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Class 9 English Three Men in a Boat Novel – Text – Based Important Questions Solved
I. QUESTIONS ON CHARACTERS Question 1: Sketch the character of the narrator, Jerome K. Jerome. Answer: Jerome K. Jerome is the main character of his classical comic novel ‘Three Men in a Boat’. He is the narrator and the novel is a ‘first person’ description of the river journey from Kingston to Oxford. Like both […]
Class 9 English Three Men in a Boat – Chapter wise Summary
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: […]
Class 9 English Three Men in a Boat – Summary of the Novel
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 […]
Class 9 English Three Men in a Boat – Introduction
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 […]
Class 9 English Novel Gulliver’s Travels
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
Class 9 English Gulliver’s Travels Novel – 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 […]
Class 9 English Gulliver’s Travels Novel – Chapter-wise Summary
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 […]
Class 9 English Gulliver’s Travels Novel – Part IV – A Voyage to the Country of Houyhnhnms
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 […]
Class 9 English Gulliver’s Travels Novel – Part III – A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan
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 […]
Class 9 English Gulliver’s Travels Novel – Part II – A Voyage to Brobdingnag
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, […]
Class 9 English Gulliver’s Travels Novel – Part I – A Voyage to Lilliput
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 […]
Class 9 English Gulliver’s Travels Introduction
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 […]
NCERT Solutions For Class 9 English Moments
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: […]
NCERT Solutions For Class 9 English Moments Chapter 10 The Beggar
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 […]
NCERT Solutions For Class 9 English Moments Chapter 9 The Accidental Tourist
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 […]
NCERT Solutions For Class 9 English Moments Chapter 8 A House is Not a Home
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 […]
NCERT Solutions For Class 9 English Moments Chapter 7 The Last Leaf
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 […]