Worksheet: Packing | English Literature for Grade 9 PDF Download

1. Read the extract from the lesson and answer the questions that follow:
My toothbrush is a thing that haunts me when I’m travelling, and makes my life a misery. I dream that I haven’t packed it, and wake up in a cold perspiration, and get out of bed and hunt for it. And, in the morning, I pack it before I have used it, and have to unpack again to get it, and it is always the last thing I turn out of my bag; and then I repack and forget it, and have to rush upstairs for it at the last moment and carry it to the railway station, wrapped up in my pocket-handkerchief.
(i) What does the author want to become?
(ii) Why did the author ask his friends to leave the matter entirely to him?
(iii) What haunts the author when he travels?
(iv) What does he do at the last moment?

Q.2. What was the thing that the narrator felt pride in and why?

Q.3. What was his real intention when he offered George and Harris to pack?

Q.4. Jerome can’t help his energetic nature. Why?

Q.5. How many times did the author reopen his bag and why?

Q.6. Read the extract from the lesson and answer the questions that follow:
What I had meant ,of course, was that I should boss the job, and that Harris and George should potter about under my directions, I pushing them aside every now and then ,”Oh ,you!” “ Here, let me do it. ““There you are, simple enough!” –really teaching them, as you might say. Their taking it in the way they did irritated me. There is nothing does irritate me more than seeing other people sitting about doing nothing when I’m working.
(i) Why did the author offer his services for packing?
(ii) What did Harris and George do while the author was packing the bags?
(iii) What did he expect from George and Harris?
(iv) What irritates the author most?

Q.7. What irritated Jerome to a great extent?

Q.8. What had the narrator intended? What irritated him?

Q.9. Why did the author place a bathtub beside George while he was sleeping?

Q.10. Explain how George and Harris created a mess of things while packing?

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