THE HUNDRED DRESSES PART I

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 THE HUNDRED DRESSES PART I

Extract Based Questions (MCQ)

Read the following extracts carefully and choose the correct option.

1. Today, Monday, Wanda Petronski was not in her seat. But nobody, not even Peggy and Maddie, the girls who started all the fun, noticed her absence. Usually Wanda sat in the seat next to the last seat in the last row in room Thirteen. She sat in the corner of the room where there the rough boys who did not make good marks sat, the corner of the room where there was most scuffling of feet, most roars of laughter when anything funny was said, and most mud and dirt on the floor. Wanda did not sit there because she was rough and noisy. On the contrary, she was very quiet and rarely said anything at all. And nobody had ever heard her laugh out loud. Sometimes she twisted her mouth into a crooked sort of smile, but that was all.

(i) Who did not notice Wanda's absence?

(a) Peggy alone        (b) Maddie alone            (c ) No one              (d) Everyone

(ii) Why did Wanda Petronski sit in the last row of the class?

(a) She was tired                                                (b) She wanted to sleep

(c ) She wanted to avoid taunts and trouble     (d) The teacher had instructed her to do so

(iii) Find out the word from the extract which means the same as "dragging".

(a) Rough               (b) Scuffling                    (c ) Twisted             (d) Crooked

(iv) What kind of girl was Wanda?

(a) Quiet and serious                                         (b) Naughty and talkative

(c ) Troubling and cunning                               (d) Honest and intelligent

2. But on Wednesday, Peggy and Maddie, who sat down in front with other children who got good marks and who did notice that Wanda wasn't there. Peggy was the most popular girl in school. She was pretty, she had many pretty clothes and her hair was curly. Maddie was her closet friend. The reason Peggy and Maddie noticed Wanda's absence was because Wanda had made them late to school.

(i) What kind of girl was Peggy?

(a) Shrewd and smart                         (b) Pretty, popular and helpful

(c ) Industrious and successful          (d) Dishonest and cruel

(ii) What made Peggy and Maddie late for the school?

(a) Traffic on the way                         (b) Delay in their breakfast

(c ) Completing their homework        (d) Long wait for Wanda to arrive

(iii) Find a word which is opposite of the word "absence" used in the extract

(a) Time                 (b) Lack                  (c ) Presence                 (d) Availability

(iv) Who noticed Wanda's absence in the class finally on Wednesday?

(a) Peggy and Maddie       (b) Miss Mason         (c ) Back seat boys     (d) The principal

3. Wanda didn't have any friends. She came to school alone and went home alone. She always wore a faded blue dress that didn't hang right. It was clean, but it looked as though it had never been ironed properly. She didn't have any friends, but a lot of girls talked to her. Sometimes, they surrounded her in the school yard as she stood watching the little girls play hopscotch on the worn hard ground.

"Wanda," Peggy would say in a most courteous manner as though she were talking to Miss Mason. "Wanda," she'd say, giving one of her friends a nudge, "Tell us. How many dresses did you say you had hanging up in your closet?" "A hundred," Wanda would say.

"A hundred!" exclaimed all the little girls incredulously, and the little ones would stop playing hopscotch and listen.

(i) Which dress did Wanda always wear?

(a) A faded blue dress      (b) A green velvet dress   (c ) A red velvet dress  (d) A glowing yellow dress

(ii) How did girls make fun of  Wanda? 

(a) By trying her shoe-laces together           (b) By asking questions about her hundred dresses

(c ) By pulling her hair                                 (d) By calling her various funny names

(iii) How many dresses did Wanda claim, she had?

(a) Ten               (b)  Eighty seven               (c ) Hundred            (d) Seven hundred

(iv) Find the word from the extract which means "unwilling to accept"?

(a) Ironed           (b) Hopscotch                   (c ) Courteous              (d) Incredulously

4. Peggy was not really cruel. She protected small children from bullies. And she cried for hours if she saw an animal mistreated. If anybody had said to her," Don't you think that is a cruel way to treat Wanda?" She would have been very surprised. Cruel? Why did the girl say she had a hundred dresses? Anybody could tell that was a lie. Why did she want to lie? And she wasn't just an ordinary person, else why did she have a name like that? Anyway, they never made her cry.

(i) Peggy was not cruel. Justify

(a) She protected small children from bullies and felt pain on ill treatment with animals.

(b) She distributed sweets in the class.  (c ) She was very popular in the class.'

(d) She created fun and humour on the class.

(ii) Why did Peggy tease Wanda?

(a) Wanda was a poor girl                                       (b) Wanda was a shy girl

(c ) Wanda lied about having hundred dresses.      (d) Wanda was cruel and dishonest.

(iii) Which word in the extract means the same as "ill-treated"?

(a) Protected           (b) Mistreated                (c ) Cruel             (d) Ordinary

(iv) Why did Wanda lie about having hundred dresses?

(a) To rule over the class                                        (b) To make Peggy feel inferior

(c ) To attract the boys, the back-benchers             (d) To avoid being teased for her poverty

5. Sometimes, when Peggy was asking Wanda those questions in that mocking polite voice, Maddie felt embarrassed and studied the marbles in the palm of her hand, rolling them around and saying nothing herself. Not that she felt sorry for Wanda, exactly. She would never have paid any attention to Wanda if Peggy hadn't invented the dresses game. But suppose Peggy and all the others started in on her next? She wasn't as poor as Wanda, perhaps, but she was poor. Of course, she would have more sense than to say she had a hundred dresses. Still she would not like for them to begin on her. She wished Peggy would stop teasing Wanda Petronski.

(i) Why did Maddie feel embarrassed when Peggy teased Wanda?

(a) She herself was poor                       (b) She had once borrowed a dress from Miss Mason

(c ) She wore a dress of Wanda           (d) She had recently become rich

(ii) What did Maddie want Peggy to do?

(i) To give her some new dresses            (b) To stop teasing Wanda

(c ) To complete her homework             (d) To let her win the drawing competition

(iii) Which game had Peggy invented?

(a) Wanda game      (b) Maddie game       (c ) Dresses game      (d) Petronski game

(iv) Find the word in the extract which means the same as "ashamed or humiliated".

(a) Mocking      (b) Rolling           (c ) Invented            (d) Embarrassed

 6. She wished she had the nerve to write Peggy a note, because she knew she never would have the courage to speak right out to Peggy to say, "Hey, Peg, let's stop asking Wanda how many dresses she has. "When she finished her arithmetic she did start a note to Peggy. Suddenly she paused and shuddered. She pictured herself in the school yard, a new target for Peggy and the girls. Peggy might ask her where she got the dress that she had on, and Maddie would have to say it was one of Peggy's old ones that Maddie's mother had tried to disguise with new trimmings so no one in Room Thirteen would recognize it.   

(i) Why was Maddie afraid of speaking to Peggy to stop teasing Wanda?

(a) Losing her friendship with Peggy             (b) Revealing of her real status by Peggy

(c ) Missing the fun in the class                      (d) Wanda dictating her

(ii) Where did Maddie get her dresses from?

(a) Wanda's family                                         (b) Rich families including Peggy's

(c ) The asylum's                                           (d) The market

(iii) What did Maddie's mother done with the old dresses to Peggy?

(a) Sold them in the market                           (b) Used them as duster

(c ) Disguised them with new trimmings       (d) joined them to make blankets

(iv) Find the word from the extract which means "decorations".

(a) Arithmetic          (b) Shuddered                (c) Disguise             (d) Trimmings

7. As the Wanda, she was just some girl who lived up on Boggins Heights and stood alone in the school yard. She scarcely ever said anything to anybody. The only time she talked was in the school yard about her hundred dresses. Maddie remembered her telling about one of her dresses, pale blue with coloured trimmings. And she remembered another that was brilliant jungle green with a red sash." You'd look like a Christmas tree in that, "the girls had said in pretended admiration. 

(i) Where did Wanda live?

(a) Boggins Heights          (b) Damsel Greens        (c) Boggins Greens     (d) Damsel Heights

(ii) How did Wanda reply to Peggy's mocking her?

(a) By showing her hundred dresses    (b) By standing first in the annual examination

(c) By drawing sketches of a hundred dresses in the drawing competition

(d) By donating Peggy a hundred dresses

(iii) What had the girls said to Wanda to pretended admiration for her imaginary jungle green dress?

(a) Green forest           (b) Parrot                  (c) Christmas tree           (d) Green grass

(iv) Find the word that can be replaced by "hardly" as used in the passage.

(a) Some                     (b) Trimmings           (c) Pretended                  (d) Scarcely

8. "As for the girls" she said, " although just one or two sketches were submitted by most. One girl and Rom Thirteen should be proud of her-this one girl actually drew one hundred designs all different and all beautiful. In the opinion of the judges, any one of the drawings is worthy of winning the prize. I am very happy to say that Wanda Petronski is the winner of the girls medal."

(i) Who does "one girl" refer to in the passage?

(a) Peggy                    (b) Maddie                 (c) Wanda Petronski        (d) Miss Mason

(ii) What was the result of drawing competition?

(a) Wanda for her hundred dresses sketch won      (b) Maddie for her jungle green dress won

(c) Peggy for her red velvet dress won                   (d) The trophy was shared by entire class

(iii) What was the opinion of the judges about Wanda's drawing? 

(a) It was good                                                      (b) Each of her drawing was worthy of winning

(c) Peggy's drawing was equivalent to Wanda's  (d) Only one of the Wanda's drawings was the best

(iv) Find out the word in the extract opposite in meaning to "unreliable".

(a) Most                   (b) Proud                      (c) Opinion                      (d) Worthy





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