Extract Based Questions – A Pact with the Sun Class 6 English Textbook Chapter 7. We had updated here some important phrase from A Pact with the Sun Chapter and also updated Important Questions on each phrase.
Extract Based Questions for A Pact with the Sun Chapter
A pact with the sun
Extract-1
SAEEDA’S mother had been ailing for a long time — fever, cough, body-ache, painful joints and what not. Treated by a variety of physicians for weeks, she often showed signs of improvement but soon relapsed into her old, sick self, one complaint substituted by another. Though weak and colourless, she was forbidden normal food and was under strict orders to remain perpetually confined to her small, dingy room with doors and windows fastened, deprived of sunshine and fresh air. When she became critical, her relatives and neighbours persuaded her to consult a specialist even though his fee was likely to be high. Life is more precious than money, they said. Saeeda’s mother was poor but she heeded their advice and sold a few trinkets to pay the doctor’s fee and the cost of medicine.
1.) Multiple Choice Questions
Marks: 1×2=2
i.) For paying doctor fees Saeeda’s mother sold:
a.) House
b.) Jewelry
c.) Car
d.) None of the above
ii.) Her diet was:
a.) Lavish
b.) Normal
c.) Restricted
d.) None of the above
2.) Very Short type questions:
Marks: 1×2=2
i.) What were the health issues of Saeeda’s mother?
ii.) What was the persuasion from her relatives?
3.) Short Question:
Marks: 2×1=2
i.) How was the lifestyle of Saeeda’s mother?
Extract-2
The doctor came in a few days and examined her and prescribed effective but costly medicine. To the question as to what she should eat he said, “Anything you wish to eat — chapati, vegetables, milk, fruits, etc. In addition to all this,” he added emphatically, “leave this dark hovel and occupy a bigger room with doors and windows open. Sit in the sun every morning from eight to nine. Sunshine and fresh air,” he concluded, “are more important than medicine.” The doctor and his advice became a subject of noisy commentary among all present. Some favoured while others opposed it. Exposure to sun and air for someone afflicted with chronic cough was dangerous, an experienced lady declared. A younger neighbour nearly quarrelled with her over this. Too exhausted to participate in the debate, Saeeda’s mother remained quiet but determined to follow the doctor’s advice. “Forget the consequences,” she said at last. “I’ll carry out his instructions to the letter. Move my bed into the next room and let me sit in the sun on my charpoy for an hour daily.”
1.) Multiple Choice Questions
Marks: 1×2=2
i.) Sunshine and fresh air were more important than:
a.) Water
b.) Medicine
c.) Food
d.) None of the above
ii.) Doctor advised to sit in the sun for:
a.) 1 hour
b.) 2 hours
c.) 3 hours
d.) None of the above
2.) Very Short type questions:
Marks: 1×2=2
i.) How Saeeda’s mother follow the doctor’s instrctions?
ii.) What did the doctor prescribe after examining her?
3.) Short Question:
Marks: 2×1=2
i.) What the doctor advised to Saeeda’s mother?
Extract-3
It so happened that the sky remained overcast next morning. The same was the case the following day. Saeeda’s mother was dejected. She muttered, “O Lord of mine, why have you ordered the sun to remain hidden? How will I ever be cured?” Saeeda was playing with her doll nearby and she heard her mother’s lament but kept calm. Later in the afternoon, when she stumbled on a spot of pale sunshine in the courtyard, she ran to her mother to say the sun was there. “No, no”, said everybody present. “It’s too late and chilly. Your mother can’t sit out there.” Disheartened, Saeeda returned to her doll. There was no sun really except for its in the top branches of the family mango tree.
1.) Multiple Choice Questions
Marks: 1×2=2
i.) Saeeda was playing with her:
a.) Doll
b.) Dog
c.) Friend
d.) None of the above
ii.) Next morning the sky was:
a.) Clear
b.) Cloudy
c.) Overcast
d.) None of the above
2.) Very Short type questions:
Marks: 1×2=2
i.) What did Saeeda do when she stumbled on a spot of pale sunshine?
ii.) Where the last ray of sun was found?
3.) Short Question:
Marks: 2×1=2
i.) Did Saeeda’s mother get sunlight in the next morning?
Extract-4
Now, children have at their command a secret language, foreign to grown-ups altogether, in which they fluently communicate with trees, flowers, animals, the sun and the moon, perhaps even with the Almighty. Using that special language, Saeeda addressed her remark to the last departing ray of the sun. “Dearest sister, do come tomorrow with lots of warmth and brightness. You see, my mother is ill and needs your help.” “Surely,” answered the light, “don’t look unhappy. We’ll be here at the fixed hour.” Next day, early in the morning, when the sprightly sunrays embellished themselves for their journey down to earth, the sun said, “It’s our day off again. We’re staying up here. The road to earth is blocked by an army of thick, mucky clouds.”The little rays so much wanted to go down for a lark but they remained quiet. One of them, though, who had made a pact with little Saeeda said, “Sir, I can’t stay back. I’ve given my word to Saeeda whose mother is ill and needs our help. I’ll pierce through the clouds to reach Saeeda’s courtyard. How else will her mother be cured?” Hearing this, all the rays nearly staged a revolt against their father, the sun. “Fancy staying back again,” they said in a single voice. “What will the people of the earth say about us? That we of the heavens have turned liars?” The sun relented. “Please yourselves,” he said. “Mind your clothes, though. The clouds are mucky.”
1.) Multiple Choice Questions
Marks: 1×2=2
i.) Sun is the father of:
a.) Sky
b.) Ray
c.) Cloud
d.) None of the above
ii.) Saeeda addressed sun as her:
a.) Brother
b.) Friend
c.) Sister
d.) None of the above
2.) Very Short type questions:
Marks: 1×2=2
i.) How was the blockage in the path to the earth?
ii.) How the little ray wanted to come who had made a pact with little Saeeda ?
3.) Short Question:
Marks: 2×1=2
i.) How Saeeda addressed the sun?
Extract-5
Saeeda saw the whole host of them approaching and her heart leapt with joy. She shouted, “Amma, Amma! The sun is here. Come out.” The old lady’s eyes welled up with tears of gratitude. Her charpoy was placed in the courtyard and she sat on it for an hour reclining against bolsters. It had been months since she had felt the sun on her hands and face and breathed in fresh air. She thought she was in a new world. Though pale, her face glowed and her eyes shone bright. She saw her child too bathed in sunlight and kissed her. The morning air brought in a new fragrance from nearby flowers. The birds chanted a new tune. Saeeda’s mother felt better already. She is fully recovered now, but she still follows the doctor’s advice — an hour of sunlight and lungfuls of fresh air every day.
1.) Multiple Choice Questions
Marks: 1×2=2
i.) Dreams cannot be used as a way to tell the:
a.) Future
b.) Past
c.) Present
d.) None of the above
ii.) Saeeda used to call her mother as:
a.) Maa
b.) Amma
c.) Mom
d.) None of the above
2.) Very Short type questions:
Marks: 1×2=2
i.) What advice of the doctor Saeeda’s mother always follows?
ii.) When Saeeda’s heart leapt with joy?
3.) Short Question:
Marks: 2×1=2
i.) How did she feel in the sunlit morning?
Answers
Extract-1
1.) I) b
ii) c
2.) I) Saeeda’s mother had health issues like fever, cough, body-ache, painful joints.
ii) Her relatives and neighbours persuaded her to consult a specialist doctor.
3.) As directed by physician, Saeeda’s mother was under restricted diet and used to live in damp and dark room where all doors and windows were kept close protect her from cold and the sunlight.
Extract-2
1.) I) b
ii) a
2.) I) Saeeda’s mom moved her bed into an airy room and sat in the sun for an hour daily.
ii) After examining her doctor prescribed effective but costly medicine.
3.) Doctor advised her to leave this dark hovel and occupy a bigger room with doors and windows open. Sit in the sun every morning from eight to nine.
Extract-3
1.) I) a
ii) c
2.) I) When Saeeda stumbled on a spot of pale sunshine, she ran to her mother to say there was sunlight.
ii) Last sunray was found in the top branches of the family mango tree.
3.) Next morning sky was overcast; Sun was still hidden under clouds. She was tensed that without sunlight how she would be cured.
Extract-4
1.) I) b
ii) c
2.) I) The road to earth was blocked by an army of thick, mucky clouds.
ii) The little ray who made a pact with little Saeeda wanted to pierce through the clouds to reach Saeeda’s courtyard.
3.) Saeeda addressed the sun“Dearest sister, do come tomorrow with lots of warmth and brightness. You see, my mother is ill and needs your help.”
Extract-5
1.) I)a
ii) b
2.) I) Saeeda’s mother always follows the doctor’s advice — an hour of sunlight and lungful of fresh air every day.
ii) Saeeda’s heart leapt with joy when she saw the sunrays were coming.
3.) In the sunlit morning, Saeeda’s mother felt the sun on her hands, face and breathed in fresh air. She thought she was in a new world. Her pale face glowed and her eyes shone bright.
