Amity International school

The Lost Child

Student Worksheet

1. The company of parents is more important than the things of pleasure'. Do you
agree? Answer with reference to the chapter 'The Lost Child'.

2. What do you think will ultimately happen to the lost child? Will the child find his
parents? If so, how?

3. Imagine you have found a lost child who is desperately looking for his/her parents.
Describe your course of action and reaction be.

4. As young children, we feel that our parents do not listen to what we say. Is it true?
Elaborate.

5. It is not right for parents to consider themselves superior and ignore what a child
says. Elucidate with reference to the lesson.

6. How did the mother distract the child’s mind from the toy seller?

7. What values of humanity hours reflected through the character of the kind man?

8. Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:

A sweetmeat seller hawked, “gulab jamun, rasgulla, burfi, jalebi,” at the corner of the
entrance and a crowd pressed round his counter at the foot of an architecture of many
coloured sweets, decorated with sweets of silver and gold. The child stared open-eyed and his
mouth watered for the burfi that was his favourite sweet. “I want that burfi,” he slowly
murmured.

i. What was the sweetmeat seller selling?

a. Burfi and jalebi

b. Rasgulla and gulabjamun.
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above.

ii. What was the child staring at? Why?

a. The child stared at all the sweets because he wanted all of them
b. The child was attracted by coloured sweets.
 c. The child stared at the sweetmeat seller as he was attracted towrds the sweets.
d. The child stared at the burfi because it was his favourite sweet.

iii. Which of the following expressions is incorrect with respect to the word
‘murmured’?

a. Whispered
b. Mumble
c. Yelled
e. mutter
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