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Our Runaway Kite Question Answer
Unit
– 1
Comprehension
exercises
1. Choose the correct alternative
to complete the following sentences:
(a) The keeper of the Big Half Moon Lighthouse is –
(i) Aunt
Esther
(ii) Father ✔
(iii)
Claude
(iv) Dick
(b) The family moved over to the mainland in –
(i) summer
(ii) spring
(iii)
monsoon
(iv) winter
(c) When asked about relations, Father looked –
(i) happy
(ii) angry
(iii)
sorrowful
(iv)
irritated
2. Fill in the chart
with information from the text:
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(a) name of
the island |
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(b) age of
Claude |
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(c) the game
played by Claude and the narrator |
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3. State whether the
following statements are True or False. Provide sentences / phrases / words in
support of your answer:
(i) People felt that Claude and the narrator were
lonesome in the island. 【T】
Supporting Statement: They said we mist be so lonesome over there, with no other children near us.
(ii) Claude and the narrator quarreled.
Supporting Statement: Claude and I never quarrelled.
(iii) Nobody on the mainland had relations.
Supporting Statement: Everybody on the mainland had relations.
Our Runaway Kite Class 10 Question Answer
Unit – 2
Comprehension exercises
4. Choose the correct
alternative to complete the following sentences:
(a) In summer the Big Half Moon is always –
(i) lovely
(ii)
unpleasant
(iii)
boring
(iv) dull
(b) Back on the island, Claude and the narrator made
plenty of –
(i) puppets
(ii) masks
(iii) kites
(iv)
envelopes
(c) The kite was patched with a –
(i)
newspaper
(ii) letter
(iii)
envelope
(iv) card
5. Complete the
following sentences with information from the text:
(i) A boy on the mainland showed Claude how to make the kites.
(ii) On the kite Claude and the narrator pasted gold tinsel stars all over it.
(iii) Claude was standing with a bit of cord in his hand, looking foolish.
6. Fill in the chart
with information from the text:
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Statement |
Reason |
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(a) The
narrator’s elbow went through the kite. |
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(b) Claude
and the narrator hurried to fix the kite. |
They wanted to send the kite up before the wind fell. |
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(c) The kite
soared. |
The wind was glorious. |
Question Answer of Our Runaway Kite
Unit – 3
Comprehension exercises
7. Choose the correct
alternative to complete the following sentences:
(a) A letter came for father after a –
(i) day
(ii) week
(iii)
fortnight
(iv) month
(b) Father left home after quarrelling with his –
(i) brother
(ii) sister
(iii) aunt
(iv) uncle
(c) Dick and Mimi discovered the kite on the top of a
–
(i) roof
(ii) tree
(iii)
lighthouse
(iv) light
post
8. Fill in the chart
with information from the text:
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(a) person
who sent the letter |
Aunt Esther. |
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(b) name of
Aunt Esther’s mother |
Philippa. |
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(c) total
number of family members in the narrator’s family at present |
Six members. |
9. Answer the
following questions:
(a) What did Father find when he went back home years afterward?
Answer: When father went back home years afterward, he found his brother had died and he couldn't find his sister.
(b) Where did Aunt Esther live?
Answer: Aunt Esther lived hundreds of miles inland with Mimi and Dick.
(c) Why did Aunt Esther turn pale?
Answer: Aunt Esther turned pale because she saw the kite patched with the letter which she had once written to her brother.
Grammar in use
10. Change the
following sentences into questions, as directed:
(a) Shankha lives in
Alipurduar. (Information question using ‘where’)
Answer: Where does Shankha live?
(b) They have gone to
a picnic. (Interrogative sentence using ‘where’)
Answer: Where have they gone?
(c) I went to school
yesterday. (Simple question using ‘did’)
Answer: Didn't I go to school yesterday?
(d) Tia studies in
class X. (Information question using ‘which’)
Answer: Which class does Tia study in?
Writing Activities