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Tamil Nadu Board 10th Standard English - Supplementary Unit 6: Book Back Answers and Solutions

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Question Types Covered:

• 1 Mark Questions: Choose the correct answer, Fill in the blanks, Identify the correct statement, Match the following 
• 2 Mark Questions: Answer briefly 
• 3, 4, and 5 Mark Questions: Answer in detail

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A. Based on the understanding of the story, complete the Graphic Organizer suitably.

Answer Key :

Title: The Little Hero of Holland

Setting: A dike above the sea water

Characters: Peter, Peter’s mother and father, Peter’s blind friend, people of Holland.

Theme: Sacrifice to save the country

Plots: Father works in the dike as a gate keeper.

Mother sends Peter with cakes to visit his blind filend.

Peter notices a leak ¡n the dike while returning.

He plucks the hole with his finger the whole night to save his people of Holland.

Brave little hero Peter saves Holland from drowning.

Climax: Peter stays at the dike with his finger In the whole night in cold weather with his finger  stuffed and numbed. Next morning passers by saved him and mended the hole. Peter saved Holland.

Values Highlighted: Love and concern for the nation. Determination to save the people. Dedication towards the mother land.

 

B. Based on your understanding of the story answer the following questions in one or two sentences:

Question 1.
What are the little children of Holland, aware of?
Answer Key:

• The little children of Holland are aware the dikes must be watched every moment and that even a small hole can be very dangerous. It would bring the sea to Holland.

Question 2.
What is the work assigned to Peter’s father?
Answer Key:

• Tending the gates of the dike was the work assigned to Peter’s father. He opened and closed the gates when ships entered the sea from Holland.

Question 3.
Why did Peter’s mother call him?
Answer Key:

• Peter’s mother called him to go and give cakes to his friend who was blind.

Question 4.
How did Peter spend his time with his blind friend?
Answer Key:

• Peter’s stayed with his poor blind man a little while to tell him about his walk along the dike and the sun and the flowers and the ships far out at sea.

Question 5.
Why did the father always say angry waters’?
Answer Key:

• The father always said angry waters because the seawater lashed on the dikes always.

Question 6.
What did Peter see when he stopped near the dikes?
Answer Key:

• When Peter stopped near the dikes he saw a small hole in the dike through which a tiny stream was flowing.

Question 7.
What were the thoughts of the mother when Peter did not return home?
Answer Key:

• Peter’s mother thought that she was spending that night with his friend and that she would scold him next morning for staying away from home without permission.

Question 8.
How did Peter spend his night at the dikes?
Answer Key:

• Peter put his finger in the hole. He crouched on a stone bending his head. He did not sleep, though his eyes were closed. He rubbed his hand thinking that he could stay throughout the night.

Question 9.
Who found Peter in the dikes and what did he do?
Answer Key:

• A man who went for his work heard Peter moaning and found him clinging to the side of the great wall.

Question 10.
How did the villagers mend the hole?
Answer Key:

• The villagers brought shovels and mended the hole after hearing the alarm.

C. Based on your understanding of the story answer the following question in about 100-150 words.

Question 1.
Narrate in your own words the circumstances that led Peter to be a brief little hero.
Answer Key:
Introduction:

• This story is about a little boy who saved his country from flooding.

Across the dikes:

• Peter was a little boy who lived in Holland. Peter’s mother wanted him to go across the dikes to meet his blind friend. 
• Peter went there and stayed till evening. When returning he heard some sound of trickling water. 
• He found a small hole in the dikes. He put his finger into the hole and stopped the water.

Little hero:

• He stayed there putting his finger in that hole. His finger became numb. He slept there the whole night. 
• In the morning, a villager saw Peter sitting there. He called the villagers. The villagers arrived with shovels and mended the hole.

Conclusion:

• Thus, Peter saved his country, from flooding and was called as the “Hero of Holland”.

(OR)

• Peter was a little boy in Holland. One day his mother sent him to give a cake to his blind friend. He walked along the dike. 
• He spent sometime and wanted to return home early. On his way he saw water streaming through a small hole in the dike. He wanted to save Holland.
• He climbed down and put his finger into the hole and stopped the leakage. He stayed outside in cold without sleeping. 
• He shouted for help but in vain. Next day a passer by heard his groan and came to rescue him. He spread the alarm. 
• The villagers came running with shovels and mended the dike. Thus Peter became a great hero who saved Holland.

(OR)

1.  Peter was a little boy in Holland
2.  His mother asked him to visit his blind friend
3.  He stayed with him for a while and returned home
4.  On his way he saw a small hole in the dike and water was gushing out.
5.  He wanted to save Holland
6.  He climbed down the dike and closed the hole with his little finger
7.  The water leakage was stopped
8.  He stayed outside at night in cold weather without sleeping
9.  Next morning a passer by heard his groan and went nearer him

10. He alarmed and the villagers came running and mended the dike
11. Peter became a great little hero of Holland

 

D. Identify the character/speaker:

1. ‘I want you to go across the dike and take these cakes to your friend, the blind man’
Answer Key:
Peter’s Mother

2. I am glad they are so strong?
Answer Key:
Peter

3. ‘Holland shall not be drowned while I am here’.
Answer Key:
Peter

4. ‘What’s the matter?” he called. “Are you hurt?’
Answer Key:
Passer by

5. ‘Tell them to come quickly!’
Answer Key:
Peter