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Sai International School,
                                                    Class IX-English
                                        Chapter- Ishwaran The Story Teller

                                                      Assessment



               I.Answer the following questions:


               1. In what way is Iswaran an asset to Mahendra?

               2. How does Iswaran describe the uprooted tree on the highway? What effect
               does he want to create in his listeners?

               3.  How  does  he  narrate  the  story  of  the  tusker?  Does  it  appear  to  be
               plausible?

               4. Why does the author say that Iswaran seemed to more than make up for the
               absence of a TV in Mahendra’s living quarters?

               5. Mahendra calls ghosts or spirits a figment of the imagination. What happens
               to him on a full moon night?


               II. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:


                   1.  “He resisted the curiosity to look out lest he should behold a sight which
                       would stop his heart. But the wailing became louder and less feline.”
                          a.  Whois ‘he’ in the given extract?
                          b.  Where was the wailing sound coming from?
                          c.  What is the meaning of ‘feline’?
                          d.  Why ‘he’ resisted the curiosity?



               2.“Meanwhile all the teachers had climbed up to the terrace of the school
               building; from there they helplessly watched the depredations of the elephant.
               There was not a soul below on the ground. The streets were empty as if the
               inhabitants of the entire town had suddenly disappeared.”


                          a.  Who said this to whom?
                          b.  Why does the speaker say this?
                          c.  Why had all the teachers climbed up the terrace?
                          d.  What is the meaning of ‘depredations’?
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