PART - I
1. Tommy walked away with the ___ book beneath his arm
(a) Torn
(b) Dusty
(c) Imaginary
(d) Both
(b) and (c)
Ans: (b) Dusty
2. According to Margie, in old time, the schools were
(a) Big
(b) Brown
(c) Funny
(d) Stupid
Ans: (d) Stupid
3.Whose father knew as much as a teacher?
(a) Tommy
(b) Margie
(c) Blair
(d) Evelyn
Ans: (a) Tommy
14."Why would anyone write about school" -Who said this?
(a) Tommy
(b) Margie
(c) Mrs. Jones
(d) Blair
Ans: (b) Margie
5.Margie was disappointed because they
(a) They took away the mechanical, teacher
(b) They didn't take away the me-chanical teacher
(c) Asked Margie to leave the house
(d) Asked Tommy to go and study
Ans: (b) They didn't take away the me-chanical teacher
6. Margie had to write out her homework
(a) In Russian
(b) In Punch code
(c) In English
(d) None of the above
Ans: (b) In Punch code
7. After fixing the mechanical teacher, the big screen displayed
(a) Margie's face
(b) All the lessons and questions asked
(c) A real book
(d) None of the above
Ans: (b) All the lessons and questions asked
8. The County Inspector had a whole box of
(a) Tools and chocolates
(b) Tools with dials and wires
(c) Pins
(d) Both (a) and (c)
Ans: (b) Tools with dials and wires
9 . Why did Margie hate school now more than ever?
(a) Because of her mother
(b) Because of her scores in Geogra-phy which gets worse and worse
(c) Because she never gets off
(d) Because she dislikes to sit near the mechanical teacher
Ans: (b) Because of her scores in Geogra-phy which gets worse and worse
10. Margie was scornful-
(a) About her Geography scores
(b) Knowing that the real book gives a descriptions about school
(c) About Tommy's scores
(d) About festivals
Ans: (b) Knowing that the real book gives a descriptions about school
11. According to Tommy, the real book was
(a) Boring
(b) A waste
(c) Wrong
(d) Fiction
Ans: (b) A waste
12. The kids in the old schooling pattern went home together
(a) In between classes
(b) During afternoon breaks
(c) During festivals
(d) At the end of the day
Ans: (d) At the end of the day
13. While inserting her homework in the proper slot, Margie was thinking about
(a) Desserts
(b) Vacation in Turkey
(c) Old schools
(d) Tommy
Ans: (c) Old schools
14. What did the teacher in the real book do?
(a) Teaches through computer
(b) Gives lessons online
(c) Taught and gave questions in person
(d) Mailed them the lesson
Ans: (c) Taught and gave questions in person
15. Why did Margie find the old schools interesting?
(a) because of the fun
(b) because of human teachers
(c) because of many friends
(d) All of these
Ans: (d) All of these
16. What was the difference between old schools and modern schools?
(a) Old schools had many friends and modern school had no fellows
(b) Old schools had human teachers and modern schools had robots
(c) Old schools had playgrounds and ! modern school had only computers
(d) All of these
Ans: (d) All of these
17. How much time was taken to repair Tommy's teacher?
(a) 15 days
(c) 20 days
(b) 25 days
(d) one month
Ans: (b) 25 days
18. What did the County Inspector do to help Margie?
(a) He reset the teacher to Margie's level
(b) He changed the module
(c) Changed the teacher
(d) Changed the syllabus
Ans: (a) He reset the teacher to Margie's level
19. Why did Margie's mother call the County Inspector?
(a) to repair a leakage
(b) to talk to Margie
(c) to talk to Tommy
(d) to check the fault in Margie's teacher in the Geography section
Ans: (d) to check the fault in Margie's teacher in the Geography section
B. Objective or very short type questions:
1. Choose the correct statements of the following:
(a)
(i) The story is set in the future when books and schools will perhaps exist.
(ii) The story is set in the future when books and schools will perhaps not exist.
Ans: (ii) The story is set in the future when books and schools will perhaps not exist.
(b)
(i) Magie hated school.
(ii) Margie hated Country Inspector.
(iii) Margie hated Tommy.
Ans: (i) Magie hated school.
(c)
(i) Mrs. Jones is Margie's Mother.
(ii) Mrs. Jones is a doctor.
(iii) Mrs. Jones is a poet.
Ans: (i) Mrs. Jones is Margie's Mother.
(d)
(i) Margie sighs when she thinks of the old schools.
(ii) Margie sighs when she thinks old school building.
(iii) Margie sighs when she puts her homework in the slot of her mechanical teacher.
Ans: (iii) Margie sighs when she puts her homework in the slot of her mechanical teacher.
2. Say whether the following statements are true or false.
(a) Margie was a teacher.
Ans: false
(b) Tommy was a thirteen-year-old boy.
Ans: true
(c) Margie loved school.
Ans: false
(d) County Inspector was a round little man with a red face.
Ans: true
(e) Little children learn better when they learn at regular hours.
Ans: true
(f) Margie wished to attend the school.
Ans: false
3. Who wrote the story 'The Fun They Had'?
Ans: Isaac Asimov wrote the story 'The Fun They Had'.
4. What did she write in her diary?
Ans: She wrote in her diary that that day Tommy had found a real book.
5. How old was Margie?
Ans: Margie was eleven years old.
6. How old was Tommy?
Ans: Tommy was a thirteen-year-old boy.
7. Why were the pages of the real book turned yellow and crinkly?
Ans: The pages of the real book were turned yellow and crinkly because it was a very old book.
8. Where did Tommy find the old book?
Ans: Tommy found the old book in the attic.
9. What was the subject matter of the old book?
Ans: The subject matter of the old book was school.
10. Whom did Margie hate?
Ans: Margie hated the school.
11. Who was the County Inspector?
Ans: The County Inspector was a round little man with a red face and a whole box of tools with dails and wires.
12. What was the problem with Margie's mechanical teacher?
Ans: The problem with Margie's mechanical teacher was that the geography sector was geared a little too quick.
13. What was the name of Margie's mother?
Ans: The name of Margie's mother was Mrs. Jones.
14. What did Margie hope?
Ans: Margie hoped that the County Inspector would take away the mechanical teacher away altogether.
15. When did Tommy leave Margie's home?
Ans: Tommy left Margie's home when it was her school time.
16. When did little children learn better, according to Margie's mother?
Ans: According to Margie's mother, little children learned better if they learned at regular hours.
17. What did Margie do with a sigh?
Ans: Margie inserted the previous day's homework in the proper slot with a sigh.
18. What was the problem with the mechanical teacher?
Ans: The problem with the mechanical teacher was that the geography sector was geared a little too quick.
19. What did the inspector do with the mechanical teacher?
Ans: The inspector slowed the mechanical teacher up to an average ten years level.
20. What was the mechanical teacher flashing on the screen?
Ans: The mechanical teacher was flashing on the screen: "when we add fractions 1/2 and 1/4..."
21. Where was Margie's school? Did she have any classmates?
Ans: Margie's school was right next to her bedroom.
No, she did not have any classmates.
22. What subjects did Margie and Tommy learn?
Ans: The subjects that Margie and Tommy learned were history, geography, and arithmetic.
C. Short type questions: Marks:2/3
1. What was written by Margie in her diary and when did she write?
Ans: It was 17th May of 2157, when Margie wrote in her dairy that Tommy had found a real book.
2. What was the condition of the book that Tommy had found? What was so funny about the book?
Ans: The book that Tommy had found was a very old book. The pages were yellow and crinkly.
The book was awfully funny for her. The words of the book stood still instead of moving the way
they were supposed to on a computer.
3. What kind of teachers did Margie and Tommy have?
Ans: Margie and Tommy had mechanical teachers. They were robots. They had screens that displayed lessons and questions, on slots for students to insert their homework in.
4. How do Margie and Tommy react after seeing the real book?
Ans: Margie and Tommy was surprised to see the real book. It was awfully funny for them to read the words of that book. It was not like the words that moving on a screen. They regarded it as a waste.

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