage and resourcefulness, the first person that comes to my mind is the dancer i and actress Sudha Chandran. Sudha Chandran, a Bharatnatyam dancer, did not let an accident come in the way of achieving her dreams. At the age of seventeen, she met with an accident which resulted in the amputation of one , leg, below the knee. To any ordinary person, this would have meant the end of a dancing career.

But Sudha took it as a challenge with an artificial leg, she began to dance again. Today her story is the story of inspiration for many. We have only to look around us at the cancer survivors to realize how courage can help us overcome i all odds and achieve our goals in life. We must never give up hope; if one way seems too difficult, we must ! think of the other ways available. All we need is renewed determination and effort and we will finally succeed.

6. Individual Project:
Choose any novel/book that you enjoyed. Prepare a synopsis of the novel. It should include the major events and the links between them as described m the novel. You may prepare a chapterwise outline first, and then put the outlines together to write a brief synopsis.

Question 1.
Choose any novel/book that you enjoyed. Prepare a synopsis of the novel. It should include the major events and the links between them as described in the novel. You may prepare a chapterwise outline first, and then put the outlines together to write a brief synopsis. (An example is given below.)
Answer:
Emma
‘Emma’ is the fourth novel by Jane Austen and centres round Emma Wood house, a twenty-one year-old rich and clever young woman. Emma is an heiress who lives with her widowed father at their estate, Hatfield, in the small village of High bury. The novel is about Emma’s misplaced confidence in I her matchmaking abilities, which results in several misunderstandings and romantic episodes.

The major part of the book focuses on the topic of marriage who will marry whom and why. At the centres of the narration is the protagonist of the novel, Emma Wood house. ‘Emma’ is a novel dealing with courtship, social manners and social distinctions. Although Emma is i convinced she will never marry, she believes she is an excellent matchmaker and that it is she who has arranged the recent marriage between her former governess, Miss Taylor, and the widower Mr. Weston.

The book begins with the reader being told that Emma, suddenly deprived of Miss Taylor’s companionship, is feeling lonely. Gradually, she decides to take an orphan Harriet Smith under her wings as a protege.

Emma decides that Harriet is a perfect match for the vicar, Mr. Elton, and discourages Harriet’s interest in Robert Martin, who she feels is not a ‘gentleman’ and is unworthy of Harriet. Encouraged by Emma, Harriet becomes infatuated with Mr. Elton; but Emma’s plans go wrong when Elton makes it clear that his love is for Emma, not Harriet. He had been spending time with Harriet merely to please Emma.

Elton, spurned by Emma and angry by her i assumption that Harriet is his equal, leaves and marries another girl almost immediately. Harriet, who is initially upset by this turn of affairs, later falls in love with Mr. Knightley, Emma’s special friend. Meanwhile, two new visitors arrive in Highbury- Jane Fairfax, a beautiful orphan, and Frank Churchill. the handsome son of Mr. Weston. Emma dislikes Jane, and flirts with Frank, but this interest does not last.

Frank leaves Highbury mysteriously, and it turns out that he and Jane have been engaged all along, j Suddenly, Emma realizes that she loves Mr. Knightley. She confesses that she had never loved Frank. Mr. Knightley too professes his love for Emma. She is overjoyed and they decide to marry. Emma is later pleased to learn that Harriet has decided to marry Robert after all.

The novel thus concludes happily with three marriages; Jane and Frank, Harriet and Robert, and Emma and Mr. Knightley. After all her attempts to make suitable matches fail, Emma finally begins to realize the emptiness of social distinctions. By the end of the novel, Emma has learned her lesson without too much harm being done.

7. Read about the novel ‘Robinson Crusoe’ by Daniel Defoe and ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ by Jonathan Swift.

Question 1.
Read about the novel ‘Robinson Crusoe’ by Daniel Defoe and ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ by Jonathan Swift.

English Kumarbharati 9th Digest Chapter 1.2 A Synopsis – The Swiss Family Robinson Additional Important Questions and Answers

Reading Skills, Vocabulary And Grammar

Read the following passages and complete the activities :
Simple Factual Activity :

Question 1.
Complete the following statements :
(The answers are given directly and underlined.)
Answer:

1. The author of the novel is Johann David Wyss.
2. The ship was caught in a great storm.
3. The family found themselves within sight of a tropical desert island.
4. The two dogs who came with them were Turk and Juno.

Complex Factual Activity :

Question 1.
Descrlbe how the fmlly reached the tropical island.
Answer:
The family constructed a boat out of tubs. They filled the boat with food and ammunition and all the other articles of value they could safely carry. Then they rowed towards the island.

Activity based on Vocabulary:

Question 1.
Find the meanings of the following words :

1. evacuated
2. livestock
3. synopsis
4. reef

Answer:

1. evacuated – left the ship to save themselves.
2. livestock – farm animals and birds (like cows, pigs, chickens, etc.) that are kept and used by people.
3. synopsis – a brief summary or outline.
4. reef – rocks, sand, etc. close to the surface of the sea.

Activities based on Contextual Grammar :

Complex Factual Activity :

Question 1.
Pick out the verbs in the following sentences and state their tenses :
1. William, Elizabeth and their children had been travelling in a ship.
2. They decided to get to the island.
Answer:
1. had been travelling – past perfect continuous tense.
2. decided – simple past tense.

Question 2.
The following words can be used as nouns as well as verbs. Make two sentences of your own, using them as a noun in one and a verb in another.
1. hold :
(a) Noun – She has a strong hold over her children.
(b) Verb – Let me hold the bag for you.

Personal Response :

Question 1.
In what way is a work of fiction different from a fact file?
Answer:
In a work of fiction the writer uses his imagination. He does not have to stick to the facts. He can exaggerate and stretch reality. However, in a fact file, the writer has to write only the actual facts.

Simple Factual Activity :

Question 1.
Write what the following were used for by the Robinson family :
(The answers are given directly and underlined.)
Answer:

1. Gourds: to make excellent bowls and spoons.
2. Grass: to soften the floor of the tent.
3. Knotted rope : to create a ladder.
4. Sledge: to transport materials.

Complex Factual Activity :

Question 1.
“Mother wished to shift the family to a tree- house.”Give reasons.
Answer:
Mother wished to shift the family to a tree-house because their current camp was not only exposed but also very dry and hot. She wanted a house that would be safe from jackals and other animals.

Activities based on Vocabulary :

Question 1.
Find the meanings of the following compound words :
1. armloads
2. driftwood
Answer:
1. armloads – the amount that can be carried in one arm or both the arms.
2. driftwood – pieces of wood that are floating on the water.

Question 2.
Give the noun forms of the following :
1. measure
2. describe
Answer:
1. measure – measurement
2. describe – description.

Activities based on Contextual Grammar :

Question 1.
Pick out the conjunctions in the following sentences :
1. They set up a tent and softened the floor with grass.
2. Elizabeth informed William that she wanted the family to move to a safer place.
Answer:
1. and
2. that

Personal Response :

Question 1.
What quality or qualities, according to you, does Elizabeth’s decision to move to a safer place show?
Answer:
Elizabeth’s decision to move to a safer place shows her foresight and knowledge of the environment It also shows her intelligence.

Simple Factual Activity :

Question 1.
Say if the following sentences are Right or Wrong:
Answer:

1. The family found a wonderful, ready cave for their winter home. Wrong
2. Elizabeth was idle when the others were busy. Wrong
3. They made windows for sunlight to enter the cave. Right
4. Father and Jack rigged up a new light. Right

Complex Factual Activity :

Question 1.
How did the mother occupy herself while the tree house was being built?
Answer:
When the tree house was being built the mother looked after the vegetable garden and grew healthy plants. Corn, melons, pumpkins and cucumbers were already growing.

Question 2.
What was the third place the family decided to reside in? Why did they wish to shift there?
Answer:
The third place the family decided to reside in was a cave. They wished to shift there to create a place safe from the elements during the coming winter. The cave could also be a strong storage spot to protect themselves and their belongings.

ActivIties based on Vocabulary:

Question 1.
Find the meanings of the following compound words :
1. cross-currents
2. fireplace
Answer:
1. cross-currents – currents of air-flow across a room.
2. fireplace – an open recess for holding a fire at the base of a chimney.

Question 2.
Using prefixes, form the antonyms of:
1. complete
2. healthy
Answer:
1. complete × incomplete
2. healthy × unhealthy.

Activities based on Contextual Grammar :

Question 1.
Frame Wh-questions to get the underlined parts as the answer :
1. On the smooth surface of the rock, father i marked dimensions.
2. Only the father and Fritz travelled to the woods.
Answer:
1. Where did father mark dimensions?
2. Who travelled to the woods?

Personal Response :

Question 1.
What is your opinion about the father, based on the passage?
Answer:
I think that the father is very resourceful and knowledgeable. He found plants from the forest which would provide them with wax for candles and rubbery sap for boots. He realized that winter would be difficult in the tree as they would be exposed to the elements. So he worked hard and intelligently to build a cave. If he found that anything was lacking, he tried to provide it, like fitting a lamp in the cave. He cared for and looked sifter his family well.

Simple Factual Activity :

Question 1.
Name the following :
(The answers are given directly.)
Answer:

1. The person who had inspired the search : Jenny’s father.
2. The place where the British vessel was headed towards : New Switzerland.
3. The person who wanted to marry Jenny : Fritz.
4. The person who wanted a chance to receive an academic education : Franz.

Complex Factual Activity :

Question 1.
How does the adventure come to a happy end?
Answer:
The adventure comes to a happy end after the family and Jenny are rescued by a British vessel. The survivors were in good health and decisions were unanimously made about who wanted to stay on the island and who wanted to leave. Fritz told his parents about his love for Jenny and his wish to marry her. So everyone was finally happy.

Question 2.
Who is included in the word ‘Everyone’ in ‘Everyone was amazed
Answer:
The word ‘Everyone’ includes the passengers and crew of the British vessel which had rescued the family.

Activity based on Vocabulary :

Question 1.
Find the meanings of the following words :

1. spyglass
2. savages
3. crew
4. survivors

Answer:

1. spyglass – binoculars or a small telescope.
2. savages – wild men.
3. crew – the people who work on a ship.
4. survivors – the people who have survived or

Activities based on Contextual Grammar:

Question 1.
Pick out the subordinate clauses from the following sentences :
1. They saw a ship which had laid anchor.
2. Jenny asked if anyone would support her return to England.
Answer:
1.  subordinate clause – which had laid anchor.
2. subordinate clause – if anyone would support her return to England.

Personal Response :

Question 1.
The end of the novel states that Jack and Ernest chose to stay back on the island instead of returning to England. Can you guess the reasons why they made this choice?
Answer:
One reason could be that they had been very young when they were marooned on the island, and this was their life now. The second reason was that they probably did not want to leave their parents alone without support.

Language Study Activities
(based on vocabulary and grammar)

Note: As per ilw latest activity sheet formal. 5 simple activities. 3 medium level activities and 2 challenging activities will be asked. Students are expected to attempt any 4 simple activities, any 2 medium level activities and any I challenging activity. However, we have given more activities in each prose lesson for better study of language study section.

Simple Activities :

Question 1.
Write two compound words from the lesson.
Answer:
spyglass, Englishwoman

Question 2.
Make a meaningful sentence using the phrase ‘the next morning’.
Answer:
The next morning, the rain had stopped and the sky was clear.

Question 3.
Spot the error and correct the sentence :
Everyone were amazed at the good health of the survivors. ;
Answer:
Everyone was amazed at the good health of the survivors.

Question 4.
Pick out the infinitive from the sentence :
Fritz, Ernest, Jack and Franz were left to survive alone.
Answer:
Infinitive – to survive.

Question 5.
Identify the type of sentence :
Do not despair.
Answer:
Imperative Sentence

Question 6.
Find out two hidden words from the word : ‘informed’
Answer:
informed – inform, deform, (friend, fiend).

Question 7.
Form the past participle of a verb from the lesson in which the last letter is doubled.
Answer:
knot – knotted

Question 8.
Arrange these words in alphabetical order :
platform, produce, perfect, pinnace
Answer:
perfect, pinnace, platform, produce

Medium-Level Activities :

Question 1.
One day, they saw a ship.
(Change the voice starting A ship…..’.)
Answer:
A ship was seen by them one day.

Question 2.
Use the word ‘might’ in two separate sentences, the word having different meanings (homographs) :
Answer:
(a) The little boy pulled at the rope with all his might.
(b) It might rain tonight.

Question 3.
They created a ladder.
(Use the past perfect tense of the verb.)
Answer:
They had created a ladder.

Question 4.
His father suggested that ‘smoking rock’ sounded like a reference to a volcano.
(Rewrite using direct speech.)
Answer:
His father said, ‘Smoking rock’ sounds like a reference to a volcano”.

Challenging Activities :

Question 1.
Use the word ‘wish’ as a noun and a verb in two separate sentences.
Answer:
(a) The fairy granted the poor girl her wish, (noun)
(b) “I wish I had a beautiful dress,” said Cinderella. (verb)

Question 2.
Elizabeth informed William that she wanted the family to move to a safer place. (Pick out the clauses)
Answer:
Elizabeth informed William-Main Clause that she wanted the family to move to a safer place-Subordinate Clause

Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Solutions

Balbharti Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Solutions Kumarbharati Chapter 2.1 Invictus Notes, Textbook Exercise Important Questions and Answers.

Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Kumarbharati Solutions Chapter 2.1 Invictus

English Kumarbharati 9th Solutions Chapter 2.1 Invictus Textbook Questions and Answers

Warming Up:

Let’s introspect!

1. Think and respond with a ‘YES’ or ‘NO’. When you are faced with a very serious problem or some grave danger, what do you experience?

Write about your feelings and reactions In 4-5 lines. You may describe your feelings and reactions usIng other words than those given here.

Form groups of four. Discuss what you actually feel and do In difficult situations and some of the things you could do and would like to do In those situations.

Question 1.
Think and respond with a ‘YES’ or ‘NO’. When you are faced with a very serious problem or some grave danger, what do you experience?
Answer:
(Students can attempt this activity on page 27 of the textbook on their own.)

Question 2.
Write about your feelings and reactions In 4-5 lines. You may describe your feelings and reactions usIng other words than those given here.
Answer:
[Students may write this based on responses made in (a).]
(Some other words you can use to describe your feelings and reactions :fear, nervousness, uncertainty, lack of confidence, aggressiveness, insecurity, courage, optimism, despair, etc.)

Question 3.
Form groups of four. Discuss what you actually feel and do In difficult situations and some of the things you could do and would like to do In those situations.
Answer:
In difficult situations :
(a) What I actually feel and do :

1. feel frightened and corf used
2. feel depressed and cry
3. run away and hide
4. tell lies or blame others.

(b) What I could do and would like to do :

1. be calm and brave
2. accept the situation and look for solutions
3. take due responsibility for what has happened
4. share my problems and look for support. (Students can add their own points and discuss this activity in groups.)

2. Guess what the following symbolize and match the pairs : 

Question 1.
Guess what the following symbolize and match the pairs :

A	B
1. a tall mountain	(a) beauty
2. a dark night	(b) freedom
3. a rose	(c) deep distress
4. sunrise	(d) anger
5. a flying bird	(e) strength/firmness
6. thunder	(f) hope

Answer:

A	B
1. a tall mountain	(e) strength/firmness
2. a dark night	(c) deep distress
3. a rose	(a) beauty
4. sunrise	(f) hope
5. a flying bird	(b) freedom
6. thunder	(d) anger

English Workshop:

1. Choose the correct option :

Question a.
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole.
i. There is a pit between two poles which you cannot see at night.
ii. I am in a pit that is covered with a black sheet.
iii. The circumstances are as bad as they can be, with nothing to hope for from any corner.
Answer:
iii. The circumstances are as bad as they can be, with nothing to hope for from any corner.

Question b.
In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud.
i. I fell down and cried aloud.
ii. I have not expressed my grief even when I had to suffer great pain.
iii. I freed myself from a difficult situation and cried.
Answer:
ii. I have not expressed my grief even when I had to suffer great pain.

Question c.
Under the bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody …
i. I have suffered many setbacks and losses, for which there was no reason.
ii. I got hurt due to my own faults.
iii. My enemies hit me till I started bleeding.
Answer:
i. I have suffered many setbacks and losses, for which there was no reason.

Question d.
And yet the menace of the years, Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
i. My enemies threaten me but cannot find me.
ii. A great bully found me once, but shall not find me in future.
iii. Even though I am growing old, I am not, and shall not be, afraid.
Answer:
iii. Even though I am growing old, I am not, and shall not be, afraid.

Question e.
How charged with punishments the scroll….
i. The scroll is very expensive.
ii. I may have to pay for many of my mistakes.
iii. I have to pay money as punishment.
Answer:
ii. I may have to pay for many of my mistakes.

Question f.
I am the master of my fate.
i. I take responsibility for everything that happens in my life.
ii. My fate is my master.
iii. I am the master of this world.
Answer:
i. I take responsibility for everything that happens in my life.

Question g.
I am the captain of my soul.
i. I am the captain of a team.
ii. My soul is the captain of my team.
iii. My actions are the result of my own feelings.
Answer:
iii. My actions are the result of my own feelings.

2. Write the rhyme scheme of the poem.

Question 1.
Write the rhyme scheme of the poem.
Answer:
Rhyme scheme: abab.

3. Read the poem ‘Where lies the land ……..’ by A.C. Clough.

Question 1.
Read the poem ‘Where lies the land ……..’ by A.C. Clough.

English Kumarbharati 9th Digest Chapter 2.1 Invictus Additional Important Questions and Answers

Complex Factual Activities :

Question 1.
What is the poet thankful for?
Answer:
The poet is thankful for his unconquerable soul.

Question 2.
What does the poet have full control over?
Answer:
The poet has full control over his fate, his soul and his life.

Question 3.
Which lines show that the poet has suffered his hardships bravely?
Answer:
The lines that show that the poet has suffered his hardships bravely are :
i. I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

ii. In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have neither winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloody but unbowed.

Question 4.
What is meant by ‘the place of wrath and tears’?
Answer:
‘The place of wrath and tears’ means the place of anger and sadness. That is, the world where we live.

Activities based on Poetic Devices :

Question 1.
‘Under the bludgeonings of chance’. Pick out and explain the figure of speech from this line.
Answer:
Personification – Chance (fate) is personified. It is said to be beating the poet violently with a club.

Paragraph Format :

The poem ‘Invictus’ is by William Ernest Henley. The Rhyme Scheme of the poem is abab. One example of a Figure of Speech is Personification: ‘In the fell clutch of circumstance’, ‘Circumstance’ is personified. It is said to be clutching wickedly.

‘Invictus’ is a powerful poem. It is all about showing courage in the face of death, and of the will to survive with dignity in the face of severe hardships. The poet stresses that he alone is responsible for his actions, and though he has been battered by fate, he has not been conquered.

Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Solutions

Balbharti Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Solutions Kumarbharati Chapter 1.5 The Necklace Notes, Textbook Exercise Important Questions and Answers.

Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Kumarbharati Solutions Chapter 1.5 The Necklace

English Kumarbharati 9th Solutions Chapter 1.5 The Necklace Textbook Questions and Answers

Warming up :

Talking About Myself :

1. Write a few lines about yourself – your name, appearance, family, the place where you live, your school, your friends, neighbours, relatives, your likes, dislikes, hobbies, what you are good at, etc.

Now create an imaginary ‘persona’ for yourself. It can be quite different from your real self. Or, you may choose a fictional character – a character from a novel, story, etc. Write a few lines about this imaginary persona and introduce yourself in that role.

Question 1.
Write a few lines about yourself – your name, appearance, etc. Then create an imaginary ‘persona’ for yourself. It may be quite different from your real self. Or you may choose a fictional character and introduce yourself in that role.
(Only a few lines have been given here. Students can expand the paragraphs as they wish.)
Answer:

My Dream Possession :

Is there something that you would like to own more than anything else? Describe your dream possession with the help of the following points. You may add your own points, too.

Question 1.
Is there something that you would like to own more than anything else? Describe your dream possession with the help of the following points. You may add your own points, too.
Answer:

Part – I

English Workshop :

1. Read each of the following sentences aloud. Write who said it and to whom.

(a) “Look, here’s something for you.”
(b) “Why, the dress you go to the theatre in!”
(c) “I would rather not go to the party.”
(d) “Choose, my dear.”
(e) “You have nothing else?”
(f) “Would you lend lue this, just this?”
(g) “What ! … how ! … That’s impossible!”

Question a.
“Look, here’s something for you.”
Answer:
Mathilde’s husband said this to Mathilde.

Question b.
“Why, the dress you go to the theatre in!”
Answer:
Mathilde’s husband said this to Mathilde.

Question c.
“I would rather not go to the party.”
Answer:
Mathilde said this to her husband.

Question d.
“Choose, my dear.”
Answer: Madame Forestier said this to Mathilde.

Question e.
“You have nothing else?”
Answer:
Mathilde said this to Madame Forestier.

Question f.
“Would you lend me this, just this?”
Answer:
Mathilde said this to Madame Forestier.

2. Write a few lines about what Mathilde had and what she dreamt about.

Question 1.
Write a few lines about what Mathilde had and what she dreamt about.
Answer:
Mathilde had plain dresses and a shabby, poorly furnished house. She dreamt of a grand. palatial mansion, with vast rooms and inviting smaller rooms, perfumed for afternoon chats with close friends.

3. Write what you think about the following thoughts and actions of Mathilde.
(a) Mathilde was beautiful, and so she wanted to marry an aristocrat.
(b) Mathilde was sad because she did not get any luxuries.
(c) Mathilde felt that her house was shabby and poorly furnished.
(d) Mathilde wanted other people to envy her.
(e) Mathilde was not happy to see the invitation.
(f) Mathilde wanted a new dress for herself.
(g) Mathilde borrowed a diamond necklace from her friend and wore it to the party.
(h) Mathilde lost the necklace.

Question a.
Mathilde was beautiful and so she wanted to many an aristocrat.
Answer:
I think that this is a natural but childish wish. What Mathilde does not realize is that happiness does not lie in money or status. It depends on the character of a person.

Question b.
Mathilde was sad because she did not get any luxuries.
Answer:
I feel sympathetic towards Mathilde. Everyone wants luxuries, but not everyone can get them. Mathilde should have realized this and been content with whatever she had. She should have tried to improve her living conditions in some way.

Question c.
Mathilde felt that her house was shabby and poorly furnished.
Answer:
This shows Mathilde’s inability to deal with reality. Mathilde should have tried to make the house a home by keeping it clean and doing things with love, instead of looking at the material things that were there.

Question d.
Mathilde wanted other people to envy her.
Answer:
This is a very natural feeling. To some extent, we all want others to admire and envy us; but Mathilde should have kept this feeling under control.

Question e.
Mathilde was not happy to see the invitation.
Answer:
This Is a natural reaction on her part, for she wanted to be well-dressed and look pretty when she went to an important party. However, she should not have disappointed her husband by immediately showing her unhappiness. She could have later presented her case less bluntly.

Question f.
Mathilde wanted a new dress for herself.
Answer:
Mathilde was young and pretty and wanted new things. But she should have first asked her husband what he had saved the money for, and then decided what was more important – her dress or his gun. He was very generous and she should also have shown some genuine consideration.

Question g.
Mathilde borrowed a diamond necklace from her friend and wore it to the party.
Answer:
Mathilde should not have borrowed such an expensive necklace just to show off. One should never borrow expensive things from others.

Question h.
Mathilde lost the necklace.
Answer:
Mathilde was very thrilled by her own triumph at the party. She forgot everything in the revelry. In my opinion, she should have taken care and not been so Irresponsible, especially when she was wearing borrowed jewels.

4. Prepare a formal invitation using the following format:

Question 1.
Prepare a formal invitation using the format given on page 21 of the textbook.
Answer:

5. Read the following :

• The necklace
• an error
• all these things
• another woman
• one evening
• her husband.

1. In all these phrases we see some words used before the nouns.

2. They specify or make it clear what noun we are talking about. These words that are used at the beginning of a noun phrase are known as determiners.

3. Determiners include articles (a, an, the), possessive pronouns (my, our, your, her, etc.), demonstratives (words like this, that), quantifiers (much, many, etc.), numerals, etc.

4. Write your phrases using each of type of determiner.

Question 1.
Write your own phrases using the possessive pronouns ‘my’, ‘his’ and ‘your’.
Answer:
my daughter, his clothes, your umbrella

Question 2.
Write your own phrases using the articles a, an, the.
Answer:
a house, a flower, an invitation, an enquiry, the Arabian Sea, the Himalayas

Question 3.
Write your own phrases using the ; demonstratives (this, that, these, those) :
Answer:
this tree, that building, these flowers, those hills.

Question 4.
Write your own phrases using the following quantifiers :
1. much
2. many
Answer:
1. much trouble, much hope
2. many apples, many trees

Part – II

1. Complete the following table.  

Question 1.
Complete the following table.
Answer:

2. Write what you think about the following thoughts and actions of Mathilde :

Question a.
Mathilde despaired over the loss of her necklace.
Answer:
Mathilde was frightened that she had lost a j valuable necklace and she would have to replace it. She realised her mistake in borrowing such a valuable jewel. Anyone else in her place would have felt the same.

Question b.
Mathilde wrote a note to her friend as dictated by her husband.
Answer:
I think that Mathilde realized her foolishness and was now willing to listen to whatever her husband i said to make good the loss of the necklace.

Question c.
Mathilde and her husband decided to replace the necklace.
Answer:
Yes, that was the right thing to do, for Mathilde had borrowed the necklace. Madame Forestier had been generous to give it. Mathilde could not allow her friend to suffer a loss because of her foolishness.

Question d.
Mathilde returned the diamond necklace to her friend.
Answer:
There was no other option for her under the circumstances. Mathilde was foolish but honest. She also had enough pride not to want to be in debt.

Question e.
Mathilde did not tell her friend about the loss and the replacement.
Answer:
I think that Mathilde was proud and did not want to accept her carelessness in front of her friend.

Question f.
Mathilde worked very very hard to pay the debt.
Answer:
I appreciate Mathilde for working very hard even though she did not like it. She did this in order to pay off the debt which she had got into because of her foolishness in borrowing the necklace.

Question g.
Mathilde and her husband paid off the debt in ten years.
Answer:
I respect both Mathilde and her husband for working so hard for so many years, and living in poverty in order to pay off the debt. They did not take any easy way out.

Question h.
Mathilde told her friend about the lost necklace.
Answer:
Maybe it was a foolish action on Mathilde’s part. Mathilde will now feel terrible when she knows that she wasted ten years of her life struggling to replace the imitation necklace.

3. Form pairs. Discuss how ‘Part II’ of the story could have been different. Write your storyline in the form of bullets showing the main events.

Question 1.
Form pairs. Discuss how ‘Part II’ of the story could have been different. Write your storyline in the form of bullets showing the main events.

4. Imagine what must have happened after Mathilde’s friend discovered that the diamonds were real. Do you think she would return the necklace to Mathilde? Would that make Mathilde happy?

Question 1.
Imagine what must have happened after Mathilde’s friend discovered that the diamonds were real. Do you think she would return the necklace to Mathilde? Would that make Mathilde happy?
Answer:
Mathilde’s friend, Madame Forestier, has been shown to be a kind-hearted and generous woman. She was also rich. So she would have probably returned the necklace to Mathilde. Mathilde, proud but greedy, would probably have taken it and been happy. But she would have been unhappy over the lost years of her youth.

5. Discuss the following and write about each in your own words in 5-6 lines.
(a) What would you do, if something like this happens to you?
(b) What opinion do you form about Mathilde’s husband from her story?
(c) Which events in the story (Part I and Part II) changed Mathilde’s life?

Question 1.
Discuss the following and write about each in your own words in 5-6 lines.
(a) What would you do, if something like this happens to you?
(b) What opinion do you form about Mathilde’s husband from her story?
(c) Which events in the story (Part I and Part II) changed Mathilde’s life?

6. Read, recall and remember. Read the table of verb forms given below.

The base form is used as an infinitive: You may go. She will go, in orders: Go home; and in the simple present tense: I go to school. We go home. Do you go there every day? The children/They go up, etc.

Note that we use the ‘-s form’ with ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘it’, third-person singular subjects to show the simple present.

The past tense form has ‘-ed’ at the end. But many commonly used verbs have different past tense forms.
Examples: came, went, spoke.

The ‘-ing’ form is known as the present participle. It is used with forms of ‘be’ to show continuous action
Examples: I am eating You were eating She was eating It is also used in certain constructions like He sat copying a manuscript.

The past participle used with forms of ‘have’ shows completed action –
Examples: I have eaten. They have come, etc.
It is also used in certain constructions like ‘They looked at each other, stunned! It is also used in passive constructions.
(a) Make a table of verb forms for your own reference. Try to arrange the verbs in alphabetical order. Keep adding new verbs to your table from time to time. When you write, check your work to see whether you have used the correct verb form.
(b) List at least 10 verbs, the last letter of which is doubled in the present participle.
Example: put – putting
(c) List at least 10 verbs, the last letter of which is doubled in the past participle.
Example: write – written
(d) List at least 10 verbs, the last letter of which is doubled in the past tense form.
Example: sob – sobbed.

7. Read: ‘The Gift of the Magi’ by O. Henry.

Question 1.
Read: ‘The Gift of the Magi’ by O. Henry.

English Kumarbharati 9th Digest Chapter 1.5 The Necklace Additional Important Questions and Answers

Read the following passages carefully and complete the activities:

Simple Factual Activity:

Question 1.
Write whether the following statements are True or False:
Answer:

1. Mathilde was born into a rich family. False
2. Mathilde was content with what she had. False
3. Mathilde had no rich dresses or jewels. True
4. Mathilde was wedded to an aristocrat. False

Complex Factual Activity:

Question 1.
Why was Mathilde married to a ‘minor official’?
Answer:
Mathilde, a pretty and charming girl, was born into a family of clerks. She had no means of becoming known, understood, loved or be wedded to an aristocrat. So she was married to a ‘minor official’,

Question 2.
Why did Mathilde weep with misery after visiting her schoolmate?
Answer:
Mathilde had no rich dresses and no jewels, and these were the only things she loved. She found that her schoolmate, who was rich, had all the things that she, Mathilde, wanted so desperately. Hence, she wept with regret, despair and misery after visiting her schoolmate.

Activity-based on Vocabulary :

Question 1.
Match the following nouns with their adjectives :

A	B
1. minor	(a) house
2. shabby	(b) mansion
3. palatial	(c) friends
4. close	(d) official

Answer:

A	B
1. minor	(d) official
2. shabby	(a) house
3. palatial	(b) mansion
4. close	(c) friends

Activities based on Contextual Grammar:

Question 1.
She dreamed of a grand, palatial mansion. (Frame a wh-question to get the underlined words as the answer.)
Answer:
What did she dream of?

Question 2.
She suffered because of her shabby house. (Rewrite using the noun form of the underlined word.)
Answer:
Her suffering was because of her shabby house.

Personal Response :

Question 1.
Is anyone entitled to all the luxuries of life due to reasons of birth or other innate qualities?
Answer:
No, I don’t think that a person is entitled to all the luxuries of life due to reasons of birth or other innate qualities. A person must work hard to acquire the luxuries and not get them just because of his birth. Only when he/she works hard will he/she I know the real value of things.

Complex Factual Activity :

Question 1.
What did the envelope hold?
Answer:
The envelope held an invitation for a party at the Ministry of Education.

Question 2.
Was the husband a considerate person? How do we know that?
Answer:
The husband was very happy to give Mathilde the invitation to the party for he felt that she would be pleased. When she began to cry, he was distressed to see her tears. When he realized that she wanted to buy a dress for the party, he sacrificed the money he had saved to buy himself a gun for a hunting summer with friends. He gave her the money for her new dress. This shows that the husband was a considerate person.

Activity-based on Vocabulary :

Question 1.
Match the words with their meanings :

A	B
1. triumph	(a) shocked
2. computing	(b) stammered
3. stunned	(c) calculating
4. stuttered	(d) victory

Answer:

A	B
1. triumph	(d) victory
2. computing	(c) calculating
3. stunned	(a) shocked
4. stuttered	(b) stammered

Activities based on Contextual Grammar :

Question 1.
He hadn’t thought of that.
(Add a question tag.)
Answer:
He hadn’t thought of that, had he?

Question 2.
One evening her husband came home with an air of triumph.
(Replace the underlined phrase with an adverb.)
Answer:
One evening her husband came home triumphantly.

Complex Factual Activities :

Question 1.
Why did Mathilde go to her friend’s house and tell her of her distress?
Answer:
Mathilde wanted to have jewellery to wear for the party. She did not have any, but she knew that her friend was rich and would have a good collection of jewels. So she went to her friend’s house and told her of her distress so that she could borrow some jewellery from her.

Question 2.
What did Madame Forestier’s large box contain?
Answer:
Madame Forestier’s large box contained jewellery.

Question 3.
Which sentences tell us that Mathilde greatly desired the necklace?
Answer:
The following sentences tell us that Mathilde greatly desired the necklace :

1. Her heart began to beat with uncontrolled desire. Her hands trembled as she took it. She fastened it around her neck and stood lost in ecstasy.
2. Then she asked anxiously, hesitating, “Would you lend me this, just this?”
3. She threw her arms around her friend’s neck rapturously, then fled with her treasure.

Activities based on Vocabulary :

Question 1.
Write down two adjectives from the passage that describe Mathilde :
Answer:
sad, restless (anxious, strange).

Question 2.
Write down the adjective forms of:

1. ecstasy
2. fashion.

Answer:

1. ecstasy – ecstatic
2. fashion – fashionable.

Activities based on Contextual Grammar :

Question 1.
She kept asking, “You have nothing else?” (Rewrite as an affirmative sentence.)
Answer:
She kept asking, “Is this all you have?”

Question 2.
“You’ve been acting strange these last three days.” (Rewrite as a negative sentence.)
Answer:
“You’ve not been acting normally these last three days.”

Personal Response :

Question 1.
Try to express the thoughts that must have passed through Mathilde’s mind on seeing the necklace?
Answer:
On seeing the necklace, Mathilde must have thought: “Oh, how beautiful I will look with these diamonds round my neck I will be the prettiest woman at the party. All the others will crowd round me and admire me. I will be the most elegant and gracious woman there. Everyone will envy me!”

Simple Factual Activity :

Write who said the following sentences and to whom :

Question 1.
“What! … how! … That’s impossible!”
Answer:
Mathilde’s husband said this to Mathilde.

Question 2.
“What’s the matter?”
Answer:
Mathilde’s husband said this to Mathilde.

Complex Factual Activity :

Question 1.
Why did Mathilde not notice the loss of her necklace earlier? ;
Answer:
Mathilde was a great success at the party. She was full of joy for she was prettier than all the other women. She danced wildly, with passion, forgetting everything in the triumph of her success, floating in a cloud of happiness. In all this excitement, she did not notice the loss of her necklace.

Activities based on Vocabulary :

Question 1.
Pick out four adverbs ending in ‘-ly’ from the passage.
Answer:
wildly, finally, sadly, suddenly.

Question 2.
Write the adverb forms of the following :

1. pretty
2. elegant
3. gracious
4. impossible

Answer:

1. prettily
2. elegantly
3. graciously
4. impossibly.

Activities based on Contextual Grammar :

Question 1.
Rewrite the following conversation in Indirect Speech :
“You could wear flowers,” he said. “They are very fashionable at this time of the year.”
Answer:
He said that she could wear flowers, and s that they were very fashionable at that time of the year.

Question 2.
She threw her arms round her friend’s neck.
(Pick out the subject and predicate.)
Answer:
Subject – She
Predicate – threw her arms round her friend’s neck.

Language Study Activities
(based on vocabulary and grammar)

Simple Activities :

Question 1.
Write two compound words of your own.
Answer:
daydream, candle-stick

Question 2.
Make a meaningful sentence using the phrase ‘with an air of triumph’
Answer:
The magician drew out a rabbit from the hat with an air of triumph.

Question 3.
Spot the error and correct the sentence :
You’ve be acting strange these last three days.
Answer:
You’ve been acting strange these last three days.

Question 4.
Pick out the infinitive from the given sentence :
He had been saving that exact amount to buy a gun.
Answer:
to buy

Question 5.
Identify the type of sentence :
What is the matter?
Answer:
Interrogative sentence

Question 6.
Pick out the word that cannot be formed using the letters of the given word :
fashionable – fashion, blush, sheaf, shine
Answer:
blush

Question 7.
Form a present participle in which the last letter is doubled.
Answer:
control – controlling

Question 8.
Write the following words in alphabetical order :
stuttered, treasure, strange, tormented.
Answer:
strange, stuttered, tormented, treasur

Question 9.
Make a word chain of 4 adjectives : charming →
Answer:
charming → gracious → sad → delicate → elegant.

Medium-Level Activities :

Question 1.
Mathilde saw some bracelets. (Use simple future tense of the verb.)
Answer:
Mathilde will see some bracelets.

Question 2.
She threw the invitation on the table. (Change the voice beginning ‘The invitation ’.)
Answer:
The invitation was thrown on the table by her.

Question 3.
One evening her husband said to her, “What’s the matter?” (Rewrite using indirect speech.)
Answer:
One evening her husband asked her what the matter was.

Challenging Activities :

Question 1.
When they were finally in the street, they could not find a cab.
(Pick out the clauses and state the type.)
Answer:
they could not find a cab – Main Clause, when they were finally in the street – Subordinate clause.

Question 2.
“Would you lend me this, just this?”
(Pick out the modal auxiliary and state the function.)
Answer:
would – permission

Complex Factual Activity :

Question 1.
What efforts did Loisel make to find the necklace?
Answer:
Loisel and Mathilde searched through her clothes to find the necklace. But they could not find it. Then Loisel went out and walked back over the whole route they had taken to see if he could find it. He went to the police, to the newspapers to offer a reward, to the cab companies, and everywhere that the tiniest glimmer of hope led him.

Question 2.
What was the arrangement with the jeweller? Do you think it was fair?
Answer:
Madame and M. Loisel found the string of diamonds they were looking for. The price was thirty- six thousand francs. They needed time to raise that much money, and they pleaded with the jeweller not to sell it to anyone for three days. They made an arrangement that the jeweller would buy it back for thirty-four thousand francs if the other necklace was found before the end of February. Yes, I think the deal was quite fair.

Question 3.
Why did Madame Forestier speak coldly to Mathilde?
Answer:
Mathilde had returned the borrowed necklace after a long delay. Madame Forestier felt that she should have returned it sooner for she, Madame Forestier, might have needed it. She probably felt that Mathilde had taken advantage of her goodness and hence spoke coldly to her.

Activities based on Vocabulary :

Question 1.
What is implied in the expression ‘a hollow, pale figure’?
Answer:
It means an unhappy, exhausted person.

Question 2.
Give the meaning of the following expressions :
1. a glimmer of hope
2. her mind blank.
Answer:
1. a glimmer of hope – a slight chance of success.
2. her mind blank – without having any thoughts.

Question 3.
Make sentences of your own using the following expressions :
1. lost all hope
2. sick with grief and anguish
Answer:
1. The rescuers have lost all hope of saving the trapped animal.
2. When Meena’s cat died, she was sick with grief and anguish.

Activity-based on Contextual Grammar :

Question 1.
Rewrite the following sentences as compound sentences :
1. They went from jeweller to jeweller, looking for a necklace like the other one.
2. At the end of one week they had lost all hope.
Answer:
1. They went from jeweller to jeweller and looked for a necklace like the other one.
2. It was the end of one week and they had lost all hope.

Simple Factual Activity :

Complete the following sentences :
(The answers are given directly and underlined.)

1. The dreadful debt must be paid.
2. They rented a garret under the roof.

Complex Factual Activity :

Question 1.
What is meant by the horrible life of the very poor?
Answer:
The horrible life of the very poor means the very difficult and tiring life of the very poor, who have to live in terrible conditions and work extremely hard to make ends meet.

Activity-based on Vocabulary :

Question 1.
Fill in the blanks with the correct adjectives from the passage :

1. ………… life
2. ………… labours
3. ………….. debt
4. ……………. linen

Answer:

1. horrible life
2. odious labours
3. dreadful debt
4. dirty linen.

Activity-based on Contextual Grammar :

Question 1.
Rewrite the following sentences as assertive sentences :
1. What would have happened if she had not lost that necklace?
2. How little is needed for one to be ruined or saved!
Answer:
1. She wondered what would have happened if she had not lost that necklace.
2. Very little is needed for one to be ruined or saved.

Complex Factual Activity:

Question 1.
What contrast is implied by the use of necklace. She wanted to tell her that she had been the word ‘still’ in still young, still beautiful, still through some hard times because of her friend and charming?
Answer:
It means that Mathilde looked old after ten years. while Madame Forestier looked young. beautiful and charming even after ten years.

Question 2.
Why did Mathilde decide to speak to her friend?
Answer:
Mathilde felt emotional. She decided to speak to her friend and tell her the story of the necklace. She wanted to tell her that she had been through some hard times because of her friend and her necklace. She also felt proud that she had tricked her friend and given her not the same necklace she had borrowed but a similar one.

Activity-based on Vocabulary :

Question 1.
Give the noun forms of the following :

1. charming
2. astonished
3. familiarly
4. remember

Answer:

1. charming – charm
2. astonished – astonishment
3. familiarly – familiarity
4. remember – remembrance.

Activity-based on Contextual Grammar :

Question 1.
Pick out the main clauses in the following sentences :
1. You say that you bought a diamond necklace to replace mine.
2. One day, as she was walking in the Champs Elysees, she saw Madame Forestier.
Answer:
1. You say – Main Clause.
2. One day she saw Madame Forestier – Main Clause.

Language Study Activities
(based on vocabulary and grammar)

Simple Activities :

Question 1.
Write two compound words from the lesson.
Answer:
newspaper, money-lender.

Question 2.
Punctuate :
she went up to her and said good morning jeanne
Answer:
She went up to her and said, “Good morning, Jeanne.”

Question 3.
Make a meaningful sentence using the following phrase : before the end of February
Answer:
The snow had vanished before the end of February.

Question 4.
Spot the error and correct the sentence : They was dropped off at their door.
Answer:
They were dropped off at their door.

Question 5.
Use the word ‘stopping’ as a present participle it in your own sentence.
Answer:
Stopping on the way, she bought some groceries.

Question 6.
Identify the type of sentence: Oh, my poor Mathilde!
Answer:
Exclamatory Sentence

Question 7.
Find out two hidden words from the given word : familiarly
Answer:
familiarly – familiar, family (frail, rally)

Question 8.
Form a past participle in which the last letter is doubled.
Answer:
beg – begged

Medium-Level Activities :

Question 1.
“I’m going back,” he said.
(Rewrite in indirect speech.)
Answer:
He said that he was going back.

Question 2.
Each month they had to pay some loans. (Change the voice.)
Answer:
Some loans had to be paid each month by them. / Each month some loans had to be paid by them.

Question 3.
Use the word ‘made’ and its homophone in two sentences of your own.
Answer:
(a) The salad was made in the hotel for a special occasion.
(b) Suman always treated her maid with courtesy.

Question 4.
It seemed to be exactly what they were looking for. (Rewrite using the past perfect progressive tense of the underlined verb.)
Answer:
It seemed to be exactly what they had been looking for.

Challenging Activities :

Question 1.
Use the following word in two separate sentences, once as a noun and once as a verb :clasp
Answer:
(a) I lost a valuable bracelet as the clasp was weak, (noun)
(b) I saw the poor woman clasp the doctor’s hands in gratitude, (verb)

Question 2.
Madame Forestier, astonished to be addressed so familiarly, did not recognize her.
(Rewrite as a compound sentence.)
Answer:
Madame Forestier was astonished to be addressed so familiarly and did not recognize her.

Grammar Focus:

Question 1.
Make a table of verb forms for your own reference. Try to arrange the verbs in alphabetical order. Keep adding new verbs to your table from time to time.
Answer:
(Students may attempt this on their own.)

Question 2.
List at least ten verbs, the last letter of which is doubled in the present participle.
Answer:
sit – sitting, dig – digging, run – running, hit – hitting, knit – knitting, bat – batting, forget – forgetting, jog – jogging, begin – beginning, plan – planning.

Question 3.
List at least ten verbs, one last letter of S which is doubled in the past participle.
Answer:
bite – bitten, fall – fallen, hide – hidden, rot – rotten, stop – stopped, prefer – preferred, rub – rubbed, slip – slipped, bar – barred, occur – occurred.

Question 4.
List at least ten verbs, the last letter of which is doubled in the past tense form.
Answer:
rob – robbed; knot – knotted, flit – flitted, jog – jogged, tip – tipped, tug – tugged, beg – begged, emit – emitted, rot – rotted, plan – planned.

Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Solutions