Extra Questions and Answers

Extract 1

Directions (Q. Nos. 1-6) Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.

Listen to me! Please, you can’t possibly go out in those disgraceful rags! What are you upto? How

many times I must tell you, woman? I am out to buy a huge Hilsa fish.

Listen to me! Please, you’ ………….. Name the speaker of these lines.

Ans. Gopal’s wife is speaking in these lines.

Who is going to buy Hilsa fish?

Ans. Gopal is going to buy Hilsa fish.

Why the man is dressed up like that?

Ans. Gopal dressed up like that to catch everyone’s attention so that people will talk about him and not about the Hilsa fish.

What does the woman think about the man finally?

(a) He is an intelligent man

(b) He has gone mad

(c) She doesn’t think anything

(d) None of the above

Ans. (b) He has gone mad

Why does the man want to buy Hilsa fish?

(a) To win the challenge

(b) Because everyone was talking about the fish

(c) Price of the Hilsa fish has gone down

(d) Because to please his wife

Ans. (a) To win the challenge

Find out one word from the above lines that means ‘shameful.

(a) Rags

(b) Awkward

(c) Disgraceful

(d) None of these

Ans. (c) Disgraceful

Extract 2

Directions (Q. Nos. 1-6) Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.

Stop it!

Are you a courtier or a fisherman? I am sorry I lost my temper, it’s the season for Hilsa fish and no one …………………

Who is the speaker of the above lines?

Ans. The king is the speaker of the above lines.

Why is he feeling sorry?

Ans. He is feeling sorry for being rude to his courtier.

What is the speaker asking to be stopped?

Ans. He wants the talks about the Hilsa fish to be stopped for a while as everyone wanted to speak about ‘Hilsa fish’ only.

What did the speaker want?

(a) To eat Hilsa fish

(b) Someone to stop the talks about Hilsa fish for a while

(c) The season for the Hilsa fish to go

(d) He himself was not clear ert 2ew ted

Ans. (b) Someone to stop the talks about Hilsa fish for a while.

What made the speaker upset?

(a) A fisherman entered his court.

(b) Gopal was not present in the court.

(c) Everyone including the courtiers were talking about Hilsa fish.

(d) He wanted to discuss serious matter.

Ans. (c) Everyone including the countiers were talking about Hilsa fish.

Find a word from the above lines is synonym of ‘anger’.

(a) Rage

(c) Frenzy

(b) Ire

(d) Ill-temper

Ans. (a) Rage