Hi Everyone!! This article will share Ram and The Weeping Princess – I Questions & Answers.
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Ram and The Weeping Princess – I Questions & Answers
Question 1: Choose the correct option:
1. Ram loved eating__________.
(a) pizzas
(b) dosas
(c) sweets
(d) none of these
2. In the packet, there was/were
(a) an old album
(b) a metal box
(c) both (a) & (b)
(d) none of these
3. Uncle Mike used to collect:
(a) dosas
(b) footballs
(c) stamps
(d) none of these
4. The mark on the stamp looked exactly like a:
(a) tiny tear
(b) stamp
(c) dosa
(d) none of these
Question 2: Read the line and answer the questions:
“As soon as they got inside the house, Rom opened the packet.”
(a) What do ‘they’ refer to?
Answer: They refer to Uncle Mike and Ram.
(b) What was this person doing in Ram’s house?
Answer: This person often came to Ram’s house to see the family on Sunday. It was usually at breakfast time because he loved dosas, too. He thought that Ram’s mother was the best cook in the world.
(c) Who had given Ram the packet?
Answer: Uncle Mike had given Ram the packet.
(d) What was inside the packet?
Answer: There was an old album and a metal box inside the packet.
Question 3: Fill in the blanks:
1. Ashok had said he would come and play football with him.
2. His mother was cooking dosas. Ram loved eating dosas.
3. Hundreds of colourful stamps poured out onto the floor.
4. Uncle Mike made himself comfortable in a large chair.
5. If one of the stamps is different in any way, then every collector wants to own that stamp and it becomes very precious.
6. The stamp became known as the ‘Weeping Princess’.
Question 4: Why was Ram pleased and woke up at once?
Answer: Ram was pleased that it was a nice bright day because his friend, Ashok had said he would come and play football with him.
Question 5: What did Ram do as soon as he woke up?
Answer: Ram woke suddenly, sat up, rubbed his eyes and stretched. He gave a big yawn and climbed out of bed.
Question 6: What sound did Ram hear from outside?
Answer: As Ram was halfway through his first dosa, he heard a loud crash and a deep rumbling sound from outside.
Question 7: Why did Ram become sad?
Answer: Ram became sad because there were huge thunder clouds and soon there will be raining outside and then his friend Ashok won’t come to play football.
Question 8: What was Uncle Mike’s present to Ram?
Answer: Uncle Mike gave a large brown packet in which there was an old album and a metal box. Both contains hundreds of colourful stamps in them.
Question 9: What was the first postage stamp called?
Answer: The first stamp was called the ‘Penny Black’ and today it is worth a lot of money.
Question 10: What was wrong with every 21st stamp on a sheet of 100?
Answer: Every 21st stamp on a sheet of 100 stamps, showed a tiny colour mark under the eye of the princess. There were only about 8,000 of these stamps printed and every collector wanted one. The stamps became known as the ‘Weeping Princess’ because the mark looked exactly like a tiny tear.
Question 11: Why did people pay high prices for the forged stamps?
Answer: Some clever people began to make their own copies of the stamp. They took the ordinary stamps of the Princess and very cleverly made a mark on them just like a tear. Lots of people thought these forged stamps were real and paid quite high prices for them.
So, these were Ram and The Weeping Princess – I Questions & Answers.