FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH - KSEEB - CLASS 06 - COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - THE TOUCH

 

Unit -10

THE TOUCH

Come, let us talk about this story:

1) Each of the following statements has four alternatives. Choose the right answer and write it. Work with your partner to do this.

a) A good way for parents to receive their children returning from school is

i) to ask about their score in Maths.

ii) to ignore them simply.

iii) to embrace them lovingly and speak to them lovingly.

iv) to ask about their report card

Ans: to embrace them lovingly and speak to them lovingly.

 

b) What had happened when the narrator visited her father on an earlier occasion?

i) she had seen him quarreling with people.

ii) he had been sleeping.

iii) he had been too weak to talk.

iv) she had noticed bugs on his cot.

Ans: she had noticed bugs on his cot.

 

c) The narrator hesitated even to touch her father because

i) that’s how she had been raised.

ii) he was suffering from illness.

iii) she hated her father.

iv) her husband had told her to keep distance.

Ans: that’s how she had been raised.

 

2. Read the extract and answer the following questions.

a) “Who is it?” he asked as he turned on his side.

i) Who asked this question?

Ans: The narrator’s father asked this question.

 

ii) When did this person ask this?

Ans: “Are you asleep?”the narrator enquired him at that that person asked that.

 

iii) What was the reply?

Ans: The reply was “I”.

 

b) “Sit properly ‘amma’, you’ll fall off”

i) Who is ‘amma’ here?

Ans: “Amma” is the narrator here.

 

ii) Who said this?

Ans: This was said by the narrator’s father.

 

iii) Where were they at that time?

Ans: They were in rickshaw at that time.

 

c) “It would be so nice if you moved into this town”

i) Why did father say this?

Ans: The father said this because the narrator was living in a faraway town and the father was also alone.

 

ii) How did the narrator react to this?

Ans: The narrator looked at him helplessly.

 

iii) What did father do then?

Ans: Father did not speak again and he stroked the narrator’s hand silently.

 

3) Say whether the following statements are true or false. Rewrite the false statements correctly.

a) The young woman in this story is the main character – False

Ans: The old narrator’s father in this story is the main character.

 

b)This time the father shows his affection for his daughter.

Ans: True

 

c) The daughter thinks it would be a good idea to ask her mother to clip father’s nails – False

Ans: Asking mother to do it would be as useless as the mortar weeping on the shoulder of the drum.

 

d) The young woman becomes emotional thinking of her widowed sister-in-law – False

Ans: The narrator felt elated and did the job carefully.  He could not ask my sister-in-law, but perhaps he wanted me to do something for him.

 

e) The author decides to take her father to her house – False.

Ans: The author looked at him helplessly. A look he could not see. She could not reassure him with words either.

 

4)  Answer in one word or a sentence each.

a) Why had the narrator come to that town?

Ans: The narrator’s mother-in-law was not feeling well and to spend some time with her, the narrator had come to that town.

 

b) What was the caution she had received from her husband before going to visit her father?

Ans: She had received the caution from her husband before going to visit her father was that she should not sit on her father’s bed but pull up a chair and sit.

 

c) Was the narrator’s mother alive?

Ans: Yes, the narrator’s mother was alive.

 

d) What did father say to her finally?

Ans: The father said to her, “It would be so nice if you moved into this town. I could stay with you.”

 

e) Why had the narrator hesitated to face her father?

Ans: The narrator could not reassure him that she would move into the same town. So, the narrator had hesitated to face her father.

 

5) Answer the following in two or three sentences each.

a) What was the narrator’s childhood like?

Ans: The narrator had kept distance from her father for a long time in the name of discipline. Her father was orthodox and she never dared touch him. She thought ritual purity should be maintained by keeping distance from him.

 

b) Why did the narrator feel, in her childhood, that her father kept her at a distance?

Ans: The narrator felt, in her childhood, that her father kept her at a distance because her father in the name of discipline and orthodox way of life he kept distance from her.

 

c) The “mortar” and the “drum” in the proverb refer to two people. Who are they?

Ans: They are the narrator’s father and the mother.

 

d) Why did her father ask her to clip his nails?

Ans: Father asked her to clip his nails because asking her mother to do it would be useless.

 

e) How did the narrator feel while returning from her father’s house?

Ans:  She welled tears in her eyes and blurred her view of the road and her father’s tender touch haunted her while returning from her father’s house.

 

Words in use:

6)  Fill in the blanks with suitable words given in the bracket.

{noticed, longed, hesitated, groped, moved, enjoyed}

a) The soldier at the border longed to meet his family.

b) The old woman groped in the air to find the door.

c) The climax of the play moved our heart.

d) A watchman noticed the thieves and blew his whistle.

e) Venkatarama hesitated to ask my permission to go home.

 

7)  Make the opposites for the following, by adding suitable prefixes given in bracket.

 (ir, in, un, mis, dis, im)

a) known × unknown                        b) discipline × indiscipline

c) responsible × irresponsible             d) continue × discontinue

e) proper × improper                          f) understand × misunderstand

 

8)  Complete the following sentences on your own, using the words given in bracket.

a) My grandmother was an orthodox woman {orthodox}

b) The firefighters extinguished the fire in the mall {extinguished}

c) A bulldozer crushed down a building {crush}

d) The doctor was helpless when the patient asked for explanation {helpless}

e) Suguna, “Chatting is not good while studying” {chatting}

 

Grammar

Active and passive voice.

While changing active into passive:

i) The object of the verb in active voice becomes [new] subject in passive.

ii) ‘by’ is placed before the [new] object.

iii) The past participle form of the verb is used.

 

Change the voice in the following sentences.

a) People don’t respect corrupt politicians.
Ans: Corrupt politicians are not respected by the people.

 

b) The students are planting the trees.
Ans: The trees are being planted by the students.

 

c) They help the orphans.
Ans: The orphans are helped by them.

 

d) Anitha presented a golden watch to me.
Ans: A golden watch was presented to me by Anitha.

 

e) He had broken the chair.
Ans: The chair had been broken by him.

 

f) A man called Lippershy had invented the telescope in 1608.
Ans: The telescope had been invented in 1608 by a man called Lippershey.

 

g) A telescope makes distant objects appear to be near.
Ans: Distant objects are made to appear near by a telescope.