CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Even at the village fair, she resisted the temptation to be on the merry-go-round. Thus, she had been able to save sixty paise for her first bus journey.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ans. After she had saved enough money, Valli had her next problem. It was how to slip out of the house without her mother’s knowledge. She solved this problem easily.

Detailed explanation-3: -Valli didn’t want to go to the stall because she had saved only sixty paise for the trip. She had no spare money. So, when the conductor suggested that she get down and have a drink, she refused.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ans. I don’t think that Valli’s mother would have taken her for a bus ride. They were not well off and her mother would consider this to be a wasteful expenditure. So, she would refuse from the bus ride.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ans: Valli’s deepest desire as an eight-year-old was to travel by bus she saw every day. The sentences in the story which depict this are as follows: “Day after day she watched the bus, and gradually a tiny wish crept into her head and grew there: she wanted to ride on that bus, even if just once.