NCERT solutions for Class 10 English - First Flight chapter 5 - The Hundred Dresses–I [Latest edition]

Where does Wanda live? What kind of a place do you think it is?

When and why do Peggy and Maddie notice Wanda’s absence?

What do you think “to have fun with her” means?

In what way was Wanda different from the other children?

Did Wanda have a hundred dresses? Why do you think she said she did?

Why is Maddie embarrassed by the questions Peggy asks Wanda? Is she also like Wanda, or is she different?

How is Wanda seen as different by the other girls? How do they treat her?

How does Wanda feel about the dresses game? Why does she say that she has a hundred dresses?

Why does Maddie stand by and not do anything? How is she different from Peggy? (Was Peggy’s friendship important to Maddie? Why? Which lines in the text tell you this?)

What does Miss Mason think of Wanda’s drawings? What do the children think of them? How do you know?

Combine the following to make sentence like those above. 

This is the bus (what kind of bus?) It goes to Agra. (use which or that)

Combine the following to make sentence like those above.

I would like to buy (a) shirt (which shirt?). (The) shirt is in the shop window. (use which or that)

Combine the following to make sentence like those above.

You must break your fast at a particular time (when?). You see the moon in the sky. (use when)

Combine the following to make sentence like those above.

 Find a word (what kind of word?). It begins with the letter Z. (use which or that).

Combine the following to make sentence like those above.

Now find a person (what kind of person). His or her name begins with the letter Z. (use whose)

Combine the following to make sentence like those above. 

Then go to a place (what place?). There are no people whose name begins with Z in that place. (use where)

Can you say whose point of view the italicised word express?

But on Wednesday, Peggy and Maddie, who sat down front with other children who got good marks and who didn’t track in a whole lot of mud, did notice that Wanda wasn’t there.

Can you say whose point of view the italicised word express?

Wands Petronski. Most of the children in Room Thirteen didn’t have names like that. They had names easy to say, like Thomas, Smith or Allen.

Look at this sentence. The italicised adverb expresses an opinion or point of view.

Obviously, the only dress Wanda had was the blue one she wore every day. (This was obvious to the speaker.)

Other such adverbs are apparently, evidently, surprisingly, possibly, hopefully,incredibly, luckily. Use these words appropriately in the blanks in the sentences below. (You may use a word more then once and more than one word may be appropriate for a given blank.)

1. ____________, he finished his work on time.

2. ____________, it will not rain on the day of the match.

3. _____________, he had been stealing money from his employer.

4. Television is ___________ to blame for the increase in violence in society.

5. The children will _____________ learn from their mistakes.

6. I can’t ________________ lend you that much money.

7. The thief had _____________ been watching the house for many days.

8. The thief ______________ escaped by bribing the jailor.

9. _________________, no one had suggested this before.

10. The water was ________________ hot.