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Chapter 5 A Different Kind of School
MCQ Questions
Miss Beam was all that I had expected middle-aged, hill of authority, yet kindly and understanding. Her hair was beginning to turn grey, and she had the kind of plump figure that is likely to be comforting to a homesick child. I asked her some questions about her teaching methods, which I had heard were simple.
Question 1.
Name the lesson
(a) Who I Am
(b) Taro’s Reward
(c) A Different Kind of School
(d) A Game of Chance
Answer
Answer: (c) A Different Kind of School
Question 2.
Write some qualities of Miss Beam.
(a) Full of authority
(b) Kindly
(c) Understanding
(d) All of these
Answer
Answer: (d) All of these
Question 3.
Miss Beam had a figure.
(a) plump
(b) tall
(c) thin
(d) smart
Answer
Answer: (a) plump
Question 4.
What did the narrator ask Miss Beam?
(a) about her children
(b) about her students
(c) about her teaching methods
(d) none of these
Answer
Answer: (c) about her teaching methods
Question 5.
Give the meaning of ‘plump’.
(a) thin
(b) stout
(c) tall
(d) unhealthy
Answer
Answer: (b) stout
(2)
“This is a very important part of our system. To make our children appreciate and understand misfortune, we make them share in misfortune too. Each term every child has one blind day, one lame day, one deaf day, one injured day and one dumb day. During the blind day their eyes are bandaged absolutely and they are on their honour not to peep.
Question 1.
Who is explaining the system?
(a) Miss Beam
(b) The girl
(c) The boy
(d) The narrator
Answer
Answer: (a) Miss Beam
Question 2.
What is the unique feature of Miss Beam’s schooling system?
(a) To teach them good manners
(b) To understand the disability of others.
(c) To teach them how to over come difficulties
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (b) To understand the disability of others.
Question 3.
What are the children made to undergo during the term?
(a) One blind day
(b) One deaf or dumb day
(c) One lame day
(d) All of these
Answer
Answer: (d) All of these
Question 4.
How is blind day observed?
(a) By organising programmes
(b) By helping the blind
(c) By being blindfolded
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (c) By being blindfolded
Question 5.
Give the meaning of ‘peep’,
(a) Look out
(b) To see
(c) Deep
(d) To find
Answer
Answer: (a) Look out
(3)
“Don’t you ever peep?” I asked the girl. “Oh, no!” she exclaimed. “That would be cheating! But I had no idea it was so awful to be blind. You can’t see a thing. You feel you are going to be hit by something every moment. It’s such a relief just to sit down.”
Question 1.
Who is the author talking to?
(a) The girl
(b) Miss Beam
(c) The boy
(d) The lady
Answer
Answer: (a) The girl
Question 2.
What does she feel on a blind day?
(a) It was so awful
(b) It was so interesting
(c) It was so boring
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (a) It was so awful
Question 3.
Why does she play the game of being blind?
(a) Just a game
(b) To realise the feeling of blind
(c) They were asked to do so
(d) None of the above
Answer
Answer: (b) To realise the feeling of blind
Question 4.
Give the meaning of ‘relief’.
(a) pain
(b) rest
(c) comfort
(d) support
Answer
Answer: (c) comfort
Question 5.
Give the opposite of ‘something’.
(a) anyone
(b) no one
(c) someone
(d) nothing
Answer
Answer: (d) nothing
(4)
And so we walked on. Gradually I discovered that I was ten times more thoughtful than I ever thought I could be. I also realised that if I had to describe people and things to someone else, it made them more interesting to me. When I finally had to leave, I told Miss Beam that I was very sorry to go.
Question 1.
Name of the lesson.
(a) A Different Kind of School
(b) A Game of Chance
(c) Who I Am
(d) Fair Play
Answer
Answer: (a) A Different Kind of School
Question 2.
Who does ‘we’ refer to here?
(a) The author
(c) The author and Miss Beam
(b) The author and girl with bandages
(d) The boy and the girl
Answer
Answer: (b) The author and girl with bandages
Question 3.
What did the author gain from his visit to school?
(a) became more intelligent
(b) Became more knowledgeable
(c) became more thoughtful
(d) Enjoyed a lot
Answer
Answer: (c) became more thoughtful
Question 4.
Did he like Miss Beam’s schooling system?
(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) It was difficult for students
(d) Can’t say
Answer
Answer: (a) Yes
Question 5.
Give the meaning of ‘gradually’.
(a) Slowly
(b) Quickly
(c) Fast
(d) Finally
Answer
Answer: (a) Slowly
(5)
“There is no misery about it,” Miss Beam continued. “Everyone is very kind and it is really something of a game. Before the day is over, though, even the most thoughtless child realises what misfortune is. “The blind day is, of course, really the worst, but some of the children tell me that the dumb day is the most difficult. We cannot bandage the children’s mouths, so they really have to exercise their will-power. Come into the garden and see for yourself how the children feel about it.”
Question 1.
Who was Miss Beam?
(a) School teacher
(b) The girl with bandage
(c) Narrator of the story
(d) Girl’s mother
Answer
Answer: (a) School teacher
Question 2.
What was nothing but a game?
(a) To play the role of disabled
(b) To talk to narrator
(c) To be blind
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (a) To play the role of disabled
Question 3.
Which day was considered the most difficult day?
(a) Blind day
(b) Dumb day
(c) Deaf day
(d) Lame day
Answer
Answer: (b) Dumb day
Question 4.
Who was asked to come into the garden?
(a) Miss Beam
(b) The boy
(c) The girl
(d) The narrator
Answer
Answer: (d) The narrator
Question 5.
Give the meaning of ‘misery’.
(a) suffering
(b) pain
(c) disease
(d) torture
Answer
Answer: (a) suffering
(6)
“The real aim of this school is not so much to teach thought as to teach thoughtfulness- kindness to others, and being responsible citizens. Look out of the window a minute, will you?” I went to the window which overlooked a large garden and a playground at the back. “What do you see?” Miss Beam asked. “I see some very beautiful grounds,” I said, “and a lot of jolly children. It pains me, though, to see that they are not all so healthy and active looking.”
Question 1.
What did Miss Beam mean by ‘thought fulness’?
(a) Kindness to others
(b) Being responsible citizens
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (c) Both (a) and (b)
Question 2.
Why did she take the author to the window?
(a) To show the children
(b) To show the garden
(c) To show the children playing
(d) To show the playground
Answer
Answer: (c) To show the children playing
Question 3.
What did he observe in the playground?
(a) Children playing
(b) Children sitting
(c) Children studying
(d) Children working
Answer
Answer: (a) Children playing
Question 4.
What was it that pained him?
(a) The children were unhealthy
(b) Not active looking
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (c) Both (a) and (b)
Question 5.
Give the opposite of ‘pains’.
(a) Pleases
(b) Displeases
(c) Tortures
(d) Pained
Answer
Answer: (a) Pleases
(7)
I had heard a great deal about Miss Beam’s school, but hot till last week did the chance come to visit it. When I arrived there was no one in sight but a girl of about twelve. Her eyes were covered with a bandage and she was being led carefully between the flower beds by a little boy, who was about four years younger. She stopped, and it looked like she asked him who had come. It seemed that the boy was talking about me to her. Then they moved on.
Question 1.
Who is ‘I’ in the above lines?
(a) The girl
(b) The narrator
(c) The boy
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (b) The narrator
Question 2.
Where did the narrator arrive?
(a) Miss Beam’s school
(b) The girl’s class
(c) The boy’s school
(d) Ms. Beam’s college
Answer
Answer: (a) Miss Beam’s school
Question 3.
The girl was about years old.
(a) ten
(b) fourteen
(c) twelve
(d) thirteen
Answer
Answer: (c) twelve
Question 4.
Who was leading the girl whose eyes were covered with a bandage?
(a) Another girl
(b) Miss Beam
(c) Attendant
(d) A boy
Answer
Answer: (d) A boy
Question 5.
“Then they moved on”. Who are they in above lines?
(a) The boy, the girl
(b) The girls
(c) The boy, the girl with bandages
(d) Miss Beam and the girl
Answer
Answer: (c) The boy, the girl with bandages
Important Questions
Question 1.
Describe the appearance of Miss Beam.
Answer:
Miss Beam was a middle-aged, authoritative, yet kind and understanding woman. Her hair was grey and she was a little fat.
Question 2.
What did Miss Beam teach the children at her school?
Answer:
The children were taught simple spelling, adding, subtracting, multiplying and writing.
Question 3.
How was Miss Beam’s school was different?
Answer:
The real aim of Miss Beam’s school was to make them thoughtful. They were trained to be kind to others and become responsible citizens. The school aimed at teaching ‘thoughtfulness’.
Question 4.
What did the author see in the playground?
Answer:
The author saw that not all children were healthy and active-looking. Some were blind or lame and crippled.
Question 5.
What did Miss Beam inform the author about the children is the playground?
Answer:
Miss Beam informed to the author that no child was lame, blind or crippled. They were, in fact, being made to understand misfortune. Every child had one blind day, one lame day and one dumb day. They were helped by other children.
Question 6.
Which incident made the visitor to the school ten times more thoughtful than ever?
Answer:
The narrator had heard a lot about the unique method of teaching in Beam’s school. At first he saw a blind girl being led out. Then he saw a lame boy. He thought that the students were not at all healthy and active. But soon he came to know that they were just acting to be blind, lame, crippled etc. Meanwhile, he was asked to lead a blind girl around. The blind girl asked him many questions. And he had to apply his brain to describe people and things. He realised that he had become ten times more thoughtful than ever.
Question 7.
What did the narrator learn from the girl?
Answer:
The writer learnt about the lame days. She told him about the toughest day of being blind.
Question 8.
How has the girl with bandaged eyes impressed him?
Answer:
The author was impressed when she told him about the head girl just by asking the details of her hair, height etc. He was taken aback when she told him about the gardener. She told him about the activities of the gardener without seeing.
Question 9.
Why do you think the writer visited Miss Beam’s school?
Answer:
Let’s go for a little walk. Only you must tell me about things. I shall be so glad when today is over. The other bad days can’t be half as bad as this. Having a leg tied up and hopping about on a crutch is almost fun, I guess. I don’t think I’ll mind being deaf for a day, at least not much. But being blind is so frightening.
Question 10.
Why do you think the writer visited Miss Beam’s school?
Answer:
The author had heard much about Miss Beam’s school. So he went there to personally know what it was.
Question 11.
What was the ‘game’ that every child in the school had to play?
Answer:
Every child in the school had to play the role of being blind, deaf, dumb, injured and lame once in a term. It was a sort of game and training.
Question 12.
“Each term every child has one blind day, one lame day complete the line. Which day was the hardest? Why was it the hardest?
Answer:
“Each term every child has one blind day. One lame day, one deaf day, one injured day and one dumb day.” The dumb day was the hardest because the children’s mouths could not be bandaged. So they really had to exercise their will power to remain silent.
Question 13.
What was the purpose of these special days?
Answer:
The purpose of special days was to teach thoughtfulness kindness to others, and being responsible citizens. To make the children appreciate and understand misfortune, they were made to share in misfortune too.
A Different Kind of School Extra Questions and Answers Long Answer Type
Question 1.
How successful was Miss Beam in inculcating values in her students?
Answer:
Miss Beam was known for her efforts in inculcating the values in her students. She focused on academics as well. Her students were taught spelling, reading, adding subtracting, multiplying and writing. They were also educated to be socially responsible citizen. They were given chances to help and coordinate well with each other. The author was impressed with their bond and sharing of responsibilities. He also liked the altitude, zeal and enthusiasm with which Miss Beam was educating her students. At the end, we can say that she had successfully inculcated empathy, companionship among her school students.
Question 2.
What attributes should be a part of school education system?
Answer:
The lesson dealt with the lack of values in education system prevailing. The emphasis should be laid on all round development of a child-be it emotional, social or physical etc. The policy makers should keep in mind shaping the future of student while framing the syllabus of students. The minds of young learners reciprocate to conditions provided to them. They can realise and relate through the real – life like experiences. They should be given opportunities so as to make them better citizens.
A Different Kind of School Extra Questions and Answers Reference to Context
Question 1.
When I arrived there was no one in sight but a girl of about twelve. Her eyes were covered with a bandage and she was being led carefully between the flower-beds by a little boy, who was about four years younger. She stopped, and it looked like she asked him who had come. He seemed to be describing me to her. Then they passed on.
(i) Where did the writer arrive?
(ii) What was the girl doing?
(iii) What was the age of the girl?
(iv) Why has the girl stopped?
(v) Change the adverb ‘Carefully’ into an adjective.
Answer:
(i) The writer arrived at Miss Beam’s school.
(ii) The girl was led by a boy as her eyes were covered with a bandage
(iii) The girl was about twelve years.
(iv) The girl was stopped to enquired about the visitor.
(v) Careful.
Question 2.
“This is a very important part of our system. To make our children appreciate and understand misfortune, we make them share in misfortune too. Each term every child has one blind day, one lame day, one def day, one injured day and one dumb day. During the blind day their eyes are bandaged absolutely and they are on their honour not to peep. The bandage is put on overnight so they wake blind. This means that they need help with everything. Other children are given the duty of helping them and leading them about. They all learn so much this way—both the blind and the helpers.
(i) What was the very important part of the school?
(ii) What was done on “blind day’?
(iii) What was the duty of the helpers?
(iv) Why was ‘lame day’ organised for each term?
(v) Give the meaning of‘are on their honour’.
Answer:
(i) The very important part of the school system was to make children responsible and understand misfortune.
(ii) During the blind day their eyes were bandaged.
(iii) The helpers were given duty of helping and leading the blind student of the day.
(iv) Lame day was organised to make children appreciate and understand misfortune.
(v) ‘have promised’.
Question 3.
“Oh, yes”, she said. “Let’s go for a little walk. Only you must tell me about things. I shall be so glad when today is over. The other bad days can’t be half as bad as this. Having a leg tied up and hopping about on a crutch is almost fun, I guess. Having an arm tied up is a bit more troublesome because you can’t eat without help, and things like that. I don’t think I’ll mind being deaf for a day at least not much. But being blind is so frightening. My head aches all the time just from worrying that I’ll get hurt. Where are we now?”
(i) What was the writer taken for?
(ii) Which is the ‘funny lame day’ for the girl?
(iii) Which was the toughest activity for.the ’girl?
(iv) What Worried her the most on being blind?
(v) Give the noun form of‘troublesome’.
Answer:
(i) The writer was taken for a little walk.
(ii) The funniest lame day was when her one leg was tied and she had to hop on a crutch.
(iii) The toughest activity for her was being blind folded.
(iv) The fear of getting hurt was the reason of her worry.
(v) troublesomeness.
Question 4.
“In the playground,” I said. “We’re walking towards the house. Miss Beam is walking up and down the garden with a tall girl.”
“What is the girl wearing?” my little friend asked. “A blue cotton skirt and a pink blouse.” “I think it’s Millie?” she said. “What colour is her hair?”
“Very light,” I said. “Yes, that’s Millie. She’s the Head Girl.”
“There’s an old man tying up roses,” I said. “Yes, that’s Peter. He’s the gardener. He’s hundreds of years old!”
Questions
(i) Where were the visitor and the girl?
(ii) Who was the tall girl?
(iii) What was Miss Beam doing?
(iv) Who was ‘Peter’? what was he doing?
(v) Write the antonym of ‘toward’.
Answer:
(i) They were in the playground.
(ii) The tall girl was the head girl.
(iii) Miss Beam was walking up and down the garden with the tall girl.
(iv) Peter was a gardener and he was tying up roses.
(v) Away from.
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