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NCERT Solutions for Class 9 English<\/a><\/p>\n

The Little Girl NCERT Solutions for Class 9 English Beehive Chapter 3<\/h2>\n

The Little Girl NCERT Text Book Questions and Answers<\/h3>\n

Thinking About the Text <\/b>The Little Girl<\/strong><\/p>\n

I.<\/span>
\nQuestion 1.
\nGiven below are some emotions that Kezia felt. Match the emotions in Column A with the items in Column B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
A<\/strong><\/td>\nB<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1. fear or terror
\n2.\u00a0 glad sense of relief
\n3. a \u201cfunny\u201d feeling, perhaps of understanding<\/td>\n		(i) father comes into her room to give her a goodbye kiss
\n(ii) noise of the carriage grows fainter
\n(iii) father comes home
\n(iv) speaking to father
\n(v) going to bed when alone at home
\n(vi) father comforts her and falls asleep
\n(vii) father stretched out on the sofa, snoring.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

II. Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.<\/span><\/p>\n

Question 1.
\nWhy was Kezia afraid of her father?
\nAnswer:
\nKezia was afraid of her father because he was very strict and always used to give commands to everybody else in the house. He never played with her. He had big hands and heavy face especially his mouth when he yawned were big and she was especially terrified with the manner in which he looked at her over his spectacles.<\/p>\n

Question 2.
\nWho were the people in Kezia\u2019s family?
\nAnswer:
\nKezia\u2019s family consisted of her father, mother, grandmother and herself.<\/p>\n

Question 3.
\nWhat was Kezia\u2019s father\u2019s routine
\n(i) before going to his office?
\n(ii) after coming back from his office?
\n(iii) on Sundays?
\nAnswer:
\n(i) Before going to his office, Kezia\u2019s father usually went into her room to give her a casual kiss.<\/p>\n

(ii) After coming back from his office, he ordered for tea to bring into the drawing room. He also asked his mother to bring him the newspaper and his slippers, and Kezia to pull off his boots.<\/p>\n

(iii) On Sunday, Kezia\u2019s father would stretch out on the sofa. He would cover his face with his handkerchief, put his feet on one of the cushions and sleep soundly.<\/p>\n

\"NCERT<\/p>\n

Question 4.
\nIn what ways did Kezia\u2019s grandmother encourage her to get to know her father better?
\nAnswer:
\nKezia\u2019s grandmother encouraged her to get to know her father better by sending her to the drawing room to talk to her parents on Sundays. She also suggested Kezia to make a pin-cushion out of a beautiful piece of yellow silk as a gift for her father\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n

III. Discuss these questions in class with your teacher and then write down your answers in two or three paragraphs each.<\/span><\/p>\n

Question 1.
\nKezia\u2019s efforts to please her father resulted in displeasing him very much. How did this happen?
\nAnswer:
\nKezia was always afraid of her father. She always stuttered before him. She tried to please her father on various occasions but her efforts resulted in displeasing him very much. When he asked her to take off his shoes, he would ask her if she had been a good girl. The moment she stuttered, her father got irritated and called her \u2018a little brown owl\u2019. Kezia wanted to please her father by making a pin-cushion. She did so but she used her father\u2019s important papers as scrap to fill in the pin-cushion. It displeased her father and she was punished for it.<\/p>\n

Question 2.
\nKezia decides that there are \u201cdifferent kinds of fathers\u201d. What kind of father was Mr. Macdonald, and how was he different from Kezia\u2019s father?
\nAnswer:
\nKezia compared her father with Mr. Macdonald. She found Mr. Macdonald to be a different ‘ kind of father. He was a nice man. He played with his children. He put baby Mao on his shoulder and his daughters hung on to his coat\u2019s pockets. They ran round and round the flower-beds laughing. Kezia\u2019s father was just opposite to Mr. Macdonald. He never played with Kezia. He was very strict and harsh with her. This made Kezia decide that there are different kinds of fathers.<\/p>\n

\"NCERT<\/p>\n

Question 3.
\nHow does Kezia begin to see her father as a human being who needs her sympathy?
\nAnswer:
\nOne night, Kezia was alone in the house. She had a nightmare and started crying. She saw a butcher with a knife and a rope. Her father heard her crying. He took her to his bedroom and made her comfortable. This changed her feelings for him. She realised that her father was not so cruel as she thought. She understood how he got tired after day\u2019s work. She began to see him as a human being who needed her sympathy.<\/p>\n

The Little Girl Thinking about Language<\/strong><\/p>\n

I.<\/span>
\nLook at the following sentence.
\nThere was a glad sense of relief when she heard the noise of the carriage growing fainter…
\nHere, glad means happy about something.
\nGlad, happy, pleased, delighted, thrilled and overjoyed are synonyms (words or expressions that have the same or nearly the same meaning.) However, they express happiness in certain ways.<\/p>\n

Read the sentences below.<\/p>\n