Extract Based Questions: The Book that saved the Earth | English Class 10 PDF Download

Q1. Noodle : (bowing) O Great and Mighty Think-Tank, most powerful and intelligent creature in the whole universe, what are your orders?
Think-Tank : (peevishly) You left out part of my salutation, Apprentice Noodle. Go over the whole thing again.
(a) Who is Noodle?
(b) What does the extract reveal about Think-Tank?
(c) Find a word from the extract which means ‘feeling or showing nutation’.
(d) What is the opposite of ‘powerful’?
Ans:

(a) Noodle is the apprentice to Think-Tank, the ruler of Mars.
(b) The extract reveals Think-Tank as a vain and egoistic creature.
(c) The word “peevishly” means feeling or showing irritation.
(d) The opposite of “powerful” is “weak”.

Q2. Iota : I can’t figure it out, Captain. (holding up a book) I’ve counted two thousand of these peculiar items.
This place must be some sort of storage barn. [CBSE 2014]
(a) What could Iota not figure out?
(b) Where was Iota?
(c) Find the antonym of the word ‘ordinary’ in the extract.
(d) What part of speech is ‘peculiar’ as used in the extract?
Ans: 
(a) Iota could not understand what the books were, as he had never seen one before. 
(b) Iota was at the Centerville Public Library on Earth.
(c) The antonym of ordinary is peculiar. 
(d) The word peculiar is an adjective.

Q3. Think-Tank : It can’t be worth much, but go ahead. Give us your trifling bit of data.
(a) Whom was Think-Tank addressing?
(b) What was the data?
(c) Find the word in the extract which is a synonym of ‘insignificant’.
(d) What part of speech is ‘It’ as used in the extract?
Ans: 
(a) Think-Tank was addressing his apprentice, Noodle.
(b) The data indicated that Earthlings did not eat the sandwiches; instead, they used them for communication.
(c) The synonym for insignificant in the extract is trifling. 
(d) In this context, It is a pronoun.

Q4. Historian : (chuckling) And that’s how one dusty old book of nursery rhymes saved the world from a Martian invasion.
(a) What was the name of the book?
(b) Why did the Historian chuckle?
(c) Which word in the extract is a synonym of ‘Conquer’?
(d) What part of speech is ‘And’ as used in the extract?
Ans: 
(a) The name of the book is ‘Mother Goose’. 
(b) The historian chuckled because the idea that a simple book could save Earth from invasion was amusing. 
(c) The word ‘invasion’ is a synonym for ‘conquer’. 
(d) The word ‘and’ is a conjunction in this context.