The Fun they had Class 9 Worksheet English Chapter 1

Q.1. 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

Q.2. Which subject did Margie face problems in learning?
(a) Geography
(b) History
(c) Mathematics
(d) Science

Q.3. Whose father knew as much as a teacher?
(a) Blair
(b) Evelyn
(c) Margie
(d) Tommy

Q.4. How much time was taken to repair Tommy’s teacher?
(a) 15 days
(b) 20 days
(c) 25 days
(d) One month

Q.5. According to Tommy, the real book was
(a) Wrong
(b) Boring
(c) A waste
(d) Fiction

Q.6. 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

Q.7 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

Q.8. 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.

Q.9. 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

Q.10. What subjects did Margie and Tommy learn?
(a) Geography
(b) Science
(c) Mathematics
(d) All of these

Fill in the Blanks

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

Q2: Tommy found a ___ book in the attic.

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

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

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

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True or False

Q1: Margie loved school.

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

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

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

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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?

(b) Where had Tommy found the book?

(c) What is meant by “real book”?

(d) How had Margie heard of such a book?

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?

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

(c) What do you think a telebook is?

(d) Why did Tommy find the book a “waste”?

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?

(b) Which book had yellow and crinkly pages?

(c) What do the yellow and crinkly pages reveal about the book?

(d) What did ‘they’ find funny? Why?

Q4: “I wouldn’t throw it away. ”
(a) Who says these words?

(b) What does ‘it’ refer to?

(c) What is it being compared with, by the speaker?

(d) Why would the speaker not throw it away?

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?

(b) Why was Margie scornful about the book?

(c) Why did Margie not like school?

(d) Why did Margie hate her mechanical teacher?

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’?

(b) Why had he been called?

(c) Why did he give Margie an apple?

(d) How did he fix the teacher?

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?

(b) What, according to him, is not the girl’s fault?

(c) What was wrong with the geography sector of the mechanical teacher?

(d) What does the County Inspector do to correct the fault?

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?

(b) Why was Margie disappointed?

(c) Whose teacher had been taken away? Why?

(d) What subjects did Margie and Tommy learn?

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”?

(b) Why did Tommy call Margie stupid?

(c) Whom does ‘they’ here refer to?

(d) How was ‘their’ school different?

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

(a) Who speaks these words and about what?

(b) Who does ‘they’ refer to in these lines?

(c) What does ‘regular’ mean here?

(d) What is ‘regular’ contrasted with?

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?

(b) What does ‘he’ refer to here?

(c) What job did ‘he’ do?

(d) Where had the speaker got this information?

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?

(b) What did Margie not know? Why?

(c) What ‘special building’ does the speaker refer to?

(d) How is the special building a unique place for Margie and Tommy?

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’?

(b) Why was ‘it’ next to ‘her’ bedroom?

(c) Why was the mechanical teacher on and waiting for her?.

(d) Why did Margie not like the mechanical teacher?

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?

(b) Which school is Margie thinking about in the above lines?

(c) Where was Margie’s school? Did she have any classmates?

(d) How is the school under reference different from the present ones?

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