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Beehive (Prose), Class-9th, Very Short Type Q-Ans.

 

Updated on 17/08/2024

 

9th Very Short Type Question-Answer  

 

1. The Fun They Had (Issac Asimov)

1. Who is the writer of the lesson ‘The Fun They Had’?  

Answer Ans. Issac Asimov   

2. The Fun They Had’ is a story related to …   

Answer Ans. 22nd century   

3. Who found a real book?   

Answer Ans. Tommy 

4. Where did Tommy find the real book?   

Answer Ans. Attic in his house   

5. How old was Tommy?

Answer Ans. Thirteen years

6. How old was Margie?   

Answer Ans. Eleven years old 

7. Who was Mrs. Jones?  

Answer Ans. Margie’s mother

8. What did Margie hate?   

Answer Ans. Her school

9. Where was Margie’s school room?

Answer Ans. Next to her bedroom

10. How many books do their television screens have? 

Answer Ans. It had millions of books

11. When had Margie learnt to write here answers in a punch code?

Answer Ans. When she was six years old

 

2. The Sound of Music

Part –I   Evelyen Glennie (Deborah Cowley)

1. The Royal Academy of Music is situated at :

Answer Ans. London 

2. How old was Evelyn when she went to the Royal Academy of Music?

Answer Ans. Seventeen years

3. When was her deafness first noticed?

Answer Ans. When she was eight years old

4. Which country did Evelyn tour with youth orchestra when she was sixteen? 

Answer Ans. The United Kingdom 

5. Which languages did she manage to learn?

Answer Ans. French & basic Japanese

6. What instrument was Evelyn learning to play at her school?

Answer Ans. Piano

7. Who was Isabel Glennie?

Answer Ans. Evelyn’s mother

8. Where does Evelyn give free concerts?

Answer Ans. In prisons and hospitals


Part-II   The Shehnai of Bismillah Khan (Bismillah Khan)

1. Who banned the playing of the pungi in the royal residence?

Ans.  Emperor Aurangzeb

 2. Which instrument is associated with Bismillah Khan?

Ans. Shehnai

 3. Bismillah Khan belongs to a well-known family of musicians from:

Ans. Bihar

 4. Which highest civilian award in India was earned by Bismillah Khan?

Ans. Bharat Ratna

 5. When was he awarded the Bharat Ratna?

Ans. In 2001

 6. Where did Bismillah Khan learn to play the Shehnai?

Ans. In Benaras

 7. Who was Ali Bux?

Ans. His maternal uncle

 8. When did Bismillah Khan accompany his uncle to the Allahabad music conference?

Ans. At the age of 15

 9. Who was the first Indian to greet the nation with his Shehnai on 15 August 1947?

Ans. Bismillah Khan

 10. Where did Bismillah Khan play the Shehnai on 15th August 1947?

Ans. The Red Fort

 11. Where was Bismillah Khan’s first trip to abroad?

Ans. Afghanistan

 12. Which film is named after Bismillah Khan’s instrument?

Ans. Gunj Uthi Shehnai

 13. Where is an auditorium named after Bismillah Khan?

Ans. In Tehran

 

 

3. The Little Girl (Katherine Mansfield)

1. What was the name of the ‘little girl’ in the story?

Ans. Kezia

2. Who was Kezia?

Ans. A little girl

3. Who is the writer of this story?

Ans. Katherine Mansfield

4. To the little girl who was a figure to be feared and avoided?

Ans. Her father

5. How did Kezia feel when her father left for the office?

Ans. A sense of relief

6. What does Kezia’s father compare her to?

Ans. An owl

7. How many members were there in Kezia’s family?

Ans. Four

8. Who was the cook in Kezia’s house?

Ans. Alice

9. What did Kezia discover on the bed-table?

Ans. Many sheets of fine paper

10. What did Kezia’s grandmother suggest Kezia to give a surprise gift to her father on his birthday?

Ans. Pin-cushion

11. Who was Kezia’s neighbor?

Ans. Mr. Macdonald

12. How many children did Macdonald have?

Ans. Five

13. Why was Kezia’s father going to beat her?

Ans. Because she had torn his important papers into pieces

14. Who was Alice?

Ans. The cook in Kezia’s house

15. Where did Kezia’s grandmother and mother went one day?

Ans. To hospital

 

 

4. A Truly Beautiful Mind

1. Who is ‘A Truly Beautiful Mind’ referred to in this lesson?

Ans. Albert Einstein

2. In Which city was Albert Einstein born –

Ans. A German City of Ulm

3. When was Albert Einstein born?

Ans. On 14 March 1879

4. What did Einstein love to play?

Ans. To play with mechanical toys

5. How did he utter everything when he finally learnt to speak?

Ans. He uttered everything twice

6. What did other children and his classmates call him?

Ans. Brother boring

7. When did he pass his graduation?

Ans. At the age of 21

8. What did Einstein do after his graduation?

Ans. He worked as a teaching assistant and gave private lessons

9. In which subject was Einstein highly gifted and interested?

Ans. He was highly gifted in Mathematics and interested in Physics

10. What formula did he invent?

Ans. E=mc2

11. When was he awarded the Nobel Prize?

Ans. For Physics in 1921

12. How did the newspaper proclaim his work?

Ans. As ‘a scientific revolution’

13. When was the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Ans. On 6th and 9th August 1945

14. When did Einstein pass away?

Ans. In 1955

 

5. The Snake and the Mirror (Vaikom Muhammad Basheer)

1. Who is the writer of ‘The Snake and the Mirror’?

Ans. Vaikom Muhammad Basheer

2. What were he and his friends discussing?

Ans. They were discussing about snakes

3. Who narrated this story?

Ans. A homeopathic doctor

4. Was the doctor’s house electrified?

Ans. No

5. Who shared the room with the narrator?

Ans. The rats

6. Why could the narrator not sleep?

Ans. Because of heat

7. Which book did the narrator begin to read?

Ans. Materia Media

8. What was the narrator’s first decision?

Ans. To shave daily

9. Why did the narrator decide to grow a thin moustache?

Ans. To look attractive and handsome

10. Who entered the narrator’s room in his absence?

Ans. A thief

11. The thief had taken everything except one thing. What was it?

Ans. The dirty vest

 

 

6. My Childhood (A.P.J. Adbul Kalam)

1. Who is the writer of this chapter?

Ans. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

2. Where was Abdul Kalam born?

Ans. In the town of Rameshwaram

3. What was the name of Abdul Kalam’s father?

Ans. Jainulabdeen

4. How many brothers and sisters did Abdul Kalam have?

Ans. Three brothers and one sister

5. What characteristics did he inherit from his parents?

Ans. Honesty, self-discipline and deep kindness

6. How old was Abdul Kalam when the Second World War broke out?

Ans. Eight years old

7. How did Abdul Kalam earn his first wages?

Ans. By selling tamarind seeds

8. Who were three friends of Abdul Kalam?

Ans. Ramanadha Sastry, Arvindan and Shivapraksan

9. In which class did Abdul Kalam study when a new teacher came?

Ans. In the fifth standard

10. Who rebuked the new teacher?

Ans. Sastry’s father

11. Who invited Abdul Kalam to his home for a meal?

Ans. His science teacher Sivasubramania Iyer

12. What was the name of the newspaper?

Ans. Dinamani

 

 

7. Packing (Jerome K. Jerome)

1. Who is the writer of the chapter of ‘Packing’?

Ans. Jerome K. Jerome

2. Who considered himself as the best packer?

Ans. Jerome

3. How many characters are there in the narrative?

Ans. Four

4. Who was Montmorency?

Ans. The pet dog

5. Who started packing first of all?

Ans. The narrator (Jerome)

6. Where did he find his toothbrush?

Ans. In boot

7. Who asked the narrator if he had packed the soap?

Ans. George

8. Who were not satisfied with the packing done by the narrator?

Ans. George and Harris

9. Who trod on the butter?

Ans. George

10. What was the name of the dog?

Ans. Montmorency

11. What is it that haunts the author?

Ans. His toothbrush

12. What did they pack at the bottom?

Ans. The pies

13. When was the bag finally packed?

Ans. At 10.05 p.m.

14. When did they finally decide to get up the next morning?

Ans. At 6.30 a.m.

 

 

8. Reach for the Top

1. Who is the writer of the chapter ‘Reach for the Top’?

Ans. Anonymous

2. The woman who had scaled Mt Everest twice?

Ans. Santosh Yadav

3. How many brothers did Santosh have?

Ans. Five brothers

4. Where was Santosh born?

Ans. Joniyawas village of Rewari District in Haryana

5. What did Santosh Yadav prefer to wear?

Ans. Jeans & Shorts

6. Why did she leave home?

Ans. To get education in Delhi

7. Why did Santosh Yadav deny to marry?

Ans. To get proper education

8. Where did she take admission after high school education?

Ans. Jaipur

9. Where did she enroll herself for mountaineering training?

Ans. Nehru Institute

10. When did Santosh Yadav scale Mt. Everest for the first time?

Ans. In 1992

11. To which sport is Maria Sharapova attached with?

Ans. Lawn tennis

12. To which country Maria Sharapova belong?

Ans. To Siberia (Russia)

13. Who was Maria Sharapova during her trip to Florida?

Ans. Her father

14. When did Maria Sharapova win the Wimbledon’s women singles final?

Ans. In 2004

15. When did she win the world’s number one position?

Ans. On 22 August, 2005

16. How many years did Maria take to reach the top?

Ans. Four years

17. At what age was she sent to the United States?

Ans. At the age of 10 years

18. What is the name of her father?

Ans. Yuri

19. How long did she stay in the U.S.A.?

Ans. For two years

 

 

9. The Bond of Love (Kenneth Anderson)

1. Who is the writer of this chapter?

Ans. Kenneth Anderson

2. Who was Bruno?

Ans. The author’s wife pet bear

3. Where did the author find the bear?

Ans. Near Mysore

4. What was riding on the mother’s back?

Ans. A bear cub

5. How did Bruno take to drink milk?

Ans. From a bottle

6. What did Bruno start to eat?

Ans. Vegetable, fruits and nuts

7. What meat did he especially like?

Ans. Pork

8. Did Bruno take alcoholic drinks also?

Ans. Yes

9. Whom had Bruno equaled in size?

Ans. The Alsatians

10. Whom did Bruno love above all?

Ans. To the author’s wife

11. What was Bruno’s ‘gun’?

Ans. A stick

12. Who ate poison?

Ans. Bruno

13. Why had Bruno to be kept chained?

Ans. Because of the tenant’s children

14. What new was given to Bruno by the author’s wife?

Ans. Baba

15. Where did they decide to send ‘Baba”?

Ans. In the zoo

16. What was put on the island for Baba to sleep in at night?

Ans. A wooden box

 

 

10. Kathmandu (Vikram Seth)

1. Who is the writer of ‘Kathmandu’?

Ans. Vikram Seth

2. Name the temples the author visited in Kathmandu.

Ans. Pashupatinath temple and Baudhnath Stupa

3. Who were along with the author?

Ans. Mr. Shah’s son and nephew

4. Who are allowed to enter in Pashupatinath temple?

Ans. Hindus

5. Who can be seen roaming outside the Pashupatinath temple?

Ans. Priests, hawkers, devotees, tourists, cows, monkeys and dogs

6. How is the atmosphere around the Pashupatinath temple?

Ans. Full of confusion

7. How is the atmosphere around the Baudhnath Stupa?

Ans. Full  of stillness

8. Which river flows through Kathmandu?

Ans. Baghmati

9. How does the author return to Delhi?

Ans. By Nepal Airlines

10. How were the Westerners dressed?

Ans. In saffron

11. Where was the flute seller standing?

Ans. In the corner of the square

 

 

11. If I Were You (Douglas James)

1. Who is the author of the lesson ‘If I Were You’?

Ans. Douglas James

2. Who entered in Gerrard’s cottage?

Ans. An intruder

3. Who was the intruder?

Ans. An criminal

4. What has he in his hand?

Ans. Revolver

5. What was he wearing?

Ans. An overcoat and a soft hat

6. How old is the author now?

Ans. Thirty two years

7. What is Gerrard’s profession?

Ans. A playwright

8. According to Gerrard who comes to visit him?

Ans. The milkman and the baker

9. Where did Gerrard live?

Ans. In his Essex cottage

10. Who had stolen Gerrard in his childhood?

Ans. Gypsies

11. Why does the intruder want to kill him?

Ans. To pass himself as Vincent Charles Gerrard

12. How does Gerrard save himself from the intruder?

Ans. By imprisoning him in the cupboard