Madam rides the bus extra question answer SEBA Class 10
Hello Students,
Continuing with the Class 10 English Series, Here I am with another article in which I’m giving some extra question answer from Chapter 9 ‘Madam rides the Bus‘ from the English textbook First Flight for Class 10 Assamese medium. Here are the questions-
Short Question Answer:
1. Who wrote the story, ‘Madam rides the bus’?
Ans : Vallikkannan wrote the story ‘Madam rides the bus’.
2. Who was Valliammai ?
Ans : Valliammai was a small girl of eight year old.
3. Did Valli have playmates of her own age ?
Ans : No, Valli did not have any playmates of her own age.
4. What sight gave her many new unusual experiences ?
Ans : Watching the street gave Valli many new unusual experiences.
5. What was the English term Valli used when she become jealous ?
Ans : When Valli become jealous she used the English term ‘proud’.
6. How far was the town from Valli’s village ?
Ans : The town was six miles from Valli’s village.
7. How much time would the trip to the town take ?
Ans : The trip to the town took forty five minutes one way.
8. What was the fare of the bus ?
Ans : The fare of the bus was thirty paise one way.
9. When did Valli make her bus journey to the town ?
Ans : One fine spring day on the afternoon bus Valli made her bus journey to the town.
10. How did the conductor address Valli ?
Ans : The conductor addressed Valli as Madam.
11.What did the conductor want to offer Valli ?
Ans : The conductor wanted to offer Valli a cold drink.
12. Who translated the story “Madam Rides The Bus” from Tamil ?
Ans : K.S. Sundaram translated the story “Madam Rides The Bus” from Tamil.
13. Was the bus that Valli took a new one ?
Ans : Yes, the bus that Valli took a new one.
14. What was the elderly women chewing ?
Ans : The elderly women was chewing betel nut.
15. How much money Valli saved for her first journey ?
Ans : Valli saved sixty paise for her first journey.
16. When did Valli clap her hands with glee ?
Ans : Valli clapped her hands with glee when she saw young cow was running very fast on the middle of the road with his tail high in the air
17. How did the cow die ?
Ans : The cow had died by the struck of some fast moving vehicles.
Madam Rides The Bus class 10 extra question answers SEBA
Long answer type questions
1. What was the source of unending joy for Valli ?
Ans : The sight of the bus, which travelled between her village and the nearest town filled with a new set of passengers was a source of unending joy for Valli.
2. What was Valli’s tiny wish ?
Ans : Valli’s tiny wish was to ride on the bus which travelled between her village and the nearest town.
3. When would Valli be jealous ?
Ans : Valli would be jealous when one of her friend happened to ride the bus and tried to describe the sights of the town to her.
4. What did Valli listen carefully over many days and months ?
Ans : Valli listened carefully to the conversations between her neighbours and people who regularly used the bus.
5. How did Valli pick up various small details about the bus journey ?
Ans : Valli picked up various small details about the bus journey by listening to the conversations between her neighbours and people who regularly used the bus and also by asking a few discreet questions about the bus journey.
6. Why does Valli stand up on the seat ?
Ans : Valli stands up on the seat because her view is cut off by a canvas blind that covered the lower part of her window. So, she stood up on the seat to look over the blind.
7. When did everybody in the bus laugh ?
Ans : When Valli said that she was not a Madam and the conductor had not given her ticket yet then the conductor replied he will remember, mimicking her tone. At that moment everybody in the bus laughed.
8. When did the bus trip lose its charm for Valli ?
Ans : The bus trip lost its charm for Valli after she had seen the dead cow which was running in front of her bus during the time of travelling from her village to town.
9. What did Valli see when she entered her house ?
Ans : When Valli entered her house she saw that her mother awake and was talking to one of her aunts from south street.
10. Why did Valli stand always in the front doorway of her house ?
Ans : Valli had no playmates of her own age on her street. So she always stood in the front doorway of her house and watching what was happening on the street outside as it was her favourite pastime.
11. Give a short account of Valli ?
Ans : Valliammai was a small girl of eight years old and was called Valli. Her favourite pastime was standing in the front doorway of her house and watching what was happening on the street outside as she had no playmates. Her desire was to ride on the bus just once.
12. What fascinated Valli most ?
Ans : Valli’s most fascinating thing was the bus that travelled between her village and the nearest town . It passed through her street each house. The sight of bus filled with a new set of passangers was a source of unending joy for Valli.
13. Describe the bus in which Valli was travelling ?
Ans : The bus in which Valli was travelling was a new one. Its outside was painted in a gleaming white with some green strips along the sides. Inside the bus the overhead bars show like silver. There was a windshield and above it was a beautiful clock and the seats were soft and luxurious.
14. How did Valli react when a fellow passenger called her ‘child’? What did the conductor say then ?
Ans : When a fellow passenger called Valli a ‘child’ then she looked who had spoken and was annoyed by him. She replied that there was nobody child on the bus and she proudly said that she had paid her thirty paise like everyone else.
Then the conductor said that she was not a mere girl. She was a grown up lady who could pay her own fare and travel to the town all alone.
15. How did Valli save up money for her first journey ?
Ans : Valli saved every coin that come her way. She had resisted every temptation like to buy peppermints, toys, balloons and so on. Also, she had controlled herself in the day of the village fair and the desire to ride the merry-go-round. Thus, Valli saved up money for her first journey.
16. What did Valli see on her way that made her laugh ?
Ans : On Valli’s way to town she saw a young cow whose tail was high in the air. It was running right in front of the bus in the middle of the road. When the driver blew his horn loudly the cow became afraid. After that the cow started running faster and faster right in front of the bus. Valli found it so amusing that she clapped her hands with glee and laughed until there were tears in her eyes.
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