Chapter 5 Hundred Dresses - I

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1. Oral Comprehension Check

1. Where in the classroom dose Wanda sit and why ?

Answer :- Wanda Petronski Sat In the next to he last seat in the last row in room Thirteen, where roug boys usually sat . She was a very poor, shy and quiet girl and did not went to mess with others so she preferred to sit in isolation .

2. Where dose Wanda live ? What kind of a place do you think it is ?

Answer :- Wanda lives upon Boggins Heights where poor people live. Not a developed area and is covered with mud .

3. When and why do Peggy and Maddie notice Wanda's absence ?

Answer :- Wanda don't come to school on Monday and Tuesday but nobody noticed her absence as she did not have friends in the class. When Peggy and Maddie waited for Wanda to make fun of her after the she absent, otherwise nobody bothered her there .

4 what you think "to have fun with her" means ?

Answer :- "To have fun with her" means to laugh at her as is human tendency to make fun of others imperfections which are mostly about the appearance. Here in the story, Wanda is a source of amusement or pleasure because of her name and her hundred dresses.

2. Oral Comprehension Check

1. In what way was Wanda different from the other children ?

Answer :- Wanda petronski was a polish girl whose parents had settled down in America. She was a source of fun because of her last name which made her different from others, because Americans did not have such names and it was difficult to pronounce. She come to school alone and her feet were covered with mud. She preferred to sit alone in the last in the class. She had only one blue dress which was faded but claimed of different from other children.

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

Answer :- Wanda was teased everyday by her classmates after school hours. They used to make fun of her dress and her name. One day tried of having a hundred dress and her name. One day tired of all the teasing and taunting, she claimed of having a hundred dresses and sixty pairs of shoes, but nobody believed her.

She was determined girl and had a great amount of self-confidence. For her number of dresses were not important but the inner talent which had the real value mattered.

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

Answer :- Maddie is embarrassed by the questions Peggy asks Wanda because she is poor and understands the mental condition of Wanda. She also wears dresses handed down by rich family. She has the same mind - set as Wanda and doesn't want anyone to tease Wanda because of her dress or her name.

3. Oral Comprehension Check

1. Why didn't Maddie aks peggie to stop teasing Wanda? What was she afraid of ?

Answer :- Maddie didn't ask Peggy to stop teasing Wanda because Peggy was the most popular girl in the chool. She was a nice girl but when it come to Wanda she behaved differently, otherwise she helped everyone in trouble. Though, she wants Peggy to stop teasing Wanda, she didn't ask her to do so as she was teasing.

2. Who did Maddie think would win the drawing contest ? Why ?

Answer :- Maddie always believed win the drawing contests at she was good in drawing and everybody in the school loved her . She had a good image on her teachers and classmates. No other girl in the class could draw as well as her, so. Peggy definitely had evry good chance of winning the drawing contest according to Maddie.

3. Who won the drawing contest ? What had the winner drawn ?

Answer :- Among the boys, Jack Beagies and among the girls, Wanda petronski won the drawing contest. To show her determination she did not attend the school for two days and drown a hundred sketches of dresses of different colors. Each of them was capable to win the contest individually.

Wanda had drawn all the dresses which she had claimed to have had in the class. Everybody was very impressive with her drawing skill and clapped for her .

Thinking about the Text

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

Answer :- Wanda is a polish girl who has settled in America with her parents. She lived in Boggins Height. She came to school in same faded blue dress everyday with her feet always covered with mud . Her last name is quite funny and difficult to pronounce for her classmates, Her appearance was not perfect to be in a higher class so all the students made fun of her and tested her tolerance she climmed to have had a hundred dresses in her closet .

2. How dose Wanda deel about the dresses game? Why dose she say that she has a hundred dresses ?

Answer :- Wanda feels very embarrassed but remains silent in the class. She doesn't talk to anyone and sits on the back bench with rough boys so that nobody can give attention to her . She is deeply hurt but never complains about it . To avoid their taunts Wanda says that she has a hundred dresses and sixty pairs of matching shoes in her closet. Letter on, she draw all of them on paper for the drawing competition.

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

Answer :- Peggy is most popular girl in class and Madddie is her closest friend. Though, Maddie is poor, Peggy never teases her as she does with Wanda so Maddie is afraid of losing her friendship. That's why she dose not risk to annoy Peggy and prefers to be silent. The line, "Peggy was could not possibly do anything that was really wrong " illustrates this .

4. What dose Miss Mason think of Wanda's drawing ? What do the children think of them ? How do you know ?

Answer :- Miss Mason is very impressed with Wanda's drawing. She consideres them really beautiful and worthy of winning individually. The children are also impressed by the drawing skills of Wanda that they all applaud and whistle when she wins among the girls.

Thinking about the Language

I. Look at these sentences

Combine the following to make sentences like those above.

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

Answer :- This is the bus that goes to Agra.

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

Answer :- I would like to buy a shirt that is in the shop window.

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

Answer :- You must break your fast at a particular time when you see the moon in the sky.

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

Answer :- Find of word that begins with letter Z.

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

Answer :- Now find person whose name begins with letter Z.

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

Answer :- Then go to a place where there are no people whose name begins letter Z.

II. The Narrative Voice

1. Here are tow other sentences from the story. Can you say whose point of view the italicised words express ?

(i) 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 .

Answer :- The italicised word express the point of view of Peggy and Maddie.

(ii) Wanda 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 .

Answer :- These italicised words express the point view of other children of Wanda's class excluding Peggy and Maddie.

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 than once. and more than one word may be appropriate for a given blanks. )