📌 Lessons 1–2
LESSON 1: HASSAN'S ATTENDANCE PROBLEM
1. Who is the writer of the lesson Hassan's Attendance Problem?
Ans. Sudha Murthy.
2. What was Hassan doing in Bangalore?
Ans. Hassan was an MCA student in Bangalore.
3. Who were 'nerds' according to Hassan?
Ans. According to Hassan, hard-working students were nerds.
4. What was Hassan selling when he met the narrator?
Ans. Hassan was selling CDs of high school software.
5. How old was Hassan when he met the author?
Ans. He was 35 years old.
6. Hassan belonged to a ______ family.
Ans. Rich.
7. Hassan was an ______ student.
Ans. Irregular.
8. The parents-teacher meeting ended ______.
Ans. Fruitlessly.
9. What was the narrator's profession?
Ans. The narrator was a Computer Science teacher.
10. Hassan met the narrator more often for ______.
Ans. Attendance shortage meetings.
11. Hassan remembered the lesson of ______.
Ans. Morality.
12. During which days would Hassan often show up in the class?
Ans. During the exam days.
13. What was Hassan's attitude towards studies?
Ans. Hassan had a casual attitude towards studies.
14. How would Hassan beg for attendance?
Ans. He would beg by giving excuses.
15. What promise would Hassan make to his teacher?
Ans. He promised to be more sincere and hardworking.
16. What was in Hassan's hand when he met the narrator in her office?
Ans. A software CD.
17. Hassan was not ______.
Ans. Hardworking.
18. ______ didn’t bother much and said that only time would teach Hassan.
Ans. Hassan’s father.
19. Who started crying at the end of the parent-teacher meeting?
Ans. Hassan’s mother.
20. Hassan's state is a result of ______.
Ans. His own habits.
21. Hassan felt ______ optimistic/disappointed on leaving the narrator's office.
Ans. Optimistic.
22. To err is human to forgive divine. (True/False)
Ans. True.
23. The narrator recognized the visitor easily. (True/False)
Ans. False.
24. Hassan did not care for the advice of his parents? (True/False)
Ans. True.
25. Hassan was at high position in software industry? (True/False)
Ans. False.
LESSON 2: THE MARCH KING
1. Who is the writer of the lesson ‘The March King’?
Ans. Katherine Little Bakeless.
2. What did Philip want to become when he was a child?
Ans. He wanted to become a musician.
3. What was the name of Philip's music teacher?
Ans. Mr. Esputa.
4. Which instrument did Philip play?
Ans. Violin.
5. Which game did Philip like?
Ans. Baseball.
6. What was the name of the Baker?
Ans. Charlie.
7. Who scolded Philip at the bakery?
Ans. Baker's wife.
8. Who gave the shirt to Philip for the concert?
Ans. Mrs. Esputa.
9. What was the name of Philip's friend?
Ans. Ed.
10. Name the newspaper which held an essay contest?
Ans. The Washington Post.
11. How old was Philip when he accepted the leadership of the Marine Band?
Ans. Twenty-six years.
12. What is Marine Band?
Ans. The official band of the President of the United States.
13. John Philip Sousa became the ______ of the Marine Band.
Ans. Leader.
14. How many marches did Philip write?
Ans. A hundred.
15. On the day of the concert, Philip went to play a game of ______.
Ans. Baseball.
16. Which instrument was Philip to play in the concert?
Ans. The violin.
17. Who revealed the news of Philip’s selection by a circus band leader to his mother?
Ans. Ed’s mother.
18. Washington was full of bands during the early ______.
Ans. 1860’s.
19. Philip came to be known as the ______.
Ans. March King.
20. Philip learned violin quickly as he was both ______ and eager to learn.
Ans. Talented.
21. The Washington Post Newspaper held ______ Contest.
Ans. An Essay.
LESSON 3: THINKING OUT OF THE BOX – LATERAL THINKING
1. What was the Brand of Thomas’ car?
Ans. Ferrari.
2. Who introduced day-night matches in cricket?
Ans. Kerry Packer.
3. Thomas paid ______ as interest.
Ans. $15.
4. How much amount did Thomas borrow from the bank?
Ans. $5,000.
5. Who propagated the art of lateral thinking?
Ans. Edward de Bono.
6. Thomas was a ______.
Ans. Millionaire.
7. Nowadays ______ matches have become very popular in cricket.
Ans. T20.
8. The intelligent girl won and changed ______.
Ans. An impossible situation into an advantageous one.
9. What did the girl notice?
Ans. That the money-lender had picked up two black pebbles.
10. The bank was located in ______.
Ans. New York.
11. What is lateral thinking?
Ans. Creative or non-linear thinking.
12. Which country experimented with two different captains?
Ans. Australia.
13. How long did Thomas stay away from New York?
Ans. Two weeks.
14. Thomas was one of the richest men in ______.
Ans. America.
15. The girl would have to marry the money-lender if she picked a ______.
Ans. Black pebble.
16. Why did Thomas take a loan?
Ans. To get safe parking for his Ferrari.
LESSON 4: ON SAYING ‘PLEASE’
1. Who is the writer of the lesson ‘On Saying Please’?
Ans. A. G. Gardiner.
2. Who hurled the passenger out of the lift?
Ans. The liftman.
3. What did the liftman want the passenger to say?
Ans. “Top please”.
4. Who trampled upon the writer’s toe?
Ans. The bus conductor.
5. Who bullied Captain Absolute?
Ans. Sir Anthony.
6. Whom did Fag kick?
Ans. Page-boy.
7. Bad manners ______ the general stream of life.
Ans. Poison.
8. The conductor behaved in a ______ manner.
Ans. Decent.
9. Unkind words are more painful than ______ injury.
Ans. Physical.
10. What does not compel us to be polite?
Ans. The Law.
11. The lift-man threw ______ out of the lift.
Ans. A passenger.
12. Law will permit me to retaliate with reasonable ______.
Ans. Violence.
13. What types of damages do not get any allowance?
Ans. Moral and intellectual.
14. What is the meaning of the word ‘sunshine’?
Ans. Cheerfulness.
15. Who said, “Nothing clears up my spirits like a fine day”?
Ans. John Keats.
16. Who said, “I never give the wall to a scoundrel”?
Ans. A man in a London street.
17. We infect the world ______.
Ans. With our ill-humours.
18. With old people, the bus conductor was as considerate as a ______.
Ans. Son.
19. The law can protect us against ______.
Ans. Material attack.
20. What serves as little courtesies?
Ans. Words like “Please” and “Thank you”.
21. What is the first requirement of civility?
Ans. To acknowledge a service.
22. Good manners are infectious. (True/False)
Ans. True.
23. Discourtesy is a legal offence. (True/False)
Ans. False.
📘 LESSON 5: THE STORY OF MY LIFE
1. Who is the writer of ‘The Story of My Life’?
Ans. Helen Keller.
2. What was the name of Helen Keller’s teacher?
Ans. Anne Mansfield Sullivan.
3. Helen Keller became blind and deaf at the age of ______.
Ans. 19 months.
4. At what age did Helen publish her autobiography?
Ans. 22 years.
5. Which word revealed the mystery of language to Helen?
Ans. Water.
6. Who sent a doll for Helen Keller?
Ans. The blind children of Perkins Institute.
7. Who dressed the doll?
Ans. Laura Bridgman.
8. Helen dashed ______ on the floor.
Ans. The doll.
9. What was Helen’s wordless cry of her soul?
Ans. “Light, give me light!”
10. Helen Keller was the ______ deaf and blind person to graduate from college.
Ans. First.
📘 LESSON 6: TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
1. Who is the writer of ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’?
Ans. A. J. Cronin.
2. What were the names of the two boys?
Ans. Nicola and Jacopo.
3. How old were Nicola and Jacopo?
Ans. Nicola 13 years, Jacopo 12 years.
4. What were the boys selling when they met the narrator?
Ans. Wild strawberries.
5. What was the name of their sister?
Ans. Lucia.
6. What disease was Lucia suffering from?
Ans. Tuberculosis of the spine.
7. What did Lucia aspire to be?
Ans. A singer.
8. Who paid for the treatment of Lucia?
Ans. Nicola and Jacopo.
9. What was the name of the narrator’s driver?
Ans. Luigi.
10. ______ was a place of interest in Verona.
Ans. Juliet’s Tomb.
11. With whom has Jacopo been compared?
Ans. A squirrel.
📘 LESSON 7: IN CELEBRATION OF BEING ALIVE
1. Who is the author of ‘In Celebration of Being Alive’?
Ans. Dr. Christian Barnard.
2. Dr. Barnard made history in the field of ______.
Ans. Heart transplant.
3. How old was the mechanic in the story?
Ans. Seven years.
4. The driver had a ______ of the bone.
Ans. Malignant tumour.
5. Who taught Dr. Barnard the art of living?
Ans. Two children – the driver and the mechanic.
6. What did Dr. Barnard call the incident at the hospital?
Ans. The Grand Prix of Cape Town’s Red Cross Children’s Hospital.
7. Dr. Barnard’s wife was hit by a ______.
Ans. Car.
8. The shoulder and the arm of the trolley driver were ______.
Ans. Amputated.
9. The doctor had closed a ______ in the heart of the trolley driver.
Ans. Hole.
10. The business of living is in the ______ of being alive.
Ans. Celebration.
📘 LESSON 8: GHADARI BABAS IN KALAPANI JAIL
1. Who is the writer of this lesson?
Ans. Dr. Harish K. Puri.
2. Where is the Cellular Jail located?
Ans. Port Blair.
3. What was the other name of the Cellular Jail?
Ans. Kalapani.
4. When was the newly constructed Jail opened?
Ans. 1906.
5. What was the name of the Jailor?
Ans. David Barry.
6. Who was the Superintendent of the Jail?
Ans. Murray.
7. Who slapped Superintendent Murray?
Ans. Chattar Singh.
8. Who went on hunger strike for 72 days?
Ans. Nani Gopal.
9. Who committed suicide in Kalapani Jail?
Ans. Indu Bhushan.
10. How many Ghadarites lost their lives in Cellular Jail?
Ans. Eight.
11. VD Savarkar was a revolutionary based in ______.
Ans. London.
📘 SECTION C – LESSON 1: THE SCHOOL FOR SYMPATHY
1. Who is the writer of ‘The School for Sympathy’?
Ans. E. V. Lucas.
2. Who was the girl in red, walking on crutches?
Ans. Beryl.
3. Which was the most difficult day in Miss Beam’s school?
Ans. The blind day.
4. What is the educative value of blind, deaf and lame days?
Ans. They teach children sympathy.
5. How old was Peter, the gardener?
Ans. One hundred years.
6. What was the name of the head girl?
Ans. Millie.
7. What colour was Miss Beam’s hair turning to?
Ans. Grey.
8. Miss Beam was a ______ woman.
Ans. Middle-aged.
📘 LESSON 2: A CHAMELEON
1. Who is the writer of ‘A Chameleon’?
Ans. Anton Chekhov.
2. Who was Hryukin?
Ans. A goldsmith.
3. Where was Otchumyelov walking?
Ans. Across the market square.
4. Who was walking after Otchumyelov?
Ans. Yeldrin, a red-haired policeman.
5. What was Hryukin displaying to the crowd?
Ans. His bleeding finger.
6. Who was Prohor?
Ans. The General’s cook.
7. Who was the General?
Ans. Zhigalov.
8. Who behaved like a chameleon?
Ans. Otchumyelov.
9. What was the policeman carrying?
Ans. A sieve full of gooseberries.
10. What was Otchumyelov carrying?
Ans. A parcel.
📘 LESSON 3: BHOLI
1. Who is the writer of ‘Bholi’?
Ans. K. A. Abbas.
2. What was the real name of Bholi?
Ans. Sulekha.
3. At what age did Bholi have an attack of smallpox?
Ans. Two years.
4. What was the name of Bholi’s cow?
Ans. Lakshmi.
5. How many siblings did Bholi have?
Ans. Six.
6. What was the name of Bholi’s father?
Ans. Ramlal.
7. Who came to perform the opening ceremony of the school?
Ans. The Tehsildar.
8. What was the name of Bholi’s would-be husband?
Ans. Bishamber.
9. How much dowry did Bishamber demand?
Ans. Five thousand rupees.
10. Who made Bholi confident?
Ans. Her teacher.
📘 LESSON 4: THE GOLD FRAME
1. Who is the writer of ‘The Gold Frame’?
Ans. R. K. Laxman.
2. What was the name of Datta’s shop?
Ans. The Modern Frame Works.
3. Where was Datta’s shop located?
Ans. Between a drug store and a radio repair shop.
4. Whose photograph did the customer bring?
Ans. His grandfather’s.
5. What fell on the photograph?
Ans. White enamel.
6. What was the price of the frame?
Ans. Seventeen rupees.
7. How much time did Datta ask?
Ans. Two weeks.
8. Which type of frame did the customer select?
Ans. Cut mount with oval shape.
9. What kind of frame did Datta actually give?
Ans. A square one.
📘 POETRY (Section D)
📘 POEM 1: CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE (Sir Henry Wotton)
1. Who is the poet of “Character of a Happy Life”?
Ans. Sir Henry Wotton.
2. When was Henry Wotton born?
Ans. 1568.
3. A happy man is a man of ______.
Ans. Honest thoughts.
4. Whose yoke is the happy man not bound to wear?
Ans. Of no master’s yoke.
5. A happy man is the master of his ______.
Ans. Passions.
6. A happy man is ruled by the ______.
Ans. Law of virtue.
7. What is the title of the poem by Sir Henry Wotton?
Ans. Character of a Happy Life.
8. When did Henry Wotton die?
Ans. 1639.
📘 POEM 2: DEATH THE LEVELLER (James Shirley)
1. Who is the poet of “Death the Leveller”?
Ans. James Shirley.
2. When was James Shirley born?
Ans. 1596.
3. When did James Shirley die?
Ans. 1666.
4. Whose heads must come to the cold tomb?
Ans. Heads of conquerors and kings.
5. What cannot protect a king or a soldier from death?
Ans. His sword.
6. Who reaps the field in this poem?
Ans. The glories of our blood and state.
7. Where does death lay all his trophies?
Ans. Down at the grave.
8. Who is the leveller in this poem?
Ans. Death.
📘 POEM 3: OZYMANDIAS (P. B. Shelley)
1. Who is the poet of “Ozymandias”?
Ans. P. B. Shelley.
2. When was P. B. Shelley born?
Ans. 1792.
3. When did P. B. Shelley die?
Ans. 1822.
4. Who narrated the story to the poet?
Ans. A traveller from an antique land.
5. Whose statue did the traveller see?
Ans. Of Ozymandias.
6. What was written on the pedestal of the statue?
Ans. “Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
7. What was lying half sunk in the sand?
Ans. A shattered visage (face).
8. Who was Ozymandias?
Ans. An ancient Egyptian king.
9. The poem ‘Ozymandias’ is a ______.
Ans. Sonnet.
📘 POEM 4: THE SOLDIER (Rupert Brooke)
1. Who is the poet of “The Soldier”?
Ans. Rupert Brooke.
2. When was Rupert Brooke born?
Ans. 1887.
3. When did Rupert Brooke die?
Ans. 1915.
4. In which war did Rupert Brooke die?
Ans. First World War.
5. Where did Rupert Brooke die?
Ans. In Greece.
6. The poem “The Soldier” is a/an ______.
Ans. Sonnet.
7. Whose corner of the foreign field will be forever England?
Ans. The soldier’s.
8. According to the poet, what gives England’s air, rivers and flowers?
Ans. His body turned into dust.
9. What is the main theme of the poem?
Ans. Patriotism.
📘 POEM 5: ON HIS BLINDNESS (John Milton)
1. Who is the poet of “On His Blindness”?
Ans. John Milton.
2. When was John Milton born?
Ans. 1608.
3. When did John Milton die?
Ans. 1674.
4. Which talent does Milton refer to in this poem?
Ans. His poetic talent.
5. What does Milton complain of?
Ans. His blindness.
6. How did Milton become blind?
Ans. By excessive study.
7. “They also serve who only stand and wait.” — Who said this?
Ans. John Milton.
8. What is the central theme of the poem?
Ans. Acceptance of God’s will.
📘 POEM 6: MY HEAVEN OF FREEDOM (Rabindranath Tagore)
1. Who is the poet of “My Heaven of Freedom”?
Ans. Rabindranath Tagore.
2. When was Rabindranath Tagore born?
Ans. 1861.
3. When did Rabindranath Tagore die?
Ans. 1941.
4. From which book has this poem been taken?
Ans. Gitanjali.
5. Who translated the poem into English?
Ans. Rabindranath Tagore himself.
6. In which year did Tagore receive the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Ans. 1913.
7. What does ‘where the mind is without fear’ mean?
Ans. Freedom from fear and oppression.
8. What does ‘where knowledge is free’ mean?
Ans. Education for all.
9. What does Tagore pray for in this poem?
Ans. An ideal nation based on truth, knowledge and freedom.
10. Into what does the poet want his country to awake?
Ans. Heaven of freedom.
