The Making of a Scientist Class 10 Read and find out : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 32 Q1 : How did a book become a turning point in Richard Ebright’s life? Answer : By the time Richard Ebright was in the second grade, he had collected all twenty-five species of butterflies found around his hometown. According to him, this would probably have been the end to his butterfly collecting. However, a book made him think otherwise. The book titled ‘The Travels of Monarch X’ became a turning point in his life. The book was about how monarch…
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Footprints without Feet Class 10 Read and find out : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 26 Q1 : How did the invisible man first become visible? Answer : Griffin was completely invisible until he happened to step in some mud, which caused him to leave footprints as he walked. His footprints were seen by two boys, who followed him as long as the prints were visible. On getting rid of them, he went into a big London store to put on some warm clothes. After the store was shut, he got dressed by putting on shoes, an overcoat…
A Question of Trust Class 10 Read and find out : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 20 Q1 : What does Horace Danby like to collect? Answer : Horace Danby liked to collect rare and expensive books. NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English Footprints Without Feet Chapter 4 Q2 : Why does he steal every year? Answer : He stole every year so that he could buy the rare and expensive books that he loved to collect. Each year, he planned carefully, stole enough to last twelve months, and secretly bought the books, through an agent. Q3 :…
The Midnight Visitor Class 10 Read and find out : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 14 Q1 : How is Ausable different from other secret agents? Answer : Ausable was different from other secret agents in more ways than one. He had a small room in the musty corridor of a gloomy French hotel. It was on the sixth and top floor and it was scarcely the setting for a romantic adventure. He was extremely fat. Inspite of living in Paris for over twenty years, he spoke French and German only passably and had an American accent. Instead…
The Thief’s Story Class 10 Read and find out : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 8 Q1 : Who does ‘I’ refer to in this story? Answer : In this story, ‘I’ refers to the thief. NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English Footprints Without Feet Chapter 2 Q2 : What is he “a fairly successful hand” at? Answer : He was “a fairly successful hand” at stealing and robbing people. Q3 : What does he get from Anil in return for his work? Answer : When Hari asked Anil if he could work for him, Anil said that…
A Triumph of Surgery Class 10 Read and find out : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 1 Q1 : Why is Mrs Pumphrey worried about Tricki? Answer : Mrs Pumphrey was worried and distraught because Tricki would not eat anything. It even refused its favourite dishes. It had bouts of vomiting. It spent all its time lying on the rug and panting. It did not want to go for walks or do anything. NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English Footprints Without Feet Chapter 1 Q2 : What does she do to help him? Is she wise in this?…
For Anne Gregory (Poem) Class 10 Thinking about the poem : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 141 Q1 : What does the young man mean by “great honey-coloured/Ramparts at your ear?” Why does he say that young men are “thrown into despair” by them? Answer : The “great honey-coloured/Ramparts at your ear” refers to the beautiful yellow coloured hair that falls at the woman’s ear and cover it like a wall around a fort. He says that the young men are “thrown into despair” by them because they look so beautiful on the woman that her beauty gets…
The Tale of Custard the Dragon (Poem) Class 10 Thinking about the poem : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 132 Q1 : Who are the characters in this poem? List them with their pet names. Answer : The characters in this poem are Belinda, a little black kitten, a little grey mouse, a little yellow dog, a little pet dragon and a pirate. Character Pet name Kitten Ink Mouse Blink Dog Mustard Dragon Custard NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight Chapter 21 Q2 : Why did Custard cry for a nice, safe cage? Why is…
Fog (Poem) Class 10 Thinking about the poem : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 115 Q1 : (i) What does Sandburg think the fog is like? (ii) How does the fog come? (iii) What does ‘it’ in the third line refer to? (iv) Does the poet actually say that the fog is like a cat? Find three things that tell us that the fog is like a cat. Answer : (i) According to Sandburg, the fog is like a cat. (ii) The fog comes on little cat feet. (iii) In the third line ‘it’ refers to the fog…
The Trees (Poem) Class 10 Thinking about the poem : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 100 Q1 : (i) Find, in the first stanza, three things that cannot happen in a treeless forest. (ii) What picture do these words create in your mind: “… sun bury its feet in shadow…”? What could the poet mean by the sun’s ‘feet’? Answer : (i) The three things that cannot happen in a treeless forest are the sitting of a bird on trees, the hiding of insects and the sun burying its feet in the shadow of the…