*5. The Hundred Dresses (El Bsor Ester)*
*6. The Hundred Dresses-II*
Very Short Type Q-Ans.
*1. Who is the writer of ‘The Hundred Dresses’?*
Ans. El Bsor Ester
*2. Who was Wanda?*
Ans. A young polish girl
*3. Where did Wanda sit in the classroom?
*4. Where did Wanda live?*
Ans. At Boggins Heights
*5. What kind of place was Boggins Heights?*
Ans. Muddy place
*6. Who was the most popular girl in the school?*
Ans. Peggy
*7. What kind of girl was Peggy?*
Ans. Pretty, rich and intelligent girl
*8. Why did Peggy and Meddie wait for wanda?*
Ans. To make fun of her
*9. What did Wanda always wear at school?*
Ans. A faded blue dress
*10. Who was the winner of the drawing contest?*
Ans. Wanda
* 11. How many drawings of dresses had Wanda drawn?*
Ans. One hundred
*12. Whose letter was received by Miss Mason just before Christmas?*
Ans. Wanda’s letter
*13. Who started the game of dresses with Wanda?*
Ans. Peggy
*14. What did Peggy and Maddie see in their drawings?*
*15. Who wrote a letter to Miss Mason?*
Ans. Mr. Petronski
*16. Who wrote a letter to Wanda?*
Ans. Both Peggy and Maddie
*17. Who is Miss Mason*
Ans. Her teacher
Short Type Q-Ans.
1. Who was Wanda?
Ans. Wanda Petronski was a polish girl whose parents had
settled down in America. She was a source of fun because of her last name which
made her different from others. It was difficult to pronounce. She came to
school alone and her feet were covered with mud.
2. Where in the
classroom does Wanda sit and why?
Ans. Wanda used to sit in the seat next to the last
seat, in the last row, in Room Thirteen. She sat there because her feet were
normally caked with dry mud and very dirty. So in order to avoid being laughed
at by her classmates, she sat there to hide her dirty feet.
3. Where did Wanda
Petronski live? What kind of place do you think it is?
Ans. Wanda Petronski was a Polish girl who had shifted to
America from Poland with her parents. She was very poor and lived
in Boggins Heights. It was a shabby area.
4. In what way was
Wanda different from the other children?
Ans. Wanda was different from other children as she
had no friends. She came to school alone and went home alone. She always
wore a faded blue dress that did not fit her properly. Unlike other children,
she kept quiet and did not talk to anyone.
5. Did Wanda have
hundred dresses? Why do you think she said she has?
Ans. Wanda did not have hundred dresses because she was
poor and wore the same faded dress to school every day. The other children
of her class used to make fun of her poverty. She had made hundred dresses as
sketches.
*6.
Who wrote a letter to Miss Mason?*
Ans. Wanda's father wrote a letter to Miss Mason to inform
her that Wanda and her brother won't go to their school anymore and they have
shifted from that area to somewhere else. And Wanda would be enrolled there in
school so that no one would again tease her due to her name and appearance.
*7. Who was Maddie?*
Ans. Maddie is the best friend of Peggy. She was also
involved in teasing Wanda. She was extremely poor and borrowed many dresses
from Peggy. Her mother used to alter these dresses so that nobody could remember
them. Maddie was guilty for teasing Wanda and decided never to tease anyone.
*8. Who did Maddie
think would win the drawing contest? Why?*
Ans. Maddie was sure that
Peggy would win the dress designing contest because Peggy was very good at designing. She was very well in
copying any picture from any magazine or some film star's face so well that one
could tell who it was. Peggy was the best among the others in terms of painting
and designing.
*9. How is Wanda
seen as different by the other girls? How do they treat her?*
Ans. Wanda is seen as
different by other girls because
she doesn't belong to their community. She has a funny name. Moreover,
she hails from a poor family as she always wears one faded dress that never
ironed and doesn't fit her.
*10. What are
Maddie’s thoughts as they go to Boggins Heights?*
Ans. Peggy and Maddie
decided to go to Boggins Heights to find Wanda. They felt sorry to know that they were misbehaving with an innocent girl
and were teasing her for her poverty. They wanted to tell her about her
victory in the contest and praised her beautiful dresses.
Essay Type Q-Ans.
*1. Give a brief
character sketch of Wanda Petronski.*
Ans. Ans. Wanda Petronski is a Polish girl who has
shifted to America from Poland with her parents. She is very poor and lives up
in Boggins Heights. She is very shy and quiet. She does not talk to anyone. She
has no friends and sits in the last row of the class with some naughty boys so
that nobody notices her. She wears the same faded blue dress every day which is
not ironed but clean.
Everybody
teases her in class. In anger, she claims of having a hundred dresses and sixty
pairs of shoes at home. She is very determined and shows her determination in
the drawing competition by displaying the hundred sketches of dresses. Each of
them was so beautiful, that she wins the competition.
*2. Give a brief
character sketch of Peggy.*
Ans. Ans. Peggy was a rich, pretty American girl. She was
intelligent, good at studies and scored good marks. Peggy was the most popular
girl in school. She was pretty and she had many pretty clothes. She was very sentimental. She couldn't bear
an animal to be hurt and protected small children from bullies. She loved fun
and enjoyed teasing Wanda because of her faded blue dress. She kept asking her
mockingly how many dresses she had. In
last Peggy tried to state that she didn't know that Wanda would understand that
she was making fun of her. She is not a bad girl, she is a kind hearted girl.
*3. Give a brief
character sketch of Maddie.*
Ans. Maddie was Peggy’s best friend. She belonged to a
poor family. She used to wear the clothes given by others. Her parents were not
rich. She was a kind hearted. That is why she never said anything when Peggy
made fun of Wanda. She never laughed at Wanda when Peggy made fun of Wanda
about the hundred dresses. She wished that Peggy would stop teasing Wanda
Petronski. Maddie decided to write a not for Peggy asking her to stop making
fun of Wanda. But she could not courage to give that note to Peggy. She did not
want to lose Peggy’s friendship. So she tore the note. In last she went to
Wanda’s house with Peggy to feel sorry for her behaviour.