MP Board 9th English Long Answer type Questions Beehive Prose Question Bank
Q.14 Long Answer type Questions from prose (Beehive)75 words- 3 marks
Lesson 1 The Fun They Had
- How does Tommy describe the old kind of school?
- Why did Margie hate school? Why did she think the old kind of school must have been fun?
- Why was Margie doing badly in geography? What did the County Inspector do to help her?
Lesson 2 The Sound of Music
Part l
- When was Evelyn’s deafness first noticed? When was it confirmed?
- Why did Bismillah Khan refuse to start a shehnai school in the U.S.A.?
- How does Evelyn hear music?
Part ll
- Why did Aurangzeb ban the playing of the pungi?
- How is a Shehnai different from a Pungi
Lesson 3 The Little Girl
- How does Kezia begin to see her father as a human being who needs her sympathy?
- In what ways did Kezia’s grandmother encourage her to get to know her father better?
Lesson 4 A Truly Beautiful Mind
1.How did Einstein react to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
2.Why does the world remember Einstein as a “world citizen”?
3.Why did Einstein write a letter to Franklin Roosevelt?
Lesson 6 My Childhood
1.Why did Abdul Kalam want to leave Rameswaram? What did his father say to this? What do you think his words mean?
2.What characteristics did Abdul Kalam inherit from his parents?
Lesson 8 Reach for the Top
Part I
1.How did Santosh begin to climb mountains?
2.What incidents during the Everest expedition show Santosh’s concern for her team-mates?
- How does she describe her feelings at the Summit of Everest?
- How was Santosh different from other girls in her village?
Part II
1.What was the secret of Maria’s success?
2.How did Maria’s father contribute to the success of Maria?
Lesson 10 Kathmandu
1.How does the author describe Kathmandu’s busiest streets?
2.What is the belief at Pashupatinath about the end of Kaliyug?
- How was the atmosphere at Pashupatinath?
4.Why did the policeman stop the party of Westerners in the temple? - What were the activities which one can notice at the Bagmati river?
Lesson-11 If I Were You
1.Why does the intruder choose Gerrard as the man whose identity he wants to take on ?
- How did Gerrard get rid of the intruder?
- Why did the intrudes find Gerrard’s cooked up story of criminal background convincing?
- Why do you think the intruder want to know more about Gerrard?