The Drum
Chapter 5
Comprehension
1) Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
a) What did Lakshmi live?
Answer:- Lakshmi lived in a small village in Rajasthan.
b) What did Lakshmi do to earn her living?
Answer:- she ground guains for people to earn her living .
c) What did her did son ask her to bring from the What market?
Answer:- Her son asked her to bring Drum form the market.
d) What did Lakshmi by the market?
Answer:- Lakshmi bought some meessarry things like flour and satt from the market .
e) What did the she bring for her son instead of a drum?
Answer:-she bring two nice pieces of wood on the rood and picked drum up for her son.
f) Why was the potter’s child crying?
g) To whom did the boy give the shawl?
- who were quarrelling and why?
3) Why did the people of the wedding party look sad?
4) Choose the correct options from the brackets and rewrite the sentences.
a) Her parents seemed verry amiable. (pleasant /
rude/ serious)
b) This book is necessary for science students (unimportant/ essential / meaningless)
c) several people came forward with information. (to offer one’s help/ refuse to help)
d) he smiled at them with gratitude. (showing disrespect / feeling of being grateful)
e) don’t sit outside shivering in such a weather. (to shake/ slightly because of old / remain still)
Author By- Arup Koch