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SAI International School
Competency-Based Questions
Subject-English
Class-VI (The Fun They Had)
I. Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did Tommy find in the attic?
a) A printed book
b) A robot teacher
c) An old computer
d) A video game
2. Why did Margie hate school?
a) She didn’t have friends
b) Her teacher was strict
c) She found geography difficult and didn’t like the mechanical teacher
d) She had too much homework
3. What was Margie curious about after reading the book?
a) How robots were built
b) Why old schools had playgrounds
c) What it was like to study in the past with human teachers and classmates
d) Why books were made of paper
4. What was different about schools in the past, according to the book?
a) They were held in factories
b) Children didn’t study at all
c) They went to a building and were taught by human teachers
d) Only robots taught the children
5. What surprised Tommy and Margie the most about the book they found?
a) It was about aliens and space travel.
b) It had moving pictures like their screen.
c) The words didn’t move and stayed on the pages.
d) It was written by a robot teacher.

II. Answer the following questions:

1. Why did Margie write in her diary, “Today Tommy found a real book!”?
2. Describe how the mechanical teacher functioned and how it differed from a human teacher.
3. What made Margie curious about the schools in the past?
4. How does the author portray the futuristic education system in the story?
5. What emotions does Margie feel about the old school system, and why?
6. Compare the mechanical teacher with a human teacher. What are the advantages and
disadvantages of both?

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