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Solved Exercises from Xavier Pinto's Workbook Treasure Trove Volume-II: Short Stories, ICSE Class 9 & Class 10. Download PDF Now!

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T he PDF contains Xavier Pinto's Workbook answers to all 10 Stories 1. Chief Seattle’s Speech – Chief Seattle 2. Old Man at the Bridge – Ernest Hemingway 3. A Horse and Two Goats – R K Narayan 4. Hearts and Hands – O Henry 5. A Face in the Dark – Ruskin Bond 6. An Angel in Disguise – Timothy Shay Arthur 7. The Little Match Girl – Hans Christian Andersen 8. The Blue Bead – Norah Burke 9. My Greatest Olympic Prize – Jesse Owens 10. All Summer in a Day – Ray Bradbury Sample Answer from "The Blue Bead" Question (v): The author says, “Now nothing could pierce the inch-thick armoured hide”. What does she mean by the sentence given above? Why does she say so? Answer (v):  Over the years, the crocodile had grown, from a baby crocodile vulnerable to birds of prey and carnivorous fishes, into a juggernaut so ferocious and formidable that nothing could pierce his inch-thick armoured hide. The author is suggesting that the crocodile is invincible as he is covered with thick armour-li...
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The Blue Bead, Norah Burke

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This story is about a young girl named Sibia who one day goes to the cliffs with her mother and other women to collect paper grass. On her return journey she gets left behind. In order to get home Sibia has to cross a river. She was too tired so she stopped to take rest. She sees a Gujar woman getting attacked by a crocodile. Sibia rushes to help the woman and she stabs the crocodile in the eye with a hayfork. Sibia takes the wounded woman back into the village. When she returns to the river to get her hayfork she finds a blue bead lying in water. In the end Sibia doesn’t tell her mother about helping the lady because she is excited about finding the blue bead for her necklace. Extract I “Timber was being floated down … breathing the clean sunny air.” Question (i): What are sleepers? What made the timber float down the river? Answer (i):  Sleepers are rectangular pieces of timber which are specifically cut for construction of building and railway tracks. Trees in the forest further...
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An Angel in Disguise, Timothy Shay Arthur

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A poor woman who was hated during her life by nearly everyone in her village, dies while intoxicated and leaves two daughters and a son behind to fend for themselves. The towns people pitied these children, and the two oldest were taken in by new families, but the youngest Maggie, who was crippled, was left alone because nobody wanted to deal with her disability. A man named Joe Thompson decided to take her in for the night but planned on bringing her to the poor house the next morning, because he knew his wife would not approve of her. When Joe brought Maggie home in his arms, his wife Mrs. Thompson was enraged that he brought that “sick brat” into her house. Extract I “Death touches the spring….old tumble-down hut…” Question (i): Which woman is referred to here? How did she die? Answer (i):  The ‘woman’ referred to here is Maggie’s mother. She died of excessive alcoholism. She had fallen upon the threshold of her own door in a drunken fit and died in the presence of her three chi...
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