Downstairs
Read the passage and answer the following questions:-
So he crept downstairs and opened the front door quite softly, and went out into the garden. But when the children saw him, they were so frightened that they all ran away, and the garden became winter again. Only the little boy did not run, for his eyes were so full of tears that he did not see the Giant coming. And the Giant stole up behind him and took him gently in his hand, and put him up into the tree. And the tree broke at once into blossom, and the birds came and sang on it, and the little boy stretched out his two arms and flung them round the Giant’s neck, and kissed him. And the other children, when they saw that the Giant was not wicked any longer, came running back, and with them came the spring. “It is your garden now, little children”, said the Giant, and he took a great axe and knocked down the wall.
Questions :
1.’The garden became winter again’. It means that …………..
(A) there was very cold weather in the garden
(B) it became deserted
(C) all the trees dried out
(D) all the birds flew away
2. What did the Giant due to the little boy?
(A) hit him hard
(B) frightened him very much
(C) took him gently in his hand
(D) took him in his hand and ran away at fast and put him up into the tree speed
3. Why couldn’t the boy see the Giant?
(A) his eyes were full of tears
(B) it was very dark
(C) he was blind
(D) he became unconscious because of fear
4. Why did the children run away?
(A) they were tired
(B) they were hungry
(C) to see the gardener
(D) to see the Giant
5. What type of a Giant was it?
(A) bad
(B) wicked
(C) man-eater
(D) good
6. When did tree break at once into blossom?
(A) when the Giant put the child on the tree
(B) when the Giant touched the tree
(C) when the Giant entered the garden
(D) when the Giant left the garden
Answers:-
1.(B) it became deserted
2. (C) took him gently in his hand and put him up into the tree
3. (A) his eyes were full of tears
4. (D) to see the Giant
5. (D) good
6. (A) when the Giant put the child on the tree
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