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Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 1

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :

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 “Goodbye, 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! In the evening when he came home, she stood near the staircase and heard his loud voice in the hall. “Bring my tea into the drawing-room... Hasn’t the paper come yet? Mother, go and see if my paper’s out there — and bring me my slippers.”“Kezia,” Mother would call to her, “if you’re a good girl you can come down and take off father’s boots.” Slowly the girl would slip down the stairs, more slowly still across the hall, and push open the drawing-room door. By that time, he had his spectacles on and looked at her over them in a way that was terrifying to the little girl. “Well, Kezia, hurry up and pull off these boots and take them outside. Have you been a good girl today?” “I d-d-don’t know, Father.”

Q. Who is ‘he’ in the first line?

Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 2

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :

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 “Goodbye, 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! In the evening when he came home, she stood near the staircase and heard his loud voice in the hall. “Bring my tea into the drawing-room... Hasn’t the paper come yet? Mother, go and see if my paper’s out there — and bring me my slippers.”“Kezia,” Mother would call to her, “if you’re a good girl you can come down and take off father’s boots.” Slowly the girl would slip down the stairs, more slowly still across the hall, and push open the drawing-room door. By that time, he had his spectacles on and looked at her over them in a way that was terrifying to the little girl. “Well, Kezia, hurry up and pull off these boots and take them outside. Have you been a good girl today?” “I d-d-don’t know, Father.”

Q. Why was Kezia afraid of her father?

Detailed Solution for Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 2
Kezia was a little sensitive girl. Kezia was in awe of her father and considered his hands, neck, and mouth to be huge. He was aggressive and always spoke loudly. He often scolded her. He never played with her. He was a figure to be feared. She shuttered while trying to speak to him.
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Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 3

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :

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 “Goodbye, 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! In the evening when he came home, she stood near the staircase and heard his loud voice in the hall. “Bring my tea into the drawing-room... Hasn’t the paper come yet? Mother, go and see if my paper’s out there — and bring me my slippers.”“Kezia,” Mother would call to her, “if you’re a good girl you can come down and take off father’s boots.” Slowly the girl would slip down the stairs, more slowly still across the hall, and push open the drawing-room door. By that time, he had his spectacles on and looked at her over them in a way that was terrifying to the little girl. “Well, Kezia, hurry up and pull off these boots and take them outside. Have you been a good girl today?” “I d-d-don’t know, Father.”

Q. What is this story about?

Detailed Solution for Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 3
'The Little Girl' is the story of a little girl, Kezia who misunderstood her father's strictness and usually remained scared of him. She kept a distance from him, whenever he would be at home. She considered him to be as big as a giant.
Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 4

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :

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 “Goodbye, 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! In the evening when he came home, she stood near the staircase and heard his loud voice in the hall. “Bring my tea into the drawing-room... Hasn’t the paper come yet? Mother, go and see if my paper’s out there — and bring me my slippers.”“Kezia,” Mother would call to her, “if you’re a good girl you can come down and take off father’s boots.” Slowly the girl would slip down the stairs, more slowly still across the hall, and push open the drawing-room door. By that time, he had his spectacles on and looked at her over them in a way that was terrifying to the little girl. “Well, Kezia, hurry up and pull off these boots and take them outside. Have you been a good girl today?” “I d-d-don’t know, Father.”

Q. What did Kezia’s father do before going to his office?

Detailed Solution for Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 4
Before going to his office, Kezia's father usually went into her room to give her a casual kiss.
Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 5

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :

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 “Goodbye, 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! In the evening when he came home, she stood near the staircase and heard his loud voice in the hall. “Bring my tea into the drawing-room... Hasn’t the paper come yet? Mother, go and see if my paper’s out there — and bring me my slippers.”“Kezia,” Mother would call to her, “if you’re a good girl you can come down and take off father’s boots.” Slowly the girl would slip down the stairs, more slowly still across the hall, and push open the drawing-room door. By that time, he had his spectacles on and looked at her over them in a way that was terrifying to the little girl. “Well, Kezia, hurry up and pull off these boots and take them outside. Have you been a good girl today?” “I d-d-don’t know, Father.”

Q. Find a word from the passage which means ‘answered’.

Detailed Solution for Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 5
Answered: say or write something as a reaction to someone or something.

Responded: say something in reply.

Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 6

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :

Laboriously, with a double cotton, the little girl stitched three sides. But what to fill it with? That was the question. The grandmother was out in the garden, and she wandered into Mother’s bedroom to look for scraps. On the bed table she discovered a great many sheets of fine paper, gathered them up, tore them into tiny pieces, and stuffed her case, then sewed up the fourth side.

That night there was a hue and cry in the house. Father’s great speech for the Port Authority had been lost. Rooms were searched; servants questioned. Finally Mother came into Kezia’s room. “Kezia, I suppose you didn’t see some papers on a table in our room?” “Oh yes,” she said, “I tore them up for my surprise.”“What!” screamed Mother. “Come straight down to the dining-room this instant.”

Q. Trace the word, which means ‘tiny pieces’ in the extract.

Detailed Solution for Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 6
A detached piece or fragment of something written or printed; a short extract: as, scraps of writing; scraps of poetry.
Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 7

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :

Laboriously, with a double cotton, the little girl stitched three sides. But what to fill it with? That was the question. The grandmother was out in the garden, and she wandered into Mother’s bedroom to look for scraps. On the bed table she discovered a great many sheets of fine paper, gathered them up, tore them into tiny pieces, and stuffed her case, then sewed up the fourth side.

That night there was a hue and cry in the house. Father’s great speech for the Port Authority had been lost. Rooms were searched; servants questioned. Finally Mother came into Kezia’s room. “Kezia, I suppose you didn’t see some papers on a table in our room?” “Oh yes,” she said, “I tore them up for my surprise.”“What!” screamed Mother. “Come straight down to the dining-room this instant.”

Q. Why did Kezia tear the papers?

Detailed Solution for Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 7
In order to make a gift for her father's birthday as a pin cushion, she tore the papers unknowingly which were her father's important documents to fill the cushion. After some time, father came to know that Kezia had torn them into pieces to make a pin cushion.
Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 8

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :

Laboriously, with a double cotton, the little girl stitched three sides. But what to fill it with? That was the question. The grandmother was out in the garden, and she wandered into Mother’s bedroom to look for scraps. On the bed table she discovered a great many sheets of fine paper, gathered them up, tore them into tiny pieces, and stuffed her case, then sewed up the fourth side.

That night there was a hue and cry in the house. Father’s great speech for the Port Authority had been lost. Rooms were searched; servants questioned. Finally Mother came into Kezia’s room. “Kezia, I suppose you didn’t see some papers on a table in our room?” “Oh yes,” she said, “I tore them up for my surprise.”“What!” screamed Mother. “Come straight down to the dining-room this instant.”

Q. Where was the Grandmother?

Detailed Solution for Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 8
The grandmother was out in the garden, and she wandered into Mother’s bedroom to look for scraps.
Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 9

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :

Laboriously, with a double cotton, the little girl stitched three sides. But what to fill it with? That was the question. The grandmother was out in the garden, and she wandered into Mother’s bedroom to look for scraps. On the bed table she discovered a great many sheets of fine paper, gathered them up, tore them into tiny pieces, and stuffed her case, then sewed up the fourth side.

That night there was a hue and cry in the house. Father’s great speech for the Port Authority had been lost. Rooms were searched; servants questioned. Finally Mother came into Kezia’s room. “Kezia, I suppose you didn’t see some papers on a table in our room?” “Oh yes,” she said, “I tore them up for my surprise.”“What!” screamed Mother. “Come straight down to the dining-room this instant.”

Q. Who made hue and cry in the house?

Detailed Solution for Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 9
There was a hue and cry in the house because Kezia had torn her father's beautifully written great speech to be delivered at the Port Authority. She had done this just to fill the cushion made for his father.
Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 10

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :

Laboriously, with a double cotton, the little girl stitched three sides. But what to fill it with? That was the question. The grandmother was out in the garden, and she wandered into Mother’s bedroom to look for scraps. On the bed table she discovered a great many sheets of fine paper, gathered them up, tore them into tiny pieces, and stuffed her case, then sewed up the fourth side.

That night there was a hue and cry in the house. Father’s great speech for the Port Authority had been lost. Rooms were searched; servants questioned. Finally Mother came into Kezia’s room. “Kezia, I suppose you didn’t see some papers on a table in our room?” “Oh yes,” she said, “I tore them up for my surprise.”“What!” screamed Mother. “Come straight down to the dining-room this instant.”

Q. Name the people in Kezia’s family.

Detailed Solution for Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 10
Apart from Kezia and her father, there was Kezia's mother, grandmother and a cook in the family.
Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 11

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :

“What I'l do if I have a nightmare?” she asked. “I often have nightmares and then Grannie takes me into her bed—I can’t stay in the dark—it gets‘ all whispery’…”“You just go to sleep, child,” said Alice, pulling off her socks, “and don’t you scream and wake your poor Pa.” But the same old nightmare came — the butcher with a knife and a rope, who came nearer and nearer, smiling that dreadful smile, while she could not move, could only stand still, crying out, “Grandma! Grandma!” She woke shivering to see Father beside her bed, a candle in his hand.“What’s the matter?” he said.

Oh, a butcher — a knife — I want Grannie.” He blew out the candle, bent down and caught up the child in his arms, carrying her along the passage to the big bedroom. A newspaper was on the bed. He put away the paper, then carefully tucked up the child. He lay down beside her. Half asleep still, with the butcher’s smile all about her it seemed, she crept close to him, snuggled her head under his arm, held tightly to his shirt.

Q. What was the State of Kezia?

Detailed Solution for Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 11

The mental state of the little girl kezia when she was beaten by her father was not so good. She was mentally disturbed and thought that he was not a good type of father and was very afraid of his father.

Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 12

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :

“What I'l do if I have a nightmare?” she asked. “I often have nightmares and then Grannie takes me into her bed—I can’t stay in the dark—it gets‘ all whispery’…”“You just go to sleep, child,” said Alice, pulling off her socks, “and don’t you scream and wake your poor Pa.” But the same old nightmare came — the butcher with a knife and a rope, who came nearer and nearer, smiling that dreadful smile, while she could not move, could only stand still, crying out, “Grandma! Grandma!” She woke shivering to see Father beside her bed, a candle in his hand.“What’s the matter?” he said.

Oh, a butcher — a knife — I want Grannie.” He blew out the candle, bent down and caught up the child in his arms, carrying her along the passage to the big bedroom. A newspaper was on the bed. He put away the paper, then carefully tucked up the child. He lay down beside her. Half asleep still, with the butcher’s smile all about her it seemed, she crept close to him, snuggled her head under his arm, held tightly to his shirt.

Q. Why did Kezia start feeling lonely?

Detailed Solution for Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 12
kezia left alone with Alice as kezia's mother and father were not at home. Her mother was sick and her grandmother took Kezia's mother to hospital .
Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 13

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :

“What I'l do if I have a nightmare?” she asked. “I often have nightmares and then Grannie takes me into her bed—I can’t stay in the dark—it gets‘ all whispery’…”“You just go to sleep, child,” said Alice, pulling off her socks, “and don’t you scream and wake your poor Pa.” But the same old nightmare came — the butcher with a knife and a rope, who came nearer and nearer, smiling that dreadful smile, while she could not move, could only stand still, crying out, “Grandma! Grandma!” She woke shivering to see Father beside her bed, a candle in his hand.“What’s the matter?” he said.

Oh, a butcher — a knife — I want Grannie.” He blew out the candle, bent down and caught up the child in his arms, carrying her along the passage to the big bedroom. A newspaper was on the bed. He put away the paper, then carefully tucked up the child. He lay down beside her. Half asleep still, with the butcher’s smile all about her it seemed, she crept close to him, snuggled her head under his arm, held tightly to his shirt.

Q. What changed Kezia’s perception about her father?

Detailed Solution for Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 13
Kezia's perception of her father underwent a change for the better when her father came to her rescue when she had a nightmare. That is when she realised that her father was not a cruel giant but a large-hearted, hard-working man who got extremely tired by the end of the day.
Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 14

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :

“What I'l do if I have a nightmare?” she asked. “I often have nightmares and then Grannie takes me into her bed—I can’t stay in the dark—it gets‘ all whispery’…”“You just go to sleep, child,” said Alice, pulling off her socks, “and don’t you scream and wake your poor Pa.” But the same old nightmare came — the butcher with a knife and a rope, who came nearer and nearer, smiling that dreadful smile, while she could not move, could only stand still, crying out, “Grandma! Grandma!” She woke shivering to see Father beside her bed, a candle in his hand.“What’s the matter?” he said.

Oh, a butcher — a knife — I want Grannie.” He blew out the candle, bent down and caught up the child in his arms, carrying her along the passage to the big bedroom. A newspaper was on the bed. He put away the paper, then carefully tucked up the child. He lay down beside her. Half asleep still, with the butcher’s smile all about her it seemed, she crept close to him, snuggled her head under his arm, held tightly to his shirt.

Q. Where was the butcher?

Detailed Solution for Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 14
The butcher was in her dream.
Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 15

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :

“What I'l do if I have a nightmare?” she asked. “I often have nightmares and then Grannie takes me into her bed—I can’t stay in the dark—it gets‘ all whispery’…”“You just go to sleep, child,” said Alice, pulling off her socks, “and don’t you scream and wake your poor Pa.” But the same old nightmare came — the butcher with a knife and a rope, who came nearer and nearer, smiling that dreadful smile, while she could not move, could only stand still, crying out, “Grandma! Grandma!” She woke shivering to see Father beside her bed, a candle in his hand.“What’s the matter?” he said.

Oh, a butcher — a knife — I want Grannie.” He blew out the candle, bent down and caught up the child in his arms, carrying her along the passage to the big bedroom. A newspaper was on the bed. He put away the paper, then carefully tucked up the child. He lay down beside her. Half asleep still, with the butcher’s smile all about her it seemed, she crept close to him, snuggled her head under his arm, held tightly to his shirt.

Q. ‘Shake in fear and cold’ means _________.

Detailed Solution for Test: The little girl- Extract Based Type Questions - 2 - Question 15
Shivering: shaking slightly and uncontrollably as a result of being cold, frightened, or excited.
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