Extract Based Questions: The Necklace | English Class 10 PDF Download

Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Q1: One evening her husband returned elated bearing in his hand a large envelope. ‘Here’, he said, “here is something for you.”
(a) Why was the husband elated?
(b) What was the reaction from ‘you’?
(c) Find the word from the extract that means the same as ‘wrapper’.
(d) What is the antonym of ‘elated’?
Ans:
(a) The husband was elated as he brought home an invite to the Minister’s residence. He knew it would make his wife happy.
(b) ‘You’ or his wife, unexpectedly, was not the least happy and she made her displeasure very obvious.
(c) ‘Envelope’ means the same as ‘wrapper’ from the extract.
(d) Its antonym is ‘sad’.

Q2: He threw around her shoulders that modest wraps they had carried whose poverty clashed with the elegance of the ball costume. She wished to hurry away…
(a) What precedes these fines?
(b) ‘She’ wished to hurry away. Why?
(c) Which word in the given extract is a synonym of ‘not expensive’?
(d) What is the opposite of ‘poverty’?
Ans: (a) These lines follows Matilda’s success at the ball where she was idolised. Her beauty and elegance was praised by everyone.
(b) She, ‘Matilda’ did not wish to shatter the illusion of her grandeur that she had so successfully managed to convey others by putting on such a shabby wrap. So, she wished to hurry away to escape the notice of the rich women.
(c) ‘Modest’ is the synonym of ‘not expensive’ from the extract.
(d) Its opposite is ‘affluence’.

Q3. She learned the odious work of a kitchen… she seemed old now. She had become strong, hard woman, the crude woman of a poor household.
(a) Who seemed old now? .
(b) What had made her ‘crude’?
(c) Which word in the given extract is an antonym to ‘pleasant’?
(d) What part of speech is ‘crude’ in the extract?
Ans: (a) Matilda seemed old now.
(b) Ten long years of poverty, and a constant struggle and strife for survival had made her ‘crude’.
(c) ‘Odious’ is the antonym of‘pleasant’ in the extract.
(d) It is an adjective.

Q4: Mme Forestier was touched and took both her hands as she replied, “Oh! My poor Matilda! Mine were false. They were not worth over five hundred francs.” [CBSE2015]
(a) Why was Mme Forestier touched?
(b) “Mine were false.” What does ‘mine’ refer to in these words?
(c) Find the word from the extract that means same as ‘agitated’.
(d) What is the opposite of ‘poor’?
Ans: (a) Mme Forestier was touched by Matilda’s plight which could have been avoided if only Matilda had told the truth.
(b) ‘Mine’ refers to the diamond necklace that Mme Forestier had lent to Matilda.
(c) ‘Touched’ means the same as ‘agitated’ from the extract.
(d) Its opposite is ‘rich’.