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👉 Short answer type questions 

👉 Question (1) Who was Sophie ? What were her dreams ? 

सोफी कौन थी ? उसके सपने क्या थे ?

✍️ Answer. Sophie was a young school going girl belong to a lower middle-class family. Her dreams were to become a fashion designer, an actress, a manager or to buy a boutique.

👉 Question (2) What did Sophie find her father doing at home ?

सोफी ने अपने पिता को घर पर क्या करते हुए पाया ?

✍️ Answer. At home, Sophie found her father scooping shepherd's pie into his mouth as hard as he could go, his plump face still grimy and sweet-marked from the day.

👉 Question (3) Why did Sophie feel tightening in her throat ?

सोफी ने अपने गले में घुटन क्यों महसूस की ?

✍️ Answer. Sophie felt tightening in her throat because they lived in a small room including kitchen in itself. The room was steamy from the stove and cluttered with the heavy-breathing man in his vest at the table and the dirty washing piled up in corner. So, there was the suffocation in the room.

👉 Question (4) Who was Sophie's elder brother ? What was he doing in the next room ?

सोफी का बड़ा भाई कौन था ? वह अपने कमरे में क्या कर रहा था ? 

✍️ Answer. Sophie's elder brother was Geoff. In the next room, he was kneeling on the floor tinkering with a part of his motorcycle over some newspaper spread on the carpet. He was an apprentice mechanic.

👉 Question (5) What did Sophie want from her brother ?

सोफी अपने भाई से क्या चाहती थी ? 

✍️ Answer. Sophie's brother used to go far places for his work. Sophie wanted that her brother might take her too one day those unknown places. She wanted her brother's more affections because he used to speak very little voluntarily.

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👉 Question (6) How did Sophie's father take her ?

सोफी के पिता उसे कैसे लेते थे ?

✍️ Answer. Sophie's father was a down-to-earth, daily earner person. He knew that her daughter was a daydreamer. She used to tell wild imaginative stories and never faced the realities. So, Sophie's father took Sophie very lightly and ignored her mostly whenever she spoke.

👉 Question (7) What did Sophie tell her brother secretly ? 

सोफी ने अपने भाई को गुप्त रूप से क्या बताया ?

✍️ Answer. Sophie told her brother Geoff secretly that she had met Danny Casey in the arcade. She told that she was looking at the clothes in Royce's window when someone had came and stood beside her, she looked around and found that it was Danny Casey.

👉 Question (8) Who was Danny Casey and how did Sophie belong to him ?

डेनी केसी कौन था और सोफी उससे कैसे सम्बन्ध रखती थी ?

✍️ Answer. Danny Casey was a young Irish genius, a football player. He was the youngest member of his team. Sophie belonged to him through her imaginations. She imagined that Danny Casey met her in the arcade and ready to date with her.

👉 Question (9) Why did Sophie not want her father to know about Danny Casey ?

सोफी अपने पिता को डेनी केसी के बारे में क्यों नहीं खबर होने देना चाहती थी ?

✍️ Answer. Sophie didn't want her father to know about Danny Casey because she knew that her father was too rude to her, remained angry with her and never believed her. She knew that her father would react very aggressively knowing about her meeting with Danny Casey because he would understand it as another wild story of her.

👉 Question (10) What did Sophie ask to Danny Casey ? Where did she meet him ?

सोफी ने डेनी केसी से क्या कहा ? वह उससे कहाँ मिली ?

✍️ Answer. Sophie asked Danny Casey to give her an autograph for little Derek but neither of them had any paper or a pen. She met him in the arcade at Royce's window.

           

 

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👉 Question (11) How did Danny Casey look like ?

डेनी केसी कैसा दिखता था ?

✍️ Answer. Danny  Casey was tall man with a strong dark face. He was handsome. He had green eyes. He had the same accent which was seen often on television at interviews.

👉 Question (12) What was the weekly pilgrimage ? What happened there ?

साप्ताहिक तीर्थयात्रा क्या थी ? वहाँ क्या होता था ?

✍️ Answer. The weekly pilgrimage was to watch United. On Saturday, there organised the matches of football between United and others and the whole family of Sophie used to go there to watch those. There Casey drove in the second goal and beat the hesitant goalkeeper from a dozen yards.

👉 Question (13) What did Jansie ask to Sophie about Danny Casey ? 

जॉन्सी ने सोफी से डेनी कैसी के बारे में क्या पूछा ?

✍️ Answer. Jansie asked Sophie about Danny Casey that her Geoff had told their Frank that she had met Danny Casey. Jansie was nosey and frowned when she found that Sophie was covering and didn't want to tell her anything.

👉 Question (14) Where did Sophie go after the dark and why ?

अँधेरा होने के बाद सोफी कहाँ गई और क्यों ?

✍️ Answer. After the dark Sophie walked by the canal, along a sheltered path lighted only by the glare of the lamps from the wharf across the water, and the unceasing drone of the city was muffled and distant. She went that lonely place to date with Danny Casey.

👉 Question (15) What happened at the meeting place ?

मिलने के स्थान पर क्या हुआ ?

✍️ Answer. At the meeting place, she sat down to wait. For some while, waiting, she imagined his coming. She watched along the canal, seeing him come out of the shadows, imagining her own consequent excitement. Not until some time had elapsed did she begin balancing against this the idea of his not coming.

👉 Question (16) Why 'resignation was no sudden thing' for Sophie ?

सोफी के लिए त्यागना (पीछे हटना) तुरन्त होने वाली चीज नहीं थी क्यों ?

✍️ Answer. 'Resignation was no sudden thing' for Sophie because she thought a lot about Danny Casey and according to Sophie's own planning, she went to the meeting place, waited there a long, imagined Danny's coming, balanced her positive and negative thoughts, wished his coming, found no sign of him and finally concluded that he would not come, only then the resignation occured.

👉 Question (17) Why was Sophie disappointed ? How did she return ?

सोफी क्यों उदास थी ? वह कैसे लौटी ?

✍️ Answer. Sophie was disappointed because her expectation to meet Danny Casey was not fulfilled. She waited a lot, hoped but Danny didn't come. She returned from there very dejectedly, having heavy thoughts into her mind, slowly walking towards home thinking about the future.

👉 Question (18) How did Sophie describe Danny Casey ?

सोफी ने डेनी केसी का वर्णन कैसे किया ?

✍️ Answer. Sophie described Danny Casey saying that his eyes are on the same level as your own. His nose is freckled and turns upwards slightly, and when he smiles he does so shyly, exposing teeth with gaps between. They seem gentle, almost afraid. Like a gazelle's.

👉 Question (19) What happened at the stadium last Saturday ?

पिछले शनिवार को स्टेडियम में क्या हुआ था ?

✍️ Answer. Last Saturday, Sophie saw it all again. She saw him ghost past the lumbering defenders, heard the fifty thousand catch their breath as he hovered momentarily over the ball, and then the explosion of sound as he struck it crisply into the goal, the sudden thunderous eruption of exultant approbation.

👉 Question (20) Did Sophie really meet Danny Casey ?

क्या सोफी डेनी केसी से वास्तव में मिली थी ?

✍️ Answer. Sophie was a daydreamer girl belonged to a very poor lower middle-class family but her dreams were too higher than the realities. She dreamt of meeting Danny Casey a football player of Ireland team. She imagined even the date with Danny Casey and went to meet him at one place also but in actual, she never met with Danny Casey, neither in the arcade nor any where else.

             

👉 Long answer type questions.

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👉Question (1) who were Sophie and Jansie ? How did they belong and how were their financial condition ?

सोफी और जेन्सी कौन थी ? वे कैसे सम्बन्ध रखती थी और उनकी आर्थिक स्थिति कैसी थी ?

✍️ Answer. Sophie and Jansi were friends of each other. They belonged to each other as they both were classmates. Both used to go to school together and returned together. Both belonged to very poor lower middle-class families. The financial condition of their families was very miserable.

Both were earmarked to work in a biscuit factory after school. But there was one dissimilarity between them also. Jansi was a realistic and down-to-earth girl whereas Sophi was a daydreamer and always floated in false imaginings.

👉 Question (2) What were Sophie's dreams ? What was the irony in Sophie's life ?

सोफी के सपने क्या थे ? सोफी के जीवन में क्या व्यंग (विरोधाभास) था ?

✍️ Answer. Sophie was a girl related to a lower middle-class family but opposite to it, she didn't accept the reality. Even, more than it, she started to see the dreams much higher than she must. She wanted to achieve everything without any efforts.

But the irony in Sophie's life is very clear. She dreamt of achieving so many positions but never analysed considered her and family's actual financial status. She was a day dreamer and very far from the realities and her dreams were to high in comparison of their economic conditions.

👉 Question (3) Give character-sketch of Geoff.

ज्योफ का चरित्र-चित्रण कीजिए |

✍️ Answer. Geoff was Sophie's brother. His character traits are as following.

* Geoff was a reserved nature young boy elder than Sophi.

* Geoff left school three years before and presently, an apprentice mechanic.

* Geoff used to go far side of the city for work.

* His life style and life was not open to all.

* Geoff knew the realities so he had admitted those and started to live practical life by learning motor mechanism.

* Geoff was a voluntary speaker and mostly engaged in his work also.

* Geoff loved his sister Sophie but knew about her wild dreaming.

* Geoff was fond of wearing fashionable.

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👉Question (4) What were the reactions of Geoff and Sophie's father when they came to know about Danny Casey ?

जब ज्योफ और सोफी के पिता को डेनी केसी के बारे में पता चला तो उनकी क्या प्रतिक्रियाएँ थी ?

✍️ Answer. When Geoff and Sophie's father came to about Danny Casey, they reacted in the expected unusual way. Geoff, first, didn't believe but later enquired Sophie about the time and place of meeting her with Danny Casey and also asked about the reach of that information of Dad.

He turned his head on his thick neck to look Sophie when Geoff told him about her meeting with Danny Casey. His expression was one of distain. Father muttered something inaudible and dragged himself round in his chair and commentead on her another wild story.

👉 Question (5) How did Sophie meet Danny Casey and how did she describe about him ? 

सोफी डेनी केसी से कैसे मिली और उसने उसके बारे में कैसे व्याख्या की ?

✍️ Answer. Sophie was in the arcade once and seeing the clothes at Royce's window and the mean while she looked around and found that someone was standing beside her and then she met that person who was Danny Casey.

Sophie described his whole personality in a short meeting. She said that he had green eyes, gentle eyes. He was not so tall as Geoff would think. Sophie didn't say about his teech. She was a daydreamer and had imagined that all as per her.

👉 Question (6) What had happened at the meeting place ? Did Sophie meet Danny Casey ? Why or why not ?

मिलने के स्थान पर क्या हुआ था ? क्या सोफी डेनी केसी से मिली ? क्यों अथवा क्यों नहीं ?

✍️ Answer. After imagining a lot about Danny Casey, Sophie planned to meet Danny Casey and for that purpose, she selected a lonely place, far from the city, to date Danny Casey. It was that place where sometimes in her childhood, she used to go to play.

She reached there, sat on a wooden bench under a solitary elm (Tree). She started waiting Danny Casey. For some time, waiting, she imagined his coming. She watched along the canal, seeing him come out of the shadows, imagining her own consequent excitement.

👉 Question (7) What thoughts were floating in the mind of Sophie while returning to home from the meeting place ? What did she feel experience on the way ?

मिलने के स्थान से घर लौटते समय सोफी के दिमाग में क्या विचार तैर (घूम) रहे थे ? उसने रस्ते में क्या महसूस किया ?

✍️ Answer. While returning to home, Sophie was having a lot of thoughts into her mind. She thought that how would she live with that burden that Danny had not come to meet her. Her family members would doubt her.

Geoff would fly out and slam the door when he would come to know that she had not met Danny Casey. That was a hard thing, that sadness. Then, on the way, Sophie again imagined Danny Casey in front of her and started to talk.

              

👉 Multiple choice questions (MCQ.)

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👉 Choose the most appropriate word or phrase that best completes the sentence from the given alternatives.

1. Jansie, linking arms with her along the street, looked.

(i) Cheerful (ii) Surprised (iii) Doubtful (iv) Jealous

2. Sophie said, I'll have the most amazing......this city's ever seen.

(i) Biscuit factory (ii) Boutique (iii) Office (iv) Shop

3. Sophie felt a.......in her throat.

(i) Suffocation (ii) Tightening (iii) Pain (iv) Vibration

4. Sophie was jealous of her brother Geoff's........

(i) Personality (ii) Silence (iii) Nature (iv) Attitude

5. Geoff sat........at the oily component he cradled in his hands.

(i) Frowning (ii) Understanding (iii) Clearing (iv) Cleaning

6.........Switched off the television.

(i) Danny (ii) Derek (iii) Geoff (iv) The father

7. The table lamp cast an........glow across her brother's bedroom wall.

(i) Yellowish (ii) Amber (iii) Reddish (iv) None

8. On Saturday they made their weekly pilgrimage to watch........

(i) Football (ii) Match (iii) Danny (iv) United

9. There was a wooden bench beneath a........elm where lovers sometimes came.

(i) Lonely (ii) Big (iii) Solitary (iv) Old

10. Resignation was no........thing.

(i) Easy (ii) Sudden (iii) New (iv) Normal

11. Outside the.........she passed her father's bicycle propped against the wall, and was glad.

(i) Pub (ii) Club (iii) Stadium (iv) Meeting place

12. Sophie said, His eyes are.......and when he looks straight at you they seem to shimmer.

(i) Blue (ii) Green (iii) Grey (iv) Red

👉 Answer.

(1) iii (2) iv (3) ii (4) ii (5) i (6) iv (7) ii (8) iv (9) iii (10) ii (11) i (12) ii 

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