Worksheet Solutions: The Little Girl Notes | Study English Class 9 - Class 9

Q.1. Why do you think Katherine Mansfield titled her story like The Little Girl?
(a) Because the story talks about the little girl and her feelings
(b) Because the story has a little girl in it
(c) Because The Little Girl seems to be an attractive and interesting title for a story
(d) Because Katherine Mansfield liked the little girl in the story

Correct Answer is Option (a)
The story gives us an insight to a little girl's mind beautifully explaining the thoughts and the emotions that these little children go through or might experience in certain circumstances and how they gradually begin to understand life in their own little way. Therefore,  the title is appropriate for this story.

Q.2. Kezia was beaten up with a ruler by her father because
(a) she went to an ice cream parlour
(b) she failed in her exam
(c) she disagreed to sleep alone
(d) she has torn down the papers of her father’s speech

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.3. Kezia saw these children playing
(a) football
(b) badminton
(c) hide and seek
(d) tag

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.4. How many children did the Macdonalds have in the text titled The Little Girl?
(a) Five
(b) Six
(c) Four
(d) Three

Correct Answer is Option (a)
The Macdonalds had five children. Among them was the baby Mao, two little girls and two boys who played with their father in the evening.

Q.5. Why did Kezia tear the papers?
(a) To clean her room
(b) To play
(c) All of these
(d) To fill the cushion

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.6. In the text The Little Girl,  whom did Kezia find standing at her bedside with a candle when she woke up in the dark due to her nightmare?
(a) The cook, Alice
(b) Her Grannie
(c) Her Father
(d) Her Mother

Correct Answer is Option (c)
Kezia often had nightmares and sleeping alone in the dark made it scarier for her. She woke up shivering and found her father standing beside the bed with a candle in his hand.

Q.7. The father who lived next door to Kezia’s would
(a) make barbeque
(b) play and laugh
(c) water his plants
(d) speak angrily

Correct Answer is Option (b)

Q.8. Why was Kezia afraid of her father?
(a) Once he beat her for tearing his papers
(b) She thought that he was a hard-hearted man
(c) He used to speak rudely to her and always found faults in her
(d) All of these

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.9. Which family lived in the neighbourhood of Katherine?
(a) The Smiths
(b) The Wilson Family
(c) The Johnsons
(d) The Macdonald Family

Correct Answer is Option (d)
The Macdonald family was Kezia’s next-door neighbour.

Q.10. What would Kezia find her mother doing on Sunday afternoons in the drawing-room?
(a) Nothing
(b) Reading
(c) Busy in her work
(d) Talking to her father

Correct Answer is Option (b)