English CBSE Class 10 NCERT First Flight Chapter 6 The Hundred Dresses – II Free Solution of Extra Questions and Answers – Extract Based Questions Short Answer Questions Long Answer Questions and Value Based Questions
THE HUNDRED DRESSES II
(Extra Questions)
Extract Based Questions
1.What was the note brought from the office of the principal.?
2.Which word in the extract mean ‘carefully’?
3. Why did Miss Mason read the letter several times?
4. What was the name of father of Wanda?
1.Who is the speaker of above lines?
2. What was the reaction of the class to the note?
3. Which word in the extract is antonym of ‘familiar’?
4. What was preference of the speaker?
1. Who is referred as ‘she’ in above extract?
2. What was Peggy doing when ‘she’ looked at her?
3. Where did Wanda live?
4. On that day, where did ‘she’ and Peggy go after the school?
1.What does the house of Wanda remind Maddie?
2. Did Maddie go alone to the house of Wanda? If no, who was with her?
3. Which word in the extract is synonym of ‘baby cats’?
4. How did the house of Wanda look?
1.Who is referred as ‘she’ in the above extract?
2. What was the decision ‘she’ took?
3. What was ‘she’ ready to lose?
4. Which phrase in the abstract mean ‘teasing’?
1. What did ‘they’ inform Wanda in the letter?
2. Which word in the extract is synonymous of ‘beautiful’?
3. What did ‘they’ ask Wanda in the letter?
4. To whom does the word ‘they’ refer to in above extract?
1. Who had written the letter received by the teacher?
2. What is the name of teacher?
3. In which month you think the letter was received?
4. Which word in the extract is synonymous to ‘vacations’?
1. How did Peggy react to going of Wanda?
2. According to Peggy, how did Wanda get idea for making drawing of dresses?
3. How can you infer that Wanda had the skill to make drawings?
4. Which word in the abstract is synonym of ‘additionally’?
1. Why did Maddie think that she was a coward?
2. Why did Maddie think that her silence was as bad teasing of Peggy?
3. What is the meaning of ‘put herself in Wanda’s shoes’?
4. Why did Maddie not enjoy teasing of Wanda?
Short Answer Questions (30-40 words)
Answer: Maddie and Peggy wrote a letter to Wanda, indirectly telling that they felt sorry for their behaviour.
Maddie decided that if ever any girl tried to tease another girls she will not remain silent. She will speak up against it.
Answer: Wanda is a poor girl. She is very calm and quiet. She does not have any friend in the school. She does not react to the teasing by fellow girls. She was as artist. She was very kind girl. She had gifted her drawings to the class. The drawings for Maddie and Peggy had their own faces.
Answer: Maddie had observed that in her drawing her own face was drawn. She wanted to confirm if the drawing of Peggy had the face of Peggy.
So she ran to the house of Peggy.
Answer: Maddie was very upset that Wanda had left the school and the city. She felt guilty for not standing up and speaking against the teasing by fellow girls. She thought that because of her silence, Wanda was emotionally hurt.
Because of her guilt, she had sleepless night.
Answer: Jan Petronski had not informed school authorities before his kids stopped going to the school. Through the letter he informed school that his both kids would not be coming to school. He also gave reason for kids leaving the school.
Answer: They had gone there to check if Wanda was still in her house. They wanted to say sorry to her for their behaviour. They also wanted to inform her that she had won the contest.
Answer: Miss Mason received a letter from the office of principal. It was written by father of Wanda.
She was shocked and upset to read contents of the letter. So she read it several times to fully understand and control her emotions.
Answer: Miss Mason felt a deep sorrow to know the reason of Wanda leaving the town and the school. She hoped that none of the student had teased Wanda purposefully and deliberately. She wanted students to think about the incident.
Answer: While Peggy was asking unpleasant questions to Wanda, Maddie had been a silent spectator. She did protest and stop Peggy. Maddie was now full of guilt for her silence.
Hence she was upset about herself.
Answer: Peggy said that she had never called Wanda a foreigner or said that her name was funny. She further told that Wanda did not have the wisdom to understand that they were making fun of her. Peggy tried to justify that because of her questioning Wanda got idea for drawing such beautiful dress.
Answer: All the houses had wreaths and holly in the windows. Outside shops Christmas trees were stacked. In the windows, candy peppermint sticks and cornucopias of shiny transparent paper were strung. The air smelled like Christmas and light shining everywhere reflected different colours on snow.
Answer: Peggy understood that Wanda wanted to say that she did not really feel bad about their teasing. Peggy did not want to think any further.
Maddie had understood that she would never be able to meet Wanda again. Thus she will not be able to say sorry to Wanda to make things right for them.
Long Answer questions (120-150 words)
Answer: Peggy and Maddie wanted to say sorry to Wanda but they ended up writing a friendly letter. They informed Wanda that her drawings were beautiful. Everybody liked her drawings. They informed her that she had won the contest. They asked if she liked the place where she was and if she liked her new teacher.
Maddie was feeling guilty that Wanda had to leave the city and the school. She thought over it a lot. She believed that she was also responsible for such an action by Wanda. Eventually she decided that if ever any girl tried to tease another, she would not remain silent. She would stand up against any such activity. She would never make anybody that unhappy again.
Peggy also felt sorry for conduct. She had not imagined that playful act would have such an impact. But soon Peggy had almost forgotten about the incident.
Answer:
Dear Diary,
November 12th, 20xx
I had started going to this school ever since we shifted from Poland five months ago. Every day I am being teased in the school.
Peggy in particular is very naughty. She makes a joke about poverty of my family. Every day she asks me about number of dresses and shoes I have. To avoid further insults I tell her that I have hundred dresses and sixty pairs of shoes. They laugh at me after hearing this answer. I have drawn these many drawings and kept in my closet.
Maddie is a silent spectator. It looks to me that she wants to stop it. But she does not have the courage.
I have shared my feelings with my parents. We would be shortly shifting to a city. Hopefully I will not be facing such situation there.
Wanda
Answer: Wanda has shown the quality of a matured person through her letter. She has forgiven Maddie, Peggy and all other girls. She exhibits that she is a simple and kind hearted person. This requires lot of courage, patience and empathy.
She gifts all the drawing to girls of her class. Latter Maddie and Peggy noticed that drawing gifted to them has their own faces drawn. It is symbolic of showing her affection and attachment to them. It is her way of telling them that she is emotionally a very strong person.
By writing that her new teacher does not equalize Miss Masson, Wanda is paying respect and tribute to Miss Mason.
A normal person in such situation would have criticized her old schoolmates and old teacher. But Wanda chooses to show respect and affection.
Hence I feel that Wanda is very matured and large hearted girl.
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ANIMALS
(Extra Questions)
Extract Based Questions
1. What does poet wants to change to?
2. What two qualities of animals are mentioned in the extract?
3. Which word in the extract is synonym of ‘desire’
4. What are the two poetic device used in the line ‘look at them long and long’?
1. Why do human lie awake in the dark?
2. What is the poetic device used in ‘They do not lie awake in the dark’?
3. Which word in the extract is antonym of ‘laugh’?
4. To whom does the word ‘they’ refer to in above extract?
1. Which word in the extract is antonym of ‘healthy’?
2. Which mania the poet is referring to?
3. Which poetic device is used in ‘Not one is dissatisfied, Not one is’?
4. Who does not discuss their duty to God?
1. Which poetic device has been used in ‘that lived thousands of years’?
2. To whom does the word ‘another’ refer to?
3. Which word in the extract is antonym of ‘part’?
4. Who is unhappy over the whole earth?
1. To whom does the word ‘they’ refer to in above extract?
2. Which word in the extract mean ‘show’?
3. Which poetic device has been used in ‘ they bring me token of’
4. Why does poet accept them?
1. What does the poet wonder about?
2. Which word in the extract mean ‘enormous’?
3. Which poetic device is used in the line ‘they get those tokens’?
4. To whom does the word ‘I’ refer to in above extract?
Short Answer Questions (30-40 words)
Answer: Animals are calm and self-contained. They do not complain about their conditions. They do not have the tendency to hoard things. They consider each other equal.
These qualities do not prevail in human beings. Hence poet wants to live with animal.
Answer: Poet wants to say that initially human beings and animals both had the quality of being calm, self-contained, love and affection. But now human beings have lost these qualities while animals continue to retain these.
Answer: Human beings complain about their conditions. Human beings lie awake in the night to weep about their sins. They pray to their ancestors.
Animal do not do any of these activities.
Long Answer questions (120-150 words)
Answer: The poet says that human beings have acquired the habit of complaining about their condition. In spite of lot of improvement in the living standards, they continue to accumulate things of material value. They repent during the night about the sins committed during the day. The aspects of equality and empathy have evaporated. Thus human beings are leading an un-natural life.
First and foremost value human beings must gain is that of remaining satisfied with their conditions. The blind race to acquire more than other person is root cause of evil.
Human beings must start treating everybody with empathy and sympathy. We must help each other for collective development. We must develop the culture of mutual respect.
Let us be aware that our greed is destroying environment. This could mean destruction of whole universe.
These are the important messages from the poem.
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