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Class-10 English
Book-First Flight
The Hundred Dresses –Part I and II-Assignment
A. Answer the following questions in 30-40 words.
(i) How was Wanda different from the other back benchers?
(ii) Why didn’t Wanda have any friends?
(iii) Why did Maddie wish that Peggy should stop teasing Wanda?
(iv) What note did Maddie begin to write? Why did she later tear it into pieces?
(v) Wanda truly deserved to win the drawing competition. Comment.
(vi) Why did Jan Petronski write a letter to Miss Mason.
(vii) Why couldn’t Maddie concentrate on her work in the study period?
(viii) Why did Maddie think she was a coward?
(ix) How did Peggy justify her action of bullying Wanda?
(x) What did Wanda gift Peggy and Maddie on Christmas?
(xi) Why did Wanda’s house remind Maddie of Wanda’s blue dress?
(xii) Why didn’t Peggy and Maddie say sorry to Wanda in their letter?
B. Read the extracts and choose the correct option -
But on Wednesday, Peggy and Maddie, who sat down front with other children who got good marks and who didn’t track in a whole lot of mud, did notice that Wanda wasn’t there. Peggy was the most popular girl in school.
(i) Peggy and Maddy noticed Wanda’s absence because
(a) Wanda sat behind them (b) Wanda made them late
(c) They saw her at the gate (d) Miss Mason called her name
(ii) Peggy was the most popular girl because
(a) she loved animals (b) she never bullied anyone (c)) she was pretty and wore pretty clothes (d) she bullied Wanda
‘So Peggy had had the same idea! Maddie glowed. Peg was really all right.’
(i) Peggy’s idea was to _
(a) visit Wanda’s house (b) apologise for her behaviour
(c) Write to Wanda (d) confess to Miss Mason
(ii) Antonym of glowed is
(a) radiated (b) paled
(c)glimmered (d) shone
Answers
Answer:
CLASS –X ENGLISH
NCERT SOLUTIONS-First Flight
The Hundred Dresses-I
Answers
Page No: 65 Oral Comprehension Check
Answer1: Wanda used to sit in the seat next to the last seat, in the last row, in Room Thirteen. She
sat there because her feet were normally caked with dry mud and very dirty. So in order to avoid
being laughed at by her classmates, she sat there to hide her dirty feet.
Answer2: Wanda lived at Boggins Heights. It seems that it was a place far away from the school and
also, where there was a lot of dry mud, thereby indicating that it was not a very rich locality.
Answer3: Peggie and Maddie noticed Wanda’s absence after three days, i.e., on Wednesday because
they wanted to be with her for a lot of fun. They waited for her for a long time but she didn't turn up.
Answer4: Wanda was a quiet and shy girl who was ashamed of dust laden feet. The girls used to
make fun of her. This gave them a lot of pleasure therefore, they wanted to have fun with her.
Page No: 67 Oral Comprehension Check
Answer1: Wanda was different from other children. She did not have any friends. She came to
school alone and went home alone. She always wore a faded blue dress that did not fit her properly.
Unlike other children, she did not talk to anybody.
Answer2: No, she did not have a hundred dresses because she was poor and wore the same faded
dress to school everyday. She had an inferiority complex. In order to hide the complex and impress
the other girls, she always said that she had a hundred dresses.
Answer3: Maddie was embarrassed by the questions Peggy asked Wanda because she was poor
herself. She usually wore old clothes, which were handed down by someone else. She did not feel
sorry for Wanda. She was worried that perhaps later, everyone would start teasing her too. She
thought she was different from Wanda in the sense that she would never claim that she had a
hundred dresses. She was not as poor as Wanda. Yet she was afraid that the others might mock her
too.
Page No: 70 Oral Comprehension Check
Answer1: Maddie couldn't ask Peggie to stop teasing Wanda because Peggie was her best friend
and she had faith in Peggie that she would never do anything wrong. She was afraid of being laughed
Answer:
Peggy and Maddy noticed Wanda’s absence because
(a) Wanda sat behind them (b) Wanda made them late
(c) They saw her at the gate (d) Miss Mason called her name