Chapter 5 – A Different Kind of School

Name the lesson

Write some qualities of Miss Beam.

Miss Beam had a figure.

What did the narrator ask Miss Beam?

Give the meaning of ‘plump’.

Who is explaining the system?

What is the unique feature of Miss Beam’s schooling system?

What are the children made to undergo during the term?

How is blind day observed?

Give the meaning of ‘peep’,

Who is the author talking to?

What does she feel on a blind day?

Why does she play the game of being blind?

Give the meaning of ‘relief’.

Give the opposite of ‘something’.

Name of the lesson.

Who does ‘we’ refer to here?

What did the author gain from his visit to school?

Did he like Miss Beam’s schooling system?

Give the meaning of ‘gradually’.

Who was Miss Beam?

What was nothing but a game?

Which day was considered the most difficult day?

Who was asked to come into the garden?

Give the meaning of ‘misery’.

What did Miss Beam mean by ‘thought fulness’?

Why did she take the author to the window?

What did he observe in the playground?

What was it that pained him?

Give the opposite of ‘pains’.

Who is ‘I’ in the above lines?

Where did the narrator arrive?

The girl was about years old.

Who was leading the girl whose eyes were covered with a bandage?

“Then they moved on”. Who are they in above lines?