Class 10 English Chapter 5 Solution
Our Runaway Kite
1. Very Short Question Answer
1. What is the ‘Big Half Moon’ in the story?
Ans. It is a small lonely island.
2. Primarily who lived on the Big Half Moon?
Ans. The narrator her father and her brother Claude lived on the Big Half Moon.
3. Why did the people feel pity for them?
Ans. People pitied the narrator’s family for their loneliness.
4. Who are the new members on the Big Half Moon island with the narrator?
Ans. The new members are Aunt Esther, Mimi and Dick.
5. Who were the cousins of the narrator?
Ans. The cousins of the narrator were Mimi and Dick.
6. What is the thing that was responsible for the reunion between the narrator’s family and her aunt’s?
Ans. The kite was responsible for the reunion between the narrator’s family and her aunt’s.
7. What is the narrator’s father?
Ans. The narrator’s father is the keeper of the Big Half Moon lighthouse.
8. What was their father’s condition when they asked him a relatives?
Ans. When they asked their father about relatives, he looked very sorrowful.
9. What was their father’s remark about their not having relative?
Ans. According to their father, it was all his fault.
10. We live on the Big Half Moon island. ‘We’ are.
Ans. We live on the Big Half Moon island. ‘We’ are Father and Claude and I and Aunt Esther and Mimi and Dick.
11. The narrator and Claude had to make.
Ans. The narrator and Claude had to make the most of each other.
12. used to puzzle Claude and the narrator.
Ans. That father didn’t seem to have any relations, used to puzzle Claude and the narrator.
13. Father is the keeper of
Ans. Father is the keeper of the lighthouse of the Big Half Moon.
14. In winter the family of the narrator had to move over.
Ans. In winter the family of the narrator had to move over to the mainland.
15. The narrator and Claude liked to play the game of [Siliguri Baradakanta Vidyalaya]
Ans. The narrator and Claude liked to play the game of pirate caves.
16. Their return drew.
Ans. Their return drew pity for them among the mainland people.
2. Short Question Answer
1. What game did they play with the kite?
Ans. The narrator and Claude would go to opposite sides of the island and would play shipwrecked mariners signalling to each other with kites.
2. How did the narrator tear the kite?
Ans. While bringing the kite from the house, the narrator tripped and fell over the rocks. Her elbow went clea through the kite, making a big hole.
3. How was the kite fixed by the author and Claude?
Ans. Claude and the narrator patched the kite with an old letter, pasting a sheet on each side. Then they dried it by the fire.
4. How did the kite fly after it had been mended?
Ans. After the kite had been mended it went up like a bird.
6. Why did Claude stand there looking foolish?
Ans. Claude was standing there looking foolish as the kite had sailed away over to the mainland.
3. True And False
1. People felt that Claude and the narrator were lonesome on island.
Ans. True; Supporting Statement: They said we must be lonesome over there…
2. Claude and the narrator quarreled.
Ans. False; Supporting Statement: Claude and I never quarrelled.
3. Nobody on the mainland had relations.
Ans. False; Supporting Statement: mainland had relations. Everybody on the
4. Claude and the narrator never felt the absence of any companion.
Ans. False; Supporting Statement: Of course Claude and I would have liked to have someone to play with us.
5. The writer’s father established relations with others.
Ans. False; Supporting Statement: To be sure, Father didn’t seem to have any relations except us.
6. The narrator understood each and every word of her father.
Ans. False; Supporting Statement: Claude and I didn’t understand what he meant.
7. The harbour is frozen in winter.
Ans. True; Supporting Statement: In winter when the harbour is frozen over, we all move over to the mainland.