NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight Chapter 6 The Hundred Dresses Part 2

NCERT Solutions for CBSE Class 10 English First Flight Chapter 6 The Hundred Dresses Part 2 are provided here. This story is written by El Bsor Ester and includes many questions that are important for exams. We have solved all the NCERT questions of the lesson with a detailed explanation that help students to complete their assignments & homework. We have provided NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight Chapter 6 The Hundred Dresses Part 2 in PDF format so that you can download them for offline use.

Class 10 English First Flight Chapter 6 NCERT Questions and Answers

Oral Comprehension Check (Page No. 74)

Question 1. What did Mr Petronski’s letter say?

Answer: Mr Petronski’s letter said that Wanda would not come to school anymore as they were shifting to another city. He also said that there nobody would ask them why they had funny names because there were plenty of funny names in the city.

Question 2. Is Miss Mason angry with the class, or is she unhappy and upset?

Answer: Miss Mason seems to be unhappy and upset rather than angry because she had never expected such a behaviour from the students. She wants everyone to think about it and asks them not to do look down anyone in the class.

Question 3. How does Maddie feel after listening to the note from Wanda’s father?

Answer: After listening to the note from Wanda’s father, Maddie had a very sick and guilty feeling in the bottom of her stomach. She could not concentrate when she tried to prepare her lessons. She had not enjoyed listening to Peggy asking Wanda how many dresses she had in her closet.

Question 4. What does Maddie want to do?

Answer: Maddie wants to amend her behaviour towards Wanda. She wants to meet her to apologise. She decides to find Wanda at her house at Boggins Heights. She also wanted to convey that all was meant in good humour and people really love her.

Oral Comprehension Check Page No. 76)

Question 1. What excuses does Peggy think of giving in justification of her behaviour? Why?

Answer: Peggy thought that she was satisfied that she never called Wanda a foreigner or made fun of her name. She also said that she never thought Wanda had even the sense to know that they were making fun of her. She realised her mistake of thinking that Wanda was not bright enough to understand her insult.

Question 2. What are Maddie’s thoughts as they go to Boggins Heights?

Answer: Maddie was feeling ashamed and apologetic for being a silent spectator while Peggy humiliated Wanda. She was feeling upset and distraught for Wanda and herself. She was also repenting for not stopping Peggy for behaving badly with Wanda.

Question 3. Why does Wanda’s house remind Maddie of Wanda’s blue dress?

Answer: Wanda’s house was sparse, old and laded but neat and clean like her blue dress that she wore everyday to school. Thus, Maddie was reminded of the same old blue dress.

Question 4. What does Maddie think hard about? What important decision does she come to?

Answer: Maddie thinks about not letting injustice happen to anyone. She vows that she would protest if anybody misbehaves with anyone. She won’t be a mute spectator the way she was earlier. In a way, the episode of Wanda’s family leaving that city works as a major change agent for Maddie’s personality.

Oral Comprehension Check Page No. 79)

Question 1. What did the girls write to Wanda?

Answer: The girls wrote a friendly letter to Wanda telling her that she had won the contest. They also wrote how pretty her drawings were. They asked her if she liked the place where she was living and if she liked her new teacher. They wanted to say that they were sorry. However, they ended up with just writing a friendly letter. They signed it with lots of love.

Question 2. Did they get a reply? Who was more anxious for a reply? How do you know?

Answer: No, they did not get a reply. Maddie was more anxious for a reply as she thought a lot about it. She would put herself to sleep making speeches about Wanda and defending her from great crowds of girls who were trying to tease her. Before Wanda could press her lips together in a tight line, which she did before answering, Maddie would cry out and ask everybody to stop and then, everybody would feel ashamed the way she felt. Peggy, on the other hand, had begun to forget about the whole affair. This shows that Maddie was more anxious for a reply than Peggy.

Question 3. How did the girls know that Wanda liked them even though they had teased her?

Answer: Both Maddie and Peggy realised that Wanda liked them although they had teased her because she had gifted them her two beautiful dresses, a green one with red trimmings to Peggy and the blue one to Maddie. She had even drawn their faces in the painting of the dresses they got.

Thinking about the Text

Question 1. Why do you think Wanda’s family moved to a different city? Do you think life there was going to be different for their family?

Answer: Wanda’s family moved to a different city due to the racist and insulting behaviour of students towards Wanda and her brother. They were teased by other students for their funny name and blue dress. Life there in a different city was going to be different because people there did not have such a narrow mind and would not tease them because of their name or status.

Question 2. Maddie thought her silence was as bad as Peggy’s teasing. Was she right?

Answer: Yes, Maddie was right when she thought her silence was as bad as Peggy’s teasing because her silence encouraged Peggy to tease her. A person who sees something wrong happening in front of him/her is as much an offender as the person committing the offence.

Question 3. Peggy says, “I never thought she had sense to know we were making fun of her anyway. I thought she was too dumb. And gee, look how she can draw!”What led Peggy to believe that Wanda was dumb ? Did she change her opinion later?

Answer: Wanda never replied to Peggy ‘s misbehaviour and pranks that she faced everyday. So, her neutral face and unusual behaviour led Peggy to think that Wanda was dumb. Wanda even described the hundred dresses she said about though she wore the same old faded blue dress everyday. But later Peggy’ changed her opinion after having a look on Wanda’s sketches and her gesture of gifting her a beautiful drawing from her collection.

Question 4. What important decision did Maddie make? Why did she have to think hard to do so?

Answer: Maddie decided to go to Wanda’s house with Peggy to apologise and amend for all that had happened but Wanda had left her house with her family. She felt bad because she thought of herself as a coward who did not stop Peggy to insult Wanda. So, she decided to raise voice against injustice and bullying. She was firm of not being a mute spectator anymore.

Question 5. Why do you think Wanda gave Maddie and Peggy the drawings of the dresses? Why are they surprised?

Answer: Wanda gave Maddie and Peggy the drawings of her dresses because they made fun of her hundred dresses. They believed her to be a liar. They were surprised because they always made fun of her dresses and insulted her, but she had gifted them with those beautiful designs.

Question 6. Do you think Wanda really thought the girls were teasing her? Why or why not?

Answer: Yes, Wanda knew that girls were teasing her. She would have known that the children intended to make fun of her poverty, and would have laughed at her whatever she might have said. This could have been the reason for her exaggerating everything whenever she answered their questions.