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Toinette and The Elves Questions & Answers
Question 1: Choose the correct option:
1. To be invisible, Toinette had to________
(a) jump like a grasshopper and put on a cap.
(b) put fern seeds in her shoes.
(c) drink fern-seed soup.
2. When Toinette went near Mother, she neither moved nor turned her head because__________
(a) Toinette was invisible.
(b) Mother was busy.
(c) Mother was upset with Toinette.
3. Mother often went to the door because__________
(a) the children left the door open.
(b) she was expecting guests.
(c) she was worried about Toinette.
4. The speaker says Toinette was not quite the same girl she had been before because__________
(a) she was invisible.
(b) she had become a nicer person.
(c) she had met Thistle.
5. The elves could not make fern-seed soup because__________
(a) they had given all the fern seeds to Toinette.
(b) they did not know how to make it.
(c) they were afraid that their wings would get scorched
Question 2: Read the lines and answer the questions.
“Do you still wish to be invisible?”
(a) Who said this to whom?
Answer: Thistle said this to Toinette.
(b) Why does the speaker say these words?
Answer: Earlier Thistle had warned Toinette that being invisible was not always fun. So, he asks this because he wanted to know if Toinette had changed her mind.
(c) What did the listener say? What did the speaker do?
Answer: Toinette said that she still wanted to be invisible. On hearing that, Thistle put some tiny brown fern seeds in Toinette’s shoes. Toinette would become invisible when she wore those shoes. Then, Thistle told her that she could reappear simply by shaking the seeds out of the shoes, bid her goodbye and left.
Question 3: How do the readers first get to know that Toinette was invisible?
Answer: Early next morning, when Toinette went down for breakfast and stood next to her mother, she neither moved nor turned her head. This shows that Toinette was invisible.
Question 4: Read the lines and answer the questions.
“Perhaps a wolf has eaten her up…”
(a) Who said these words to whom?
Answer: Pierre said these words to Marc.
(b) What did the listener say?
Answer: Marc was not bothered about Toinette being eaten by a wolf. He said unfeelingly that in case she had been eaten up by a wolf, he wanted Toinette’s room.
(c) How did it make Toinette feel?
Answer: Toinette was very hurt and her eyes filled with tears.
Question 5: What did her siblings say about her when their mother asked where she was?
Answer: They said that they had not seen her. Pierre said that a wolf might have eaten her up.
Question 6: What made Toinette realise that she had been unkind to her siblings?
Answer: When her siblings could not find her, they did not bother. They continued playing happily and did not seem to miss her. In fact, looking at them so happy, she recollected all the unkind things she had said and done to them.
Toinette and The Elves Questions & Answers
Question 7: Read the lines and answer the questions.
“But I can be better and kinder if I tried. And I will.”
(a) Why does the speaker say these words?
Answer: After hearing Marc’s unfeeling words and seeing that her siblings did not seem to miss her at all, Toinette started thinking about how she had been behaving with them. She realised that she had been a very bad sister. She remembered that she had not told Jeanneton a story a few days back, she had slapped Marie the previous Friday and she had thrown Marc’s ball into the fire because he had been unkind to her. She also remembered that she had wished a bear would eat Pierre up when he had broken her cup.
(b) What did the speaker do after this?
Answer: After this, Toinette decided to change and be a kinder, less selfish and a more patient person.
(c) Do you think the speaker was successful? Give reasons.
Answer: I think Toinette was successful because the following Christmas, her siblings were eagerly waiting for her. They said that she was sweet and kind and had planned a surprise for her.
Question 8: What made Toinette’s siblings begin to love her more?
Answer: Toinette tried to be kinder, less selfish, and more patient with her siblings. Seeing her love for them, they loved her back in return.
Question 9: Read the lines and answer the questions.
“I don’t like fern seeds.”
(a) Who said these words to whom?
Answer: Toinette said these words to Thistle.
(b) Why did the speaker say these words?
Answer: The previous Christmas, fern seeds had helped Toinette become invisible. Unfortunately, when she had been invisible, then she had been very hurt by her siblings’ behaviour. They had not missed her at all, although she had not been there the entire morning, and Pierre and Marc had said unkind things about her. The fern seeds reminded her of that. She was afraid of getting hurt again. So, Toinette said these words.
(c) What did the listener say? Say with reason if he was correct.
Answer: Thistle said that that year would probably be different from the previous year and that Toinette should try being invisible again. Thistle was correct because this time being invisible made Toinette happy. She came to know how much her siblings loved her, as they waited eagerly for her at breakfast. They also said kind things about her and had also planned a surprise for her.
Question 10: When the elves appeared at Toinette’s window the next Christmas with a gift for her, why did she say she did not want it?
Answer: Toinette did not want to be invisible again because she did not want to be rude and selfish like before. She was happy with the things around her, and did not need any magical things to make her be happy or have fun.
Question 11: Was it a good idea for Toinette to be invisible the first time? Give reasons.
Answer: Yes, it was a good idea for it made her realise how selfish and unkind she had been and made her change into a better person.
So, these were Toinette and The Elves Questions & Answers.