Question 1: Copy the orders (imperative sentences) from the play.

Step-by-step solution provided.

Question 1: Name the following:

Step-by-step solution provided.

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Maharashtra State Board Class 9 My English Coursebook Solutions Chapter 2.5 A Play

My English Coursebook Std 9 Digest Chapter 2.5 A Play Textbook Questions and Answers

Warming up!

Chit-chat:

Two Truths, One Lie

Make groups of 10-15. In this game, each person writes three sentences about himself/herself, two of which are true and the third one is a lie. Read aloud your sentences, while others guess which two are true and which is a lie.
Examples: Hello, everyone! I am Sonali. I have a brother and a sister. I live in Amalner. We have a pet dog at home.

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

Make groups of 10-15. In this game, each person writes three sentences about himself/herself, two of which are true and the third one is a lie. Read aloud your sentences, while others guess which two are true and which is a lie. Examples: Hello, everyone! I am Sonali. I have a brother and a sister. I live in Amalner. We have a pet dog at home.

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

1. Hello everyone! I am Sahil. I live in Pune at Shivaj inagar. I am one of the most studious students of our class. I visited Sri Lanka last month with my parents.

2. Hello everyone!
I am Ruta.
I am Bharat Natyam dancer.
I have won many dance competitions.
But I want to be a classical singer.

Lost and Found

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

Divide the students into groups of five. They sit in a circle. They choose one object of daily use such as a bag, wallet, box, etc. The group leader writes four sentences about it.

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

I have found a water bottle. It’s pink. It’s cylindrical in shape. It’s transparent. It has a steel cap. I found it in our school library.

Others, too, write four sentences each.

They all open and read their lines, beginning with the group leader. The player whose description matches the group leader’s the most gets the object.

Part I

1. List the characters that have appeared so far in the play.

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

List the characters that have appeared so far in the play.

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Fourth Guard Messenger, Thief, Thiefs friend, King, Merchant, Bricklayer, Mortar-maker.

2. List all the different titles they use to address the King.

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

List all the different titles they use to address the King.

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

First Guard, Second Guard, Disciple, King Chaupat.

3. Copy the exclamations from the play. (At least 5)

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

Copy the exclamations from the play. (At least 5)

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

1. How boring! 2. Oh, Most Great King! (Students can copy such examples from the play on their own.)

4. Copy the orders (imperative sentences) from the play.

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

Copy the orders (imperative sentences) from the play.

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

5. Use your imagination and the details from the play and draw a map of Andher Nagari.

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

Use your imagination and the details from the play and draw a map of Andher Nagari.

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

(Students can draw the map using their imagination.)

6. Write what each of the following should have said after listening to the complaint against him/her:

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

Write what each of the following should have said after listening to the complaint against him/her: (a) Daughter ………………… (b) Potter ……………………. (c) Mortar-maker ………………… (d) Bricklayer ……………….. (e) Merchant ………………………….

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

(a) Daughter: Daughter should have said that, she was going to get married next week, so she should be excused from being punished. (b) Potter: I never make defective pots. Mortar- maker might have brought it from somewhere else. (c) Mortar-maker: I always use a bottle-necked pot to pour water, it is the bricklayer’s idea to blame me. (d) Bricklayer: Extremely sorry to say, My Lord. I have never worked carelessly in my entire life. I am faithful to my profession. (e) Merchant: If I had been the merchant, I would have asked the king to punish the thieves as they were trying to break in my house when my whole family was not there at home and it is a crime. So they should be punished.

7. What should the king have said to the thief ?

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

What should the king have said to the thief ?

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

The king should have said to the thief that it was the fault of him and his friend and not of the merchant. As they had entered his house with the intention of stealing when his family was away. So he and his friend were totally responsible for what had happened.

8. Will a thief appear in a court on his own? Why does this Thief dare to do so?

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

Will a thief appear in a court on his own? Why does this Thief dare to do so?

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

A thief will never appear in a court on his own. This thief dares to do so because the king of his kingdom was not powerful and the rules and regulations of his kingdom were not so strict.

Language study:

9. Read the following sentences and find the subject and the verb in each.

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

Read the following sentences and find the subject and the verb in each.

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Sentence	Subject	verb
1. You are a stranger.	You	are
2. I am a visitor here.	I	am
3. You have heard right.	You	have
		heard
4. The king will not hang me.	The king	will
		hang
5. He must pay with his life	He	must
		pay

10. Read the following sentences. Tick the ones in passive voice. Copy them correctly.

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

Read the following sentences. Tick the ones in passive voice. Copy them correctly.

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Part II

1. List the characters that appear for the first time in this part of the play. Write one or two lines about each of them.

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

List the characters that appear for the first time in this part of the play. Write one or two lines about each of them.

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

2. Say whether the following sentences are true or false:

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

Say whether the following sentences are true or false: (a) The Goldsmith blamed the King for the delay in his work. (b) The King thought that the Goldsmith had a good reason to delay the Daughter’s work. (c) The Goldsmith was hanged. (d) The noose did not fit the Goldsmith’s neck. (e) The noose did not fit the disciple’s neck. (f) The Sage wanted to die on that day. (g) The Sage wanted to save his Disciple. (h) The King wanted to be King again in his next birth.

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

(a) The Goldsmith blamed the King for the delay in his work. – True (b) The King thought that the Goldsmith had a good reason to delay the Daughter’s work. – False (c) The Goldsmith was hanged. – False (d) The noose did not fit the Goldsmith’s neck. – True (e) The noose did not fit the disciple’s neck. – False (f) The sage wanted to die on that day. – True (g) The sage wanted to save his disciple. – True (h) The king wanted to be king again in his next birth. – True

3. Write any three instances of funny rules and twisted logic used in Andher Nagari.

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

Write any three instances of funny rules and twisted logic used in Andher Nagri.

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Example:

4. List the proverbs and sayings used in the play.

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

List the proverbs and sayings used in the play.

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

1. Justice delayed is justice denied. 2. Our actions speak louder than words.

5. Read the entire play and complete the following blame game flow chart.

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

Read the entire play and complete the following blame game flow chart.

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Who is blaming?	Who does he blame?	For what does he blame that person?
Thief	Owner of the house	For not constructing a strong wall.
Owner of the house (Merchant)	Bricklayer	For carelessly building a weak wall.
Bricklayer	Mortar- maker	For mixing too much water in Mortar.
Mortar-maker	Potter	For making a defective pot with a large mouth.
Potter	Money lender’s Daughter	For disturbing him with tinkling of anklets.
Money-lender’s Daughter	Goldsmith	For delay in the delivery of her ornaments.
Goldsmith	King	For giving orders to set aside all other work to make the Queen’s ornaments.

6. Form groups. Translate one page of the play into your mother tongue as a group activity. Gather the pages translated by different groups and prepare a translated script of the entire play.

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

Form groups. Translate one page of the play into your mother tongue as a group activity. Gather the pages translated by different groups and prepare a translated script of the entire play.

Langauge Study:

7. Divide the play (Part I as well as Part II) into sections.
Form groups and assign roles. Practise your lines in groups.
Hold play reading sessions in the classroom.
Which group/student presents the most effective reading?
Note the features that make an oral presentation effective. Some of them are :

8. Look up the following entries in the Language Study pages given at the end.

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

Look up the following entries in the Language Study pages given at the end.

9. Note the way the dialogue in the play is presented. Look up the word ‘colon’ in the ‘Language Study’ pages and note how ills used in the play.

Question 1. Note the way the dialogue in the play is presented. Look up the word ‘colon’ in the ‘Language Study’ pages and note how ills used in the play.

10. Listen carefully and write the verbs in the appropriate column.

Question 1. Listen carefully and write the verbs in the appropriate column. Teacher: can, give, following, commanded, get, has, been, spare, does, take, hand, have, fall, forgive, let, drag, return, will, is, try, has, must, be, resist, force, speak, are, were, should, had, thought, lost, would, says, was, are, does, may, cannot, demand, shall, shouldn’t, become, reign

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

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Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Main verb	Auxiliary verb	Model auxiliary
give, following, commanded, spare, take, hand, fall, have, forgive, drag, get, does, return, try, resist, become, force, speak, demand, reign, says, thought, lost	has, been, let, is, be, are, were, had, was, does	can, will, must, should, would, may, cannot, shall, shouldn’t

My English Coursebook 9th Class Solutions Chapter 2.5 A Play Additional Important Questions and Answers

Read the following passage and do the activities:

Simple Factual Activities:

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

Name the following:

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Question 2 Maharashtra Board Solution

State whether the following statements are Right or Wrong:

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Question 3 Maharashtra Board Solution

Complete the following sentences: (Answers are directly given.)

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Question 4 Maharashtra Board Solution

Complete the following sentences: (Answers are directly given.)

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

1. The mortar-maker’s family comprised of his wife and two young children. 2. According to the mortar-maker excess water poured down into the mortar mixture because the pot had an extraordinary large mouth.

Question 5 Maharashtra Board Solution

Who said to whom: 1. “I was merely following your Highness’s order.” 2. “Take him to the gallows without further delay.”

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

1. The goldsmith said to the King. 2. The King commanded the Hangman and guards.

Choose the correct alternative to answer the following questions:

Question A.
Who was the old man?
(a) a king
(b) a sage
(c) a guard
(d) a stranger
Answer:
(b) a sage

Question B.
Who had a wonderful fate in his next life?
(a) the king
(b) the disciple
(c) the sage
(d) the hangman
Answer:
(a) the king

Question C.
Who was going to be hanged?
(a) the young stranger
(b) the hangman
(c) the guard
(d) the sage
Answer:
(a) the young stranger

Question D.
According to the sage how was the king?
(a) holy
(b) wise
(c) generous
(d) great
Answer:
(c) generous

Question 6 Maharashtra Board Solution

State whether the following statements are True or False: (Answers are directly given.)

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

The old man was a wise and learned sage. – True

Complex Factual Activities:

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

Why did a disciple of the Wise Sage from the Ghangor forest come to Andher Nagari?

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

A disciple of the Wise Sage from the Ghangor forest had heard amazing stories about Andher Nagari and the great King Chaupat. He was impressed by the fact that everything in the market is sold at the same price. So it was a good idea to settle in that land. So to pay his respects to the mighty King Chaupat, the disciple had come to Andher Nagari.

Question 2 Maharashtra Board Solution

Arrange the following sentences in chronological order: 1. The wall collapsed while entering the house and the thief’s friend was instantly killed. 2. One day they made a hole in the wall of a merchant’s house. 3. There were two hardworking and honest thieves in the great land of Andher Nagari. 4. They were very true to their profession from the last several years.

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

3. There were two hardworking and honest thieves in the great land of Andher Nagari. 4. They were very true to their profession from the last several years. 2. One day they made a hole in the wall of a merchant’s house. 1. The wall collapsed while entering the house and the thief’s friend was instantly killed.

Question 3 Maharashtra Board Solution

List the characters that have appeared so far in the passage :

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Mortar-maker, Fourth Guard Messenger, Potter, Money-lender and his daughter.

Question 4 Maharashtra Board Solution

What is the Mortar-maker’s excuse? Is it believable?

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

According to the Mortar-maker, he poured water with an extraordinary large mouth-pot into the mortar mixture. The excess water was poured down because of a useless pot made by the potter. It was not a believable excuse as pouring water can be controlled by us.

Question 5 Maharashtra Board Solution

Is the Daughter’s complaint about the Goldsmith true?

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Yes, it is true the daughter was going to get married the next week and her jewellery was not ready. She had to leave the house to request the Gold¬smith to work faster and hand over her ornaments on time for her marriage. She wouldn’t have gone out of her house if there wouldn’t be such an urgency.

Question 6 Maharashtra Board Solution

What is the goldsmith’s excuse?

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

The king commanded the goldsmith to set aside all his work and get the Queen’s ornaments ready before Her Highness’s birthday. So there had been a delay in making the lady’s (the money lender’s daughter’s) bridal ornaments. This was the goldsmith’s excuse for not making the lady’s ornaments.

Question 7 Maharashtra Board Solution

What was the sage’s request? Why did he make such a strange request?

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

The sage’s request was that he should be hanged instead of his disciple because he wanted to save his disciple at any cost by using some tricks.

Question 8 Maharashtra Board Solution

What does the King want to know?

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

The King wants to know why the sage, being a wise and holy man wishes to obstruct the course of justice. He also wants to know why the sage wanted to be hanged in place of his disciple.

Question 9 Maharashtra Board Solution

Why did the King want to die?

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

The sage told the King that, the great prophets had foretold that one who would be hanged on that day, in that kingdom, would become the next king and conquer many more nations. The King wanted to become the next great king of Andher Nagari. He also wanted to be a famous royal monarch. So he wanted to die to become the king of Andher Nagari.

Activities based on vocabulary:

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

Make a list of describing words used for King Chaupat in the form of a web: (Answers are directly given.)

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Question 2 Maharashtra Board Solution

Find out synonyms from the extract for the following: (Answers are directly given.)

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Question 3 Maharashtra Board Solution

Find out the adverbs which are used along with the following verbs: (Answers are directly given.)

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Question 4 Maharashtra Board Solution

Pick out the verbs and state their kind: 1. My friend peered through the hole. 2. The merchant was living in a house.

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

1. peered – Past Tense 2. was living – Past Continuous.

Question 5 Maharashtra Board Solution

Find out minimum four infinitives from the passage:

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Infinitives – to blame, to pour, to urge, to work.

Question 6 Maharashtra Board Solution

Find out a suitable word from the extract and complete the following sentences: (Answers are directly given.)

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Question 7 Maharashtra Board Solution

Arrange the following words in the following columns as per their meanings: Words: force, excuse, order, apologise, forgive

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Orders	Requests
1. order	(1) pardon
2. command	(2) apologise
3. force	(3) excuse
4. shout	(4) forgive

Question 8 Maharashtra Board Solution

Match the following words in Column ‘A’ with their meaning in Column ‘B’ :

‘A’.	‘B’
1. yonder	(a) give the right to
2. conquer	(b) over there
3. recluse	(c) favouring a solitary life
4. entitled	(d) capture

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

‘A’.	‘B’
1. yonder	(b) over there
2. conquer	(d) capture
3. recluse	(c) favouring a solitary life
4. entitled	(a) give the right to Question 9 Maharashtra Board Solution Write any suitable noun from the passage for the given adjectives to make correct combination!

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Activities based on contextual grammar:

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

Identify the types of the following sentences:

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Question 2 Maharashtra Board Solution

Frame Verbal Questions: 1. There was too much of water mixed in it. 2. My friend was instantly killed.

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

1. Was there too much of water mixed in it? 2. Was my friend instantly killed?

Question 3 Maharashtra Board Solution

It is the fault of the bricklayer. He carelessly built such a weak wall. (Combine the sentence with ‘who’)

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

It is the fault of the bricklayer who carelessly built such a weak wall.

Question 4 Maharashtra Board Solution

Pick out the subject and object in the following sentences: 1. The guards dragged the goldsmith. 2. You commanded me 3. he Hangman forced the disciple. 4. The Hangman overpowers them.

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Subject	Object
1. The guards	1. the goldsmith
2. You	2. me/I
3. The Hangman	3. the disciple
4. The Hangman	4. they

Question 5 Maharashtra Board Solution

Add a tail tag to the following sentences: (Answers are directly given.)

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Question 6 Maharashtra Board Solution

Make the following sentences Assertive : (Answers are directly given.)

Question a.
What a strange appeal!

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

It was indeed a strange appeal.

Question b.
What a wonderful fate in my next life – a king once again!
Answer:
A king once again in my next life is really a wonderful fate.

Question 7 Maharashtra Board Solution

Rewrite using ‘as well as’ : 1. He is a wise and learned sage from the forest. 2. The old man begged and pleaded that he should be hanged instead of the young stranger.

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

1. He is a wise as well as learned sage from the forest. 2. The old man begged as well as pleaded that he should be hanged instead of the young stranger.

Personal Response:

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

Do you think this is a good land to settle in? why?

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Yes, I think the land of Andher Nagari is a good land to settle in because it is the only land where everything is sold at the same price. There will be no complications. We can settle there very well even if our income is low.

Question 2 Maharashtra Board Solution

Can we call the thieves truly hard-working and honest?

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

No, not at all. Thieves cannot be hard ; working and honest as they rob the possessions | earned by others by working hard. If they are honest, they would not do such crimes.

Question 3 Maharashtra Board Solution

Do you think the potter is telling the truth? Why?

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

The potter said when he was shaping the mouth of the pot he heard the sweet, delicate tinkling of anklets of money-lender’s daughter. I think he must be telling the truth as it might have disturbed his work and the mouth of pot became too wide.

Question 4 Maharashtra Board Solution

Why is the daughter so confident that the king will not hang her? Does her prediction come true?

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

The daughter was very much confident that the king will not hang her because she knew that she was not guilty and she also knew the king very well. Yes, her prediction came true.

Question 5 Maharashtra Board Solution

Is the Goldsmith telling the truth? Give reasons for your

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Answer: Yes, I think the Goldsmith was telling the truth. After making that ladies ornaments the Goldsmith could have received the money from her. But he did not think about the money whereas he thought about the respect and honour of the King. So he started making the Queen’s ornaments instead of that lady’s bridal ornaments.

Question 6 Maharashtra Board Solution

What is your opinion about the king is he ? wicked, greedy, stupid or all of these? Which of his actions/words show that?

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

I think the king is stupid. He believes every person of his kingdom without any proof. “Guards! Take me to the gallows and hang me at once without any delay.” This action shows that he was really stupid. Being a king he should have thought of his action.

Question 7 Maharashtra Board Solution

Was the King willing to hang the Sage? Why?

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

No, the King was not willing to hang the sage because the sage told him that the one who would be hanged on that day, in that kingdom, would become the next king. So to become the next great king of Andher Nagari, he didn’t want to hang the sage whereas he wanted himself to be hanged.

Activities Based on Language study

Do the following as instructed:

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

Complete the words by using correct letters:

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Question 2 Maharashtra Board Solution

Copy the following sentences correctly in your notebook:

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

1. Why have you not carried out my orders? 2. What a wonderful fate in my next life a king once again!

Question 3 Maharashtra Board Solution

Put the following words in alphabetical order: 1. forgive, excess, mercy, guilty. 2. moulding, mortar, Majesty, measure.

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

1. excess, forgive, guilty, mercy. 2. Majesty, measure, mortar, moulding.

Question 4 Maharashtra Board Solution

Punctuate the following sentences: 1. oh do not fret father the king will not hang me said daughter 2. the king said ah justice at last take him to the gallows without further delay

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

1. “Oh, do not fret, father. The king will i not hang me,” said daughter. 2. The King said, “Ah! Justice at last! Take him to the gallows without further delay.”

Question 5 Maharashtra Board Solution

Write four small words (minimum 3 letters each) using the letters in the given word: ‘explanation.’

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Question 6 Maharashtra Board Solution

Spot the error and rewrite the correct sentences: 1. O Noble King, you were most generous. 2. The great prophets has foretold that the one who will be hanged on this day shall become the next king and conquer many more nations.

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

1. O Noble King, You are most generous. 2. The great prophets have foretold that the one who will be hanged on this day shall become the next king and conquer many more nations.

Question 7 Maharashtra Board Solution

Write related words as shown in the example: (Answers are directly given.)

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

Question 8 Maharashtra Board Solution

Complete the following word-chain of adjectives. Add four words, each beginning with the last letter of the previous word: young → ……………. → ……………. → ………….. → …………...

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

young → great → terrible → equal → lovely

Do as directed:

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution

Make your own meaningful sentence by using the phrase ‘to say goodbye’.

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

It is quite difficult to say goodbye to our school.

Question 2 Maharashtra Board Solution

Add a prefix or suffix to make new words and use any one of the root words in your own sentence: 2 1. mercy 2. complicate.

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

1. mercy – merciful 2. complicate – complication. Sentence: The bricklayer begged for mercy.

Question 3 Maharashtra Board Solution

Add a clause to expand the sentence meaningfully: The teacher suggested …………………..

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

The teacher suggested that we should follow the rules and regulations of our country.

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