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Rajasthan Board (RBSE) - STD 9 - English (Rajasthan - English Medium). 58 questions in this chapter.

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Q 1Prose Para [8M]8 Marks
Margie did so with a sigh. She was thinking about the old schools they had when her grandfather’s grandfather was a little boy. All the kids from the whole neighborhood came, laughing and shouting in the schoolyard, sitting together in the schoolroom, going home together at the end of the day. They learned the same things, so they could help one another with the homework and talk about it.
And the teachers were people…
The mechanical teacher was flashing on the screen: “When we add fractions ½ and ¼...”
Margie was thinking about how the kids must have loved it in the old days. She was thinking about the fun they had.
(i) What was Margie thinking about at the beginning of the passage?
(ii) What did all the kids from the neighborhood do together?
(iii) Why could children help one another with homework in old schools?
(iv) Who were the teachers in the old schools?
(v) What was the mechanical teacher teaching?
(vi) What did Margie think the kids must have felt in the old days?
(vii) What is the main theme of the passage?
(viii) Find the opposite word from the passage –
(a) Present$\quad$(b) Alone
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Q 2Prose Para [8M]8 Marks
“A man isn’t smart enough.”
“Sure he is. My father knows as much as my teacher.”
“He knows almost as much, I betcha.”
Margie wasn’t prepared to dispute that. She said, “I wouldn’t want a strange man in my house to teach me.”
Tommy screamed with laughter. “You don’t know much, Margie. The teachers didn’t live in the house. They had a special building and all the kids went there.”
“And all the kids learned the same thing?”
“Sure, if they were the same age.”
“But my mother says a teacher has to be adjusted to fit the mind of each boy and girl it teaches and that each kid has to be taught differently.”
“Just the same they didn’t do it that way then. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to read the book.”
“I didn’t say I didn’t like it,” Margie said quickly. She wanted to read about those funny schools.
They weren’t even half finished when Margie’s mother called, “Margie! School!”
Margie looked up. “Not yet, Mamma.”
“Now!” said Mrs Jones. “And it’s probably time for Tommy, too.”
Margie said to Tommy, “Can I read the book some more with you after school?”
(i) Who said, “A man isn’t smart enough”?
(ii) What did Margie say about having a strange man in her house?
(iii) Why did Tommy laugh at Margie?
(iv) What was Margie’s mother’s view about teachers?
(v) What made Margie curious about old schools?
(vi) Who called Margie for school?
(vii) What did Margie ask Tommy at the end?
(viii) Find the opposite words from the passage –
(a) Finished $\quad$(b) Quickly
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Q 3Prose Para [8M]8 Marks
The Inspector had smiled after he was finished and patted Margie’s head. He said to her mother, “It’s not the little girl’s fault, Mrs Jones. I think the geography sector was geared a little too quick. Those things happen sometimes. I’ve slowed it up to an average ten-year level. Actually, the overall pattern of her progress is quite satisfactory.” And he patted Margie’s head again.
Margie was disappointed. She had been hoping they would take the teacher away altogether. They had once taken Tommy’s teacher away for nearly a month because the history sector had blanked out completely.
So she said to Tommy, “Why would anyone write about school?”
Tommy looked at her with very superior eyes. “Because it’s not our kind of school, stupid. This is the old kind of school that they had hundreds and hundreds of years ago.” He added loftily, pronouncing the word carefully, “Centuries ago.”
Margie was hurt. “Well, I don’t know what kind of school they had all that time ago.” She read the book over his shoulder for a while, then said, “Anyway, they had a teacher.”
“Sure they had a teacher, but it wasn’t a regular teacher. It was a man.”
“A man? How could a man be a teacher?”
“Well, he just told the boys and girls things and gave them homework and asked them questions.”
(i) What did the County Inspector say about Margie’s performance?
(ii) What change did the Inspector make to the mechanical teacher?
(iii) Why was Margie disappointed after the Inspector left?
(iv) Why had Tommy’s teacher been taken away?
(v) What did Tommy say about the school in the book?
(vi) What surprised Margie about the old teacher?
(vii) What did the man-teacher do in the old kind of school?
(viii) Find the opposite word from the passage for –
(a) Slow$\quad$(b) Modern
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Q 4Prose Para [8M]8 Marks
Margie was scornful. “School? What’s there to write about school? I hate school.”
Margie always hated school, but now she hated it more than ever. The mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in geography and she had been doing worse and worse until her mother had shaken her head sorrowfully and sent for the County Inspector.
He was a round little man with a red face and a whole box of tools with dials and wires. He smiled at Margie and gave her an apple, then took the teacher apart. Margie had hoped he wouldn’t know how to put it together again, but he knew how all right, and, after an hour or so, there it was again, large and black and ugly, with a big screen on which all the lessons were shown and the questions were asked.
That wasn’t so bad. The part Margie hated most was the slot where she had to put homework and test papers. She always had to write them out in a punch code they made her learn when she was six years old, and the mechanical teacher calculated the marks in no time.
(i) Why was Margie scornful when she heard the book was about school?
(ii) What subject was Margie getting test after test in?
(iii) What did Margie’s mother do when she saw Margie’s poor performance?
(iv) Describe the County Inspector.
(v) What did Margie hope about the mechanical teacher?
(vi) What part of the mechanical school did Margie hate the most?
(vii) When did Margie learn the punch code?
(viii) Find the opposite word from the passage for –
(a) Loved$\quad$(b) Assembled 
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Q 5Prose Para [8M]8 Marks
“Gee,” said Tommy, “what a waste. When you’re through with the book, you just throw it away, I guess. Our television screen must have had a million books on it and it’s good for plenty more. I wouldn’t throw it away.”
“Same with mine,” said Margie. She was eleven and hadn’t seen as many telebooks as Tommy had. He was thirteen.
She said, “Where did you find it?”
“In my house.” He pointed without looking, because he was busy reading. “In the attic.”
“What’s it about?”
“School.”
(i) Why did Tommy call the book a waste?
(ii) What does Tommy say about the television screen?
(iii) Why hadn’t Margie seen as many telebooks as Tommy?
(iv) How old was Margie?
(v) Where did Tommy find the book?
(vi) What was Tommy doing while talking to Margie?
(vii) What was the book about?
(viii) Find the opposite word from the passage for –
(a) Few$\quad$(b) Downstairs
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Q 13Prose [Que - 5M]5 Marks
It’s not the little girl’s fault, Mrs. Jones. I think the geography sector was geared a little too quickly. What, according to you, was wrong with the geography sector? Can a machine be a good teacher?
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Q 15Prose [Que - 5M]5 Marks
What problem was Margie facing with her mechanical teacher? Why did she not like it? Do you think that teachers should be flexible in their approach of teaching?
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Q 22MCQ [1M]1 Mark
What is a Debate?
  • ✓
    a contest to show ability in arguement between two people
  • B
    contest to fight
  • C
    contest to prove better
  • D
    none

Answer: A.

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