SAMPLE QUESTIONS VILLA FOR SALE CBSE – CLASS – IX – ENGLISH

A. Read the extracts and answer the questions
1) “But the signboard has been hanging on the gate for
over a month now and I am beginning to be afraid that the day I bought it was
when I was the real fool.”
a) Who is the speaker?
b) To whom the words are
spoken?
c) Why does the speaker fear
to be the real fool?
2) “They prefer real article”
a) Who prefer real article?
b) What do you understand b y
the real fool?
c) How much will the speaker
be paid for a real article?
3) “We could do something very original with it”.
a) Name the speaker.
b) What is ‘it’ here?
c) Why does the speaker
require to do original?
4) “I have not been looking over them, you have, and it
bores me.”
a) Who is ‘I’ here?
b) What is ‘them’ here?
c) Explain line in very
brief.
5) “There is my dowry.”
a) Whose dowry is talked
here?
b) Why does the speaker talk
about dowry?
c) What answer did the listener
give?
6) “the choice of a frame is not so easy when you have
such a delightful pastel to place in it.”
a) Name the speaker.
b) What is frame and pastel
here?
c) What is the tone of the
line?
7) “if I did, it would be much less than that.”
a) Write down the number
related to ‘that’.
b) Who is/are the listener/listeners?
c) How much ‘less’ the
speaker stated?
8) “See here now, I tell you I am in a hurry. How much do
they want for this house?”
a) Name the speaker.
b) To whom are these words
spoken?
c) Use one adjective to
define the character of the speaker.
9) “ Well she can stay there. Unless you have to consult
her before you make a sale?”
a) Who is ‘she’ here?
b) What do you understand by
‘there’?
c) What is the irony in the
word ‘sale’?
10)        
“ You think about the
past all the time. We always think about the future.”
a) Who think about the past?
b) Who think about the
future?
c) What attitude of the speaker
is reflected here?
11)        
“ We are learning now. We
are practicing …”
a) What is the context of the
line? (In short)
b) What do you understand by
‘learning’ and ‘practicing’?
c) To whom are the words
spoken?
12)        
“Make it tomorrow and my
architect can come on Thursday.”
a) Who is the speaker?
b) What will the listener make?
c) How did the listener
react?
13)        
“Just a moment, just a
moment, my dear. You say there are two large bed rooms and a small
one………”?
a) Who is the speaker?
b) Why does the speaker
change in thought?
c) Who is ‘dear’ here?
d) What else did Juliette add
with the line?
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