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Class 10 English Chapter 5 The Hundred Dresses Part 1 Important Questions

Question 1. Describe the reaction of Wanda Petronski to Peggy and Maddie.

Answer: When Peggy and Maddie made fun of Wanda Petronski, she did not speak to them and remained serious. As she had no American friend she walked alone with dull eyes and hitched her shoulders in a funny way.

Question 2. Why did Maddie write a note to Peggy and then tore it?

Answer: Maddie wrote a note to Peggy to stop making fun of Wanda. But she tore it because she thought that it could annoy Peggy and she would make fun of her instead.

Question 3. Explain two dresses of Wanda Petronski in brief.

Answer: Each dress of Wanda was different from the other as one of the dresses was in a brilliant jungle green colour and the other was red sash. Actually each of them were beautiful enough to win the competition individually.

Question 4. What kind of a girl was Peggy?

Answer: Peggy was the most attractive and intelligent girl. She was very sentimental. She couldn’t bear an animal to be hurt and protected small children from bullies, but towards Wanda, she had a different attitude.

Question 5. What was the competition about in the school?

Answer: There was a drawing competition in the school. In the competition all boys had to draw a motorboat and all girls had to make sketches of a dress.

Question 6. Who won the drawing competition in each category? What had they drawn?

Answer: Jack Beggles who drew a motor boat won in the boys category and Wanda Petronski who drew hundred different dresses won the girls medal in the drawing competition.

Question 7. Did Wanda have a hundred dresses? Why do you think she said she did?

Answer: No, Wanda did not have a hundred dresses. She had only one dress. Wanda was a creative girl. She had a hundred designs of different dresses in her mind. She said that she had a hundred dresses to arouse curiosity among the girls who asked her this question mockingly.

Question 8. How does everyone in the class react to Wanda’s drawing?

Answer: Everyone clapped after having a look of Wanda’s drawing. Even the boys who were not interested in drawing applauded and whistled at the taw-dropping sketches that Wanda had made of the hundred dresses she claimed to have.

Question 9. How did the children react when Wanda was declared winner of the contest?

Answer: The children suddenly and spontaneously clapped hands. Even the boys were glad to have a chance to stamp on the floor. They put their fingers in their mouths and whistled, though they were not interested in dresses.

Question 10. What was the opinion of the judges about Wanda?

Answer: Wanda had drawn one hundred designs of dresses, which were all different and all beautiful. In the opinion of the judges any one of the drawings was worthy of winning the prize. So she was declared winner of the girls medal.

Question 11. Where in the classroom does Wanda sit and why?

Answer: Wanda sits in the seat next to the last seat in the last row in Room thirteen. She sits in the corner where there is mud and dirt on the floor. The atmosphere is noisy as well. It is because she has to come from muddy area.

Question 12. Where does Wanda live? What kind of place do you think it is?

Answer: Wanda lives at Boggins Heights. It is a place full of mud and dirt. There is earth all round. There are no metallic roads. The atmosphere must be unhygienic.

Question 13. When and why do Peggy and Maddie notice Wanda’s absence?

Answer: Peggy and Maddie notice Wanda’s absence on Tuesday. But on Wednesday again, Peggy and Maddie noticed that Wanda was not present in the class. They waited for her in the way and they became late on her account. Thus both noticed her absence.

Question 14. What do you think ‘to have fun with her’ means?

Answer: Here it means that Peggy and Maddie desired to enjoy with her. They did not want to tease her but it was a way to pass a happy time.

Question 15. In what way was Wanda different from the other children?

Answer: Wanda was different from other children. She had a funny name. It was hard to speak. She used to say that she had hundred of different dresses. She possessed sixty pairs of shoes.

Question 16. Did Wanda have a hundred dresses? Why do you think she said she did?

Answer: Wanda Petronski did not have a hundred dresses. She used to say that they were all lined up in closet. Wanda was not an ordinary person. She said so to arouse curiosity and she did. She had creative tastes.

Question 17. Why is Maddie embarrassed by the questions Peggy asks Wanda? Is she also like Wanda, or is she different?

Answer: Maddie is embarrassed when Peggy asks Wanda questions about different items like dresses, hats and other things. These questions are in Peggy’s funny voice. It is because Maddie is a poor girl. She wears the old clothes handed by others. Maddie is not like Wanda. She is quite different. She thanks herself that she does not live in Boggins Heights.

Question 18. Why didn’t Maddie ask Peggy to stop teasing Wanda? What was she afraid of?

Answer: One day Maddie was doing her arithmetic sums absentmindedly. She was happy that she had not made any fun of Wanda. She decided to write a note to Peggy requesting her to stop asking Wanda about her dresses. But she had no courage. She thought she would become the next target.

Question 19. Who did Maddie think would win the drawing contest? Why?

Answer: Maddie thought that Peggy would win the drawing and colour contest. It was because Peggy drew better than anyone else in the room. She could even copy a picture from a magazine or some film star’s head alike. Maddie was thus good at making pictures.

Question 20. Who won the drawing contest? What had the winner drawn?

Answer: The drawing contest was won by Wanda Petronski. There were drawings all over the room in dazzling colours. They were very brilliant and had lavish designs. For Wanda’s work, she was given a medal and applauses.