Extract Based Questions Class 9 English Beehive
Extract Based Questions Class 9 English Beehive: Hello Dear CBSE champs, Are You looking for NCERT Class 9 English Textbook Beehive Extract Based Questions chapter-wise. if Yes, You are in the right page. We Net Ex. have given latest Class 9 English Chapter wise Extract Based Questions with answer for our students.
At first our English Teacher have read full book. Afterthat he have taken some of important lines from the chapter. And make questions on that respective lines.
Chapter 1-
- The Fun They Had
- The Road Not Taken
Chapter 2-
- The Sound of Music
I.) Evelyn Glennie: Deborah Cowley
II.) Bismillah Khan
- Wind
Chapter 3 –
- The Little Girl
- Rain on the Roof
Chapter 4-
- A Truly Beautiful Mind
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Chapter 5-
- The Snake and the Mirror
- A Legend of the Northland
Chapter 6-
- My Childhood
- No Men Are Foreign
Chapter 7-
- Packing
- The Duck and the Kangaroo
Chapter 8 –
- Reach for the Top
I.) Santosh Yadav
II.) Maria Sharapova
- On Killing a Tree
Chapter 9 –
- The Bond of Love
- The Snake Trying
Chapter 10 –
- Kathmandu
- A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
Chapter 11-
- If I Were You
Sample of Extract Based Questions
Extract-1
‘Gee’, said Tommy, “what a waste. When you’re through with the book, you just throw it away,
I guess. Our television screen must have had a million books on it and it’s good for plenty more. I wouldn’t throw it away.”
“Same with mine”, said Margie. She was eleven and hadn’t seen as many telebook as Tommy had. He was thirteen.
She said “Where did you find it?”
“In my house.” He pointed without looking because he was busy reading. “In the attic.”
“What’s it about?” “School.”
Extract-2
Margie was scornful. ‘School? What’s there to write about school? I hate school.’ Margie always hated school, but now she hated it more than ever. The mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in geography and she had been doing worse and worse until her mother had shaken her head sorrowfully and sent for the County Inspector.
Questions:
(i) Name the writer of the story ‘The Fun They Had’.
(a) Isaac Asimov
(b) Deborah Cowley
(c) William Butler yeast
Ans- (a) Isaac Asimov
(ii) What was Margie’s opinion about school?
(a) She liked school
(b) She slightly liked it.
(c) She hated school
Ans- (c) She hated school
(iii) What was wrong with her mechanical teacher?
(a) It was giving her test after test in English.
(b) It was giving her test after test in history.
(c) It was giving her test after test in geography.
Ans- (c) It was giving her test after test in geography.
Extract-3
It was her first day at the prestigious Royal Academy of Music in London and daunting enough for any teenager fresh from a Scottish farm. But this aspiring musician faced a bigger challenge than most:
Questions:
(i) Who is referred to as the ‘aspiring musician’?
(a) Evelyn Glennie
(b) Ron Forbes
(c) her friend
Ans- (a) Evelyn Glennie
(ii) What was likely to daunt Evelyn?
(a) Royal Academy of Music
(b) London
(c) her background
Ans- (a) Royal Academy of Music
(iii) What do you understand by the expression: “fresh from a Scottish farm”? “
(a) new in the city
(b) belonged to a Scottish farm
(c) both(a) and (b)
Ans- (b) belonged to a Scottish farm
Extract-4
Till recently it was used only in temples and weddings. The credit for bringing this instrument onto the classical stage goes to Ustad Bismillah Khan.
Questions:
(i) Which instrument is being referred to in the extract?
(a) shehnai
(b) pungi
(c) tabla
(d) none of these
Ans- (a) shehnai
(ii) Why, do you think, it was used only in temples and weddings?
(a) because of its melodious sound
(b) because it’s difficult to play
(c) because its harsh sound
Ans – (c) because its harsh sound
(iii) Who was Ustad Bismillah khan?
(a)shehnai player
(b) Pungi player
(c) drum player
Ans- (a)shehnai player
Extract-5
To the little girl, he was a figure to be feared and avoided. Every morning before going to work he came into her room and gave her a casual kiss.
Questions:
(i) Who does ‘he’ refer to in this extract?
(a) the father of the little girl
(b) the mother of the little girl
(c) the brother of the little girl
Ans- (a) the father of the little girl
(ii) What were the feelings of the little girl towards his father?
(a) She was afraid of him
(b) She loved him.
(c) She hated him.
Ans- (a) She was afraid of him
(iii) What did ‘he’ do before going to work every morning?
(a) He casually kissed her.
(b) He woke her up.
(c) He asked her to sing
Ans- (a) He casually kissed her
Extract-6
At the age of two-and-a-half, Einstein still wasn’t talking. When he finally did learn to speak, he uttered everything twice. Einstein did not know what to do with other children, and his playmates called him “Brother Boring.” So, the youngster played by himself much of the time.
He specially loved mechanical toys. Looking at his new-born sister, Maja, he is said to have said:
“Fine, but where are her wheels?”
Questions:
(i) By what age did Einstein not learn to speak?
(a) three and half years
(b) four and half years
(c) two and a half years
Ans- (c) two and a half years
(ii) What did Albert’s classmates call him?
(a) a genius
(b) dull
(c) brother boring
Ans- (c) brother boring
(iii) What did Einstein love to play with?
(a) plastic toys
(b) mechanical toys
(c)friends
Ans- (b) mechanical toys
Extract-7
Evelyn Glennie’s loss of hearing had been gradual. Her mother remembers noticing something was wrong when the eight-year-old Evelyn was waiting to play the piano. ‘They called her name and she didn’t move. I suddenly realised she hadn’t heard,’ says Isabel Glennie. For quite a while Evelyn managed to conceal her growing deafness from friends and teachers. But by the time she was eleven her marks had deteriorated and her headmistress urged her parents to take her to a specialist. Marks
Questions:
i.) Evelyn’s loss of hearing take place—
a.) at birth
b.) eight years old
c.) eleven years old
Ans – c) eleven years old
ii.) Evelyn managed to hide her deafness from
a.) her mother
b.) her friends
c.) her specialist
Ans- b) her friends
iii) Who urged her parents to take her to a specialist?
a.) friends
b.) teachers
c.) headmistress
Ans – c.) headmistress
Extract-8
Her mother remembers noticing something was wrong when the eight-year-old Evelyn was waiting to play the piano. “They called her name and she didn’t move. I suddenly realized she hadn’t heard,” says Isabel Glennie. For quite a while Evelyn managed to conceal her growing deafness from friends and teachers. But by the time she was eleven her marks had deteriorated and her headmistress urged her parents to take her to a specialist
Questions:
i) What made Isabel suspect Evelyn’s hearing ability?
(a) She didn’t hear her name.
(b) She missed her music lessons.
(c) She lost interest in studies.
Ans- (a) She didn’t hear her name.
ii.) Evelyn’s headmistress advised her parents to consult a specialist because she didn’t score good marks.
(True/ false)
Ans- True
iii) Find the word/phrase in the passage which means the same as “to hid”.
Ans- conceal
Extract-9
To the little girl he was a figure to be feared and avoided. Every morning before going to work he came into her room and gave her a casual kiss, to which she responded with ‘Good Bye Father’. And oh, there Was a glad sense of relief when she heard the noise of the carriage growing fainter and fainter down the long road!
Questions:
i) The little girl feared and avoided-
(a) her mother
(b) her father
(c) her grandfather
Ans- (b) her father
ii) Her father visited her-
(a) in evening
(b) in morning
(c) in afternoon
Ans – (b) in morning
iii) Find out a word from the passage which means “answered”
Ans- respond
Extract-10
For reasons I have never been able to understand, a sudden demand for tamarind seeds erupted in the market. I used to collect the seeds and sell them to a provision shop on Mosque Street. A day’s collection would fetch me the princely sum of one anna. My brother-in-law Jallaluddin would tell me stories about the War which I would later attempt to trace in the headlines in Dinamani. Our area, being isolated, was completely unaffected by the War. But soon India was forced to join the Allied Forces and something like a state of emergency was declared
Questions:
(i) From which lesson the above passage has been taken?
(a)The Little Girl
(b) My Childhood
(c) The Fun They Had
Ans- (b) My Childhood
(ii) Abdul Kalam earned money by selling-
(a) newspaper
(b) tamarind seeds
(c) sweets
Ans- (a) newspaper
(iii) Dinamani was a-
(a) book
(b) newspaper
(c) magazine
Ans- (b) newspaper
Extracts from poetry (Beehive)
Extract -1
When the humid shadows hover
Over all the starry spheres
And the melancholy darkness
Gently weeps in rainy tears,
What a bliss to press the pillow
Of a cottage- chamber bed
And lie listening to the patter
Of the soft rain overhead!
Question:
(i) From which poem the above extract has been taken?
(a) The Road Not Taken
(b) Rain on the Roof
(c) Wind
Ans- (b) Rain on the Roof
(ii) The opposite of the word ‘bliss’ is——-
(a) wish
(b) curse
(c) desire
Ans- (b) curse
(iii) Where do the shadows hover?
(a)on pillow
(b) on starry spheres
(c) on rainy tears
Ans- (b) on starry spheres
Extract-2
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And locked down once as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth
Questions:
i) What does ‘yellow wood’ mean?
(a) spring
(b) autumn
(c) winter
Ans- (b) autumn
ii) Why was the traveller feeling sorry?
a) because he could not travel
b) because he could not travel both the roads
c) because he could travel
Ans – b) because he could not travel both the roads
iii) From which poem the above lines have been taken?
(a) Wind
(b)The Road Not Taken
(c) Rain on the Roof
Ans – (b) The Road Not Taken
Extract-3
Now in memory comes my mother
As she used in years agone,
To regard the darling dreamers
Ere she left them till the dawn:
O! I feel her fond look on me
As I list to this refrain
Which is played upon the shingles
By the patter of the rain.
Question:
i) Which sound is the poet listening to?
(a) sound of wind
(b) sound of insects
(c) sound of rain
Ans- (c) sound of rain
ii) The sound reminds the poet of-
(a)his father
(b) his mother
(c) his brother
Ans- (b) his mother
iii) Which word in the extract means “the ability to remember things”?
Ans- Memory
Extract 4
Wind, come softly
Don’t break the shutters of the windows
Don’t scatter the papers
Don’t throw down the books on the shelf.
Questions:
i) Whom does the poet request in the above lines?
Ans- Memory
ii) Write any one action of the wind.
Ans- Scatter the papers
iii) Find out a word from the extract which means “thrown in different directions”.
Ans- Scatter
Extract-5
Then took the other, as just as fair,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,”
Questions:
(i) How was the other road?
(a) It was still grassy
(b) The other road was dusty
(c)The road was full of stones.
Ans- (a) It was still grassy
(ii) Why did the second road present a better claim than the first?
(a) It had never been walked before
(b) It was still dusty.
(c) It was beautiful.
Ans- (a) It had never been walked before
(iii) Who has composed the above poem?
(a.) Robert Frost
b.) Phoebe Cary
(c.) Subramania Bharti
Ans – (a.) Robert Frost
Extract-6
Frail crumbling houses, crumbling doors, crumbling rafters, crumbling wood, crumbling bodies, crumbling lives, crumbling heartsthe wind god winnows and crushes them all.
Questions:
(i) Why are the houses, doors, rafters etc. crumbling?
(a)because they are weak
(b) because they are solid
(c) because they are strong
Ans- (a)because they are weak
(ii) Why has the wind been called ‘god’?
(a) because, like ‘god’, he uses his power
(b) remove and crush the undesirable, weak things.
(c) both (i) and ii)
Ans- (c) both (i) and ii)
(iii) What does the wind god do?
(a) using its force winnows and crushes
(b) protects all
(c) none of the above
Ans- (a) using its force winnows and crushes