The Fun they had Class 9 Worksheet English Chapter 1

Q1: In the chapter, The Fun They Had, Where did Tommy find the book?
(a) In his study room
(b) In the playground
(c) In his school
(d) In the attic

Correct Answer is Options (d)
Tommy told Margie that he had found the book in the attic of his house when she asked him where he got the book from.

Q2. Which subject did Margie face problems in learning?
(a) Geography
(b) History
(c) Mathematics
(d) Science

Correct Answer is Options (a)
Margie had problems with learning Geography from her mechanical teacher.

Q3. Whose father knew as much as a teacher?
(a) Blair
(b) Evelyn
(c) Margie
(d) Tommy

Correct Answer is Options (d)

Q4. How much time was taken to repair Tommy’s teacher?
(a) 15 days
(b) 20 days
(c) 25 days
(d) One month

Correct Answer is Options (d)

Q5. According to Tommy, the real book was
(a) Wrong
(b) Boring
(c) A waste
(d) Fiction

Correct Answer is Options (c)

Q6. To which world does the story take the readers?

(a) Future world where computers will play a major role
(b) Past world
(c) Present World
(d) A future world where humans will play a major role

Correct Answer is Options (a)

Q7 Who was the regular teacher who taught the lessons?
(a) Who teaches
(b) Human teacher
(c) Computer teacher
(d) Mechanical robot teacher who teaches Margie and Tommy

Correct Answer is Options (d)

Q8. In the chapter, The Fun They Had, why were the two children surprised to know that once children were taught different subjects by human teachers?
(a) Because humans were mechanical teachers.
(b) Human teaching the children was an offensive crime.
(c) Because humans were not mechanical teachers.
(d) Human beings were not allowed to teach.

Correct Answer is Options (c)
The prose being set in future portrays the digital world where books no longer existed and people studied from mechanic screens. Therefore, there were no human teachers for centuries since the time books became extinct. Hence, they have never seen or heard of human teaching children in schools.

Q9. In the chapter, The Fun They Had, which date has been mentioned in her diary by Margie?
(a) 15th May 2156
(b) 17th May 2158
(c) 17th May 2157
(d) 15th May 2157

Correct Answer is Options (c)
The day Tommy found a book, Margie recorded the date in her diary where she wrote 17 May 2157.

Q10. What subjects did Margie and Tommy learn?
(a) Geography
(b) Science
(c) Mathematics
(d) All of these

Correct Answer is Options (d)

Fill in the Blanks

Q1: Margie's grandfather once said that there was a time when all stories were printed on ____.

Ans: paper

Q2: Tommy found a ___ book in the attic.

Ans: real

Q3: Margie's mechanical teacher gave her test after test in ____.

Ans: geography

Q4: Margie had to write her homework and test papers in a punch code she learned when she was ____ years old.

Ans: six

Q5: The Inspector adjusted the geography sector to an average ____ level.

Ans: ten-year

True or False

Q1: Margie loved school.

Ans: False

Q2: Tommy found a million books in the attic.

Ans: False

Q3: Margie's mother never intervened in her education.

Ans: False

Q4: Margie hoped the Inspector would take away the mechanical teacher.

Ans: True

Q5: Margie was happy when the Inspector adjusted the geography sector.

Ans: False

Match the Following

Ans:

Margie's feelings about school- Hated School
Tommy's Age- Thirteen
Margie's Age- Eleven
Tommy's Discovery- A real book
The Inspector's action- Adjusted the geography sector 

Reference Based Questions 

Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.

Q1: “Today Tommy found a real book! ”
It was a very old book. Margie’s grandfather once said that when he was a little boy his grandfather told him that there was a time when all stories were printed on paper.

(a) Who are Margie and Tommy?
Ans: Tommy is a thirteen-year-old boy and Margie an eleven-year-old girl who live in the twenty second century.

(b) Where had Tommy found the book?
Ans: Tommy had found the book in the attic of his house.

(c) What is meant by “real book”?
Ans: The book is “real” as it is printed on paper rather than a telebook.

(d) How had Margie heard of such a book?
Ans: Margie’s grandfather had told her that he had heard from his grandfather about a time when all stories were printed on paper.

Q2: It was a very old book. Margie’s grandfather once said that when he was a little boy his grandfather told him that there was a time when all stories were printed on paper. They turned the pages, which were yellow and crinkly, and it was awfully funny to read words that stood still instead of moving the way they were supposed to-on a screen, you know.

(a) Why were the pages of the book yellow?
Ans: The pages of the book were yellow because the book was quite old.

(b) What kind of books did Margie and Tommy read?
Ans: Margie and Tommy read telebooks

(c) What do you think a telebook is?
Ans: A book that is not printed on paper, but one that can be read on a screen. Words move on the screen for the students to read.

(d) Why did Tommy find the book a “waste”?
Ans: Unlike their telebooks, the words on the page stayed the same and did not change. He felt when one was through with the book, one would just throw it away.

Q3: They turned the pages, which were yellow and crinkly, and it was awfully funny to read words that stood still instead of moving the way they were supposed to-on a screen, you know.

(a) Who are ‘they’ in this extract?
Ans: ‘They’ are Margie and Tommy, the young children who are reading the book.

(b) Which book had yellow and crinkly pages?
Ans: The book that Tommy found in the attic of his house had yellow and crinkly pages.

(c) What do the yellow and crinkly pages reveal about the book?
Ans: The yellow and crinkly pages reveal that it was a very old book and had not been lying in the attic for a long time.

(d) What did ‘they’ find funny? Why?
Ans: The children found the fixed and still words in the book funny because they were used to reading electronic books on the television screen in which the words kept moving.

Q4: “I wouldn’t throw it away. ”
(a) Who says these words?
Ans: Tommy, a thirteen-year-old boy says these words.

(b) What does ‘it’ refer to?
Ans: ‘It’ refers to the television screen of the computer on which Tommy reads books. It has a million books . and space for a lot more.

(c) What is it being compared with, by the speaker?
Ans: ‘It’ is being compared with the paper book that Tommy had found in the attic of his house.

(d) Why would the speaker not throw it away?
Ans: The speaker, Tommy, wouldn’t throw the television screen on which he read books away because it had a million books on it and it could be used many times.

Q5: “What’s it about? ”
“School. ”
Margie was scornful. “School? What’s there to write about school? I hate school. ”

(a) What does ‘it’ refer to?
Ans: ‘It’ refers to the book Tommy found in his attic.

(b) Why was Margie scornful about the book?
Ans: Margie was scornful about the book as it was about school. She hated her school and felt school would not be an interesting enough topic to read about.

(c) Why did Margie not like school?
Ans: Margie had never liked her school, but now she hated her mechanical teacher so she disliked school even more.

(d) Why did Margie hate her mechanical teacher?
Ans: The mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in geography and she had been doing worse and worse.

Q6: He was a round little man with a red face and a whole box of tools with dials and wires. He smiled at Margie and gave her an apple, then took the teacher apart.

(a) Who is ‘he’?
Ans: He is the County Inspector.

(b) Why had he been called?
Ans: Margie’s mother, Mrs Jones, had called him because Margie’s mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in geography and she had been doing worse and worse. She wanted the County Inspector to fix the teacher.

(c) Why did he give Margie an apple?
Ans: He smiled at Margie and gave her an apple to reassure her.

(d) How did he fix the teacher?
Ans: The County Inspector found that the teacher’s the geography sector was geared a little too quick. He slowed it up to an average ten-year level.

Q7: He said to her mother, “It’s not the little girl’s fault, Mrs Jones. I think the geography sector was geared a little too quick. Those things happen sometimes. ”

(a) Who is ‘he’ and which ‘little girl’ is he talking about?
Ans: He is the County Inspector. He is talking about Margie.

(b) What, according to him, is not the girl’s fault?
Ans: According to him, the girl’s continuous poor performances in Geography tests was not her fault.

(c) What was wrong with the geography sector of the mechanical teacher?
Ans: He finds that the pace of the geography sector has been a bit too fast for the girl’s level.

(d) What does the County Inspector do to correct the fault?
Ans: The County Inspector took apart the mechanical teacher and slowed it up to an average ten-year level.

Q8: “Actually, the overall pattern of her progress is quite satisfactory. ” And he patted Margie’s head again. Margie was disappointed. She had been hoping they would take the teacher away altogether.

(a) Who is the speaker? Whose progress is being talked about?
Ans: The speaker is the County Inspector. He is talking about Margie’s progress.

(b) Why was Margie disappointed?
Ans: Margie was disappointed as her teacher was not taken away as she wished for.

(c) Whose teacher had been taken away? Why?
Ans: Tommy’s teacher had been taken away for nearly a month because the history sector had blanked out completely.

(d) What subjects did Margie and Tommy learn?
Ans: Margie and Tommy learnt geography, history and arithmetic.

Q9: Tommy looked at her with very superior eyes. “Because it’s not our kind of school, stupid. This is the old kind of school that they had hundreds and hundreds of years ago. ” He added loftily.

(a) What does Tommy mean by “our kind of school”?
Ans: They study in classrooms in their own homes with mechanical teachers.

(b) Why did Tommy call Margie stupid?
Ans: Tommy called Malgie stupid because she was ignorant about schools of the past.

(c) Whom does ‘they’ here refer to?
Ans: ‘They’ here refers to the students of centuries ago who were mentioned in the book.

(d) How was ‘their’ school different?
Ans: Their school was a special building that they went to and they learned the same thing if they were the same age. They had a person as a teacher who taught the whole class.

Q10: “Sure they had a teacher, butit wasn ’t a regular teacher. It was a man. ”

(a) Who speaks these words and about what?
Ans: Tommy speaks these words about the schools in the olden times.

(b) Who does ‘they’ refer to in these lines?
Ans: ‘They’ refers to the students from the schools of the olden times.

(c) What does ‘regular’ mean here?
Ans: Here ‘regular’ means a mechanised teacher like the ones Margie and Tommy had.

(d) What is ‘regular’ contrasted with?
Ans:‘Regular’ is contrasted with the teachers from the olden days who were real men and not programmed machines.

Q11: “A man? How could a man be a teacher? ”
“Well, he just told the boys and girls things and gave them homework and asked them questions. ”

(a) Who feels a man cannot be a teacher? Why?
Ans: Margie feels a man cannot be a teacher as a man is not smart enough. Moreover, she was used to being taught by a mechanical teacher.

(b) What does ‘he’ refer to here?
Ans: ‘He’ refers to a man, a human teacher of the twentieth century.

(c) What job did ‘he’ do?
Ans: His job was to teach boys and girls and give them work to do at home and ask them questions.

(d) Where had the speaker got this information?
Ans: The speaker, Tommy, had found this information in the old book that he had found in the attic of his house.

Q12: Tommy screamed with laughter. “You don’t know much, Margie. The teachers didn ’t live in the house. They had a special building and all the kids went there. ”

(a) Why did Tommy scream with laughter?
Ans: Tommy screamed with laughter at the ignorance of Margie who thought that in old times the human teacher lived in the house of a student and taught him there.

(b) What did Margie not know? Why?
Ans: Margie did not know about the functioning of the schools of olden times because she lived in the year 2157 when education had been made fully computerized.

(c) What ‘special building’ does the speaker refer to?
Ans: By ‘special building’ Tommy means the buildings that housed schools in olden times.

(d) How is the special building a unique place for Margie and Tommy?
Ans: Margie and Tommy are the students of the year 2157. They are taught at home by mechanical teachers. Their television screen is their school. Therefore, a special building for teaching children is a unique thing for them.

Q13: Margie went into the school room. It was right next to her bedroom and the mechanical teacher was on and waiting for her. It was always on at the same time every day except Saturday and Sunday because her mother said little girls learned better if they learned at regular hours.

(a) What was ‘it’? Where was ‘it’?
Ans:‘It’ in these lines is Margie’s schoolroom. It was next to her bedroom.

(b) Why was ‘it’ next to ‘her’ bedroom?
Ans: It was next to her bedroom because in the twenty-second century students were taught through a customized education system under where students were taught at home by mechanical teachers.

(c) Why was the mechanical teacher on and waiting for her?
Ans:The mechanical teacher was on and waiting for her because it was a programmed machine that worked . as per a fixed time-plan and Margie’s mother wanted her to follow a fixed time plan.

(d) Why did Margie not like the mechanical teacher?
Ans: Margie did not like the mechanical teacher because it was very boring and demanding. She had to sit in front of it regularly at fixed hours.

Q14: Margie did so with a sigh. She was thinking about the old schools they had when her grandfather’s grandfather was a little boy. All the kids from the whole neighbourhoods came, laughing and shouting in the schoolyard, sitting together in the school room going home together at the end of the day. They learned the same things, so that they could help one another with the home work and talk about it.

(a) What did Margie do with a sigh?
Ans: Margie put her homework into the slot of her mechanical teacher with a sigh.

(b) Which school is Margie thinking about in the above lines?
Ans: Margie was thinking about the old schools of centuries ago as written about in the book Tommy had found.

(c) Where was Margie’s school? Did she have any classmates?
Ans: Margie’s school was in her home itself. It was right next to her bedroom. No, she did not have any classmates.

(d) How is the school under reference different from the present ones?
Ans: The present schools were located in the student’s house, where a mechanical teacher taught the student as per the child’s individual capacity. The schools under reference had a separate building where all children of a certain age were taught together by human teachers.