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Karnataka State Syllabus Class 9 English Supplementary Chapter 4 Monday Morning
Monday Morning Questions and Answers, Summary, Notes
Text Book Exercises:
I. Read the story and answer the following in a sentence each.
Question 1.
How did Tom feel on Monday morning?
Answer:
Tom was feeling miserable on Monday Morning.
Question 2.
Why did he want to be sick?
Answer:
He wanted to be sick to stay at home and avoid going to school.
Question 3.
What made Tom think of his toe?
Answer:
Tom remembered the doctor’s dialogue about the toe. He examined his too and found a promising ailment in it.
Question 4.
Why did he start groaning?
Answer:
Tom presented so much that he began to feel the pain in the toe. He wanted to bring the symptom of his ailment to the notice of Sid and Aunt. So he started groaning.
Question 5.
What did he want Sid to do?
Answer:
Tom wanted Sid to tell to their aunt about his ailment.
Question 6.
Was there anything really wrong with his toe?
Answer:
Yes, there was something wrong with his toe.
Question 7.
Did Aunt Polly believe that Tom was really dying?
Answer:
No, Aunt Polly did not believe that Tom was really dying.
Question 8.
What did Aunt Polly do when Tom said his toe was mortified?
Answer:
“Tom, what a fright you gave me! Now I must get you to stop this nonsense.”
Question 9.
What did he complain of next?
Answer:
He complained that his tooth was aching.
Question 10.
Did Tom’s plans finally succeed?
Answer:
No, Tom’s plan did not succeed.
II. Answer the following in two or three sentences each. Work in pairs.
Question 1.
What did Tom begin to investigate? Why?
Answer:
Tom wanted to stay home from school, he mentally examined every part of the body for some ailment.
Question 2.
Why did Tom try not to complain about his loose tooth?
Answer:
If Tom told his aunt about his loose tooth, she would pull it out, and that would hurt him. So he did not try to complain about his loose tooth.
Question 3.
What happened when Tom thought that he had stomach pain?
Answer:
‘Tom thought that he could detect some slight pain in the stomach. He began to encourage it with great hope. But he had little success. The pain soon grew feeble, and presently died away.
Question 4.
How did Aunt Polly pull out Tom’s tooth?
Answer:
The old lady tied one end of the silk thread fast to Tom’s tooth with a loop and tied the other to the bedpost. She seized the pan of burning coals and suddenly thrust it almost into the boy’s face. The tooth living dangling by the bedpost now.
Monday Morning Additional Questions and Answers
I. Choose the correct answers.
Question 1.
Tom was always feeling sick on:
(a) Sundays
(b) Mondays
(c) Saturdays
(d) Tuesdays
Answer:
(b) Mondays
Question 2.
Tom was always pretending sick on Mondays to:
(a) to go to a hospital
(b) go to play
(c) Avoid school and stay at home
(d) Avoid school homework.
Answer:
(c) Avoid school and stay at home
Question 3.
The important ailment that Tom investigated at last was:
(a) Toothache
(b) Stomach ache
(c) Sore toe
(d) Sore finger.
Answer:
(c) Sore toe
Question 4.
When Tom started to groan, Sid was:
(a) Playing
(b) Drinking coffee
(c) Brushing
(d) Sleeping and snoring.
Answer:
(d) Sleeping and snoring.
Question 5.
Sid told Aunt Polly that Tom was:
(a) Groaning
(b) Dying
(c) Crying
(d) Beating
Answer:
(b) Dying
II. Match the following.
| 1. miserable | a. weak |
| 2. ailment | b. discover |
| 3. detect | c. painful |
| 4. feeble | d. very unhappy |
| 5. Sore | e. illness |
Answer:
1. (d), 2. (e), 3. (b), 4. (a), 5. (c).
III. Answer the following.
Question 1.
What were the ailments Tom tried to investigate on a Monday morning?
Answer:
Pretending sick, slight pain in the stomach, loose upper front tooth and finally sore toe were some of the aliments Tom tried to investigate.
Question 2.
Why did Tom keep the tooth problem in reserve?
Answer:
If he told his aunt about it, she would pull it out and that would hurt. So he kept it in reserve.
Question 3.
What was Tom’s last investigation of ailment?
Answer:
He investigated the sore toe problem and made a plan and started to groan.
Question 4.
Why did Tom want Sid to get up?
Answer:
He wanted Sid to tell his aunt about his ailment.
IV. Give the opposites of:
- slow × fast
- little × more
- sleep × awake
- pull × push
Monday Morning Summary in English
It was Monday morning, Tom Sawyer was feeling miserable. Monday mornings always found him so, because it started another week’s slow ‘suffering’ in school. Tom lay thinking. Presently he found himself pretending that he was sick, then he could stay at home. He mentally examined every part of his body. He found no ailment. He investigated again and detected some slight pain in the stomach. But the pain soon grew feeble and died away.
He investigated further and realised that his upper front tooth was loose. If he told his aunt about it, she should pull it out, and that would hurt. So he thought that he would hold the tooth in reserve for the present, and investigated further. Tom remembered the doctor telling about a certain thing that laid up a patient for two or three weeks and threatened to make him lose a finger. So he eagerly drew his sore toe from under the sheet and held it up for inspection.
Now, he had found a promising ailment, he had only to produce the symptoms. So, he fell to groaning with considerable spirit. He should, first of all, get Sid, his younger half brother to tell his aunt about his ailment. But Sid slept on soundly. Tom groaned louder and imagined to feel the pain in the toe. But there was little response from Sid. Sid snored on. Tom was furious. He called out, “Sid, Sid,” and shook him. Sid got up and enquired Tom what had happened to him. Tom was groaning and moaning.
Sid got out of the bed and want to Aunt Polly and told her that Tom was dying. She didn’t believe it. But she fled upstairs with Sid and Mary on her heels. Her face grew white and her lips trembled. When she reached the bedside, she gasped out and she enquired Tom what had happend to him. He told her that his sore toe was mortified. The old lady sank down into a chair and laughed a little, then cried a little. She told him that she would get him to stop the nonsense.
The groans stopped and pain disappeared from the toe. The boy felt a little foolish and he said to Aunt Polly that is seemed mortified and it hurt so much, he didn’t mind his tooth aching at all. Aunt Polly asked him to. stop groaning and decided to teach him a lesson. She asked Mary to bring a Silk thread and some burning coals from the kitchen. Tom understood the situation and pleaded with Aunt Polly not to pull his tooth out and said that he did not want to stay at home from School.
But, by that time, the dental instruments were ready. The old lady tied one end of the silk thread to Tom’s tooth with a loop and tied the other to the bed post. Ther she seized the pan of burning coals and suddenly thrust it almost into the boys face. He jerked back and the tooth hung dangling by the bedpost. Then the old lady said to Tom that his tooth was out, and he should go to school and not frighten her anymore.
Monday Morning Summary in Kannada
