Question

Read the extracts given below and attempt ANY ONE, by answering the questions.




As for Maddie, this business of asking Wanda every day how many dresses and how many hats, and

how many this and that she had was bothering her. Maddie was poor herself. She usually wore

somebody’s hand-me-down clothes. Thanks goodness, she didn’t live up on Boggins Heights or have

any funny name.


(1) In what ways was Maddie different from Wanda?

(i) She did not live in Boggins Heights

(ii) She did not have a funny name

(iii)Both (i) and (ii)

(iv)Maddie was not as poor as Wanda


(2) Who started the business of (asking about) dresses, hats and other things?

(i) Maddie (ii) Peggy

(iii)Maddie and Peggy (iv) Wanda


(3) In the line, ‘she had was bothering her’, who does `her’ here refer to?

(i) Maddie (ii) Wanda

(iii)Peggy (iv) Both (i) and (ii).
(4) Why was Maddie unhappy?

(i) She was called out by funny names

(ii) She had to wear hand-me-down clothes

(iii)She was poor

(iv)She didn’t like to see the way Peggy teased Wanda


(5) Which word in the passage means ‘disturbing’?

(i) Goodness (ii) Bothering

(iii)Business (iv) Hand-me-down​

Answer 1

Answer:

(1) In what ways was Maddie different from Wanda?

iii)Both (i) and (ii)

(2) Who started the business of (asking about) dresses, hats and other things?

ii) Peggy

3) In the line, ‘she had was bothering her’, who does `her’ here refer to?

(i) Maddie

(4) Why was Maddie unhappy?

(iv)She didn’t like to see the way Peggy teased Wanda

(5) Which word in the passage means ‘disturbing’?

(ii) Bothering

let me know if it helps you!