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Question 3.
The lady teacher who was in class was saying something to the girls but Bholi
could understand nothing.
(a) Where was Bholi?
(b) Why could she understand nothing?
(c) What is the antonym of ‘everything’ in the extract?
Answer:
(a) Bholi was in the classroom in village school.
(b) She could not understand anything as it was her first day at school.
(c) ‘nothing’ is the antonym of ‘everything’ in the extract.
Question 4.
He said to Ramlal, “As a revenue official you are the representative of the
government in the village and so you must set an example to the villagers. You
must send your daughters to school.”
(a) Who is ‘he’?
(b) What example does ‘he’ want Ramlal to set?

(c) What does the word ‘revenue’ mean?
(d) What part of speech is the word ‘an’ in the extract?
Answer:
(a) ‘He’ is the Tehsildar.
(b) The Tehsildar wanted Ramlal to send his daughters to the village school so
that other villagers will follow his example by sending their daughters to the
school too.
(c) It means ‘tax’.
(d) It is an article.
Question 5.
Then she began to cry and tears flowed from her eyes in a helpless flood. She
kept her head down as she sat in her corner, not daring to look up at the girls,
who, she knew, were still laughing at her.
(a) Who is ‘she’?
(b) Why were the girls laughing at her?
Answer:
(a) ‘She‘ is Sulekha, also known as Bholi.
(b) The girls were laughing at her because she had stammered while speaking
her name when asked by the teacher.

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