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THE LITTLE GIRL III. IMPORTANT PASSAGES FOR COMPREHESION Read the following passages and answers the questions that follow each: 1. To the little girl he was a figure to be feared and avoided. Every morning before going to work he came into her room and gave her a casual kiss, to which she responded with “Goodbye, Father “. And oh, there was a glad sense of relief when she heard the noise of the carriage growing fainter and fainter down the road !( Page 32) (Imp.) (CBSE) Comprehension Questions 1. How did the little girl look at5 her father? 2. Why did Kezia feel a great relief when her father went out? 3. What would Kezia do when her father returned home? 4. Find a word from the passage which means ‘replied’. Answers 1. The little girl looked at her father fear. 2. Kezia felt a great relief when her father went out because she was greatly afraid of him. 3. When her father would return home she would stand near the staircase and hear him. 4. ‘responded’. 2. She never stuttered with other people-had quite given it up – but only with Father, because then she was trying so hard to say the words properly. “What‘s the matter? What are you looking so wretched about? Mother, I wish you taught This child not to appear on the bring of suicide... Here, Kezia, carry my teacup back to the table carefully.” He was so big – his hand and his neck, especially his mouth when he yawned. Thinking about him alone was like thinking about a giant (Page 33) (V. Imp.) (CBCE) Comprehension Questions 1. Why did Kezia stutter before her father? 2. What did Kezia’s father do after talking to his mother? 3. How Kezia’s father look? 4. Find a phrase from the passage which means ‘at the edge’.
Answers 1. Kezia stuttered before her father because she was greatly afraid of her father. 2. Kezia’s father after talking to his mother would ask Kezia to bring his teacup to him. 3. Kezia’s father looked very big and heavy. 4. ‘on the brink of. 3. On Sunday afternoons Grandmother sent her down to the drawing- room to have a “nice talk with Father and Mother”. But the little girl always found Mother reading and Father stretched out on the sofa, his handkerchief on his face, his feet on one of the best cushions, sleeping soundly and snoring. She sat on a stool, gravely watched him until he woke and stretched, and asked the time- then, looked at her. “Don’t stare so, Kezia. You look like a little brown owl.” (Pages 33-34) Comprehension Questions 1. Why did Kezia’s grandmother send her to father on Sunday afternoons? 2. How would Kezia find her father? 3. How would Kezia‘s father look after and waking up? 4. Find a word from the passage which means ‘seriously’. Answers 1. Kezia’s grandmother send Kezia to her father so that she would stop fearing him. 2. Kezia would find her father sleeping soundly and snoring. He would cover his face with his handkerchief. 3. When Kezia’s father would wake up he would ask her not to stare at him. He would say that she looked like a little brown owl. 4. ‘gravely’. 4. Labortiously, with a double cotton, the little girl stitched three sides. But what to fill it with? That was the question. The grandmother was out in the garden , and she wandered into Mother’s bedroom to look for scraps. On the bed– table she discovered a great many sheets of fine paper, gathered them up, tore them into tiny pieces, and stuffed her case , then sewed up the fourth side. That night there was a hue and cry in the house. Father‘s great speech for the Port Authority had been lost. Rooms were searched; servants questioned. Finally Mother came into Kezia’s room. (Page 34) Comprehension Questions 1. Why did Kezia make a gift of a pin – cushion for her father? 2. What for did she look for scraps? 3. What these sheets of fine paper?
4. Find a phrase from the passage which means ‘Noise and confusion’. Answers 1. Kezia made a gift of a pin- cushion for her father on his birthday. Secondly, it was to please him. 2. She looked for scraps to fill in the pin –cushion. 3. These sheets of fine paper had actually Kezia’s father’s important speech. 4. ‘hue and cry’. 5. Hours later, when Grandmother had wrapped her in a shawl and rocked her in the rocking – chair clung to her soft body. “What did God make father for?” she sobbed. “Here’s a clean hanky, darling. Blow your nose. Go to sleep, pet: you’ll forget all about it in the morning. Ii tried to explain to father but he was too upset to listen but the child never forgot. Next time she saw him she quickly put both hands behind her back and a red colour flew into her cheeks. (Page 35) Comprehension Questions 1. Why did Kezia’s grandmother wrap her in a shawl? 2. Why did Kezia hate her father? 3. How did Kezia react when she saw her father the next time? Why? 4. Find a word from the passage which means ‘stick’. Answers 1. Kezia’s grandmother wrapped Kezia in a shawl because her father had beaten her with a ruler. 2. Kezia hated her father because he spoke harshly to her and beat her. 3. Kezias’ face lost colour when she saw her father the next time. It was so because she feared him greatly. 4. ‘cling’ 6. The Macdonalds lived next door. They had five children. Looking through a gap in the fence the little girls saw them playing ‘tag’ in the evening. The father with the baby, Mao, on his shoulders, two little girls hanging on to his coat pockets ran round and round the flower-beds, shaking with laughter. Once she saw the boys turn the hose on him – and he tried to catch them laughing all the time. Then it was she decided there were different sorts of fathers. (Page 35) Comprehension Questions 1. How did Kezia look at the Macdonalds playing ’tag’ through an opening in the fence.
2. How did Mr. Macdonald play with his children? 3. What did Kezia think of fathers from this? 4. Find a word from thw passage which means‘hedge’. Answers 1. Kezia looked at the Macdonald playing ‘ tag’ through an opening in the fence. 2. Mr. Macdonald with played with his children ‘tag’. He had the baby on his shoulders. His two little girls hung on his coat pockets. Then he would run round. 3. Kezia thought that there were different fathers. 4. ‘fence’. 7. “What’ II do if I have a nightmare?” she asked, “ I often have nightmares and then Grannie takes me into her bed- I can’t stay in the dark-it all gets ‘whispery...” “ You just go to sleep , child,” said Alice, pulling off her socks , “and don’t you scream and wake your poor Pa.” But the same old nightmare came – the butcher with a knife and a rope, who came nearer and nearer. (Page 36-37) Comprehension Questions 1. Who was Alice? 2. What is done to Kezia when she has nightmares? How does she feel? 3. What was the nightmare all about? 4. Find a word from the passage which means ‘a horrible dream’. Answers 1. Alice was the maid –servant in the household of Kezia. 2. When Kezia has nightmares her grandmother takes her into her bed. She can’t stay in the dark. It gets very scary due to strange whispers. 3. The nightmare was all about the butcher with a knife and a rope. The butcher came nearer and nearer. 4. ‘nightmare’. 8. “Oh, a butcher –a knife – I want Grannie.” He blew out the candle, bent.”down and caught up the child in his arms, carrying her along the passage to the bedroom . A newspaper was on the bed – a half –smoked cigar was near his reading –lamp . He put away the paper, threw the cigar into the fireplace , then carefully tucked up the child. He lay down beside her. Half asleep still with the butcher’s smile all about her it seemed, she crept close to him, snuggled her head under his arm, held tightly to his shirt. Then the dark did not matter; she lay still. (Page 37) Comprehension Questions