Once Upon a Time

TS 10th Class English 23nd Lesson Questions and Answers What is my Name?

Section - B : Vocabulary & Grammar (Q.13 - 17):

Question(A).
Read the following passage given below. Five sentences in the passage are numbered from 13 to 17 at the beginning. Each of these sentences has an error. Correct them and rewrite the sentences in your answer booklet?

1. Everyday, I walk an-half-mile from my home to the tramcar lines in the morning and from the lines to my home in the evening
2. The walk was pleasant
3. The road on either sides is flanked by red and green-roofed bungalows, green lawns and gardens
4. The exercise is good to me, and now and then
5. I learn something by a little incident

Answer:

1. Everyday, I walk a half-mile from my home to the tram-car lines in the morning and from the lines to my home in the evening
2. The walk is pleasant
3. The road on either side is flanked by red and green roofed bungalows, green lawns and gardens
4. The exercise is good for me, and now and then
5. I learn something from a tittle incident

Question(B).
Read the following passage given below. Five sentences in the passage are numbered from 13 to 17 at the beginning. Each of these sentences has an error. Correct them and rewrite the sentences in your answer booklet?

1. For a whole day I puzzled for his problem
2. For a whole day my faith in my people was shaken. When I passed by that afternoon the little boys were not there
3. That evening I thought deep on the subject. The next morning the boys were there again; and a man was standing at the gate watching them
4. I stooped and looked, just to seeing what the white boy was making his little servant do
5. To my utter astonishment the little dark boy was striding imperiously up but down the lawn, while the white youngster walked adjectly behind him

Answer:

1. For a whole day I puzzled over this problem
2. For a whole day my faith in my people was shaken
3. That evening I thought deeply on the subject
4. I stopped and looked, Just to see what the white boy was making his little servant do
5. To my utter astonishment the little dark boy was striding imperiously up and down the lawn, while the white youngster walked adjectly behind him

Question©.
Read the following passage given below. Five sentences in the passage are numbered from 13 to 17 at the beginning. Each of these sentences has an error. Correct them and rewrite the sentences in your answer booklet?

1. The man was surprised with my outburst.
2. Fie looked to me smiling
3. I knows all about the game. he said
4. The boys is brothers - my sons
5. Fie pointed to a handsome brown woman on the verandah who had just came out to call in the children. Thats my wife, he said

Answer:

1. The man was surprised at my outburst
2. He looked at me smiling
3. I know all about the game he said
4. The boys are brothers - my sons
5. He pointed to a handsome brown woman on the verandah who had just come out to call in the children. Thats my wife, he said

Question(D).
Read the following passage given below. Five sentences in the passage are numbered from 13 to 17 at the beginning. Each of these sentences has an error. Correct them and rewrite the sentences in your answer booklet?

1. Once upon a time, son, they used to laugh with their hearts and laugh with their eyes
2. but now they only laugh their teeth
3. while their ice-block-cold eyes behind my shadow
4. There was a time indeed they to shake hands with their hearts
5. but thats, son. Now they shake hands without hearts: while their left hands search my empty pockets

Answer:

1. Once upon a time, son, they, used to laugh with their hearts and laugh with their eyes
2. but now they only laugh with their teeth
3. while their ice-block-cold eyes search behind my shadow
4. There was a time indeed they used to shake hands with their hearts
5. but thats gone, son

Question?.
Read the following passage given below. Five sentences in the passage are numbered from 13 to 17 at the beginning. Each of these sentences has an error. Correct them and rewrite the sentences in your answer booklet?

1. Feel at home! again: they say, and when I come
2. again and feel at home, twice
3. there will be no for then I find doors shut on me
4. So I have many things, son. I have learned to wear many faces like dresses - home face, office face, street face, host face
5. cocktail face, with all their smiles like a fixed portrait smile

Answer:

1. Feel at home Come again
2. again and feel at home, once, twice
3. there will be no thrice
4. SoI have learned many things, son
5. cocktail face, with all their conforming smiles

Question(F).
Read the following passage given below. Five sentences in the passage are numbered from 13 to 17 at the beginning. Each of these sentences has an error. Correct them and rewrite the sentences in your answer booklet?

Falling for her beauty and intelligence, as also the dowry which her father offered, a young man tied the three sacred knots around her neck, made her the housewife to a household and said to her, Look ammadu, this is your home. Then the housewife immediately pulled the end of her sari and tucked it in at the waist and swabbed the entire house and decorate the floor with muggulu designs

1. The young man promptly praised hers work. You are dexterous at swabbing the floor - even more dexterous in drawing the muggulu. Sabash, keep it up.
2. He said it in English, giving her a pat on the shoulder with appreciation
3. Overjoyed, the housewife begun living with swabbing as the chief mission in her life
4. She scrublied the house spotlessly clean:at all times but beautifully decorated it with multi-coloured designs
5. Thats how her live went on, with sumptuous and ceaseless supply ofswabbing cloths and muggu baskets

Answer:

1. The young man promptly praised her work
2. He said it in English, giving her a pat on the shoulder in appreciation
3. Overjoyed, the housewife began living with swabbing as the chief mission in her life
4. She scrubbed the house spotlessly clean at all times and beautifully decorated it with multi coloured designs
5. Thats how her life went on, with a sumptuous and ceaseless supply of swabbing cloths and muggu baskets

Question(G).
Read the following passage given below. Five sentences in the passage are numbered from 13 to 17 at the beginning. Each of these sentences has an error. Correct them and rewrite the sentences in your answer booklet?

1. Yes - I havent bring, them here
2. I shall go for my place, search for my certificates and enquire about my name, and return in a couple of days. She asked,for her husbands permission. Very nice ! Must you go just for your name or what
3. If you go, who would scrub, the house these two days? said her lord. Yes, that was true - because she scrubbed better than the others, she had not allowed anyone else to do that job all these days
4. Everyone was busily with his or her own respective duties. He had his,office - poor things, the children had their studies to take care of. Why should they bother about this chore, and she had been doing it all along
5. they just didnt knew how to do it, of course

Answer:

1. Yes - I havent brought them here
2. I shall go to my place, search for my certificates and enquire bout my name, and return in a couple of days
3. If you go, who will scrub the house these two days ? said her lord
4. Everyone was busy with his or her own respective duties
5. they just didnt know how to do it, of course

Question(H).
Read the following passage given below. Five sentences in the passage are numbered from 13 to 17 at the beginning. Each of these sentences has an error. Correct them and rewrite the sentences in your answer booklet?

Sarada ! My dear Sarada ! she shouted and embraced her.
1. The housewife felt like a person - totally parched and dried up, about to die of thirst - getting a drink of cool water from the new earthen kooj poured, into her mouth with a spoon and given thus a new life. The friend did indeed give her a new life - You are Sarada. You came first in our school in the tenth class
2. You came first in the music competition conducted by the college. You used to paint good pictures too. We were ten friends altogether - I meet all of them some time or other
3. We write letters to each other.
4. Only, you have went out of our reach
5. Tell me why you are living incognito ? he friend confronted her

Answer:

1. The housewife felt like a person
2. You came first in the music competition conducted by the college
3. We write letters to each other
4. Only you have gone out of our reach
5. Tell me why are you living incognito ? her friend confronted her

(Q.18 - 22):

Question(A).
Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer booklet?

Answer:at, see, flanked, learn, garden, in, exercise, front gate, walking

The road on either side is
1. by red and green-roofed bungalows, green lawns and gardens. The
2. is good for me, and now and then, I
3. something from a little incident. One morning, about half-way between my
4. and the tram track, I noticed two little boys playing
5. the garden of the more modest cottages

Question(B).
Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer booklet?

Answer:do, was, faithfully, myself, equal

I was amazed. Here before my eyes, a white baby, for they were little more than babies, was
1. imposing his will upon a little black boy. And the little black boy submitted. I puzzled within myself
2. as I went down the road. Could it be that the little dark boy was the son of a servant in the home and therefore had to do
3. the white boys bidding ? No. They were obviously dressed alike; the little dark boy was of equal
4. class with his playmate. No. They were playmates, the little dark boy was a neighbours child. I was sure of that. Then how was it that he obeyed so faithfully
5. ,the white boys orders

Question©.
Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer booklet?

Answer:what, astonishment, were, and, at

The next morning the boys were
1. there again, and a man was standing at
2. the gate watching them. I stopped and looked, just to see what
3. the white boy was making his little servant do. To my utter astonishment
4. the little dark boy was striding imperiously up and
5. down the lawn, while the white youngster walked abjectly behind him

Question(D).
Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer booklet?

Answer:a, dull, with, empty, beside, cold, behind

Once upon a time; son, they used to laugh with
1. their hearts and laugh with their eyes: but now they only laugh with their teeth, while their ice-block-cold
2. eyes search behind
3. my shadow. There was a
4. time indeed They used to shake hands with their hearts: But thats gone, son. Now they shake hands without hearts: while their left hands search my empty
5. pockets

Question?.
Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer booklet?

Answer:have learned, several, say, conforming, against, on many Feel at home! Come again

they say
1. , and when I come again and feel at home, once, twice, there will be no thrice - for then I find doors shut on
2. me. So I have earned
3. many things, son. I have learned to wear many
4. faces like dresses - home face, office face, street face, host face, cocktail face, with all their conforming
5. smiles like a fixed portrait smile

Question(F).
Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer booklet?

Answer:to, her, decorated, which, and

Falling for her
1. beauty and intelligence, as also the dowry which
2. her father offered, a young man tied the three sacred knots around her neck, made her the housewife to a household and said to
3. her, Look, ammadu, this is your home. Then the housewife immediately pulled the end of her sari and
4. tucked it in at the waist and swabbed the entire houseiand decorated
5. the floor with muggulu designs

Question(G).
Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer booklet?

Answer:too, herself, restless, near, is

But one day while scrubbing the floor, the housewife suddenly asked herself
1. , What is
2. my name ?. The query shook her up. Leaving the mopping cloth and the muggu basket there itself, she stood near
3. the window scratching her head, lost in thoughts. What is my name what is my name ? The house across the road carried a name-board, Mrs M Suhasini, M.A., Ph.D., Principal, X College. Yes, she too
4. had a name as her neighbour did.-How could I forget like that ? In my scrubbing zeal I have forgotten my name - what shall I do now ? The housewife was perturbed. Her mind became totally restless
5. Somehow she finished her daubing for the day

Question(H).
Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer booklet?

Answer:expenses, education, took, has, married

What is it amnia, you are our elder daughter. We gave you education
1. up to B.A. and got you married
2. with fifty thousand rupees as dowry. We took
3. care of your two deliveries - each time we alone bore the expenses
4. of the maternity home. You have two children - your husband has
5. a good job - a very nice person, too - your children are well-mannered

(Q.23 - 27): (A) Some words/sentences in the following passage are underlined. Rewrite them as directed in your answer booklet

Everyday, I walk a half-mile from my home to the tramcar lines in the morning and from the lines to my home in the evening. The walk is pleasant. The road on either side is flanked
1. by red and green-roofed bungalows, green lawns and gardens. The exercise is good for me, and now and then, I learn something from a little incident. One morning, about halfway between my front gate and the tram track, I noticed
2. two little boys playing in the garden of the more modest cottages. They were both very little boys, one was four years old perhaps; the other five. The bigger
3. of the two was a sturdy youngster, very dark, with a mat of coarse hair on his head and coal-black eyes. He was definitely a little Jamaican - a strong little Jamaican. The other little fellow was smaller, but also sturdy - he was white, with hazel eyes and light-brown hair
4. . Both were dressed in blue shirts and khaki pants. They wore no shoes and their feet were muddy. They were not conscious of my standing there, watching them; they played on. The game, if it could be called a game, was not elaborate. The little white boy strode proudly
5. up and down, and every now and then shouted imperiously at his bigger playmate. The little brown boy shuffled along quietly behind him and did what he was told

Question 23.
Write the synonym of the word underlined?

Answer: sided; bordered; edged, bound, etc

Question 24.
Name the part of speech of the underlined word?

Answer: verb

Question 25.
Write the antonym of the word underlined?

Answer: smaller

Question 26.
Name two descriptive expresssions from this sentence?

Answer: hazel eyes and light brown hair

Question 27.
Use the right word in the place of the word underlined?

Answer: imperiously

(B) Some words/sen&hces in the following passage are underlined. Rewrite them as directed in your answer booklet

Was it that even as a boy he sensed that in his own country he would be at the white mans beck and call?
1. Could he, at his age, divine
2. a difference between himself and the white boy? And did the little white youngster, so young, such a baby, realize that he would grow to dominate the black man? Was there an indefinable quality in the white man that enabled his baby, smaller and younger than his playmate, to make him his slave? I could find no answer. I could not bring myself to believe such a thing, and yet, with my own eyes I had seen a little dark boy take orders from a little white boy - a little white boy, obviously
3. his social equal, and younger and smaller. Were we, as a race, really inferior? So, inferior that even in our infancy we realised our deficiencies
4. , and accepted a position as the white mans servant? For a whole day I puzzled
5. over this problem. For a whole day my faith in my people was shaken. When I passed by that afternoon the little boys were not there. That evening I thought deeply on the subject

Question 23.
What does the underlined idiom mean ?

Answer: agree with any wish/obey

Question 24.
What is the equivalent word of the underlined one ?

Answer: godly

Question 25.
What is the synonym of the word ?

Answer: evidently/clearly

Question 26.
What is the antonym of the word ?

Answer: adequacy

Question 27.
Replace the word with a suitable one?

Answer: wondered

(C) Some words/sentences in the following passage are underlined. Rewrite them as directed in your answer booklet

I saw it now. It was indeed
1. a game, a game I had played as a child. Each boy took it in turn every alternate day to be the boss, the other the slave
2. It had been great fun to me as a youngster. I smiled as I remembered. I looked at the man standing by the gate. He was a white man. I remembered what I had thought yesterday
3. . "He, no doubt, " I thought to myself, "was wondering if the black race is superior to the white. " I laughed gently to myself. How silly grown-ups are, how clever we are, how wonderfully able we are, to impute
4. deep motives to childish actions! "This man," I said to myself, "will puzzle all day on whether the blacks will eventually
5. rise and rule the world because he thinks he sees a little black boy realizing at a tender age his superiority over the white. I will save him from his puzzle. I will explain it to him. I went across to him."

Question 23.
What is the meaning of the word ?

Answer: really

Question 24.
Write the opposite word for the underlined word?

Answer: master

Question 25.
What is the part of speech of the underlined word ?

Answer: adverb

Question 26.
What is the synonym of the underlined word ?

Answer: represent, cause

Question 27.
What is the antonym of the word ?

Answer: suddenly

(D) Some words/sentences in the following passage are underlined. Rewrite them as directed in your answer booklet

But one day while scrubbing
1. the floor, the housewife suddenly asked herself, What is my name? The query shook her up. Leaving the mapping
2. cloth and the muggu basket there itself, she stood near the window scratching her head, lost in thoughts. What is my name - what is my name? The house across
3. the road carried a name-board, Mrs M Suhasini, M.A., Ph.D., Principal, X College. Yes, she too had a name as her neighbour did - How could I forget
4. like that? In my scrubbing zeal I have forgotten my name - what shall I do now? The housewife was perturbed. Her mind became totally restless. Somehow she finished her daubing for the day. Meanwhile, the maidservant arrived. Hoping at least she would remember, the housewife asked her, Look, ammayi, do you know
5. my name?

Question 23.
Write the synonym of the word underlined?

Answer: cleaning; rubbing; brushing

Question 24.
Use the correct word in the place of the underlined word?

Answer: mopping

Question 25.
Name the part of speech of the word across?

Answer: preposition

Question 26.
Write the antonym of the word underlined?

Answer: remember

Question 27.
Write the tense forms of the verb KNOW?

Answer: know-knew-known

(E) Some words/sentences in the following passage are underlined. Rewrite them as directed in your answer booklet

Sarada! My dear Sarada! she shouted and embraced h£r
1. . The housewife felt like a person - totally parched and dried up, about to die of thirst - getting a drink of cool water from the new earthen kooja poured into her mouth with a spoon and given thus a new life. The friend
2. did indeed give her a new life - You are Sarada. You came first in our school in the tenth class. You came first in the music competition conducted by the college. You used to paint good pictures too. We were ten friends altogether - I meet all of them some time or other. We write letters to each other. Only you have gone out of our reach! Tell me why are you living incognito
3. ? her friend confronted her. Yes, Pramila - what you say is true. Of course Im Sarada - until you said it I could not remembrance
4. it - all the shelves of my mind were taken up with only one thing - how well I can scrub the floors. I remembered nothing else. Had I not met you, I would have gone mad/ said the housewife named Sarada

Question 23.
Name the part of speech of the underlined word?

Answer: pronoun

Question 24.
Write the antonym of the underlined word.?

Answer: enemy/foe

Question 25.
What do you mean by incognito ?

Answer: being away from all known people

Question 26.
Use the right word in the place of the underlined word?

Answer: remember

Question 27.
Is sarada - a house wife, an employee, or one who swabs and scrubs the floor?

Answer: housewife one who swabs and scrubs floor

(F) Some words/sentences in the following passage are underlined. Rewrite them as directed in your answer booklet

You are amma - your name is-amma only - never
1. since, we were birth
2. we have known only this, the letters that come are only in fathers name - because everyone calls him with
3. his name we know his name - you never told us your name - you dont even get letters addressed to your name, the children said plainly
4. . Yes, who will write letters to me ? Father and mother are there but they only make phone calls once in a month or two. Even my sisters are immersed with swabbing their houses. Even if they met me in some marriage or kumkurn ceremony, they chatted away their time talking about new muggulu or new dishes to cook, but no I letters ! The housewife was disappointed and grew more restless - the urge to know her own name somehow or the other grew stronger
5. in her

Question 23.
Replace the underlined word with a correct one?

Answer: ever

Question 24.
Replace the underlined word with a suitable one?

Answer: born

Question 25.
Replace the underlined word with a correct preposition?

Answer: by

Question 26.
Write the synonym of the underlined word?

Answer: bluntly

Question 27.
Write the antonym of the underlined word?

Answer: weaker

(G) Some words/sentences in the following passage are underlined. Rewrite them as directed in your answer booklet

Sarada! My dear Sarada! she shouted and embraced
1. her. The housewife felt like a person - totally parched
2. and dried up, about to die of thirst - getting a drink of cool water from the new earthen kooja poured into her mouth with a spool and given thus a new life.The friend did indeed give her a new life - You are Sarada. You came first in our school in the tenth class. You came first in the music compete
3. conducted by the college. You used to paint good pictures too. We were ten friends altogether - I meet all of them some time or other. We write letters to each other. Only you have gone out of our reach! Tell me why are you living incognito?
4. her friend confronted
5. her

Question 23.
What is the meaning of the word ?

Answer: hugged/ took one closely in arms

Question 24.
Write an equivalent word?

Answer: dried out of heat

Question 25.
Replace the underlined word with an appropriate one?

Answer: competition

Question 26.
What is the synonym of the word underlined ?

Answer: ones identity kept as secret, living in false identity

Question 27.
Write the noun form of the word?

Answer: confrontation

(H) Some words/sentences in the following passage are underlined. Rewrite them as directed in your answer booklet

You have not been here - look at the state of the house - its like a choultry
1. . Oh what a relieve
2. you are here, now it is like a festival for us/ said Saradas husband. Just scrubbing the floor does not make a festival. By the way, from now onwards dont call me yemoi geemoi. My name is Sarada - call me Sarada, understood? Having said that, she went inside, humming joyously
3. . Sarada who had always cared so much for discipline, keeping an eye on every corner, checking if there was dust, making sure
4. things were properly arranged each in its correct and respective
5. order, now sat on the sofa which had not been dusted for the last two days. She sat there showing the children an album of her paintings that she had brought for them

Question 23.
Give the meaning of the word?

Answer: a common place for many tourists

Question 24.
Replace the word with an appropriate one?

Answer: relief

Question 25.
Write the opposite of the word underlined?

Answer: sorrowfully

Question 26.
Write the other form of the word underlined?

Answer: surity

Question 27.
What is the part of speech of the word ?

Answer: adjective