INDO ENGLISH SCHOOL

CHAPTER NAME: DARA THE GOOD

CLASS: VI RADIANT READER: CHAPTER NO: 16
Prepared By: DEEPTIPRAVA NAIK

MEANINGS OF DIFFICULT WORDS USED IN THE CHAPTER

WORD MEANING
1. Hillside The sloping side of a hill.

2. Shepherd A person whose job is to look after sheep.

3. Acquired It means to gain something as a result of effort or experience.

4. Wisdom The quality of being wise.

5. Sympathy A feeling or expression of understanding and caring for someone else who is
suffering.

6. Sound advice An advice which is sensible and helpful.

7. Reputation The beliefs or opinions that are generally held about someone.

8. Humble A person who is not arrogant or assertive.

9. Cloak A long, loose piece of clothing which people wear over their other clothes.

10. Poverty The state of being extremely poor.

11. Fallen upon evil days Having problems or difficulties or suffering misfortune.

12. Disloyalty The quality of not being loyal.

13. Discontent A feeling of not being satisfied with your situation.

14. Disaster An event that results in great harm or damage.

15. Summoned Ordered someone to be present at a particular place.

16. Province A territory or State.

 17. Hesitation An unwillingness to do something.

18. Reluctance The quality of being reluctant.

19. Dwelling A place of shelter to live in.

20. Discard To get rid of something.

21. Rumour A piece of information that may or may not be true but people spread it.

22. Distressed Suffering from extreme sorrow or pain.

23. Relying To be dependent for support.

24. Mule The offspring of a donkey and a horse.

25. Iron chest An iron box used for storing items.

26. Greetings It is something friendly that you say or do when you meet someone.

27. Unworthy Lacking in value.

28. Ill-gotten treasure Anything which is obtained in in dishonest way.

29. Suspicious Believing someone has probably done something wrong.

30. Dishonest One who is not honest.

ANTONYMS (OPPOSITS) OF WORDS USED IN THE CHAPTER

WORD ANTONYM
1. Lived Died, ended.

2. Acquired Lost, failed.

3. Practical Impractical, theoretical.

4. Wisdom Stupidity.
5. Sympathy Cruelty.

6. Advice Misinformation.

7. Humble Cruel.

8. Ordinary Special, extraordinary.

9. Constant Unstable.

10. Poverty Wealth.

11. Humility Arrogance.

12. Success Failure.

13. Popular Unpopular.

14. Evil Good.

15. Disloyalty Loyalty.

16. Discontent Content, satisfaction.

17. Hesitation Belief, faith.

18. Refused Accepted.

19. Unworthy Worthy

20. Discard Keep, acquire.

21. Confidence Distrust.

22. Distressed Calm.

23. Acknowledge Reject, ignore.

24. Ashamed Proud.

SENTENCES USING WORDS OR PHRASES USED IN THE CHAPTER

WORD/PHRASE SENTENCE

1. Hillside Sheep were gazing on the hillside.

2. Practical I passed the written exam, but failed the practical.

3. Sound advice The book is full of sound advice.

4. Humble Dada was a humble shepherd.

5. Pasture Horses are grazing in the pasture.

6. Poverty There are more and more people living in poverty in our country.

7. Occupation He is a writer by occupation.

8. Disloyalty Her friends accused her of disloyalty.

9. Discontent Discontent is the first step in progress.

10. Summoned She summoned up a brave smile.

11. Hesitation There was a certain hesitation in her manner.

12. Dwelling Those two men are dwelling with us.

13. Overjoyed She was overjoyed to see her grandmother on her birthday.

14. Cloak She was wearing a red cloak with a hood.

15. Refused He refused to compromise his principles.

 16. Acknowledge You must acknowledge the truth of her argument.

17. Unworthy She proved herself unworthy of the post.

18. Ashamed The boy was ashamed of his behaviour.

19. Suspected I suspected that he was involved in the conspiracy.

20. Province The king made Dara the governor of a large province.

Questions with short answers covering the entire chapter:

QUESTION ANSWER

1. Who was Dara and where did he Dara was a shepherd who lived in Iran in a small hut on a hillside.
live?

2. What did Dara like to do? Dara liked to help the people with his sound advice.

3. Why is he known as ‘Dara-The Dara used to help the village people with sympathy and sound
Good'? advice and therefore he is known as ’Dara-The Good’.

4. What did he wear over his ordinary He wore an old sheep skin cloak over his ordinary clothes. The
clothes and what was the purpose cloak reminded him of his poverty and humility of his occupation
of wearing it?

5. Who called Dara to his place? The king called Dara to his place.
6. Why was Dara being called? The king needed some advice from Dara to save the kingdom
from disaster. Therefore, he was called.

7. What was the offer given to Dara? The offer given to Dara was to be the governor of a small
province.

8. Why were the people overjoyed? The people were overjoyed to see that their friend and adviser
had become their governor.

9. What changes took place after Dara After becoming the governor, instead of moving about on foot,
became the governor? Dara now rode on horse.

10. While going for the official rounds, While going for the official rounds, a mule carrying an iron chest
who followed him? always followed him.

11. What was the rumour that spread The rumour that spread rapidly was that the iron chest contained
rapidly? gold and silver.

12. Why was the king distressed? When the king heard about the rumour he was deeply distressed.

13. Why was the king angry? Seeing the iron chest beside Dara, the king became angry.
 14. What exactly was there in the iron The iron chest contained an old worn-out sheep skin cloak.
chest?

15. Why was the king ashamed of The king was ashamed of himself because he suspected Dara of
himself? being dishonest.

16. How did the king reward Dara? The king rewarded Dara by making him the governor of a large
province.

Extract Based questions with answers covering the entire chapter:

Extract No 1

Extract: “But he was a good and kind man”.

Questions Answers

1. Who is referred as ‘he’ in Dara is referred as ‘he’ in the above statement.

the above statement?
 2. Why did the people come to The people often came to him to get solution to their troubles.
him?

3. How did his reputation as a Dara helped the village people with sympathy and sound advice.
friend of the poor spread? Therefore, his reputation as a friend of the poor spread.

4. What did he like to do? He liked to solve the problems of the village people.

5. How did Dara become Dara’s helping nature and advising the people made him popular.
popular?

Extract Based questions with answers covering the entire chapter:

Extract No 2

Extract: “He needed the advice of a wise and good man”.

Questions Answers
 1. Who needed the advice of a The king needed the advice of a wise and good man.
wise and good man?

2. Why did the king need the To save his Kingdom from disaster, the king needed the advice of Dara.
advice of Dara?

3. Was Dara happy about his No, Dara was not happy with his new post.
new post?

4. What did Dara wear over Dara wore the governor’s cloak over his ordinary clothes after he
his ordinary clothes after he became the governor.
become the governor?

5. What did Dara do after he Dara went from village to village and listen to the problems of the
became the governor? people and solve them.

Extract Based questions with answers covering the entire chapter:

Extract No 3

Extract: “The governor soon lost the trust and confidence of the people”.
 Questions Answers

1. What did the governor take The governor took care of his iron chest.
care of?

2. As the days passed, what As the days passed, a rumour spread in the village.
happened?

3. What was the rumour all The rumour was that the iron chest contained gold and silver.
about?

4. What did the villagers begin The villagers began to believe that the governor was making himself rich
to believe? at the expense of the poor.

5. Why did the governor lose Because of the rumour that spread rapidly in the village, the governor
the trust and confidence of lost the trust and confidence of the people.
the people?

Extract Based questions with answers covering the entire chapter:

Extract No 4

Extract: “l made you a governor, but you have proved yourself unworthy of the post”.
 Questions Answers

1. Who said the above lines The king said the above lines to Dara.
and to whom?

2. When the king approached When the king approached the camp, Dara went forward to receive him
the camp, what did Dara on horseback.
do?

3. Why did the king refuse to Seeing the iron chest beside Dara, the king became angry and refused to
acknowledge Dara’s acknowledge Dara’s greetings.
greetings?

4. What did the king say in The king said in anger, “you have proved yourself unworthy of the post.
anger?

Extract Based questions with answers covering the entire chapter:

Extract No 5

Extract: “Open the chest and take out your ill-gotten treasure”.
 Questions Answers

1. Who is the speaker of the The king is the speaker of the above statement.
above statement?

2. Why was the king The king was surprised to see an old worn-out sheep skin cloak in the
surprised? iron chest.

3. Why was the king happy? The king was happy as his suspicions were baseless and Dara proved to
be an honest and faithful man.

4. How did the king reward To reward Dara’s honesty, the king made him the governor of a large
Dara? province.