Question

Answer the following questions with reference to the lesson ‘The Little Girl’:

1. Who were the people in Kezia’s family?

2. What was Kezia’s father’s routine before going to office and after coming back

in the evening?

3. What was unusual about Kezia’ stuttering?

4. What did Kezia make as a birthday gift for her father? How did she prepare it?

5. Who was Mr. Macdonald? What did Kezia feel about him?​

Answer 1

1. Answer:
2. Apart from Kezia and her father, there was Kezia's mother, grandmother and a cook in the family.
4. Before going to his office, Kezia's father usually went into her room to give her a casual kiss. (ii) After coming back from his office, he ordered for tea to brought into the drawing room. He also asked his mother to bring him the newspaper and his slippers, and Kezia to pull off his boots.
6. Kezia was able to speak without stuttering to everyone in the household but her father. In her father's formidable presence she could barely speak and she stuttered as she attempted to speak to him.
8. Kezia made a pin-cushion as a birthday gift for her father. In order to prepare it, she laboriously stitched its three sides with double cotton and stuffed it with papers that she took from the bed-table in her mother's room. Finally, she sewed up the fourth side and the gift was ready.
10. After watching him, Kezia concludes that all fathers are not like hers. Answer: When she saw the McDonald family she was thinking that her father and mother always busy on their work, when her father came from the office he was always on bad mode.

Answer 2

Answer:

1. Apart from Kezia and her father, there was Kezia's mother, grandmother and a cook in the family
2. Before going to his office, Kezia's father usually went into her room to give her a casual kiss. After coming back from his office, he ordered for tea to brought into the drawing room. He also asked his mother to bring him the newspaper and his slippers, and Kezia to pull off his boots.
3. Kezia was able to speak without stuttering to everyone in the household but her father. In her father's formidable presence she could barely speak and she stuttered as she attempted to speak to him.
4. Kezia made a pin-cushion as a birthday gift for her father. In order to prepare it, she laboriously stitched its three sides with double cotton and stuffed it with papers that she took from the bed-table in her mother's room. Finally, she sewed up the fourth side and the gift was ready.
5. Mr. Macdonald was a loving father. He would play 'tag5 with his children. He would put the baby Mao on his shoulders.Kezia felt that Mr Macdonald was a better father as compared to her own father.

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