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Chapter 1 The Fun They Had Solutions

Question - 1 : -
How old are Margie and Tommy?

Answer - 1 : -

Margie is eleven and Tommy is thirteen years old.

Question - 2 : -
What did Margie write in her diary?

Answer - 2 : -

Margie wrote in her diary. “Today, 17 May, 2157, Tommy found a real book.”

Question - 3 : -
Had Margie ever seen a book before?

Answer - 3 : -

No, Margie had never seen a book before.

Question - 4 : -
What things about the book did she find strange?

Answer - 4 : -

The book had yellow and wrinkled pages.
The words of the book were still. They did not move as the words move on the computer screen. She found these things strange.

Question - 5 : -
What do you think a telebook is?

Answer - 5 : -

A telebook is displayed on the television screen and the text of a telebook is similar to a book.

Question - 6 : -
Where was Margie’s school? Did she have any classmates?

Answer - 6 : -

Margie’s school was near her own bedroom. She did not have any classmate.

Question - 7 : -
What subjects did Margie and Tommy learn?

Answer - 7 : -

Margie learnt Geography and Mathematics. Tommy learnt History and Mathematics.

Question - 8 : -
“I wouldn’t throw it away.”

  1. Who says these words?
  2. What does ‘it’ refer to?
  3. What is it being compared with by the speaker?

Answer - 8 : -

  1. Margie says these words.
  2. It refers to that real book that Tommy found.
  3. The speaker compares it with a telebook.

Question - 9 : -
“ Sure, they had a teacher, but it wasn’t a regular teacher. It was a man.”

  1. Who does ‘they’ refer to?
  2. What does ‘regular’ mean here?
  3. What is it contrasted with?

Answer - 9 : -

  1. ‘They’ refer to the people of the old times.
  2. Here, regular refers to the mechanical teacher then they had.
  3. It is contrasted with a normal teacher of earlier times, who was a living human being.

Question - 10 : -
What kind of teachers did Margie and Tommy have?

Answer - 10 : -

Margie and Tommy had mechanical teachers. They were taught on computers and television screens. They didn’t have a living person as a teacher who would teach the pupils in a classroom.

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