Question

Why did Mr Keesing punish Anne? How was Anne able to stop him from teasing her?
(Cbse class 10 English Communicative Question paper 2015)

Answer 1

Mr Keesing remained annoyed with Anne for talking in the class. As a punishment he gave her extra homework. Anne was to write an essay on ‘ A Chatterbox’,and then on ‘An incorrigible Chatterbox’. Anne wrote the essays and Mr Keesing like them. But she didn't give up her habit of talking in the class. Now Mr Keesing asked her to write a very unusual essay. The title of the essay was : “Quack, Quack, Quack,” said Mrs. Chatterbox. In fact Mr Keesing had intended to play a joke on Anne. But Anne wrote the essay in such a way that it became a joke on Mr Keesing himself. She wrote that in the form of a verse. It told the story of a mother duck and a father swan. The father bites his three ducklings to death because they quacked too much. The father in the poem is clearly Mr Keesing and the ducklings are the children of his class. Luckily Mr Keesing took the joke the right way. He liked the poem and read it  to several classes. He stopped giving Anne any extra homework. He allowed her to talk in the class. He even started making jokes with the children.

Answer 2

Mr Keesing,Anne's old math teacher was infuriated with Anne because she was very talkative. Hence,when repeated warnings failed to quiet her,he assigned her extra homework,an essay on the subject 'A Chatterbox'. The task at hand was to come up with convincing arguments to prove the necessity of talking and after devoting much thought to the subject,Anne had an idea and she filled up three pages. She wrote about how talking was a female trait,that she would try her utmost to keep it under control but could not guarantee success as it was an inherited trait and quite impossible to break out of the habit. This produced a laugh from Mr Keesing instead of a scolding and he assigned her a second essay on 'An Incorrigible Chatterbox'.Anne finished that essay too with her delightful sense of humour in aid but these essays did not succeed in Mr Keesing's objective to stop Anne from talking so much. Therefore, he told her to write another essay entitled, 'Quack, Quack, Quack,' said Mistress Chatterback'. But Mr Keesing was bested at his game when Anne turned in a poem on how a mother duck and a father swan with three baby ducklings who were bitten to death by the father because they quacked too much. This won over Mr Keesing completely and he read out the poem in Anne's class and other classes,adding along his comments. From then on,Anne was allowed to talk and no extra assignments came her way. It resulted in Mr Keesing opening up and even cracking jokes in class.