Our Runaway Kite
Textual Questions & Answers
Unit-1
1. Choose the correct
alternative to complete the following sentences:
a) The keeper of the Big Half
Moon Lighthouse is
i) Aunt Ester
ii) Father
iii) Claude
iv) Dick
Ans: ii) Father
b) The family moved over to the
mainland in
i) summer
ii) spring
iii) monsoon
iv) winter
Ans: iv) winter
c) When asked about relations,
Father looked
i) happy
ii) angry
iii) sorrowful
iv) irritated
Ans: iii)
sorrowful
2. Fill
in the chart with information from the text:
|
a) name of the island |
Big Half Moon |
|
b) age of Claude |
Twelve years |
|
c) the game played by Claude and the narrator |
Pirate caves |
3. State whether the following sentences are True or False.
Provide sentences phrases / words in support of your answer.
i) People felt that Claude and
the narrator were lonesome.
Ans : True , Supporting Statement: “They
said we must be lonesome over there, with no other children near us.”
ii) Claude and the narrator
quarrelled
Ans : False , Supporting Statement: “Claude and I never quarreled”.
iii) Nobody on the mainland had
relations
Ans : False , Supporting Statement: “Everybody on the mainland had relations”.
Unit-2
4. Choose
the correct alternative to complete the following sentences:
a) In summer the Big Half Moon
is always
i) lovely
ii) unpleasant
iii) boring
iv) dull
Ans: i) lovely
b) Back on the island, Claude
and the narrator made plenty of
i) puppets
ii) masks
iii) kites
iv) envelopes
Ans: iii) kites
c) The kite was patched with a
i) newspaper
ii) letter
iii) envelope
iv) card
Ans: ii) letter
6.
Complete the following sentences with information from the text:
i) A boy on the mainland showed Claude how
to make kites.
ii) On the kite Claude pasted gold tinsel
stars all over it and had written their names on it.
iii) Claude was standing with a bit of
cord of the sailed away kite in his hand, looking foolish.
6. Fill
in the chart with information from the text.
|
Statement |
Reason |
|
a) The narrator’s elbow went through the kite. |
When she was bringing the kite from the house, she tripped and fell over
the rocks. |
|
b) Claude and the narrator hurried to fix the kite. |
They wanted to send the kite up before the wind had finished. |
|
c) The kite soared. |
The wind was glorious |
Unit-3
7. Choose
the correct alternative to complete the following sentences:
a) A letter came for father
after a
i) day
ii) week
iii) fortnight
iv) month
Ans: iv) month
b) Father left home after
quarrelling with his
i) brother
ii) sister
iii) aunt
iv) uncle
Ans: i) brother
c) Dick and Mimi discovered the
kite on the top of a
i) roof
ii) tree
iii) lighthouse
iv) light post
Ans: ii) tree
8. Fill
in the chart with information from the text.
|
a) Person who sent the letter |
Aunt Esther |
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b) name of Aunt Esther’s mother |
Philippa |
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c) the total number
of family members in the narrator’s family at present |
Five |
9. Answer
the following questions:
a) What did father find when he
went back home years afterwards?
Ans : When father went back home years
afterwards, he found his brother had passed away and he couldn’t find his
sister.
b) Where did Aunt Esther live?
Ans : Aunt Esther lived hundred of miles
inland.
c) Why did Aunt Esther turn
pale?
Ans : Aunt Esther turned pale when she
found the kite patched with the same letter she had written to her brother
earlier.
Grammar in use
10.
Change the following sentences into questions, as directed:
a) Shankha lives in Alipurduar.
(Information question using ‘where’)
Ans : Where does Shankha live?
b) They have gone to a picnic.
(Interrogative sentence using ‘have’)
Ans : Have they gone to a picnic?
c) I went to school yesterday.
(Simple question using ‘did’)
Ans : Did I go to school yesterday?
d) Tia studies in class X.
(Information question using ‘which’)
Ans : Which class does Tia study in?