MP Board 9th English Section D Extract Beehive Prose Question Bank
Q.10 (A) Extract from Prose from Beehive (1×3=3)
Extract-1
‘Gee’, said Tommy, “what a waste. When you’re through with the book, you just throw it away, I guess. Our television screen must have had a million books on it and it’s good for plenty more. I wouldn’t throw it away.” “Same with mine”, said Margie. She was eleven and hadn’t seen as many telebook as Tommy had. He was thirteen.
She said “Where did you find it?”
“In my house.” He pointed without looking because he was busy reading. “In the attic.”
“What’s it about?” “School.”
Extract-2
Margie was scornful. ‘School? What’s there to write about school? I hate school.’ Margie always hated school, but now she hated it more than ever. The mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in geography and she had been doing worse and worse until her mother had shaken her head sorrowfully and sent for the County Inspector.
Questions:
(i)Name the writer of the story ‘The Fun They Had’.
(a) Isaac Asimov (b) Deborah Cowley (c) William Butler yeast
(ii) What was Margie’s opinion about school?
(a) She liked school (b) She slightly liked it. (c) She hated school
(iii) What was wrong with her mechanical teacher?
(a) It was giving her test after test in English.
(b) It was giving her test after test in history.
(c) It was giving her test after test in geography.
Extract-3
It was her first day at the prestigious Royal Academy of Music in London and daunting enough for any teenager fresh from a Scottish farm. But this aspiring musician faced a bigger challenge than most:
Questions:
(i) Who is referred to as the ‘aspiring musician’?
(a) Evelyn Glennie (b) Ron Forbes (c) her friend
(ii) What was likely to daunt Evelyn?
(a) Royal Academy of Music (b) London (c) her background
(iii) What do you understand by the expression: “fresh from a Scottish farm”? “
(a) new in the city (b) belonged to a Scottish farm (c) both(a) and (b)
Extract-4
Till recently it was used only in temples and weddings. The credit for bringing this instrument onto the classical stage goes to Ustad Bismillah Khan.
Questions:
(i)Which instrument is being referred to in the extract?
(a) shehnai (b) pungi (c) tabla (d) none of these
(ii) Why, do you think, it was used only in temples and weddings?
(a) because of its melodious sound (b) because it’s difficult to play (c) because its harsh sound
(iii)Who was Ustad Bismillah khan?
(a)shehnai player (b) Pungi player (c) drum player
Extract-5
To the little girl, he was a figure to be feared and avoided. Every morning before going to work he came into her room and gave her a casual kiss.
Questions:
(i) Who does ‘he’ refer to in this extract?
(a) the father of the little girl (b) the mother of the little girl (c) the brother of the little girl
(ii) What were the feelings of the little girl towards his father?
(a) She was afraid of him (b) She loved him. (c) She hated him.
(iii) What did ‘he’ do before going to work every morning?
(a) He casually kissed her. (b) He woke her up. (c) He asked her to sing.
Extract-6
At the age of two-and-a-half, Einstein still wasn’t talking. When he finally did learn to speak, he uttered everything twice. Einstein did not know what to do with other children, and his playmates called him “Brother Boring.” So, the youngster played by himself much of the time. He specially loved mechanical toys. Looking at his new-born sister, Maja, he is said to have said: “Fine, but where are her wheels?”
Questions:
(i) By what age did Einstein not learn to speak?
(a) three and half years(b) four and half years (c) two and a half years
(ii) What did Albert’s classmates call him?
(a) a genius (b) dull (c) brother boring
(iii). What did Einstein love to play with?
(a) plastic toys (b) mechanical toys (c)friends
Extract-7
Evelyn Glennie’s loss of hearing had been gradual. Her mother remembers noticing something was wrong when the eight-year-old Evelyn was waiting to play the piano. ‘They called her name and she didn’t move. I suddenly realised she hadn’t heard,’ says Isabel Glennie. For quite a while Evelyn managed to conceal her growing deafness from friends and teachers. But by the time she was eleven her marks had deteriorated and her headmistress urged her parents to take her to a specialist.
Questions:
i) Evelyn’s loss of hearing take place—
a) at birth b) eight years old c) eleven years old
ii) Evelyn managed to hide her deafness from
a)her mother b) her friends c) her specialist
iii) Who urged her parents to take her to a specialist?
a) friends b) teachers c) headmistress
Extract-8
Her mother remembers noticing something was wrong when the eight-year-old Evelyn was waiting to play the piano. “They called her name and she didn’t move. I suddenly realized she hadn’t heard,” says Isabel Glennie. For quite a while Evelyn managed to conceal her growing deafness from friends and teachers. But by the time she was eleven her marks had deteriorated and her headmistress urged her parents to take her to a specialist
Questions:
i)What made Isabel suspect Evelyn’s hearing ability?
(a) She didn’t hear her name. (b) She missed her music lessons. (c) She lost interest in studies.
ii.) Evelyn’s headmistress advised her parents to consult a specialist because she didn’t score good marks. (True/ false)
iii) Find the word/phrase in the passage which means the same as “to hid”.
Extract-9
To the little girl he was a figure to be feared and avoided. Every morning before going to work he came into her room and gave her a casual kiss, to which she responded with ‘Good Bye Father’. And oh, there Was a glad sense of relief when she heard the noise of the carriage growing fainter and fainter down the long road!
Questions:
i)The little girl feared and avoided-
(a)her mother (b) her father (c) her grandfather
ii) Her father visited her-
(a)in evening (b)in morning (c)in afternoon
iii) Find out a word from the passage which means “answered”
Extract-10
For reasons I have never been able to understand, a sudden demand for tamarind seeds erupted in the market. I used to collect the seeds and sell them to a provision shop on Mosque Street. A day’s collection would fetch me the princely sum of one anna. My brother-in-law Jallaluddin would tell me stories about the War which I would later attempt to trace in the headlines in Dinamani. Our area, being isolated, was completely unaffected by the War. But soon India was forced to join the Allied Forces and something like a state of emergency was declared.
Questions:
(i)From which lesson the above passage has been taken?
(a)The Little Girl (b) My Childhood (c) The Fun They Had
(ii)Abdul Kalam earned money by selling-
(a)newspaper (b) tamarind seeds (c) sweets
(iii)Dinamani was a-
(a) book (b) newspaper (c) magazine