1. The document is a weekly English assessment for Class 9 students containing questions about short stories, poems, and vocabulary words. It includes 20 one-word questions and 10 short-answer questions.
2. The one-word questions are about details from the short story "The Adventures of Toto" including the new pet, where the author's grandfather lived, who he bought Toto from, and more.
3. The short-answer questions require students to provide more context, such as how Toto was taken to Saharanpur, what the wind's effects are, rhyming words and rhyme scheme in the provided poem stanza, and definitions of words like "fancies".
1. The document is a weekly English assessment for Class 9 students containing questions about short stories, poems, and vocabulary words. It includes 20 one-word questions and 10 short-answer questions.
2. The one-word questions are about details from the short story "The Adventures of Toto" including the new pet, where the author's grandfather lived, who he bought Toto from, and more.
3. The short-answer questions require students to provide more context, such as how Toto was taken to Saharanpur, what the wind's effects are, rhyming words and rhyme scheme in the provided poem stanza, and definitions of words like "fancies".
1. The document is a weekly English assessment for Class 9 students containing questions about short stories, poems, and vocabulary words. It includes 20 one-word questions and 10 short-answer questions.
2. The one-word questions are about details from the short story "The Adventures of Toto" including the new pet, where the author's grandfather lived, who he bought Toto from, and more.
3. The short-answer questions require students to provide more context, such as how Toto was taken to Saharanpur, what the wind's effects are, rhyming words and rhyme scheme in the provided poem stanza, and definitions of words like "fancies".
1. The document is a weekly English assessment for Class 9 students containing questions about short stories, poems, and vocabulary words. It includes 20 one-word questions and 10 short-answer questions.
2. The one-word questions are about details from the short story "The Adventures of Toto" including the new pet, where the author's grandfather lived, who he bought Toto from, and more.
3. The short-answer questions require students to provide more context, such as how Toto was taken to Saharanpur, what the wind's effects are, rhyming words and rhyme scheme in the provided poem stanza, and definitions of words like "fancies".
ENGLISH Weekly Assessment Date: 18-07-2020 Marks : 40 CLASS: IX
I. Answer in one word: 20×1=20
1. What was the new pet brought to grandfather’s zoo? 2. What was ' a great treat for Toto’ during winter ? 3. Who is the author of the lesson “The Adventures Of Toto”? 4. Why did grandfather go to Saharanpur? 5. Where did the writer’s grandfather live? 6. From whom did grandfather bought Toto? 7. How much did grandfather spend to buy Toto? 8. How does the wind affect the weak fire? 9. What do you mean by the word “flourish”? 10. Whom does the poet request in the poem? 11. Who has written the poem “Wind”? 12. What did the poet request the wind? 13. What do you mean by the word “stead fast”? 14. What does the wind scatter in the poem? 15. What was the poet listening during the rain? 16. What do you mean by the word “shingles”? 17. Whose memory does comes in his mind during the rain? 18. “And the melancholy darkness Gently weeps in the rain”. What is the poetic device used in this line? 19. “By the patter of the rain” What is the figure of speech used in this line? 20. What do you mean by the word “echo”?
I. Answer in one line : 10×2=20
1. How was Toto taken to Saharanpur?
2. What did grandfather try to convince the ticket collector about? 3. How does the author describe Toto's hand? 4. How did Toto trouble Nana? 5. Write any two destructive activities of the wind. 6. How can we make friends with wind? 7. What is the effect of the wind on strong fire? 8. Every tinkle on the shingles Has an echo in the heart ; And a thousand dreamy fancies Into busy being start, And a thousand recollections Weave their air-threads into woof, As I listen to the patter Of the rain upon the roof. (a) Pick out the rhyming words from the above stanza. (b) Mention the rhyme scheme of given stanza. (c) What do you mean by the word “fancies”?