Chapter 1 -The Lost Child

Q1. What are the things the child sees on his way to the fair? Why does he lag behind?
Ans:- The child sees toys, balloons , garland ,sweets , a swing and a snake-charmer .
He gets attracted towards all these things. So, he lags behind.

Q2. When does he realise that he has lost his way? How have his anxiety and insecurity been described?
Ans:- The child asks his parents to have a ride on roundabout. Having no response he realises that he has lost
his way. He starts crying and runs here and there .

Q 3.Why does the lost child lose interest in the things that he had wanted earlier?
Ans:- The lost child loses interest in the things because he got lost in the fair. Now he first wants his parents.

Q 4.What do you think happens in the end? Does the child find his parents?
Ans:- Yes I feel that the child finds his parents at last.

Chapter 4-In the Kingdom of Fools

Q 1.What are the two strange things the guru and his disciple find in the Kingdom of Fools?
Ans:- 1. People used to work during nights and sleep during days.
2. Everything was cheap and cost the same (one dudu).

Q2.Why does the disciple decide to stay in the Kingdom of Fools? Is it a good idea?
Ans:- The disciple decided to stay in the Kingdom of Fools because everything was cheap there.
No; It was not a good idea because of the unpredictable behaviour of fools.

Q3. Who is the real culprit according to the king? Why does he escape punishment?
Ans: According to the king real culprit was the merchant. He escapes the punishment because he was too
thin to fit the stake.

Q4.What are the Guru’s words of wisdom? When does the disciple remember them?
Ans: The Guru's words of wisdom are that anything can happen anytime in the kingdom of fools. The disciple
remembers this word when he was about to be executed.

Chapter 5-The Happy Prince

Q 1.Why do the courtiers call the prince ‘the Happy Prince’? Is he really happy? What does he see all around
him?
Ans:- The courtiers call the prince ‘the Happy Prince’ because he was happy when he was alive. He is not really
happy now as he can see misery of people all around him.
Q2. For whom does the prince send the sapphires and why?
Ans:- 1. The prince sent one of the sapphires for the playwright so that he could finish a play for the director in
time.
2. The prince sent his second sapphire to a poor match girl because her matches had fallen into the gutter.

Q 3. What does the swallow see when it was flying over the city?
Ans:- The swallow saw the rich enjoying in their beautiful houses and beggars begging at their gates. He also
saw a group of wandering children.

Q4. Why did the swallow not leave the prince and go to Egypt?
Ans:- The swallow was impressed with the charity and kindness of the happy prince. Now the Happy Prince had
become totally blind. So he left the idea of going to Egypt and decided to serve for the Prince.

Q 5.What are the precious things mentioned in the story? Why are they precious?
Ans:- The leaden heart of the Happy Prince and the dead swallow are the two precious things mentioned in
the story. They are precious as they did various deeds for the welfare of people and sacrificed their lives for
the sake of others.

Chapter 7-The Last Leaf

Q1. What is Johnsy’s illness? What can cure her, the medicine or the willingness to live?
Ans:- Johnsy was suffering from pneumonia. She had no will to live so the medicine had no effect on her. Her
willingness to live could cure her.

Q2. Do you think the feeling of depression Johnsy has is common among teenagers?
Ans:- Yes, feeling of depression can be common among teenagers. They find it difficult to deal with obstacles
and challenges of life.

Q3. Behrman has a dream. What is it? Does it come true?

Ans:- Behrman had a dream to paint a masterpiece in his life.
Yes, it came true when he painted the last leaf of the ivy creeper.

Q4.What is Behrman’s masterpiece? What makes Sue say so?

Ans:- His masterpiece was the leaf that he pained on a wall .Sue called it a masterpiece because it was so
realistic that no one realised that it had been painted .

Class-9th English (Beehive)

LESSON -1 THE FUN THEY HAD
Q 1. How old are Margie and Tommy?
Answer:- Margie is eleven years old and Tommy is thirteen years old.
Q 2. What did Margie write in her diary?
Answer:- Margie wrote, “Today Tommy found a real book!”.

Q 3. Had Margie ever seen a book before?

Answer:- No, Margie had never seen a book before.

Q 4. What things about the book did she find strange?

Answer:- Margie found it strange that the book had yellow and wrinkled pages. Words in the book
were still and did not move the way they were supposed to on a screen.

Q 5.What do you think a telebook is?

Answer:- A book that can be displayed on a screen is called a telebook.

Q 6.Where was Margie‟s school? Did she have any classmates?

Answer:- Margie’s school was in her home itself, right next to her bedroom. No, she did not have any
classmates.

III. Answer each of these questions in a short paragraph (about 30 words).

1. What kind of teachers did Margie and Tommy have?
Answer:- Margie and Tommy had mechanical teachers. They were taught on computers and
television screens. They didn’t have a living person as a teacher who would teach the pupils in a
classroom.

2. Why did Margie‟s mother send for the County Inspector?

Answer:- Margie’s mother sent for the County Inspector because the mechanical teacher was not
functioning efficiently. It had been giving her test after test in geography and she had been doing
worse and worse.

3. What did he do?

Answer:- He slowed down the mechanical teacher’s speed upto an average ten-year level. The
mechanical teacher’s speed was controlled and adjusted according to the IQ level of Margie.

4. Why was Margie doing badly in geography? What did the County Inspector do to help her?
Answer:- Margie was doing badly in geography because the mechanical teacher was very fast in
displaying the screen. . In order to help her, He slowed down the mechanical teacher’s speed upto an
average ten-year level. The mechanical teacher’s speed was controlled and adjusted according to the
IQ level of Margie.

5. What had once happened to Tommy‟s teacher?

Answer:- Once, Tommy’s teacher was taken away for nearly a month because its history sector had
blanked out completely.

7. How does Tommy describe the old kind of school?

Answer: Tommy says that the old kind of school had a
1. special building and all the kids went there.
2. They had a teacher, who was a man.
3. They all studied together and learned the same thing.
8. How does he describe the old kind of teachers?
Answer:- Tommy describes the old kind of teachers
1. as living human beings who did not live in the house.
2. they taught the students in a special building.
3. They taught the children in groups and gave them homework

Poem –The Road Not Taken

Q1. Where does the traveller find himself? What problem does he face?

Answer:- The traveller finds himself in the yellow woods at a point where the two roads diverge. The
problem that he faces is that he cannot decide which road to take to continue his journey.

Q 2. Is there any difference between the two roads as the poet describes them?
Answer:- There is no difference in the roads as the poet describes them in stanzas two and three
except that the road he took was covered with grass looked to be not much used

II. in the last two lines of the poem?

Answer:- In the last two lines of the poem the poet says that there is a difference between the two
roads because the road he opted for was less travelled by other people

Q3. What do you think the last two lines of the poem mean? (Looking back, does the poet regret his
choice or accept it?)
Answer:- The last two lines of the poem reflect the courage to accept the challenge and take the right
decisions in life. The poet decided to take the path that was less travelled by the others because he
wanted to do something different in his life.
No, the poet does not seem to regret his choice.

2. The Sound of Music

PART -1
Question1. How old was Evelyn when she went to the Royal Academy of Music?
Answer:- Evelyn was seventeen years old when she went to the Royal Academy of Music.

Question2. When was her deafness first noticed? When was it confirmed?
Answer:- Her deafness was first noticed when she was eight-year-old. It was confirmed when she was
eleven.

Question3. Who helped her to continue with music? What did he do and say?
Answer:- Ron Forbes helped her to continue with music. He began by tuning drums to different notes
and asked her to sense the sound.

Question4. How does Evelyn hear music?

Ans:- Evelyn does not hear music. She feels the music through the different parts of the body.

Part -2
The Shehnai of Bismillah Khan

Question1. Why did Aurangzeb ban the playing of the pungi?

Answer:- Aurangzeb banned the playing of the pungi because it had a shrill and unpleasant sound.

Question2. How is a shehnai different from a pungi?

Answer:- A shehnai is longer and broader than a pungi. It has seven holes on the body of the pipe and
produce melodious sound.

Question 3. When and how did Bismillah Khan get his big break?
Answer:- Bismillah Khan got his big break with the opening of the All India Radio in Lucknow in 1938.

Question 4. Where did Bismillah Khan play the shehnai on 15 August 1947? Why was the event
historic?
Answer:- Bismillah Khan played the shehnai on 15 August 1947 at the Red Fort. He was the first Indian
to greet the nation with his musical instrument.

Question 5. Why did Bismillah Khan refuse to start a shehnai school in the U.S.A.?
Answer:- He refused to start a shehnai school in the USA because he never wanted to leave India.

Poem-Wind
Question 1. What does the poet say the wind god winnows?
Answer:- Winnower separates the grains of wheat from the chaff, similarly the wind God separates
the weak from the strong.

Question 2. How does we make wind our friend?

Answer:- We should make ourselves strong to make friends with the wind.

Question 3.What do the last four lines of the poem mean to you?
Answer:- The poet Inspires us to face the wind. It means we should make ourselves strong .to face the
challenges of life.
 Lesson-3 The Little Girl
Question 1. Why was Kezia afraid of her father?
Answer:- Kezia was afraid of her father because he was very rude.

Question 2. Who were the people in Kezia’s family?

Answer:- Kezia’s family had her grandmother, mother and father.

Question 3. Kezia’s efforts to please her father resulted in displeasing him very much. How did
this happen?
Answer: Kezie stitched three sides of the pin-cushion. She was confused at what to fill the cushion with.
Grandmother was not around. So, Kezie went to her parents’ room to ask her mother for some scrap. But, her
mother wasn’t there in the room.
Kezie then saw some sheets of papers on the bed table. She collected them all, tore them into small pieces and
stuffed the cushion with those pieces.
Her efforts to please her father resulted in displeasing him very much when at night her father searched for
those sheets of paper on the bed table. The sheets of paper had the speech for Port Authority. Her father
scolded and beat her with a ruler for touching things that did not belong to her.

Question 4. How does Kezia begin to see her father as a human being who needs her sympathy?
Answer: One day, when her mother and grandmother were at the hospital, Kezia was left at home with Alice,
their cook. At night, she had a nightmare. Shivering with fear, she called for her grandmother but saw her
father near her bed. He took her in his arms and carefully tucked her on his bed. He then lay down beside her.
Half asleep, she went close to him, snuggled her head under his arm and held onto his shirt tightly.
She saw her father go off to sleep before her. She understood that he had to work so hard every day which
made him too tired to behave like Mr Macdonald. She told his father that he had a big heart.

Poem-3
Rain on the Roof
Question 1. What does the poet like to do when it rains?
Answer:- The poet likes to lie on bed in a cottage and listen to pitter-patter sound of the rain.

Question 2. What is the single major memory that comes to the poet’s mind? Who are the “darling
dreamers” he refers to?
Answer:- The poet has single memory of his beloved mother. ‘Darling dreamers’ refers to the poet
and his siblings.

Question 3. Is the poet now a child? Is his mother still alive?

Answer:- No, the poet is not a child. His mother is not alive anymore.
 4. A Truly Beautiful Mind
Question 1.What did Einstein call his desk drawer at the patent office.?Why?
Answer:- Einstein called his desk drawer at the patent office because he used to store his secretly
developed ideas in the drawer.

Question 2.Why did Einstein write a letter to Franklin Roosevelt?

Answer:- Einstein wrote a letter to Franklin Roosevelt to warn about bomb effect .

Question 3.How did Einstein react to the bombing of Hiroshima andNagasaki?

Answer:- He was deeply shaken by the extent of the destruction and wrote a public missive to the
United Nations.

Question 4.Why does the world remember Einstein as a ‘world citizen’?

Answer:- The world remembers Einstein as a ‘world citizen’ because of his efforts towards world
peace and democracy .

Lesson-6 My Childhood
Question 1.Where was Abdul Kalam’s house?
Answer:- Abdul Kalam’s house was on the Mosque Street in Rameswaram.

Question 2. How did Abdul Kalam earn his first wages?

Answer:- Abdul Kalam earned his first wages by distributing newspapers.

Question 3. Had he earned any money before that? In what way?

Answer:- Yes, he earned money by selling the tamarind seeds .

Question 4. What characteristics does he say he inherited from his parents?

Answer:- He inherited honesty and self discipline from his parents.

Poem -6 No Men Are Foreign

Question 1.How many common features can you find in stanza 2?
Answer:- The common features are sun,air,water,harvests ,labour.
 Lesson-8 Reach for the Top
Q 1.Why was the ‘holy man’ who gave Santosh’s mother his blessings
surprised?
Ans:- The ‘holy man’ was surprised because her grandmother wanted
blessings for a daughter.

Q 2.Why was Santosh sent to the local school?

Ans:- She was sent to the local school because of the prevailing custom in the
family.

Q3. How did Santosh begin to climb mountains?

Ans:- She enrolled in a course at Uttarkashi’s Nehru Institute of
Mountaineering. Then she began climb mountains every year.

Q 4.What shows her concern for the environment?

Ans:- She collected and brought down 500 kilograms of garbage from the
Himalayas.

Q 5. How does she describe her feelings at the summit of the Everest?
Ans:. She was delighted at this moment and proudly unfurled the Indian
tricolour.