The Beggar Class 9 Extra Questions and Answers CBSE English Chapter 10 NCERT Moments Extract Based Questions MCQs Short Answer Questions Long Answer Questions and Value Based Questions

The Beggar Class 9 Extra Questions and Answers CBSE English Chapter 10 NCERT Moments Extract Based Questions MCQs Short Answer Questions Long Answer Questions and Value Based Questions

 THE BEGGAR

(Extra Questions)

 

Extract Based Questions

(i) Who is speaker of above extract?

Answer: Lushkoff

(ii) To whom the above extract is spoken to?

Answer: Sergei

(iii) What is the meaning of ‘I am obliged by circumstance’?

Answer: I am forced by situations

(iv) Which word as used in the extract mean ‘beggar’?

Answer: mendicant

(v) How did the speaker feel when asking for help?

Answer: Ashamed

(vi) Where did the speaker want to go?

Answer: Kaluga

 

 

(i) Who is speaker of above extract?

Answer: Sergei

(ii) To whom the above extract is spoken to?

Answer: Lushkoff

(iii) Where did the two men meet the day before?

Answer: Sadovya Street

(iv) What did the listener pretend to be a day before?

Answer: a student

(v) Which word in the extract is synonym of ‘rusticated’?

Answer: expelled

 

 

(i) What was the earlier profession of speaker?

Answer: singing

(ii) What does the speaker claim not to be?

Answer: neither a student not a schoolteacher.

(iii) Why did the speaker loose his earlier job?

Answer: because he was a drunkard

(iv) Why did speaker not tell the truth?

Answer: He thought that if he told truth, nobody would give him anything

(v) Which word in the extract is synonym of ‘false statement’?

Answer: fiction.

(vi) Which word as used in extract is antonym of ‘later’?

Answer: formerly

 

 

 

 (i) To whom does the word ‘he’ refer to in above extract?

Answer: Lushkoff

(ii) Why did ‘he’ agree to chop wood?

Answer: because he was trapped by his own words.

(iii) What reduced ‘his’ strength?

Answer: vodka

(iv) Which word in extract is synonym of ‘hard work’?

Answer: toil

 

 

(i) To whom does the word ‘he’ refer to in above extract?

Answer: Sergei

(ii) What was the profession of ‘woman’ referred to in above extract?

Answer: cook

(iii) Who was scolding whom? Give names.

Answer: Olga was scolding Lushkoff

(iv) Which word in the extract mean ‘false’?

Answer: pseudo

 

 

 

 

 (i) How much did the waif earn on first of every month?

Answer: half a rouble

(ii) How do we know that the waif was very week?

Answer: he could barely stand on his legs.

(iii) How many times work was found for him?

Answer: every time he came there

(iv) According to extract how many types of work did the waif do?

Answer: Three

(v) Which word as used in the extract  mean ‘remove’?

Answer: beat

 

 

(i) Who is referred as ‘he’ in the above extract?

Answer: Lushkoff

(ii) Who were teasing ‘he’?

Answer: carters

(iii) What was being moved?

Answer: House hold belongings of Sergei

(iv) Please write two adjective used for the overcoat?

Answer: tattered and fancy

(v) Which phrase as used in the extract mean ‘called’?

Answer: sent for

 

 

(i) After how much time Sergei had seen the little man?

(a) Less than two years

(b) More than three years

(c) Two years

(d) None of above

Answer: (c)

(ii) Who was the little man?

(a) Sergei

(b) Lushkoff

(c) Olga

(d) Carter

Answer: (b)

(iii) The little man paid for the ticket in –

(a) Copper coins

(b) Gold coins

(c) Both (a) and (b)

(d) Silver Coins

Answer: (a)

(iv) The cap of the little man was made of?

(a) Curly fur

(b) Simple cloth

(c) Sealskin

(d) Denim

Answer: (a)

(v) Based on the extract please classify following as fact and opinion

1. Sergei and Lushkoff both had gone to same theatre

2. People should meet often to remain in touch

3. Lushkoff was timid.

4. Lushkoff paid in copper coins

(a) F -1,2 and O -3,4

(b) F- 1, and O- 2,3,4

(c) F – 2,3,4 and O – 1,

(d) F – 1,3,4 and O – 2,

Answer: (d)

     

 

(i) Who is speaker of above extract

(a) Sergei

(b) Lushkoff

(c) Olga

(d) All the above

Answer: (b)

(ii) Who is referred to as you in above extract

(a) Sergei

(b) Lushkoff

(c) Olga

(d) All the above

Answer: (a)

(iii) Who according to the speaker, saved him?

(a) Sergei

(b) Lushkoff

(c) Olga

(d) God

Answer: (c)

(iv) The speaker is not thankful to ‘you’ for

(a) kind words

(b) kind deeds

(c) speaking finely

(d) chopping wood

Answer: (d)

 

 

Short Answer Questions (30-40 words)

Answer:  Luskoff told that he had been a schools teacher but had lost his job.  He now has a new job in the province of Kaluga. He did not have money to go there. Thus he requested Sergei to help him. He further told that he was ashamed to ask but forced by situation.

 

 

Answer:  Sergei looked at the red mark on each of cheek of the beggar. He recollected the fawn coloured overcoat of the beggar. Sergei’s eyes fell on the shoes of the beggar. One of these was high and the other low.

Now Sergei was sure that he had seen Lushkoff two days ago.

    

 

Answer:  Sergei gave Lushkoff job of wood chopping. He was unable to do it. He had never done that work before. He was very week to do that kind of work.

 

 

Answer: Sergei sent him to his friend with a letter.  His friend needed a person who could do work of copy writing. Sergei had advised Lushkoff to work hard and not to drink.

 

 

Answer: Sergei and Lushkoff came across each other at the theatre. Sergei reconginsed him.  At that time Lushkoff was working as a  notary. He was earning thirty five roubles a month.

 

 

Answer: Initially he questioned the beggar and made him realise that the lies were caught. 

Then Sergei felt disgusted and threatened Lushkoff to hand him over to police.

Once Lushkoff accepted his mistake, Sergei offered him job of chopping wood at his house.

 

 

Answer:  Olga was cook. She used to work at the house of Sergei.

Sergei asked her to escort Lushkoff to their wood-shed and allow him to chop some wood for the house.

 

 

Answer:  Initially behaviour of Olga towards the beggar was bad. She pushed him aside while opening the gate and then angrily banged the door. She threw an axe at the feet of the beggar and scolded him.

 

 

Answer:  The beggar came to Sergei’s house on first of every moth to chop wood. He was given half rouble for this work.  

 

 

Answer:   He came there to do some work.  He used to do various kinds of works. He would shovel the snow, arrange the wood-shed and beat dust out of rugs and mattresses. He earned money for every work he did.

 

 

Answer: Lushkoff did not know how to chop wood. Olga use to do this work for him. This helped Lushkoff earn money. Gradually he left his bad habits. He was different person now.

 

 

Long Answer questions (100-120 words)

Answer: Lushkoff did not know how to chop wood. Olga would call him a drunkard. She would say that he would never improve in his life. Then she would sit opposite him and grow sad. She would look at Lushkoff and start crying.

And after saying all these, she would chop wood. Lushkoff never chopped any wood at all.  He used to take money for the work done by her.

Owing to her noble words and deeds, a change took place in Lushkoff. He stopped drinking.

Certainly Olga had set right path for Lushkoff

 

 

Answer: Sergei became very arrogant when lies of Lushkoff were caught. He wanted to handover the beggar to police. But he changed his plan and offered him some work. To his surprise Lushkoff accepted the work.

Lushkoff started coming often to Sergei’s house. Every time he was given some work. In exchange of the work done, he was given some money.  Thus Lushkoff got into the habit of working. A remarkable change in the life style of a beggar.

Later, after moving to a new location, Sergei arranged a job of copywriter for Lushkoff. He prospered there and eventually became a notary.

Thus Sergei helped Lushkoff become a respectable citizen of society.

 

 

Answer: In the lesson ‘The Beggar’ Lushkoff used to fabricate stories to receive alms. Somehow he was alive.

An advocate, Sergei, caught lies of Lushkoff. He wanted to handover the beggar to police. But he changed his plan and offered him some work. To his surprise Lushkoff accepted the work.

Gradually Lushkoff started doing various works at the house of Sergei. He was paid for every work.

Later, after moving to new location, Sergei arranged a job of copywriter for Lushkoff. He prospered there and eventually became a notary. His life style changed.

Thus it is better to teach someone to work rather than giving alms.

 

 

Answer: When Sergei caught lies of Lushkoff, initially he was very angry. But Sergei decided to give him some work. Lushkoff accepted. He started coming often to house of Sergei. He earned money for the work he did. Sergei referred Lushkoff to one of his friends to assure him a good job.

Lushkoff did not know how to chop wood. He was a feeble person with drunkenness. Olga used to curse him but helped him by chopping wood.  The words and deeds caused a change in the heart of Lushkoff. He left drinking and  moved ahead on right path.

Within two years Lushkoff had become a notary and started earning a respectable salary.

Hence compassion and affection can bring everlasting changes.

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