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Q1 Given below are some emotions that Kezia felt. Match the emotions in Column A with the items in Column B. Ans: Q2 Answer the following questions in one or two sentences. 1. Why was Kezia afraid of her father? 2. Who were the people in Kezia’s family? 3. What was Kezia’s father’s routine (i) before going to his office? (ii) after coming back from his office? (iii) on Sundays? 4. In what ways did Kezia’s grandmother encourage her to get to know her father better? Ans: 1. Kezia was very afraid of her father because he was big and heavy with his hands and neck, especially his mouth when he do yawned. He was also very.
2. There were five members in the family named, the father of Kezia, his wife, daughter, grandmother and cook alice.
3. (i) Before going to the office he came into his daughter's room and gave her a casual goodbye kiss. (ii) After coming back to home he would have his boots taken off. He demanded for the tea, slippers and paper.
(iii) On sundays, he stretched on the sofa, covered his face with a handkerchief and usually went to sleep.
4. Kezia’s grandmother encouraged her by sending her down to the drawing room to have a nice talk with her mother and father on Sunday's afternoons.Q3 Discuss these questions in class with your teacher and then write down your answers in two or three paragraphs each. 1. Kezia’s efforts to please her father resulted in displeasing him very much. How did this happen? 2. Kezia decides that there are “different kinds of fathers”. What kind of father was Mr Macdonald, and how was he different from Kezia’s father? 3. How does Kezia begin to see her father as a human being who needs her sympathy? Ans: 1. Kezia tried hard to please her father, after he returned to home to taken care of her father’s books. But she gonna end up by irritating her father by stuttering while she was speaking. Also, when grandma asks kezia that neaxt week is her father’s birthday then she decided to surprise him with a nice gift. She laboriously stitched three sides of a yellow silk cloth to make him a pin cushion. Unknowingly she stuffed the cushion with her father’s great speech. This made her father very angry or even more and she got a beating with the ruler.
2. Mr. macdonalds was a gentle & a loving father who spent quality time with his children. Kezia had seen him play with his young five children. The father had the baby mao on his shoulders; two girls were hanging on to his coats pockets ran around the flowers beds and was shaking with laughter. All of them laughed the very whole time. It was the time when she decided that there were various kinds of fathers. Kezia’s father was very different from Mr. macdonald. Her father was very strict and firm. He wanted kezia to be able to make correct decisions and used to taught her lessons. His ways were not so good but he loves and cares for his daughter very much. He worked very hard so as to become a successful man and to be able to fulfil his family’s requirements and was too tired to play with Kezia like mr. macdonald played with his children.
3. When Kezia had a dreadful nightmare, she was awakens to see her father besides her. He took her to his room and tucked her into his bed. He also asked her to rub her feet against his foot to keep them warm. Her father was very tired and fell asleep before her. This was when Kezia realized that he too was a human. Even though he is big like a giant and had no one to look after him. He also required some sympathy & love. Finally, Kezia realized that her father had a big heart & loved her too much & worked so hard for her.