A Hundred Dresses I : ncert solution Class 10

                                   

Oral Comprehension check: Page – 65

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

Answer: Wanda usually sits in Room Thirteen in the seat next to the last one in the last row. This place in the class is known for the rough boys who do not perform well in the examinations.

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

Answer: Wanda lives at Boggins Heights. I think this place is not well-developed. It seems the place is rain-wet and muddy also.

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

Answer: One day when Peggy and Maddie came to school earlier, they did not trace a lot of mud and so, they notice Wanda’s absence.

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

Answer: “To have fun with her” indicates Peggy and Maddie's treatment with Wanda. Willingly or unwillingly they used to make fun of Wanda Petronski.

Oral Comprehension Check: Page – 67

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

Answer: Wanda was different from other children in the following ways.

(i)Her name was unfamiliar to the other children.

(ii)She wears the same dress every day.

(iii)She speaks very little to her classmates.

(iv) She was a poor girl which was known to all her classmates.

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

Ans: Wanda did not have a hundred dresses. She said she did just to respond to their ridiculous questions.

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 also a poor girl but her condition was a little better than that of Wanda. As Peggy is one of the most-liked girls in the class, she does not expect her to do so. She is not like Wanda. Nobody makes fun of her regarding dresses. But she is against humiliation which is done because of someone’s deplorable economic condition.

 Oral Comprehension Check: Page – 70

1. Why didn’t Maddie ask Peggie to stop teasing Wanda? What was she afraid of?

Answer: Peggy is the best friend of Wanda. So she did not ask her to stop teasing Wanda. She does not want her friendship to be broken up. She is afraid of missing her friendship.

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

Answer: Maddie thought that Peggy would win the drawing contest. It is because she was the only one to draw the best in the classroom.

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

Answer: Wanda Petronski won the drawing contest for the girl and Jack Beggles won for the boys. The winner Jack Beggles had drawn the design for an outboard motor whereas Wand Petronski had drawn a hundred designs all different and all beautiful. In the views of the Judges, every design of Wanda Petronski was worthy of winning a prize.

Thinking about the Text Page – 70

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

Answer: Wanda is seen as different by the other girls because of the following reasons.

(i)She was a Polish girl. Her name was not familiar to all the girls.

(ii) She was a poor girl.

(iii) She used to put on a single dress every day for school.

(iv)The other girls knew that she had only one dress. That is why they started making fun of her by asking about her dresses.

2. How does Wanda feel about the dresses game? Why does she say that she had a hundred dresses?

Answer: She feels humiliated and insulted because of her poverty and deplorable economic condition about the dresses game. She said that she had a hundred dresses to respond to their ridiculous questions.

3. 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?)

Answer: Maddie stands by and does nothing because her best friend Peggy was teasing Wanda Petronski by asking about her dresses. She is also a poor girl, but she does not want anybody to be teased because of her/his poverty. Peggy’s friendship is important for Maddie. It is because she is the most liked girl in the class, and she has a good academic record so far.

The lines are as follows: “She was Peggy’s best friend, and Peggy was the best-liked girl in the whole room. Peggy could not possibly do anything that was really wrong, she thought.”

4. What does Miss Mason think of Wand’s drawing? What do the children think of them? How do you know?

Answer: Miss Mason thinks of Wanda’s drawing to be the most important. It is because she has drawn all the designs differently and beautifully. In the views of the judges, each and every design is worthy of winning the prize. The children are astonished to see the designs Wanda. They think her designs to be amazing ones. I know this from the real reactions and the activities of the children they exhibit just after they see the designs.