#6: IX> 10 Marks on All about a Dog, Grammar & Writing

Class: IX            Full Marks: 20            Time: 1 hrs.

Syllabus: All about a Dog>5,Grammar>5,Writing>10

The conductor came to the door.  Some passengers demanded, "Give us our fares back, you've engaged to carry us,  you can't leave us here all night."  "No fares back," said the conductor. Two or three passengers got out and disappeared into the night. The conductor turned on the pavement, went to the driver to have a talk with him. Another bus, the last on the road, went by. It seemed indifferent to the shouts of the passengers to stop. A policeman strolled up and looked in at the door. The passengers burst out with indignant protests and appeals. "Well, he's got his rules, you know" he said genially. Then he went away to stand a few yards down the street. There he was joined by two more constables. Still the little dog blinked at the lights and the conductor walked to and fro like a captain in the hour of victory. A woman passenger's voice rose above the gale, threatening the bus conductor. But he was cold as the night and hard as the pavement. She expressed her anger to the three policemen who stood up the street watching the drama. Then she came back, called her companion, and vanished. The bus was emptying. “I'll go to the top," said the young lady with the dog, at |ast."You'II have pneumonia” the man said. 

1. Write the answer of the following questions:    1X5

a) What did the male partner said When the lady forced to go to the top of the bus?

b) What is indifferent to the passengers’ call?

c) What did the passengers demand from the conductor?

d) Why did the passengers burst out with indignant protest?

e) Why did the policeman go down the street?

2. Do as directed:                                 1X5

a. She said with sigh,”The old man must have forgotten to breathe.” [Narration]

b. Someone asked Bhola Grandps what he was griping.                 [Narration]

c. The fitful guest takes the faded leaves away.                    [Voice]

d. Rabindranth is a great poet. It is known to all.                 [Simple]

e. The minister is a lier. Do you know it?                          [Complex]

3. Write a story within 100 words using the given hints:

         Give a title to the story:                10

Hints: returning from educational excursion by bus-night journey-sudden-breakdown-tyres punctured-had to wait fortwo hours at a lonely place-tyres fixed-back home