(1)
Choose the correct alternative to complete the
following sentences :
(a)
A letter came for father after a
(i)
day
(ii)
week
(iii)
fornight
(iv)
month
Ans:-(iv) month
(b)
father left home after quarrelling with his
(i)
brother
(ii)
sister
(iii)
aunt
(iv)
uncle
Ans:-(i) brother
(c)
dick and Mimi discovered the kite on the top of
a
(i)
roof
(ii)
tree
(iii)
lighthouse
(iv)
lightpost
(v)
Ans:-(ii) tree
(2)
Fill in the chart with information from the
text:
(a) Person
who sent the letter
|
Aunt Esther
|
(b) Name
of the aunt esther’s mother
|
Phillppa
|
(c) Total
number of family members in the narrator’s family at present
|
six
|
|
|
3. Answer the
following questions:
(a) what did father find when he went back home years
afterward?
=>when father went back home years afterward, he found
that his brother had died and he couldn’t find his sister.
(b) where did aunt Esther live?
=> Aunt Esther lived in hundreds of miles inland.
(c) why did Aunt Esther turn pale?