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Time to answer

A. Choose the correct answer.

1. Who is the narrator of the story?

Sumita’s mother Ajanta’s mother

Ajanta Sumita

2. Which of these was Ajanta not looking forward to in her new home?

have a room all to herself

a patio to display her dolls

space for swimming, horse-riding and skiing

a drawer to stack away the letters from Mark

3. Why did Sumita give her doll to Ajanta?

because Sumita herself could not stay in the new home

because Sumita did not like her old doll anymore

because Sumita was moving away to a new location

because Ajanta wanted Sumita’s doll

B. Answer these questions.

1. Why did Ajanta gaze across the road from the window of the rented house?

2. What was the reason for Ajanta’s excitement?

3. Why was Sumita excited about the new house?

4. According to Ajanta’s parents, why couldn’t Sumita be friends with her?

5. How did Ajanta fulfil Sumita’s wish?

6. Why did Ajanta think that the world was ‘cruel and insensitive’?

Reference to the context

Read these lines from the story and answer the questions that follow.
1. I wanted to tell Sumita that it was my new house in which Sumita’s parents had built a

temporary shelter. She would be so hurt if...

a. Whose new house was being built?
b. Why had Sumita’s parents made a temporary shelter?

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