First Flight ch05 The Hundred Dresses I

CBSE Test Paper 01
The Hundred Dresses I

Who was Maddie? How did she feel when Peggy made fun of Wanda?
Why kind of a girl was Peggy?
What does the story of Wanda teach us?
How is Wanda seen differently by the other girls? How do they treat her?
Why did Maddie write a note to Peggy and then tore it?
How did Wanda prove herself right? How did Peggy and Maddie realise what Wanda had meant ?
Write down the character sketch of Wanda Petronski.
Draw the character sketch of Peggy.
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
I get along pretty well with all my teachers. There are nine of them, seven men and two women. Mr Keesing, the old fogey who teaches maths, was annoyed with me for ages, because I talked so much. After several warnings, he assigned me extra homework, an essay on the subject, 'A Chatterbox'. A chatterbox-what can you write about that? I'd worry about that later, I decided. I jotted down the title in my notebook, tucked it in my bag and tried to keep quiet.
1. In the passage what does 'I' stand for?
2. Who was Mr. Keesing?
3. Select a word in the passage which means 'old-fashioned'.
4. What was the topic of the 'essay'?
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: (1 $\times$ 4 = 4)
My father, the most adorable father I’ve ever seen, didn’t marry my mother until he was thirty-six and she was twenty-five. My sister, Margot, was born in Frankfurt in Germany in 1926. I was born on 12 June 1929. I lived in Frankfurt until I was four. My father emigrated to Holland in 1933. My mother, Edith Hollander Frank, went with him to Holland in September, while Margot and I were sent to Aachen to stay with our grandmother. Margot went to Holland in December, and I followed in February when I was plunked down on the table as a birthday present for Margot.
1. When did Anne Frank’s father marry her mother?
2. Where did Anne Frank live until she was four?
3. Find out a word from the passage that is the opposite to 'hateful’.
4. When did Anne Frank go to Holland?

CBSE Test Paper 01
The Hundred Dresses I

Solution

Maddie was a poor girl like Wanda. She was Peggy's best friend. She wore used clothes. When Peggy made fun of Wanda, Maddie felt bad. She did not like it. She wanted to stop Peggy from teasing Wanda, but she was silent and did nothing. She wanted to fit in with others, so she kept quiet.
Peggy was the most popular girl in the school. She was not really a cruel girl. In fact, she protected small children from bullies. And she cried for hours if she saw an animal being mistreated. Her intentions were not to hurt Wanda by asking questions about her dresses. She wanted to only have fun with Wanda. She did not want to hurt her feelings.
This story teaches us a moral lesson. No one is recognized by his or her dress or money. Only quality matters. Hard work always pays. Wanda is constantly ridiculed by the other girls of the class. She never reacts and remains calm and reserved. However, she answers all the girls by her talent. When she wins the competition by making a hundred designs of dresses, they are impressed by her and have to give her respect.
Wanda is a Polish immigrant and the other girls in the class are Americans. She is very poor. She is always quiet and reserved. The girls, especially Peggy make fun of her name. They also ridicule her as she has only one blue faded blue dress while she claims to have a hundred dresses. The girls feel that she is very different and too shy.
She wrote a note to request her to stop making fun of Wanda. She thought it was cruel. She could not dare to say all that verbally so she wrote a note to Peggy. But then she pictured herself as a new target for Peggy and other girls, making fun of her for wearing hand-me-down clothes. She shuddered and tore the note.
Peggie and Maddie were the girls who had fun with Wanda Petronski, who was a Polish girl. She was very poor. “Wanda” Peggy would say, “ Tell us how many dresses did you had hanging in your closet”. Then Wanda would reply that she had a hundred dresses, all lined up in her closet. They would burst into shrieks of laughter.
Wanda was a very simple and thoughtful girl. Everybody teased her in her class. She did not pay any attention to others teasing her. When asked, she would claim of having a hundred dresses and sixty pair of shoes at home. She was very determined and showed her determination in the drawing competition by displaying a hundred sketches of dresses she claimed to own. Each of them was so beautiful, that she won the competition and surpassed Peggy. The dresses drawn by Wanda were all different and beautiful. This made Peggy and Maddie realize that Wanda was right when she talked about a hundred dresses.
Wanda Petronski is a Polish girl who has shifted to America from Poland with her parents. Wanda posses a Polish heritage. Wanda is a name difficult to pronounce. She belongs to a very poor family and lives in the poor area of town with her brother and father upon Boggins Heights. She is very shy and quiet. She does not talk to anyone and hardly speaks anything in class or laughs. She has no friends and sits in the last row of the class with some naughty boys so that nobody notices her. She wears the same faded blue dress every day which is not ironed but clean.
Everybody teases her in class for her dress and shoes every day. In anger, she claims of having a hundred dresses and sixty pairs of shoes at home. She is very determined and shows her determination in the drawing competition by displaying a hundred sketches of dresses she claims to own. Each of them is so beautiful, that she wins the competition and surpasses Peggy. Wanda posses a great capacity for forgiveness and extending friendship to Maddie and Peggy. Everybody in the class claps for her in joy.
Peggy's character had many positive qualities. Peggy was the most liked girl in the school. She was popular in school, yet she was sensitive towards others. Peggy and Maddie were best friends. Peggy belonged to a rich family while Maddie was poor. Although she knew that Maddie was a poor girl, yet she liked her very much. Peggy was not really cruel. She protected small children from bullies. She cried for hours if she saw an animal mistreated. She was very loving. She made fun of Wanda only for the sake of fun as she felt that Wanda was lying about her claim of owning a hundred dresses. In reality, she did not want to hurt Wanda. Peggy was very intelligent too, as she was very good at drawing. She could copy a picture in a magazine or some film star’s head. Peggy had also invented the game of guessing the number of dresses owned by Wanda. She was also impressed by Wanda's talent in art as she admired Wanda's designs of a hundred dresses. Thus, Peggy had many good qualities that made her character interesting.
1. 'I' stands for Anne Frank.
2. Mr. Keesing was Anne's mathematics teacher. He was annoyed by Anne as she was very talkative. So, he gave her essays to write as a form of punishment.
3. A word from the passage that means 'old fashioned' is 'Fogey'.
4. The topic of the essay was 'A Chatterbox'. He gave her this topic to write about as she was very talkative and he wanted to punish her.
1. Anne's father didn’t marry her mother until he was thirty-six and she was twenty-five.
2. Anne Frank lived in Frankfurt until she was four.
3. A word from the passage that is the opposite to 'hateful’ is 'adorable'.
4. Anne's sister, Margot went to Holland in December, and Anne followed in February when she was plunked down on the table as a birthday present for Margot.

First Flight ch05 The Hundred Dresses I - CBSE Test Papers