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MP Board 9th English Beehive Prose Short Question Answer
Prose Chapters
- The Fun They Had – Isaac Asimov
- The Sound of Music – Deborah Cowley (Part I: Evelyn Glennie)
- The Sound of Music -(Part II: Bismillah Khan)
- The Little Girl – Katherine Mansfield
- A Truly Beautiful Mind – (No author listed, about Albert Einstein)
- The Snake and the Mirror – Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
- My Childhood – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (Excerpt from his autobiography)
- Reach for the Top – (No author listed, about Santosh Yadav and Maria Sharapova)
- Kathmandu – Vikram Seth
- If I Were You (Drama) – Douglas James
Class 9 English (Beehive) Prose: Short Answer Questions
This compilation provides concise Answer : s (approx. 30 words) to key short Answer : : : questions from the Beehive textbook, perfect for quick revision and study.
Lesson 1: The Fun They Had
Q.1. What did Margie write in her diary?
Answer : Margie wrote in her diary that Tommy found a real, old book on May 17, 2157. She found the concept of printed words on paper strange.
Q.2. What subjects did Margie and Tommy learn?
Answer : Margie and Tommy learned Geography, History, and Arithmetic from their mechanical teachers. These subjects were displayed on a large screen.
Q.3. What is a tele book?
Answer : A tele book is a digital book displayed on a television screen or computer. Margie and Tommy read these, which had moving text instead of static printed pages.
Q.4. What things about the book did Margie and Tommy find strange?
Answer : They found it strange that the words stood still instead of moving and that the book could be read again after being finished without the text changing.
Q.5. What kind of teachers did Margie and Tommy have?
Answer : Margie and Tommy had mechanical teachers (robots). These teachers were large, black screens that flashed lessons and asked s automatically.
Q.6. What had once happened to Tommy’s teacher?
Answer : Tommy’s mechanical teacher once had its History sector blanked out completely, so it had to be taken away for nearly a month for repairs.
Q.7. What had the mechanical teacher been giving to Margie?
Answer : The mechanical teacher had been giving Margie test after test in Geography. She was performing worse each time she took one.
Q.8. In which subject was Margie failing repeatedly?
Answer : Margie was repeatedly failing in the subject of Geography, which was why her mother had called the County Inspector.
Q.9. Where was Margie’s school? Did she have any classmates?
Answer : Margie’s school was right next to her bedroom. No, she did not have any classmates because she was taught individually by a mechanical machine.
Lesson 2: The Sound of Music
Part I: Evelyn Glennie
Q.1. Who helped Evelyn to continue with music? What did he do and say?
Answer : The percussionist Ron Forbes helped Evelyn. He advised her, “Don’t listen through your ears but try to sense it some other way.”
Q.2. When was Evelyn’s deafness first noticed? When was it confirmed?
Answer : Her deafness was first noticed when she was eight years old. It was officially confirmed by a specialist when Evelyn was eleven years old.
Q.3. How does Evelyn hear music?
Answer : Evelyn hears music by sensing vibrations through her entire body. She feels different notes through different body parts, often by standing barefoot on a wooden platform.
Q.4. Where had Evelyn got admission to learn music?
Answer : Evelyn got admission to the Royal Academy of Music in London at the age of seventeen, where she achieved one of the highest scores ever.
Q.5. Who had suggested Evelyn’s parents to send her deaf school?
Answer : Her headmistress had urged Evelyn’s parents to take her to a specialist when her marks deteriorated, leading to the confirmation of her severe hearing impairment.
Q.6. What did Ron Forbes do with drums?
Answer : Ron Forbes tuned two large drums to different notes and asked Evelyn to feel the music, not listen to it. This helped her realize she could sense the vibrations of sound.
Q.7. Name the award given to Evelyn for performing solo?
Answer : Evelyn received the Royal Philharmonic Society’s prestigious Soloist of the Year Award in 1991.
Part II: Ustad Bismillah Khan
Q.1. Why did Aurangzeb ban the playing of the pungi?
Answer : Emperor Aurangzeb banned the playing of the pungi because it had a shrill and unpleasant sound (a “reeded noisemaker”) that was disliked.
Q.2. How is a Shehnai different from a Pungi?
Answer : The Shehnai is a natural hollow stem pipe that is longer and broader than the Pungi, and it has a much sweeter and more melodious sound.
Q.3. Who invented ‘Shehnai’?
Answer : The Shehnai was refined by a barber from the Pungi. The name is said to come from its being played in the Shah’s chambers (shah) and its being made from a pipe (nai).
Q.4. How many holes does a Shehnai have on its body?
Answer : The Shehnai has seven holes on its body.
Q.5. Where was Bismillah Khan born?
Answer : Bismillah Khan was born in Dumraon, Bihar.
Q.6. Which highest civilian award in India was conferred on Bismillah Khan?
Answer : The highest civilian award in India conferred on Bismillah Khan was the Bharat Ratna in 2001.
Lesson 3: The Little Girl
Q.1. Who were the people in Kezia’s family?
Answer : Kezia’s family included her father, mother, and grandmother.
Q.2. Why was Kezia afraid of her father?
Answer : Kezia was afraid because her father was a huge, strict figure who always spoke to her in a harsh, commanding voice.
Q.3. How did the little girl feel when her father left for the office in the morning?
Answer : She felt a sense of relief when her father left, as she could finally relax and be herself without fear.
Q.4. What was the little girl’s fault when she appeared before her father?
Answer : Her fault was that she had torn her father’s speech (a crucial paper) to stuff a pin-cushion she made for him.
Q.5. On what occasion did Kezia’s grandmother ask her to present a gift to her father?
Answer : The grandmother asked her to make the gift for her father’s birthday.
Q.6. What gift did Kezia prepare for her father?
Answer : Kezia prepared a pin-cushion made of a beautiful piece of yellow silk.
Q.7. What did Kezia stuff the pin-cushion with?
Answer : She stuffed the pin-cushion with her father’s important papers for a speech, unknowingly tearing them into small pieces.
Lesson 4: A Truly Beautiful Mind (About Albert Einstein)
Q.1. What did Einstein call his desk drawer at the patent office? Why?
Answer : He called his desk drawer the “Bureau of Theoretical Physics” because he secretly developed his scientific theories there.
Q.2. Why did Einstein write a letter to Franklin Roosevelt?
Answer : He wrote to warn him that Germany could develop a powerful atomic bomb and urged quick action.
Q.3. What problem did develop in Albert when he learnt to speak?
Answer : Albert suffered from late speech development, and when he spoke, he repeated every word twice.
Q.4. What did the playmates call Einstein?
Answer : His playmates called him “Brother Boring” because he did not know how to interact or play with them.
Q.5. In what subject was Einstein highly gifted?
Answer : Einstein was highly gifted and deeply interested in Mathematics.
Q.6. In what subject was Einstein much interested?
Answer : He was much interested in Physics and later went on to study it at a university in Zurich.
Q.7. What did the headmaster say about Einstein?
Answer : The headmaster once told Einstein’s father that he would never succeed at anything because he was mischievous and lacked discipline.
Lesson 5: The Snake and the Mirror
Q.1. Describe the doctor’s house.
Answer : It was a small, poorly furnished, un-electrified rented room outside the main town. It was hot and infested with many rats.
Q.2. What two important decisions did the doctor take while he was looking in the mirror?
Answer : He decided to grow a thin moustache and to always keep a pleasant smile on his face to look more handsome.
Q.3. Why did the snake leave the doctor’s arm?’
Answer : The snake was likely distracted by its own reflection in the mirror and decided to move towards it instead of harming the doctor.
Q.4. How did the snake change the writer’s opinion about himself?
Answer : The encounter made the vain doctor realize the fragility of his life and his own foolishness, shifting his focus from his looks to survival.
Q.5. What made the doctor utter ‘Death lurked four inches away’?
Answer : The doctor uttered this because the snake was coiled on his arm, and its hood was spread out just four inches from his face.
Q.6. What sounds did the doctor hear? What did he think it was? How many times did he hear it?
Answer : He heard a sound from above, like a light drop. He thought it was a rat. He heard it three times before the snake fell on him.
Lesson 6: My Childhood (A. P. J. Abdul Kalam)
Q.1. Where was Abdul Kalam’s house?
Answer : Abdul Kalam’s house was on the Mosque Street in Rameswaram, built simply and traditionally in the mid-nineteenth century.
Q.2. Who were Abdul Kalam’s school friends? What did they later become?
Answer : His friends were Ramanadha Sastry (became a priest), Aravindan (transport businessman), and Sivaprakasan (catering contractor).
Q.3. How did Abdul Kalam earn his first wages?
Answer : He earned his first wages by catching and distributing newspapers thrown out from the moving train during the emergency of the Second World War.
Q.4. What happened when he was in the fifth standard?
Answer : A new teacher made him sit on the back row because he was a Muslim sitting next to a Hindu boy, Ramanadha Sastry.
Q.5. What was a lasting impression left on him when he was shifted to the last row?
Answer : The sadness on Ramanadha Sastry’s face when they were separated left a deep and lasting impression on him.
Q.6. How did Ramanadha Sastry feel when Dr Kalam was shifted to his seat in the last row?
Answer : Ramanadha Sastry felt very dejected and wept when Kalam was moved to the last row, showing their emotional bond.
Q.7. How did Sivasubramania Iyer do his best to break social barriers?
Answer : His science teacher, Sivasubramania Iyer, tried to break social barriers by inviting Kalam home for a meal despite his wife’s protest.
Q.8. How did his wife behave when Kalam was invited to his science teacher’s home for a meal?
Answer : His wife was horrified by the idea of a Muslim boy eating in her kitchen and refused to serve him due to her conservative beliefs.
Q.9. What was the reaction of Sivasubramania when his wife refused to serve Dr Kalam in the kitchen?
Answer : Sivasubramania Iyer did not get angry but calmly served Kalam himself and sat beside him to eat, proving his principle.
Lesson 8: Reach for the Top
Part I (Santosh Yadav)
Q.1. Why was Santosh Yadav sent to the local School?
Answer : She was sent to the local school in the village in line with the prevailing custom in her conservative family.
Q.2. When did she leave home for Delhi, and why?
Answer : She left home after completing high school to enroll in a school in Delhi, determined to get a better education.
Q.3. How did Santosh begin to climb mountains?
Answer : She saved money and enrolled in the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering after seeing villagers go up the Aravalli hills and feeling inspired.
Part II (Maria Sharapova)
Q.1. What are, other than tennis, Maria’s likings?
Answer : Maria likes fashion, singing, dancing, and reading detective novels.
Q.2. How was Maria treated by her fellow students at Florida?
Answer : Her fellow students often bullied and humiliated her because she was younger and her dedication made them jealous.
Lesson 10: Kathmandu
Q.1. Name the two temples the author visited in Kathmandu?
Answer : The author, Vikram Seth, visited the Pashupatinath Temple and the Baudhnath Stupa.
Q.2. What does Vikram Seth compare to the quills of a porcupine?
Answer : Vikram Seth compares the many flutes protruding in all directions from the flute seller’s pole to the quills of a porcupine.
Q.3. Name five kinds of flutes?
Answer : The author mentions the Japanese shakuhachi, the deep, breathy bansuri, the clear, shrill Hindustani flute, and the simple reed flutes.
Q.4. What difference does the author note between the flute seller and the other hawkers?
Answer : Other hawkers shouted to sell their wares, but the flute seller only played his flutes meditatively, without shouting or excessive display.
Q.5. With whom author visit the two temples in Kathmandu?
Answer : The chapter does not explicitly state he visited with anyone, implying he was visiting them alone or with an unnamed guide/companion.
Q.6. What is the sign outside the Pashupatinath temple?
Answer : The sign outside the Pashupatinath temple states ‘Entrance for the Hindus only’.
Q.7. What do the worshippers do?
Answer : Worshippers push and elbow their way past to get to the priest and offer their prayers and flowers.
Q.8. Who comes to the temple from the royal family?
Answer : A Nepalese princess comes to the temple, causing everyone to immediately step aside to make way for her.
Q.9. What did the two monkeys do?
Answer : One monkey chased the other which then jumped on a shivalinga and ran screaming around the temple.
Lesson 11: If I Were You (Drama)
Q.1. Describe Gerrard’s appearance?
Answer : Gerrard is a well-dressed man of medium height with a calm and cultured voice.
Q.2. What made Gerrard ask the intruder “Are you an American?”
Answer : The intruder’s American accent and slang used in his speech made Gerrard ask this .
Q.3. What sort of a person is an intruder? Give examples to illustrate.
Answer : The intruder is a professional criminal/killer who is desperate, boastful, and not very clever. He planned to impersonate Gerrard to escape the police.
Q.4. Why does the intruder intend to kill Gerrard?
Answer : The intruder intends to kill Gerrard to take on his identity so he can live safely, escaping the police who are hunting him.
Q.5. How does Gerrard behave on seeing gun-totting stranger in his cottage?
Answer : Gerrard behaves with extreme coolness, wit, and calmness, using his presence of mind to outsmart the intruder.
Q.6. Why does the intruder does not kill Gerrard immediately?
Answer : The intruder does not kill him immediately because he first needs to get information about Gerrard to be able to impersonate him convincingly.
Q.7. Why does the intruder call himself “a poor hunted rat”?
Answer : He calls himself this because he is constantly being chased by the police and is desperate to find a safe hiding place.
Q.8. Why was the criminal been called an intruder all through the play?
Answer : He is called the intruder because he has forcefully entered Gerrard’s private cottage without permission, hence intruding.
Q.9. Bring out the contrast between Gerrard and the intruder.
Answer : Gerrard is calm, intelligent, and articulate, while the intruder is quick-tempered, desperate, and speaks with a distinctly American accent.
Q.10. How does Gerrard propose to use the intruder’s episode?
Answer : Gerrard proposes to use the intruder to fool the police by trapping him and proving his own innocence in the process.
MP Board 9th English Beehive Poetry Short Answer :
Poetry Chapters
- The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost
- Wind – Subramania Bharati (translated by A. K. Ramanujan)
- Rain on the Roof – Coates Kinney
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree – William Butler Yeats
- A Legend of the Northland – Phoebe Cary
- No Men Are Foreign – James Kirkup
- On Killing A Tree – Gieve Patel
- A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal – William Wordsworth
Class 9 English (Beehive) Poetry: Short Answer :
This compilation provides concise Answer : s (approx. 30 words) to key short Answer : s from the Beehive textbook’s poetry section, structured for easy review.
Poem 1: The Road Not Taken
Q.1. Where does the traveller find himself? What problem does he face?
Answer : The traveler finds himself at a fork in a yellow wood. The problem he faces is choosing which of the two diverging paths to take to continue his journey.
Q.2. Which of the two roads did the poet choose and why?
Answer : The poet chose the road that was less traveled by. He chose it because it seemed to have the better claim and was grassy, suggesting unique opportunity.
Q.3. What do yellow woods represent?
Answer : Yellow woods represent autumn (a time of change) and life’s critical juncture, where one must make an important decision about their future direction.
Q.4. Why was the poet looking at the path?
Answer : The poet was looking at the path to see where it bent and to determine how far he could see to assess its potential future impact before making his choice.
Q.5. What does grassy mean in the poem?
Answer : “Grassy” means the path was less worn and suggested fewer people had chosen it. This indicates a road for which the poet felt a sense of adventure.
Q.6. Where does the poet find himself?
Answer : The poet finds himself in a wood where two roads diverge. He is standing at a point of major decision in his life.
Q.7. What do the words ‘Long I stood’ mean in the poem?
Answer : The words mean the poet paused for a long time at the fork. This emphasizes the difficulty and significance of the choice he had to make.
Poem 2: Wind
Q.1. How does the poet want the wind to come?
Answer : The poet initially addresses the wind to come softly and gently, asking it not to break the shutters or scatter the papers upon its arrival.
Q.2. What does the wind god do?
Answer : The wind god winnows and mocks weak things. It separates the weak (like crumbling houses and lives) from the strong, symbolizing life’s harsh challenges.
Q.3. Who has written the poem ‘Wind’?
Answer : The poem ‘Wind’ was originally written in Tamil by Subramania Bharati and was translated into English by A. K. Ramanujan.
Q.4. What does the wind do with the books?
Answer : The wind tears the pages of the books and throws them down from the shelf, causing destruction in the room and highlighting its destructive nature.
Q.5. Why does the author ask the wind to come swiftly?
Answer : The poet does not ask the wind to come swiftly; he asks it to come softly. He primarily urges us to be strong to face its power.
Q.6. How does the wind become the cause of rain?
Answer : The wind carries moisture-laden clouds, often preceding rain. When it comes strongly, it can also bring heavy rain and storms.
Q.7. Does the wind god do what we tell him?
Answer : No, the wind god does not do what we tell him. He continues to destroy weak things, so the poet urges us to build strong homes to cope.
Q.8. What does the wind symbolise?
Answer : The wind symbolises difficulties, challenges, and hardships in life that inevitably test our strength and resilience.
Poem 3: Rain on the Roof
Q.1. What does the poet like to do when it rains?
Answer : The poet likes to lie in his bed in a cozy cottage chamber and listen to the patter of the rain falling on the roof for comfort and nostalgia.
Q.2. What sound do the raindrops make?
Answer : The raindrops make a patter or a soft, rhythmic drumming sound (a melancholy music) on the roof above his head.
Q.3. What makes an echo in the poet’s heart?
Answer : The patter of the rain on the roof creates an emotional echo in his heart, bringing thousands of recollections of his past.
Q.4. What is the single major memory that comes to the poet?
Answer : The single major memory that comes to him is that of his mother, who watched over him lovingly during rainy nights long ago.
Q.5. Who are the ‘darling dreamers’ the poet refers to?
Answer : The ‘darling dreamers’ are the poet and his siblings when they were children, peacefully sleeping while their mother watched them.
Q.6. How does the sky look before the rain falls?
Answer : The sky looks dark, humid, and full of shadows that gently hover over the vast, starry spherical expanse.
Poem 4: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Q.1. What kind of place is Innisfree?
Answer : Innisfree is a small, peaceful, natural island retreat. The poet imagines it as a place of quiet solitude, where he can live simply and peacefully.
Q.2. The three things the poet wants to do when he would go back there.
Answer : He wants to build a small cabin, plant nine bean-rows, and keep a honey-bee hive in the clearing for simple living.
Q.3. what he hears and sees there and its effect on him?
Answer : He hears the lake water lapping and the hum of the bees. This sight and sound bring him peace and mental calm away from the city.
Q.4. What is the tone of the poem?
Answer : The tone of the poem is deeply nostalgic and yearning, expressing a strong desire for the peace and tranquility of nature and escape from urban life.
Q.5. Describe the person, the place or the thing brought vividly to life by the poet.
Answer : The Lake Isle of Innisfree is brought vividly to life. It is described as a peaceful, isolated spot where nature provides solace and quiet.
Q.6. Why does the poet want to go to Innisfree?
Answer : The poet wants to go to Innisfree to find peace and escape the busy, grey world of the city, which makes him feel restless.
Q.7. How is the city life different from the life at the Lake of Innisfree?
Answer : City life is loud, grey, and busy, contrasting sharply with Innisfree’s peaceful, natural sounds and the promise of simple, solitary living.
Q.8. Briefly describe one major theme of the poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
Answer : One major theme is the longing for nature (escapism). It shows how the human heart deeply desires the peace and tranquility found only in nature.
Poem 5: A Legend of the Northland
Q.1. Why are the people in the Northland not able to sleep throughout the night?
Answer : The days are so short and the nights are so long in the Northland that the people cannot sleep all the way through the long winter nights.
Q.2. What means of transportations are used in the Northland?
Answer : The main means of transportation used are swift reindeer harnessed to sledges, and children are bundled up in fur clothes.
Q.3. What did Saint Peter ask the old lady for?
Answer : Saint Peter, being tired and hungry from preaching, asked the old lady for one small, single cake from her store of baked goods.
Q.4. What provoked St. Peter?
Answer : Saint Peter was provoked by the old lady’s extreme greed and selfishness, as she refused to give him even the smallest piece of cake.
Q.5. How did St. Peter punish the old lady?
Answer : St. Peter punished the old lady by cursing her to become a woodpecker, forcing her to bore for her food in the hard, dry wood.
Q.6. What is the popular legend of the Northland? Do you think it is true?
Answer : The legend tells how a greedy woman was turned into a woodpecker by Saint Peter for her selfishness. No, it is a fable to teach a moral lesson.
Q.7. The poet doesn’t consider the legend to be true but wants to narrate the story. Why? Give one reason.
Answer : The poet narrates the story because it contains an important moral lesson about greed and charity that he wants to convey to the readers.
Q.8. Why was Saint Peter tired and hungry?
Answer : Saint Peter was tired because he had been traveling and preaching all day long, causing him to be extremely exhausted and hungry.
Q.9. Describe the landscape of the Northland as described in the poem.
Answer : The Northland landscape is described as cold and icy, with long winter nights where people travel in sledges pulled by reindeer.
Poem 6: No Men Are Foreign
Q.1. Whom does the poet refer to as ‘our brothers’ and why?
Answer : The poet refers to all people of the world as ‘our brothers’ because everyone shares the same human body and experiences the same basic needs of life.
Q.2. How does the poet suggest that all people on earth are the same?
Answer : The poet suggests they are the same because they all walk on the same earth, breathe the same air, and are fed by peace and starved by war.
Q.3. What does the poet say about hating our brothers?
Answer : The poet says that whenever we hate our brothers, we are actually hating and betraying ourselves, and we should avoid doing so.
Q.4. When do we defile the earth?
Answer : We defile the earth when we raise arms against each other in conflict and war, spreading hatred and violence across the land.
Poem 8: On Killing a Tree
Q.1. How does a tree become strong?
Answer : A tree becomes strong by slowly consuming the earth’s crust and absorbing years of sunlight, air, and water to develop a tough, durable hide.
Q.2. How does a tree grow to its full size? List the words suggestive of its life and activity.
Answer : A tree grows by slowly consuming the earth and sprouting leaves. Words suggestive of its life are consuming, rising, feeding, growing, and sprouting.
Q.3. How does the tree heal itself?
Answer : If a tree is merely chopped, the bleeding bark will heal, and from the stub will rise green twigs and miniature boughs to restore the tree.
Q.4. What are miniature boughs? What happens if they are left unchecked?
Answer : Miniature boughs are small branches that grow from a cut stem. If left unchecked, they will expand again to the former huge size of the tree.
Poem 10: A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
Q.1. What does the poet mean by ‘spirit’ and in what state was it?
Answer : ‘Spirit’ refers to the poet’s soul or consciousness. It was in a state of ‘slumber’ (deep, numb sleep or oblivion).
Q.2. What caused the slumber of the poet?
Answer : The slumber was caused by the poet’s naive illusion that the person he loved was immortal and untouchable by the decay of time.
Q.3. What changes did the slumber bring in the poet’s feelings?
Answer : The slumber meant the poet was free from human fears about death and loss, living in a false state of security about his beloved.
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