The Question : Read the extracts given below and answer the questions:The minute they entered the classroom, they stopped short and gasped. There were drawings all over the room, on every ledge and windowsill, dazzling colours and brilliant, lavish designs, all drawn on great sheets of wrapping paper. There must have been a hundred of them, all lined up. These must be the drawings for the contest. They were! Everybody stopped and whistled or murmured admiringly.
A) Whom does ‘they’ refer to? (i) Peggy (ii) Maddie (iii) Wanda (iv) Both (i) and (ii)
B) Which drawings are being discussed here? (i) Drawings of motorboats (ii) Drawings of dresses made by girls of room 13 for the contest (iii) Drawings made by Wanda (iv) The winning drawings of dresses made by Wanda
C) Why did ‘they’ stop short and gasp? (i) On seeing the room full of drawings (ii) On knowing that Peggy had not won the contest (iii) The teacher scolded them for being late for school (iv) On seeing the beauty, colours and brilliance of drawings
D) There were ………. drawings on the ……….. (i) sixty, room thirteen (ii) hundred, windowsill (iii) hundred, room thirteen (iv) hundred, every ledge and every windowsill
E) How did everybody respond to Wanda’s drawings? (i) Whistled, murmured, admired on them (ii) Murmured and condemned them (iii) Everyone was shocked (iv) All of the above
Solution for the question :
(a) (iv) Both (i) and (ii)
(b) (iv) The winning drawings of dresses made by Wanda
(c) (iv) On seeing the beauty, colours and brilliance of drawings
(d) (iv) hundred, every ledge and every windowsill
(e) (i) Whistled, murmured, admired on them
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