Extract Based Questions: The Book that saved the Earth | English Class 10 PDF Download

Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow.
Q1: Noodle : (bowing) O Great and Mighty Think-Tank, most powerful and intelligent creature in the whole universe, what are your orders?
Think-Tank : (peevishly) You left out part of my salutation, Apprentice Noodle. Go over the whole thing again.
(a) Who is Noodle?
(b) What does the extract reveal about Think-Tank?
(c) Find a word from the extract which means ‘feeling or showing nutation’.
(d) What is the opposite of ‘powerful’?
Ans: (a) Noodle is the apprentice to Think-Tank, the ruler of Mars.
(b) The extract reveals Think-Tank to be a vain and egoistic creature.
(c) ‘Peevishly’ from the extract means ‘feeling or showing invitation’.
(d) It opposite is ‘weak’.

Q2: Iota : I can’t figure it out, Captain. (holding up a book) I’ve counted two thousand of these peculiar items.
This place must be some sort of storage barn. [CBSE 2014]
(a) What could Iota not figure out?
(b) Where was Iota?
(c) Find the antonym of the word ‘ordinary’ in the extract.
(d) What part of speech is ‘peculiar’ as used in the extract?
Ans: (a) Iota could not figure out what the book were because he had never seen a book before.
(b) Iota was at Centerville Public Library on Earth.
(c) The antonym of ordinary is peculiar.
(d) It is an adjective.

Q3: Think-Tank : It can’t be worth much, but go ahead. Give us your trifling bit of data.
(a) Whom was Think-Tank addressing?
(b) What was the data?
(c) Find the word ih the extract which is a synonym of ‘insignificant’.
(d) What part of speech is ‘It’ as used in the extract?
Ans: (a) Think-Tank was addressing his apprentice, Noodle.
(b) The data was that the earthlings did not eat those ‘sandwiches’. They used them for communication.
(c) The synonym of‘insignificant’ in the extract is ‘trifling’.
(d) ‘It’ is a pronoun.

Q4: Historian : (chuckling) And that’s how one dusty old book of nursery rhymes saved the world from a Martian invasion.
(a) What was the name of the book?
(b) Why did the Historian chuckle?
(c) Which word in the extract is a synonym of ‘Conquer’?
(d) What part of speech is ‘And’ as used in the extract?
Ans: (a) ‘Mother Goose’ was the name of the book.
(b) The historian chuckled at the idea that the misinterpretation of a book saved the Earth.
(c) ‘Invasion’ from the extract is the synonym of‘conquer’.
(d) ‘And’ is a conjunction.