MP Board 9th English Short Answer type Questions Beehive Prose Question Bank

MP Board 9th English Short Answer type Questions Beehive Prose Question Bank

Q.11 Short Answer Type Questions from Prose from Beehive (30 words) 2×6=12

Lesson 1 The Fun They Had

1. What did Margie write in her diary?
2. What subjects did Margie and Tommy learn?
3. What is a tele book?
4. What things about the book did Margie and Tommy find strange?
5. What kind of teachers did Margie and Tommy have?
6. What had once happened to Tommy’s teacher?
7. What had the mechanical teacher been giving to Margie?
8. In which subject was Margie failing repeatedly?
9. Where was Margie’s school? Did she have any classmates?

Lesson 2 The Sound of Music
Part l

1. Who helped Evelyn to continue with music? What did he do and say?
2. When was Evelyn’s deafness first noticed? When was it confirmed?
3. How does Evelyn hear music?
4. Where had Evelyn got admission to learn music?
5. Who had suggested Evelyn’s parents to send her deaf school?
6. What did Ron Forbes do with drums?
7. Name the award given to Evelyn for performing solo?

Part ll

1. Why did Aurangzeb ban the playing of the pungi?
2. How is a Shehnai different from a Pungi?
3. Who invented `Shehnai’?
4. How many holes does a Shehnai have on its body?
5. Where was Bismillah Khan born?
6. Which highest civilian award in India was conferred on Bismillah Khan?

Lesson 3 The Little Girl

1. Who were the people in Kezia’s family?
2. Why was Kezia afraid of her father?
3. How did the little girl feel when her father left for the office in the morning?
4. What was the little girl’s fault when she appeared before her father?
   5.On what occasion did Kezia’s grandmother ask her to present a gift to her father?
5. What gift did Kezia prepare for her father?
6. What did Kezia stuff the pin-cushion with?

Lesson 4 A Truly Beautiful Mind

1. What did Einstein call his desk drawer at the patent office? Why?
2. Why did Einstein write a letter to Franklin Roosevelt?
3. What problem did develop in Albert when he learnt to speak?
4. What did the playmates call Einstein?
5. In what subject was Einstein highly gifted?
6. In what subject was Einstein much interested
7. What did the headmaster say about Einstein?

Lesson-5 The Snake and the Mirror

1. Describe the doctor’s house.
2. What two important decisions did the doctor take while he was looking in the mirror?
3. Why did the snake leave the doctor’s arm?’
4. How did the snake change the writer’s opinion about himself?
5. What made the doctor utter ‘Death lurked four inches away’?
   6.What sounds did the doctor hear? What did he think it was? How many times did he hear it?

Lesson 6 My Childhood

1. Where was Abdul Kalam’s house?
2. Who were Abdul Kalam’s school friends? What did they later become?
3. How did Abdul Kalam earn his first wages?
   4.What happened when he was in the fifth standard?
4. What was a lasting impression left on him when he was shifted to the last row?
5. How did Ramanadha Sastry feel when Dr Kalam was shifted to his seat in the last row?
6. How did Sivasubramania Iyer do his best to break social barriers?
7. How did his wife behave when Kalam was invited to his science teacher’s home for a meal?
8. What was the reaction of Sivasubramania when his wife refused to serve Dr Kalam in the kitchen?

Lesson 8 Reach for the Top

Part I

1. Why was Santosh Yadav sent to the local School?
2. When did she leave home for Delhi, and why?
3. How did Santosh begin to climb mountains?
   Part II
4. What are, other than tennis, Maria’s likings?
5. How was Maria treated by her fellow students at Florida?

Lesson 10 Kathmandu

1. Name the two temples the author visited in Kathmandu?
2. What does Vikram Seth compare to the quills of a porcupine?
3. Name five kinds of flutes?
4. What difference does the author note between the flute seller and the other hawkers?
5. With whom author visit the two temples in Kathmandu?
6. What is the sign outside the Pashupatinath temple?
7. What do the worshippers do?
8. Who comes to the temple from the royal family?
9. What did the two monkeys do?

Lesson11 If I Were You

1 Describe Gerrard’s appearance?
2 What made Gerrard ask the intruder “Are you an American?”
3 What sort of a person is an intruder? Give examples to illustrate.
4 Why does the intruder intend to kill Gerrard?
5 How does Gerrard behave on seeing gun-totting stranger in his cottage?
6 Why does the intruder does not kill Gerrard immediately?
7 Why does the intruder call himself “a poor hunted rat”?
8 Why was the criminal been called an intruder all through the play?
9 Bring out the contrast between Gerrard and the intruder.
10 How does Gerrard propose to use the intruder’s episode?