MP Board 9th English Short Answer type Questions Moments Question Bank

MP Board 9th English Short Answer type Questions Moments Question Bank

Q.13 Short Answer Type questions from Supplementary Reader ‘Moments’ (30 words) 2×2=4

Lesson 1-The Lost Child

2. What are the things the child sees on his way to the fair?
3. In the fair he wants many things. What are they?
4. What did the child see at the sweetmeat shop?
5. When does the child realise that he has lost his way?
6. Who rescued the lost child? What did he offer to buy him?
7. What was the first reaction of the child when he realized that he had lost his parents?
8. How did balloons fascinate the child?
9. What plea did the child finally make to his parents?

Lesson-2 The Adventures of Toto

1.Where did Grandfather buy Toto from and why?
2.Describe Toto the monkey that Grandfather bought from the tonga-driver.
3.Why did the narrator and his Grandfather hide Toto?
4.How did Toto manage to escape from the closet?
5.Where did Grandfather hide Toto after his escape from the closet?
6.Why did Grandfather decide to take Toto to Saharanpur?
7.How did Grandfather take Toto to Saharanpur?
8.Why did Grandfather have to pay three rupees to the Ticket-Collector?

Lesson-3 Iswaran the Storyteller

1.In what way is Iswaran an asset to Mahendra?
2.How does Iswaran describe the uprooted tree on the highway?
3.How does Iswaran narrate the story of the tusker?
4.What work did Mahendra do?
5.Do you think Mahendra was a fussy man?
6.Why has Iswaran been called an asset?
7.How had Iswaran controlled the elephant?
8.Why did Iswaran prepare a special dinner one night?
9.Do you think Mahendra was fearful of ghosts?
10.What did Mahendra see outside his window one dark night when he was woken up by a moaning sound?
11.How did Mahendra react to his ghostly misadventure?

Lesson -4 In the Kingdom of Fools

1. What are the two strange things the guru and his disciple find in the Kingdom of Fools?
2. Why does the disciple decide to stay in the King of Fools?
3. Name all the people who are tried in the king’s court.
4. Who is the real culprit according to the king?
5. Who became the king and the prime minister of the kingdom?
6. What did the king and minister order for the people of the city?
7. What did the guru realise?
8. To whom did servant’s eyes fell on and why?
9. Why was the king puzzled ?
10. What are the two strange things the guru and his disciple find in the Kingdom of Fools?

Lesson -5 The Happy Prince

1. Why does the Happy Prince send a ruby for the seamstress?
2. What does the swallow do in the seamstress’ house?
3. What does the swallow see when it flies over the city?
4. For whom does the prince send the sapphires?
5. What were the drops of the rain actually?
6. Why did the swallow not leave the prince and go to Egypt?
7. To whom did the prince send his ruby and why?
8. What were two little boys doing under the archway of a bridge?
9. What did the Happy Prince ask the swallow to do with the gold on his body?
10. What did the statue of the Happy Prince have for its eyes?
11. What did the Happy Prince have on his sword-hilt?

Lesson -7 The Last Leaf

1. Where did Sue and Johnsy stay? What was their profession?
2. What illness did Johnsy have? Who looked after her?
3. Why was Johnsy counting the leaves on the creeper outside her window?
4. Who was Behrman?
5. What did Sue feel when she saw the last leaf on the creeper? Who was at the window with her?

Lesson-8 A House Is Not a Home

1. Why was Zan sad in a new high school?
2. What does this story reflect?
3. What happened one Sunday afternoon?
4. Why was Zan astonished at school?
5. How did Zan come out of his depression?

Lesson-9 The Accidental Tourist

1. What happened when the zip of the bag gave a way?
2. What happened to Bill’s finger?
3. Why were Bill’s teeth blue?
4. Why did Bill Bryson returned to hotel desk frequently?
5. How many airliners the narrator has managed to travel?
6. On which occasion narrator and his family went on a trip?
7. Why did Bill Bryson returned to hotel desk frequently?
8. What started the trouble for Bryson at the Logan airport in Boston?
9. How doe Bill Bryson end up in a “crash position” in the air craft?
10. What measures writer adopt when he travelled alone?
11. What happened at the London airport when the author was going to England on a long journey with family?

Lesson-10 The Beggar

1. What was the name of the beggar?
2. Who did Lushkoff beg from?
3. What was Sergei’s profession?
4. What did Sergei remembere about the beggar on seeing him?
5. What work did Sergei offer to the beggar?
6. How did Sergei recognise the beggar
7. The beggar was a lair. What two lies did he tell Sergei?
8. What kind of work was given to Lushkoff initially? Why did he agree to do?
9. How did Olga treat Lushkoff in the beginning? Why did she do this?
10. Where did Sergei send Lushkoff ? What advice did he give him?
11. Where did Sergei see Lushkoff after two years? What work was he doing them?