Extract Based Questions – A House, A Home Class 6 English Textbook Chapter 1. We had updated here some important phrase from A House, A Home Chapter and also updated Important Questions on each phrase.
Extract Based Questions for A House, A Home Chapter
(1) “What is a house?
It’s brick and stone
And wood that’s hard
Some window glass
And perhaps a yard
It’s eaves and chimneys
And stucco and roof
And tile floors
And lots of doors”
(a) What are the main thing required to make a proper house? (1)
Answer: It required bricks, stones, woods, etc.
(b) What does a house need? (2)
Answer: Windows, yard, eaves, chimneys, tile floors, roof, stucco, doors etc.
(c) What is the meaning of ‘stucco’?
Answer: A plaster that is used to coat interior or exterior walls, or used for mouldings.
(2) “What is a home?
It’s loving and family
And doing for others
It’s brothers and sisters
And fathers and mothers
It’s unselfish acts
And kindly sharing
And showing your loved ones
You’re always caring”
(a) According to the poet, what is home? (1)
Answer: Home is a family where everyone loves and take care of each other.
(b) Who are the members live in a family? (1)
Answer: Father, mother, brother, sister, etc.
(c) What does family members do? (2)
Answer: The family members love each other and shows their affection and kindness by taking care of one another and also acts unselfishly to their loved ones.
(d) Name the poet of this poem?
Answer: Lorraine M. Halli.
Extract-3
‘What is a house? It’s brick and stone and wood that’s hard. Some window glass and perhaps a yard’.
1.) Multiple Choice Questions Marks: 1×3=3
i) A house is made up of:
a) Brick
b) Wood
c) Stone
d) All of these
ii) Wood is derived from:
a) Mine
b) Tree
c) Hill
d) Sea
iii) ‘perhaps a yard’- here yard means
a) Measurement of house
b) Materials of house
c) Distance of house
d) Ground attached to house
2.) Very Short type questions: Marks: 1×1=1
i) Name two natural resources which are used to build a house?
3.) Short Question: Marks: 2×1=2
i) Describe a house as mentioned in Extract-1?
Extract-4
“It’s eaves and chimneys and tile floors and stucco and roof and lots of doors. What is a home? It’s loving and family and doing for others”
1.) Multiple Choice Questions Marks: 1×2=2
i) Chimney is used for draining :
a) Smoke
b) Water
c) Garbage
d) All of these
ii) Roof is found at:
a) Under the house
b) Side of the house
c) Top of the house
d) None of the above
2.) Very Short type questions: Marks: 1×2=2
i) What is stucco?
ii) What are eaves?
3.) Short Question: Marks: 2×1=2
i) Describe a home as mentioned in Extract-2?
Extract-5
It’s brothers and sisters and fathers and mothers. It’s unselfish acts and kindly sharing and showing your loved ones you’re always caring.
1.) Multiple Choice Questions Marks: 1×2=2
i) In home we should be :
a) Sharing
b) Unselfish
c) Caring
d) All of these
ii) There are brothers and sisters and fathers and mothers:
a) In school
b) In house
c) In home
d) None of the above
2.) Fill the gaps below: Marks: 1×2=2
i) Its _________ acts and kindly ____________ and showing your loved ones you’re always caring.
3.) Short Question: Marks: 2×1=2?
i) Who are the members of family? How to behave within a family?
Solution
Extract-3
1.) i) d
ii) b
iii) d
2.) Stone and wood are the two natural resources which are used to build houses.
3.) As mentioned in Extract-1; Brick, stone, wood, and window glasses are used to build a house. A house may have an attached ground which is called yard.
Extract-4
1.) i) a
ii) c
2.) i) Stucco is a cement-based decorative and binding material which is applied wet but hardens when dry.
ii) Eaves are the extended part of the roofs of house which hangs outside of the house. These are the part of decoration which also provides shade.
Extract-5
1.) i) d
ii) c
2.) Its unselfish acts and kindly sharing and showing your loved ones you’re always caring.
3.) Brothers and sisters and fathers and mothers are the members of family. All family members act unselfishly, love and take care of each other.