CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

CLASS 9

THE LOST CHILD

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What shop was there at the entrance of the fair?
A
A toy shop
B
A balloon shop
C
A sweet meat shop
D
A flower shop
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -d)A flower shopCorrect answer is option ‘C’. Can you explain this answer? Explanation: As the sweet meat seller was selling sweets such as gulab jamun, jalebi and barfi.

Detailed explanation-2: -A sweetmeat seller hawked, “gulab-jaman, rasagulla, burfi, jalebi, ” at the corner of the entrance and a crowd pressed round his counter at the foot of an architecture of many coloured sweets, decorated with leaves of silver and gold.

Detailed explanation-3: -Solution. There were shops selling sweets, toys and clothes.

Detailed explanation-4: -How did he react to this sight? At the sweetmeat shop on the entrance of the fair, the child saw an architecture of many-coloured sweets that made his eyes open wide and left his mouth filled with water. He longed to have his favourite burfi but instinctively knew that his parents would not buy him any.

Detailed explanation-5: -Answer: The child in the story “The Lost Child” wanted to eat Burfi from the sweet shop in the fair.

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