Class 6 English Honeysuckle Chapter 6 Extract Based Question Answers - Who I Am

Q1: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
What makes me very angry is when people don’t believe me when I am telling the truth. For example, if I tell my teacher that I couldn’t do my homework because Ravi borrowed my book and forgot to return it. Or I tell my parents that it wasn’t me but my little brother who started the fight. Or if I tell my teacher that I really did study for the test even if I have got bad marks.They all look at me as if they think I am telling lies. The look on their faces really angers me. Sometimes I have to look down at my shoes and count to ten so that I do not show that I am angry.

(i) Why Serbjit has to look down at his shoes?
Ans: He has to look down at his shoes in order to control his anger.

(ii) How did Serbjit’s teachers and parents look at him?
Ans: Serbjit’s teachers and parents look at him as if he has been telling lies to them.

(iii) What was the reason given by Serbjit for not doing his homework?
Ans: The reason was Serbjit’s friend Ravi has borrowed his book and forgot to return it, so he could not do his homework.

(iv) Find synonym for the word‘angry’.
(a) Annoyed
(b) Return
(c) Fight
(d) Peace
Ans: (a)

(v) Write antonym for the word ‘down’.
(a) High
(b) Up
(c) Increase
(d) Behind
Ans: (b)

(vi) The look on their faces really angers me. ‘Me’ refers to…
(a) Nasir
(b) Peter
(c) Dolma
(d) Serbjit
Ans: (d)

Q2: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
When I grow up, I want to become a seed collector. We have cotton fields in our village and every year, my father spends a lot of money on buying new seeds to grow our cotton plants. My grandfather told me that many years ago, he could collect the seeds from his own plants which could be sown to grow new plants during the next year.
(i) Who is I in above paragraph?
Ans: T is Nasir is the above passage.

(ii) What is his dream to become?
Ans: His dream is to become a seed collector.

(iii) Where does his father spend money?
Ans: His father spends money on buying new seeds every year.

(iv) What did his grandfather tell him about seeds?
Ans: His grandfather told him that they used to save seeds from his yields of cotton.

(v) Choose the past participle of ‘sow’ from above passage.
Ans: ‘sown’.

Q3: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
When I grow up, I am going to be the Prime Minister of India. People always laugh when I say that, but I am sure that I will do it. Everyone in my class asks me what to do when they have a problem, and my teacher always trusts me when something needs to be done in school. I want to make things better for everyone. I want us to have good hospitals and roads and schools. I want to make sure that there are many good scientists in India who will invent cures for diseases and send a spaceship to Mars.

(i) What is Dolma’s dream to be?
Ans: Dolma dreams to be the Prime Minister of India.

(ii) When does her teachers trust her?
Ans: The teachers trust her when something needs to be done in school.

(iii) What is her ambition?
Ans: Her ambition is to make things better for everyone.

(iv) Where does she want to send spaceship to?
Ans: She wants to send her spaceship to Mars.

(v) What is the noun form of‘Invent’?
Ans: ‘Invention’.

Q4: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
My favourite activity is climbing trees. Just outside our house, there is a mango tree which I love to go up. Its branches spread out, so it is simple to climb up the tree, and I can sit comfortably in the fork of two branches. My mother tells me it is not sensible for girls to climb trees, but one afternoon she climbed up too, and both of us sat there talking and eating raw mangoes. When I am high up in the tree, I feel like I can rule the whole world.

(i) Who is I in the above lines?
Ans: T is Radha in the above lines.

(ii) Where was the mango tree?
Ans: The mango tree was outside her house.

(iii) How were climbing the tree ‘simple for her’?
Ans: Climbing on the tree was simple for her because its branches were spread out.

(iv) What was her mother’s opinion about climbing the trees?
Ans: In her opinion, it is not sensible for a girl to climb trees.

(v) Find the word that means the same as ‘extend’.
Ans: Spread out.

Q5: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
My favourite day is the second Sunday of every month. On this day our whole family always goes to the cinema hall to see a film. My father gets the tickets in advance and all of us my grandmother, my parents, my two brothers and I take the bus there. In the interval my father buys us peanuts and I love to sit in the darkness of the hall eating and watching the film. Afterwards we always stop to eat ice cream. Everyone is in a good mood and we all feel very lucky that we are such a happy family.

(i) Which is Peter’s favourite day?
Ans: Peter’s favourite day is the second sunday of every month.

(ii) Where do they go to on that day?
Ans: They go to a cinema hall to see a film.

(iii) What does his father buy in interval?
Ans: Peter’s father buys peanuts in the interval.

(iv) Why does Peter feel lucky?
Ans: Peter feels lucky that he has a happy family.

(v) Choose the noun form of ‘dark’ from the passage.
Ans: Darkness.

Q6: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
I want to live on the beaches of Lakshadweep and dive down to see coral. I suppose I should go to the Konark temple in Orissa or the old city in Beijing in China and the Pyramids in Egypt too, but what I actually enjoy is seeing nature more than old buildings.

(i) Why does Rohit want to live in Lakshadweep?
Ans: Rohit wants to enjoy the beaches of Lakshadweep and dive down to see coral.

(ii) Where does he want to go in China?
Ans: He wants to go to old city of Beijing in China.

(iii) Where is Konark temple situated?
Ans: Konark temple is situated is Odisha now.

(iv) What does he enjoy the most?
Ans: He enjoys seeing nature more than old building.

(v) Choose the adverb from the passage which means ‘truly’.
Ans: Actually.