{"id":5280,"date":"2023-04-14T12:07:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T12:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theexampillar.com\/ncert\/?p=5280"},"modified":"2023-04-14T12:07:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T12:07:51","slug":"ncert-solutions-class-9-english-beehive-chapter-3-the-little-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theexampillar.com\/ncert\/ncert-solutions-class-9-english-beehive-chapter-3-the-little-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"NCERT Solutions Class 9 English (Beehive) Chapter 3 (The Little Girl)"},"content":{"rendered":"

NCERT Solutions Class 9 English (Beehive (Prose)<\/strong>)\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

The NCERT Solutions in English Language for Class 9 English (Beehive (Prose)) Chapter – 3 The Little Girl <\/strong>has been provided here to help the students in solving the questions from this exercise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter – 3 (The Little Girl)\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

Thinking about the Text<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I.\u00a0Given below are some emotions that Kezia felt. Match the emotions in Column A with the items in Column B.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
A<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nB<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1. fear or terror<\/span><\/p>\n

2. glad sense of relief<\/span><\/p>\n

3. a \u201cfunny\u201d feeling, perhaps of understanding<\/span><\/td>\n

(i) father comes into her room to give her a goodbye kiss<\/span><\/p>\n

(ii) noise of the carriage grows fainter<\/span><\/p>\n

(iii) father comes home<\/span><\/p>\n

(iv) speaking to father<\/span><\/p>\n

(v) going to bed when alone at home<\/span><\/p>\n

(vi) father comforts her and falls asleep<\/span><\/p>\n

(vii) father stretched out on the sofa, snoring<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Answer –<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
A<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nB<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1. fear or terror<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/td>\n

(iii) father comes home<\/span><\/p>\n

(iv) speaking to father<\/span><\/p>\n

(v) going to bed when alone at home<\/span><\/p>\n

(vii) father stretched out on the sofa, snoring<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2. glad sense of relief<\/span><\/td>\n(i) father comes into her room to give her a goodbye kiss<\/span><\/p>\n

(ii) noise of the carriage grows fainter<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

3. a \u201cfunny\u201d feeling, perhaps of understanding<\/span><\/td>\n(vi) father comforts her and falls asleep<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

II.\u00a0Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Why was Kezia afraid of her father?
\n<\/span><\/strong>Answer –\u00a0<\/strong>Kezia was afraid of her father because he was extremely strict and commanding. He never played with her. He used to give her a terrifying look over his spectacles.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Who were the people in Kezia\u2019s family?
\n<\/span><\/strong>Answer –\u00a0<\/strong>Kezia\u2019s family consisted of her mother, father, grandmother and herself.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. What was Kezia\u2019s father\u2019s routine?
\n<\/span><\/strong>(i)<\/strong> before going to his office?
\n<\/span>(ii)<\/strong> after coming back from his office?
\n<\/span>(iii)<\/strong> on Sundays?
\n<\/span>Answer –
\n(i)<\/strong> Before going to office, Kezia\u2019s father would come to Kezia\u2019s room and give her a goodbye kiss.
\n<\/span>(ii)<\/strong> After coming back from his office, he would order his tea to be brought to the drawing room and would ask his mother to get his papers and slippers. He would then order Kezia to take off his boots.
\n<\/span>(iii)<\/strong> On Sundays, he would stretch out on the sofa with his handkerchief on his face, his feet on one of the best cushions, sleep and snore.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. In what ways did Kezia\u2019s grandmother encourage her to get to know her father better?
\n<\/span><\/strong>Answer –\u00a0<\/strong>Kezia\u2019s grandmother encouraged her to get to know her father better by sending her to the drawing room to talk to her parents on Sundays. She also suggested Kezia to make a pin cushion out of a beautiful piece of yellow silk as a gift for her father\u2019s birthday.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

II. Discuss these questions in class with your teacher and then write down your answers in two or three paragraphs each.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Kezia\u2019s efforts to please her father resulted in displeasing him very much. How did this happen?
\n<\/span><\/strong>Answer –\u00a0<\/strong>Kezia was always afraid of her father. She always stuttered before him. She tried to please her father on various occasions but her efforts resulted in displeasing him very much. When he asked her to take off his shoes, he would ask her if she had been a good girl. The moment she stuttered, her father got irritated and called her \u2018a little brown owl\u2019. Kezia wanted to please her father by making a pin-cushion. She did so but she used her father\u2019s important papers as scrap to fill in the pin-cushion. It displeased her father and she was punished for it.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Kezia decides that there are \u201cdifferent kinds of fathers\u201d. What kind of father was Mr Macdonald, and how was he different from Kezia\u2019s father?
\n<\/span><\/strong>Answer –<\/strong>\u00a0Kezia decides that there are \u201cdifferent kinds of fathers\u201d.\u00a0Mr Macdonald was a loving father. He was very gentle and forgiving. He used to play and laugh with his children. He was friendly with them.\u00a0He was quite different from Kezia\u2019s father. Her father was very strict and unfriendly.<\/span><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0How does Kezia begin to see her father as a human being who needs her sympathy?
\n<\/span><\/strong>Answer –\u00a0<\/strong>One night, Kezia was alone in the house. She had a nightmare and started crying. She saw a butcher with a knife and a rope. Her father heard her crying. He took her to his bedroom and made her comfortable. This changed her feelings for him. She realised that her father was not so cruel as she thought. She understood how he got tired after day\u2019s work. She began to see him as a human being who needed her sympathy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thinking about Language<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I.\u00a0Look at the following sentence.
\n<\/span><\/strong>There was a glad sense of relief when she heard the noise of the carriage growing fainter\u2026
\n<\/span>Here, glad means happy about something.
\n<\/span>Glad, happy, pleased, delighted, thrilled and overjoyed are synonyms (words or expressions that have the same or nearly the same meaning.) However, they express happiness in certain ways.
\n<\/span>Read the sentences below.<\/span><\/p>\n