Important Questions for Class 10 English The Thief’s Story Chapter 2 (Footprints Without Feet)
Question 1:
Read the given extracts and answer the quesions:
He took me to his room over the Jumna Sweet Shop and told me I could sleep on the balcony. But the meal I cooked that night must have been terrible because Anil gave it to a stray dog and told me to be off. But I just hung around, smiling in my most appealing way, and he couldn’t help laughing.
Later, he patted me on the head and said never mind, he’d teach me to cook. He also taught me to write my name and said he would soon teach me to write whole sentences and to add numbers. I was grateful. I knew that once I could write like an educated man there would be no limit to what I could achieve.
(i) State any one inference that can be drawn about Anil from the given context:
“But the meal I cooked that night must have been terrible because Anil gave it to a stray dog and told me to be off”.
(ii) State TRUE or FALSE.
Hari Singh was eager to learn how to cook from Anil.
(iii) “I knew that once I could write like an educated man there would be no limit to what I could achieve.”
What does Hari mean by this statement? Elaborate in about 40 words.
(iv) Which of the following words mean the same as ‘appealing’ in the line below?
“But I just hung around, smiling in my most appealing way, and he couldn’t help laughing”.
(a) irritated
(b) furious
(c) attractive
(d) happy
