SCHOOL FOR CONTEMPORARY AND ISLAMIC LEARNING

Revision Worksheet
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Grade: VI

Literature /15
Q1. Explain the following lines with reference to the context. /3.5

"It's horrible, Oh, I wish Dr. Forrest would make haste. Oh, poor Jim!"
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Q2. Summarize the following passage. /2

Her mooring ropes were slack, and the little breeze, hardly strong enough to be felt, had yet
been strong enough to drift her stern against the bank. Bobbie was first—then came Peter,
and it was Peter who slipped and fell. He went into the canal up to his neck, and his feet
could not feel the bottom, but his arm was on the edge of the barge. Phyllis caught at his
hair. It hurt, but it helped him to get out. Next minute he had leaped on to the barge, Phyllis
following.

"Not you!" he shouted to Bobbie; "Me, because I'm wet."

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 He caught up with Bobbie at the cabin door, and flung her aside very roughly indeed; if
they had been playing, such roughness would have made Bobbie weep tears of rage and
pain. Now, though he flung her on to the edge of the hold, so that her knee and her elbow
were grazed and bruised, she only cried
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Q3. How did the children gain “the old gentleman’s” friendship? /1
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Q4. Describe how Roberta (Bobbie) tries to help others.. /2

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Q4. Why does Mother befriend the Russian, and seem so “very sorry for him”? /2.5
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Q5. Why was Perks so “cross” with the children? /2

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Q6. Why did Bobbie faint when the train stopped?

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Q7. What was the conflict between the children and the Bargee?

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Q8. How did the children save the baby?

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