Extra Questions for The Hundred Dresses-I Class 10 first Flight
Important Questions1
She protected small children from bullies. And she cried for hours if she saw an animal mistreated. If anybody had said to her “Don’t you think that is a cruel way to treat Wanda?” she would have been very surprised. “Cruel? Why did the girl say she had a hundred dresses”?
(a) Who is ‘she’ in the above extract?
(b) What impression do you form about her nature?
(c) Why does Peggy get surprised if anybody told Peggy that she had been cruel to Wanda?
(d) What cruel way of treating is being referred to here?
Answer
(a) Peggy
(b) The statement shows that she was very kind to animals.
(c) This was because she thought it was Wanda who should be condemned for telling lies.
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As for Wanda, she was just some girl who lived upon Boggins Heights and stood alone in the schoolyard. She scarcely ever said anything to anybody. The only time she talked was in the schoolyard about her hundred dresses. Maddie remembered her telling about one of her dresses pale blue with coloured trimmings.
(a) Why did Wanda scarcely ever say anything to anybody?
(b) What were Wanda’s drawings about?
(c) How did Peggy make fun of Wanda?
(d) What was the game of a hundred dresses?
Answer
(a) Wanda scarcely said anything to anybody because she was from Boggins Heights which was a place for the poor.
(b) Her drawings wore about a hundred dresses—all different and all beautiful.
(c) Peggy made fun of Wanda by asking how many dresses she had in her closet.
(d) Just to tease Wanda when Peggy once asked her how many dresses she had. She replied that she had a hundred dresses.
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As for Maddie, this business of asking Wanda every day how many dresses and how many hats, and how many this and that she had was bothering her. Maddie was poor herself. She usually wore somebody’s hand-me-down clothes. Thank goodness, she didn’t live up on Boggins Heights or have a funny name.
(a) Who asked whom “How many dresses do you have”?
(b) What was the intention of the speaker?
(c) How was Wanda different from Maddie?
(d) How did Maddie feel about Wanda when Peggy and other girls used to tease her about a hundred dresses?
Answer
(a) Peggy asked so from Wanda.
(b) Peggy wanted to tease Wanda because she was poor.
(c) Both were poor but Maddie was not as poor as Wanda. Wanda wore the same faded blue dress every day but Maddie wore different dresses.
(d) Maddie used to feel very uncomfortable and uneasy.
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The reason Peggy and Maddie noticed Wanda’s absence was because Wanda had made them late to school. They had waited and waited for Wanda, to have some fun with her, and she just hadn’t come.
(a) What relationship had Peggy and Maddie?
(b) Why were they late to school on Wednesday?
(c) Why did they wait for Wanda?
(d) When and why do Peggy and Maddie notice Wanda’s absence?
Answer
(a) They were close friends.
(b) Because they waited for Wanda who did not come that day.
(c) This was because they wanted to have some fun with her.
(d) Peggy and Maddie noticed Wanda’s absence on the third day of her absence when they waited for her to have sonic fun with her.
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“Don’t you think that is a cruel way to treat Wanda? She would have been very surprised. Cruel? Why did the girl say she had a hundred dresses? Anybody could tell that that was a lie.
(a) Who does ‘she’ refer to in the first sentence?
(b) Why does Peggy surprised if anybody told Peggy that she had been cruel to Wanda?
(c) What cruel way of treating is being referred to here?
(d) Why is Maddie embarrassed by the questions Peggy asks Wanda?
Answer
(a) Peggy.
(b) Because she thought it was Wanda who should be condemned for telling lies.
(c) Making fun of Wanda about her having a hundred dresses.
(d) Maddie felt embarrassed by the questions Peggy used to ask Wanda because she was also poor and used to wear somebody’s hand-me-down-clothes.
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She lived at Boggins Heights.2
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Wanda’s shoes were always mud caked because she had to come on foot all the way from Boggins Height to the school.3
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Both Peggy and Maddie felt guilty for their behaviour towards Wanda. Maddie felt very sad to know that Wanda and her family were leaving the town. Both of them wrote a friendly letter to Wanda telling her that she had won the contest. They asked her if she liked the place where she was living. They wanted to say sorry to her.4
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Maddie was sure that Peggy would win the dress designing contest because according to her, and everyone in the class, Peggy was the best artist in class.5
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Peggy would wait to make fun of Wanda at school. She would most courteously ask her, how many dresses she had hanging in her closet. Wanda would reply that there were a hundred. Peggy would then ask about the dress material, and when Wanda walked away, would burst into laughter, sarcastically making fun of her.6
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Wanda was a quiet girl who rarely laughed out loud. She didn’t have any friend and always come to school, and went home alone. She usually sat in the corner of the room, where those who didn’t get good marks sat, and which was the noisiest and dirtiest area in the room.7
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Children made fun of Wanda because she had a funny name. And also because she came to school wearing the same faded blue dress although she claimed she had a hundred dresses—all of the different designs, colours and a variety of clothes—silk and velvet.8
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No, she did not have the actual dresses. She had only the drawings of a hundred dresses on papers. All had different designs and colours. She had lined them up in her closet. She proved herself right by submitting a hundred drawings of dresses in the drawing and painting competition of her school.9
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Maddie wanted Peggy to stop teasing Wanda. She thought it was cruel. She could not dare to say all this verbally so she wrote a note to Peggy. But then she pictured herself as a new target for Peggy and other girls, making fun of her for wearing hand-me-down clothes. She shuddered and tore the note.10
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Wanda had drawn one hundred designs of dresses, which were all different and all beautiful. In the Opinion of the judges, any one of the drawings was worthy of winning the prize. So she was declared the winner of the girl medal.11
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Peggy was not really cruel. She protected smaller children from bullies. If she saw an animal mistreated, she would cry for hours.12
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Maddie wanted that Peggy should stop teasing and making fun of Wanda. So she wrote a note to Peggy. But she lacked the courage to give that note to Peggy fearing lest she should lose Peggy’s friendship. So she tore the note.1
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Wanda was a quiet girl who rarely laughed out loud. She didn’t have any friend and always come to school and went home alone. Children made fun of her because she had a funny name. And also because she came to school wearing the same faded blue dress. Although, she claimed she had a hundred dresses.
This type of attitude is not justified.
It is not at all right to judge people on the basis of their social status. Although Wanda did not have the actual dresses she had the drawings of the dresses on papers. All of different colours and designs. People who judge others with their socio-economic background, need to learn that such things are not the parameters to judge a person’s capabilities. They should respect others.
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Meddle did not approve of Peggy’s teasing of Wanda because she was as poor as Wanda was. But she could not stop Peggy as she did not have the courage to do so because Peggy was her best friend and thought that if she asked her to do so she might lose her friendship. Secondly, she thought that once the students stop teasing Wanda. They might ask her similar questions. I think a true friend should stop his/her friend of doing wrong things. She should guide him/her in the right direction.3
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Peggy and Maddie were classmates and close friends. Peggy was rich, pretty and the most popular girl in her class. Maddie was poor and wore hand-me-down clothes mostly of Peggy with a little innovation. Other students knew her because she was always with Peggy. Peggy used to enjoy teasing Wanda a Polish girl by asking her about her hundred dresses. Maddie would become a part of the fun unwillingly. She used to feel uncomfortable, perhaps it reminded her of her own poverty. She remained silent as she feared that Peggy might pick on her if she opposed. Thus, Peggy and Maddie’s inseparable friends had different personalities.4
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Peggy and other girls used to make fun of Wanda by asking her about her hundred dresses. In fact, Wanda said that she had a hundred dresses but wore the same faded blue dress every day. Maddie who was herself poor and wore hand-me-down clothes mostly of Peggy with a little alteration, felt uncomfortable when others teased Wanda. Perhaps it reminded her of her own poverty. She could not see Wanda in that miserable condition. She thought it was cruel to make fun of anyone’s poverty. She used to feel uneasy but remained a silent spectator. She feared that if she opposed she could be the next target.5
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Wanda did not come to school on Monday. But nobody noticed her. She did not come on Tuesday also. But when she missed the school on Wednesday also. Peggy and Middie noted her absence. They wondered why she had not come to school. Maddie remembered Wanda talking about one of her dresses which was pale blue with coloured trimmings. Then Maddie thought about the drawing and colour contest in the school. The girls were to design dresses and the boys were to design motorboats. Muddle thought that Peggy would win the contest as she was very good at design.6
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The next day it was drizzling. Peggy and Maddie hurried to their school as Miss Mason would announce the results of the drawing contest. They did not wait for Wanda. When the girls reached their school they were surprised. There were hundreds of designs of dresses displayed in the room. Then Miss Mason announced the names of the winners. Jack Beggles had won for the boys. She said that all the hundred designs of dresses had been made by one girl and she had won the Medal. Her name was Wanda Petronski. But Wanda was absent. The children clapped their hands in joy. Maddie asked Peggy to look at the blue dress about which Wanda had told them earlier. They appreciated the drawings made by Wanda.