DAV PUBLIC SCHOOL NH3, FARIDABAD

CLASS IX ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT

Chapter – The Little Girl
1. Why was Kezia afraid of her father?
2. What does Kezia’s father do before going to his office?
3. What would Kezia’s father do after coming back from his office?
4. What would Kezia’s father do on Sunday?
5. Why would Kezia’s grandmother encourage her to talk to her father?
6. What gift did the grandmother suggest to Kezia to give her father on his birthday?
7. What did she fill the pin cushion with?
8. What made Kezia’s father punish her ?Was he right to do so?
9. Why did the little girl start making the pin cushion
10. Why was the stuffing very important for her father? Did she know that it was
important?
11. She looked through a hole in the fence into Mr. McDonald's Garden. What did
she see?
12. Describe the departure of Kezia’s father for his office?
13. Describe the arrival of Kezia’s father at home from the office?
14. What would Kezia’s mother ask her to do when father returned from office?
15. Why did Kezia go slowly towards the drawing room when the mother asked her
to come downstairs?
16. Why did Kezia stutter in the presence of her father?
17. Why did Kezia feel that her father was like a giant?
18. What would Kezia do while her father lay on sofa on Sunday?
19. What happened when her father woke up?
20. What did grandmother ask Kezia to make and why?
21. Why was there of hue and cry in Kezia’s house at night before her father's
birthday?
22. Why was Kezia dragged down to the dining room at night?
23. Do you think Kezia was wrong in tearing the papers of her father?
24. Why did grandmother comfort Kezia after her father hit her with ruler?
25. Why did Kezia ask, "What what did God make fathers for? "?
26. Why did grandmother tell Kezia that her father was too upset that night to listen
to her?
27. How did father punish Kezia and what was the impact of that punishment?
28. Who was Kezia's neighbours?
29. What did she observe about them?
30. Kezia felt that Mr McDonald was the better father as compared to her own
father. Why?
31. Why was Kezia left alone in the house with the cook?
32. Why did Kezia suddenly grow afraid when she was put to bed at night?
33. What kind of dreams did Kezia usually have?
34. How did father comfort the little girl when she got scared in her sleep?
35. When and how did Kezia feel that her father had undergone a change?