Answer - 11 : - Wanda Petronski was a Polish girl who has settled with her parents in America. She lived in Boggins Heights where there were no proper roads. She came to school from a far-off place and wore the same faded blue dress every day and her feet were always covered with mud. Her classmates often made fun of her name as it was difficult to pronounce and different from other American names. Her appearance was also not proper so all her classmates made fun of her and teased her after the school hours. On being repeatedly teased for her attire, this broke the limits of her endurance and she claimed to have had a hundred dresses and sixty pairs of shoes in her closet.

Question - 12 : - How does Wanda feel about the dresses game? Why does she say that she has a hundred dresses?

Answer - 12 : - Wanda was a shy and quiet girl who used to feel embarrassed for her appearance, but always remained silent in the class. She never talked to anyone and sat at the corner of the room with rough boys so that nobody would notice her. She was always snickered by other girls but never complained about it. To avoid their constant taunts and humiliation, Wanda claimed that she had a hundred dresses and sixty pairs of shoes in her closet. Later on, she drew sketches of all of the hundred dresses on paper for the drawing competition and won the first prize among girls for her talent.

Question - 13 : - Why does Maddie stand by and not do anything? How is she different from Peggy?

Answer - 13 : - (Was Peggy’s friendship important to Maddie? Why? Which lines in the text tell you this?)

Answer

Peggy was the most popular girl in the class and she was Maddie’s best friend. Although Maddie was poor, Peggy never teased her as she did with Wanda because Maddie believed that Wanda was being taunted for her claim of having a hundred dresses. Maddie was afraid of losing Peggy’s friendship, hence she always supported her. She did not dare annoy Peggy and always preferred to remain silent while the latter teased Wanda. The line, “Peggy was the best-liked girl in the whole room. Peggy could not possibly do anything that was really wrong” illustrates that Maddie always stood by Peggy.

Question - 14 : - What does Miss Mason think of Wanda’s drawings? What do the children think of them? How do you know?

Answer - 14 : - Miss Mason was very impressed with Wanda’s drawings. She felt that each dress was drawn beautifully and was worthy to win the contest individually. The children were also impressed by Wanda’s drawing skills as they all applauded her and the boys who didn’t understand much about dresses also whistled in appreciation when she won the drawing contest among the girls.

Question - 15 : - Look at these sentences

Answer - 15 : -

(a) She sat in the corner of the room where the rough boys who did not make good marks sat, the corner of the room where there was most scuffling of feet, …

(b) The time when they thought about Wanda was outside of school hours …

These italicised clauses help us to identify a set of boys, a place, and a time. They are answers to the questions ‘What kind of rough boys?’ ‘Which corner did she sit in?’ and ‘What particular time outside of school hours?’ They are ‘defining’ or ‘restrictive’ relative clauses. (Compare them with the ‘nondefining’

relative clauses discussed in Unit 1.)

Combine the following to make sentences like those above.

1. This is the bus (what kind of bus?). It goes to Agra. (use which or that)

2. I would like to buy (a) shirt (which shirt?). (The) shirt is in the shop window. (use which or that)

3. You must break your fast at a particular time (when?). You see the moon in the sky. (use when)

4. Find a word (what kind of word?). It begins with the letter Z. (use which or that)

5. Now find a person (what kind of person). His or her name begins with the letter Z. (use whose)

6. Then go to a place (what place?). There are no people whose name begins with Z in that place. (use where)

Answer:

1. This is the bus that goes to Agra.

2. I would like to buy a shirt that is in the shop window.

3. You must break your fast at a particular time when you see the moon in the sky.

4. Find a word that begins with letter Z.

5. Now find a person whose name begins with letter Z.

6. Then go to a place where there are no people whose name begins with letter Z.

Question - 16 : - The Narrative Voice This story is in the ‘third person’ that is, the narrator is not a participant in the story.

Answer - 16 : -

But the narrator often seems to tell the story from the point of view of one of the characters in the story. For example, look at the italicized words in this sentence

Thank goodness, she did not live up on Boggins Heights or have a funny name.

Whose thoughts do the words ‘Thank goodness’ express? Maddie’s, who is grateful that although she is poor, she is yet not as poor as Wanda, or as ‘different’. (So she does not get teased; she is thankful about that.)

1. Here are two other sentences from the story. Can you say whose point of view the italicised words express?

(i) But on Wednesday, Peggy and Maddie, who sat down front with other children who got good marks and who didn’t track in a whole lot of mud, did notice that Wanda wasn’t there.

(ii) Wanda Petronski. Most of the children in Room Thirteen didn’t have names like that. They had names easy to say, like Thomas, Smith or Allen.

2. Can you find other such sentences in the story? You can do this after you read the second part of the story as well.

Answer:

1. (i) The italicised words in the given sentence express the point of view of Peggy and Maddie.

(ii) The italicised words in the given sentence express the point of view of the narrator about the names of other children in Wanda’s class.

2. Activity to be done by yourself.

Question - 17 : - Look at this sentence. The italicised adverb expresses an opinion or point of view.

Answer - 17 : -

Obviously, the only dress Wanda had was the blue oneshe wore every day. (This was obvious to the speaker.)

Other such adverbsare apparently, evidently, surprisingly, possibly, hopefully,incredibly, luckily. Use these words appropriately in the blanks in thesentences below. (You may use a word more than once, and more than one word maybe appropriate for a given blank.)

1._________________________________________________, he finished his work ontime.

2.__________________________________________, it will not rain on the day of thematch.

3._____________________________________, he had been stealing money from hisemployer.

4. Television is____________________________to blame for the increase in violence in society.

5. The children will________________________________________learn from their mistakes.

6. I can’t_____________________________________________ lend you that much money.

7. The thief had________________________________been watching the house for many days.

8. The thief __________________________________________escaped by bribing the jailor.

9._____________________________________________, no one had suggested thisbefore.

10. The water was_______________________________________________________ hot.

Answer:

1. Surprisingly,he finished his work on time.

2. Hopefully,it will not rain on the day of the match.

3. Possibly,he had been stealing money from his employer.

4. Television is evidently toblame for the increase in violence in society.

5. The children will hopefully learnfrom their mistakes.

6. I can’t possibly lendyou that much money.

7. The thief had apparently beenwatching the house for many days.

8. The thief luckily escapedby bribing the jailor.

9. Surprisingly,no one had suggested this before.

10. The waterwas incredibly hot.

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