The Lost Child Extra Questions and Answers Short Answer

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The Lost Child Class 9 Extra Questions And Answers Question 1.
What are the things the child sees on his way to the fair?
Answer:
He sees people gaily dressed, some on horses, some in bamboo or bullock
carts. He also sees toys, dragon ‘flies, insects, worms, flowers, and doves on his
way to the fair.
The Lost Child Extra Question Answer Question 2.
Why does the child lag behind?
Answer:
He lags behind because he is attracted by several of the things he sees on the
way like toys, sweetmeats, dragonflies, flower garlands, the snake charmer and
the roundabout.
The Lost Child Extra Question Answers Pdf Question 3.
What are the things that he wants at the fair?
Answer:
At first he wanted a burfi, then a garland of gulmohur flowers, next some
colourful balloons, after that he was attracted by the snake charmer and finally
he wanted a ride on the roundabout.
Extra Questions Of The Lost Child Question 4.
Why does the child move on without waiting for his parents’ answer whenever
he asked for things that attracted him?
Answer:
He moves on without waiting for an answer because he knew they would not
pay attention to his demands or give him what he asked for.
Ncert Solutions For Class 9 English Moments Chapter 1 Extra Questions
Question 5.
When does the child realize that he had lost his way?
Answer:
At the roundabout, when he turned to request his parents to allow him to sit
on the ride, he did not get any reply. When he looked around for them he
realized he had strayed away from his parents and lost his way.
The Lost Child Class 9 Extra Questions Question 6.
How has the lost child’s anxiety and insecurity been described?
Answer:
His anxiety and insecurity have been described through his reaction to his
realisation that he was lost. Tears rolled down his cheeks, his throat became
dry, his face flushed and convulsed with fear and he ran in all directions in
panic without knowing where to go.
Extra Questions For Class 9 English Moments Chapter 1 Question 7.
Why does the lost child lose interest in the things that he had wanted earlier?
Answer:
He lost all interest in the things that he had wanted earlier because he felt
fearful and insecure at being separated from his parents and all he wanted was
to be reunited with them.
The Lost Child Short Question Answer Question 8.
What do you think happens in the end? Does the child find his parents?
Answer:
This question can be answered in either way. In my opinion the child is
reunited with his parents who are also searching for him and find him crying in
a stranger’s lap.
OR
No, the child is not reunited with his parents but is taken by the man who
finds him and is brought up by him.
The Lost Child Class 9 Questions And Answers Question 9.
Why was the fair being held in the village?
Answer:
It was being held to celebrate the spring season.
Class 9 The Lost Child Extra Questions Question 10.
What tells us that the little boy was excited about going to the fair?
Answer:
The fact that the little boy has been described as “brimming over with life and
laughter” tells us that he was happy and excited to be going to the fair.
Class 9 English The Lost Child Extra Questions Question 11.
Compare the reactions of the father and mother at the child’s request for a
toy.
Answer:
The father glared at him angrily ‘in his familiar tyrant’s way’ while the mother
looked at him tenderly and diverted his attention from the toys.
Extra Questions From The Lost Child Question 12.
What made the mother caution the child?
Answer:
The fact that the child had wandered off into the mustard field trying to catch
a butterfly made the mother call out to him to come back on to the footpath.
The Lost Child Long Question Answer Question 13.
What was the boy engrossed in when his parents sat in the shade of a grove,
near a well?
Answer:
The boy was engrossed in watching little insects and worms that were teeming
out along the footpath.
Lost Child Class 9 Extra Questions Question 14.
What diverted the child’s attention from the shower of flower petals in the
grove?
Answer:
The cooing of doves diverted the child’s attention from the raining flower
petals.
Class 9 English Moments Chapter 1 Extra Questions Question 15.
How did the boy react on nearing the village where the fair was being held?
Why?
Answer:
He felt both attracted and repelled at the sight of the large number of people
who had converged at the village to enjoy the fair.
The Lost Child Important Questions Question 16.
Why did the child not ask his parents to buy him the burfi?
Answer:
The child knew that his parents would not listen to his request and would call
him greedy for wanting
The Lost Child Class 9 Important Questions Question 17.
Why did the child move away from the flower seller without asking his parents
for a garland?
Answer:
He was aware that his parents would refuse to buy him a garland and say that
they were cheap.
Question 18.
Why did the child not ask his parents to buy him balloons even though he was
fascinated by them?
Answer:
He knew his parents would say that he was too old to play with the balloons
so he did not ask his parents to buy them for him.
Question 19.
What made the child move on from the snake charmer?
Answer:
The child had been forbidden by his parents from listening to the music being
played by the-snake charmer,which they had termed as coarse, so he moved
away from the snake-charmer.
Question 20.
Where did the child finally decide to ask his parents to let him enjoy the
delights at the fair? Why?
Answer:
At the roundabout the sight of the machine in full swing with men and women
shrieking, crying and laughing out aloud in excitement, encouraged the child
to ask his parents to be permitted to ride the roundabout.
Question 21.
Where and how did the child meet his saviour?
Answer:
The child met his saviour near the entrance of a temple where he was almost
at the point of being trampled under the feet of the jostling crowd.
Question 22.
How did the man try to quieten the crying lost child?
Answer:
He first took him to the roundabout, then to the snake-charmer, next the
balloon seller, after that to the flower-seller and finally to the sweetmeat seller,
hoping to quieten the crying lost child.
Question 23.
How was the boy’s reaction to the attractions of the fair different after getting
separated from his parents?
Answer:
He lost all interest in the attractions of the fair and kept crying for his parents.
Question 24.
Do you think the title of the story is appropriate?
Answer:
Yes, the title appropriately captures the essence of the story. It highlights the
plight of a little child who is lost in a fair and it captures the emotions that the
child goes through on being separated from his parents. It shows how the
child who a moment ago is excited at the sights and sounds of the fair
suddenly loses interest in all these sights once he realises that he is lost.
The Lost Child Extra Questions and Answers Long Answer
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Question 1.
Describe in detail all the attractions that the child is drawn to till he gets lost in
the fair.
Answer:
Right till the time he loses his parents, the child is attracted to it. several things
that he sees on his way. At first it is the toys being sold at the wayside shops.
Then he is attracted to the dragonflies in the mustard field. Next he is drawn
to the worms and insects on the footpath and the shower of flower petals and
the cooing of the pigeons. On reaching the fair he is first tempted by the
goodies being sold by the sweetmeat seller and then by the colourful balloons
of the balloon-seller. Next he is drawn by the sound of the snake charmer and
finally he is mesmerized by the roundabout with children and adults enjoying
the rides.
Question 2.
Do you consider the child’s behaviour as depicted in the story normal? Give
reasons for your answer.
Answer:
Yes, the child’s behaviour was normal. The story very clearly depicts the
behaviour of a young child who is attracted by everything he sees around him.
The child is not only attracted to toys and sweets but also fascinated by the
natural wonders of the world like dragonflies, pigeons, flowers and snakes.
This is a reflection of the universal phenomenon of a child’s attraction and
fascination with the natural world. As mentioned in the story the child is both
‘repelled and fascinated’ by the colourful world around him which is normal
for any young child. The crowds and noise repel a child while the colourful
world and the sights of the fair fascinate him.
Question 3.
The story describes certain attractions which may not be so attractive to a
modern child. Can you pick up some of them from the story – ‘The Lost Child’.
Answer:
A modem city child has very little interaction with nature on a daily basis,
unlike the lost child. They have very little possibility of being allowed to run
wild in a yellow mustard field or being interested in doing so. Technology has
taken away a lot of their time and hence he or she does not have the time to
run after dragonflies or butterflies or simply rejoice under the rain of flower
petals from a gulmohur tree.
With their exposure to amusement parks and water parks with mechanised
rides and an artificially created ambience, they would probably not even feel
comfortable in natural surroundings. However if the child is allowed free rein
to interact with nature he/she would probably find the natural affinity that a
human being has for nature and behave in the same manner as the lost child
in the story.
Question 4.
Describe the character of the child as depicted in the story.
Answer:
The child is very young, innocent and full of joy and energy. He finds
everything around him exciting and fascinating, whether a dragonfly or toy
displayed in a toy shop. Like any child he is easily distracted and his desires
and interests keep on changing from sweetmeats to balloons to rides. He is
not used to large crowds and is ‘repelled and fascinated’ by them.
His whole world revolves around his parents and he is deeply affected at his
separation from them. He is obedient and disciplined and does not throw a
tantrum to get his object of desire. He fears his father and approaches his
mother whenever he is tempted by any of the objects he sees during his
journey to the fair and at the fair itself.
Question 5.
How does the child in the story lose himself? How far is he responsible for his
predicament?
Answer:
The child is wholly responsible for his predicament because at every stage we
find him wandering off after one attraction or the other inspite of repeated
instructions from his mother not to do so. Initially we find him staring down in
front of the wayside toy shops. Next he wanders off into the mustard fields,
chasing dragonflies. Then he slows down to admire the insects and worms that
line the footpath.
After that he gets distracted by the rain of flower petals and the cooing of the
doves and has to be pulled back to the main road by his mother. On entering
the fair he again slows down in front of the sweetmeat seller, the flower seller,
the snake charmer and the roundabout before realising that he is completely
on his own.