CBSE Class 9 Sample Papers, Syllabus, Test Papers & NCERT Solutions

The novel Three Men in a Boat, a fictional story written by Jerome K. Jerome. Three Men in a Boat is a story about a boat trip that J. takes with Thames River and his friends George and William Samuel Harris. Three Men in a Boat was first published in the year 1889. Chapter I: […]

Three Hypochondriacs—Talk only of Diseases There were four of them—three men and a dog. Three longtime friends, George Wingrave (George), Carl Hentschel (Harris) and the narrator, Jerome K. Jerome, were sitting in a room, smoking and talking about how physically bad they were from a medical point of view. The narrator Jerome suffered from every […]

INTRODUCTION The humorous travelogue ‘Three Men In A Boat ’ was written by an English writer and humorist, Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859-14 June 1927). The novel was published in 1889. It is a humorous account ‘of a boating holiday’on the river Thames between two famous places, Kingston and Oxford. Jerome initially wanted to […]

Introduction Part I – A Voyage to Lilliput Part II – A Voyage to Brobdingnag Part III – A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan Part IV – A Voyage to the Country of Houyhnhnms Chapter-wise Summary Text – Based Important Questions Solved

I. QUESTIONS ON CHARACTERS Question 1: Describe Lemuel Gulliver as a narrator and an observer of new lands, people and their practices. Or Attempt a character sketch of Lemuel Gulliver. Answer: Lemuel Gulliver is the most important character in Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels He is also a keen observer and recorder of events, lands, people and […]

PART-I (A Voyage to Lilliput) Chapter I: Lemuel Gulliver was the third of the five sons. His father was a small land-owner in Nottingham shire. He was educated at Emanuel College in Cambridge. Then he served as an apprentice to a well known surgeon in London. After three years, he was sent to Leyden to […]

In the Country of the Yahoos’ and the Houyhnhnms Gulliver sailed from England on 7th September, 1710. In the course of his new voyage, he was attacked by the members of the crew. Many of whom had previously been pirates. They put him down on the sea-coast and sailed away. After a while, he saw […]

Voyage to Laputa Gulliver hardly stayed with his family for 10 days when he got an offer to work as a surgeon on the ship “Hope-Well”. At Tonguin, the Captain gave Gulliver a sloop (ship). It was chased by the pirates. They set Gulliver adrift in a small boat. The boat touched an island named […]

In the Land of Giants, in Brobdingnag After staying with his family for some time, Gulliver commenced his voyage on a merchant ship “Adventure’ on 20th June, 1702. The ship was bound for Surat. After facing the rough sea and the storms, the Captain sighted the land. He sent a few members of the crew, […]

Early Life of Gulliver Lemuel Gulliver was the third son of a small landowner in Nottingham shire. He decided to settle down in London to practise medicine. He was married to Endmon Burton, who brought him a good dowry. He took up a surgeon’s job at the ship Antelope’ when his medical practice didn’t prove […]

INTRODUCTION ‘Gullivers Travels is the most popular and widely read of all Swifts works. ‘Gullivers Travels though finished in 1725, was published anonymously in 1726. It is believed that Swift was inspired by Memoirs of Scriblerus while writing this book. The book contains four parts. In Part I of the book, Gulliver describes his shipwreck […]

Chapter 1: The Lost Child Chapter 2: The Adventure Of Toto Chapter 3: Iswaran The Storyteller Chapter 4: In The Kingdom Of Fools Chapter 5: The Happy Prince Chapter 6: Weathering The Storm In Ersama Chapter 7: The Last Leaf Chapter 8: A House Is Not A Home Chapter 9: The Accidental Tourist Chapter 10: […]

Think about it (Page 67) Question 1. Has Lushkoff become a beggar by circumstance or by choice? Answer: Lushkoff was a middle-aged man and belonged to the Russian choir. He was not a bom beggar. He was sacked from the choir because of his drinking habits. He became a beggar by choice as he did […]

Think about it (Page 60) Question 1. Bill Bryson says, “I am, in short, easily confused.” What examples has he given to justify this? Answer: Bill Bryson never had a pleasant journey. He got easily confused. Citing examples, he said that he could not easily find lavatory in a cinema hall and finally found himself […]

Think about it (Pages 54 & 55) Question 1. What does the author notice one Sunday afternoon? What is his mother’s reaction? What does she do? Answer: The author, while doing his homework noticed the smoke pouring in through the seams of the ceiling. The room was filled with the smoke very quickly. The author […]

Think about it (Page 48) Question 1. What is Johnsy’s illness? What can cure her, the medicine or the willingness to live? Answer: Johnsy, a young artist, was ill. She was suffering from pneumonia. But later on she suffered from a misconception that she would die as soon as the last leaf on the creeper […]

Think about it (Page 42) Question 1. What havoc has the super cyclone wrecked in the life of the people of Orissa? Answer: It was a devastating storm which washed the houses away and destroyed hundreds of villages. It killed thousands of people and uprooted a large number of trees. There were dead bodies all […]

Think about it (Page 36) Question 1. Why do the courtiers call the prince ‘the Happy Prince’? Is he really happy? What does he see all around him? Answer: He was a prince when he was alive. Being a prince he never knew sorrow and suffering. So, the courtiers called him ‘the happy prince’. But […]