Question

Worksheet 01
A Short Monsoon Diary
1. How did the author in the story A Short Monsoon Diary describe the valley in one
sentence?
2. Where do the snakes and rodents take shelter? Why? Answer in the context of A Short
Monsoon Diary
3. What signs do we find in Nature which show that the monsoons are about to end?
Answer in the context of A Short Monsoon Diary.
4. Why does the writer of the story A Short Monsoon Diary find himself lonely during
winters?
5. When does the monsoon season begin in mussoorie and when does it end? How do
you prepare to face the monsoon?
6. Mention a few things that can happen when there is endless rain for days together
Answer in the context of A Short Monsoon Diary.
7. How do the hills look like in the mist?
8. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow choosing the
correct options from among the given ones:
Through the mist, Bijju is calling to his sister. I can hear him running about on the
hillside but I cannot see him.
9 The scene being described here is
(a) the first day of monsoon
(b) the last day of monsoon
(c) an ordinary day on the hills
(d) a winter day
10 The author cannot see Bijju because
(a) he is not in the line of his eyes
(b) it is misty
(c) it is night
(d) he is blind
ill. The passage is written by
(a) Satyajit Ray
(b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) Nathaniel Hawthorne
(d) Ruskin Bond
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Answer 1

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Answer 2

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2) the rodents and snake take shelter in roofs , attics & godowns. they do so because their holes are flooded with rain water.

5) monsoon begin in india in the month of July, from its first week with the coming of South-west monsoon. and it ends around

the month of August. the nature itself prepare herself for the welcoming of monsoon.

6) A long spell of rain make life miserable one is closed up in the room. every thing become damp & soggy. rodents, snake & insects enter the house for shelter.

10) (a) he is not in the line of his eyes.

11) (d) Ruskin bond

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