Gujarat Board | Class 10Th | English (Blackbuck-Supplementary Reader) | Model Question Paper & Solution | Chapter – 4 Friendship : A Rainbow Forever

1. Growing up with a father in the Railways means moving often. This school in Bharuch was my fifth school. I was always considered as a new girl. Once or twice I managed to make friends. But before we could know each other, I had to move to a different school, again as a ‘new girl’.

One day, in August 1967, I stood in the doorway of my newest classroom. As always my stomach ached with some unknown fear. I shivered and tried to hold back my tears. Thirty-five boys and girls stared at me. I tried hard to keep my eyes on the floor to avoid strange looks. Then I saw a girl smiling like warm sunshine at me. She actually seemed to welcome me. When the teacher told me to sit next to Manisha, my frozen terror began to melt.

“Hi, I’m Manisha.” Her voice had warm ring, her face was long, her eyes were dark and soft and hair long and brownish.

(1) Why was the narrator always considered as a ‘new girl’?

(2) Why could the narrator not make friends?

(3) Describe the narrator’s condition when she stood in the doorway of the classroom.

(4) What did the narrator do to avoid strange looks?

(5) When did the narrator’s frozen terror begin to melt?

(6) What made the narrator think that the girl was welcoming her?

(7) What does the narrator say about Manisha?

( 1 ) The narrator was always considered a ‘new girl’ because her father worked in the railways and before she could make friends, she had to move to a new school again.

(2) The narrator could not make friends because before she could know them, she had to move to a new school, again as a ‘new girl’.

(3) As the narrator stood in the doorway of the new classroom, her stomach ached with some unknown fear, she shivered and tried to hold back her tears.

(4) The narrator tried hard to keep her eyes on the floor to avoid strange looks.

(5) The narrator’s frozen terror began to melt when the teacher asked her to sit next to Manisha.

(6) The girl was smiling like warm sunshine and this made the narrator think that she was welcoming her.

(7) The narrator says that Manisha’s smile was like warm sunshine, her voice had a warm ring, her face was long, her eyes were dark and soft and her hair was long and brownish.

2. Both of us would always move together out on the silent railway tracks, or in the garden behind the school. We explored the forest in the vacation, did camping on Mount Abu, and participated in Navratri festivals. She was tall and slim. I was short and plump. She was good at Maths, I liked reading novels. She was a good athlete and dragged me into some games. We talked and sang and quarrelled and wept and yet sat together on one bench.

Three years flew by – the miracle years filled with fun, growth, discovery and intense feelings. Manisha’s father got a promotion and they had to move to Assam.

As promised, Manisha and I wrote occasional letters. Long distance phone calls were out of question in those days. Her last letter came when I was in T.Y. BSc. She had fallen in love with a doctor. She married him and had just given birth to a beautiful baby girl.

(1) Where did the friends go together in the city?

(2) What did they do during the vacation?

(3) What does the narrator say about Manisha?

(4) What does the narrator say about herself?

(5) What does the narrator say about their friendship?

(6) What does the narrator call the three years of their friendship?

(7) Why does the narrator call the three years ‘miracle years’?

(8) Where did Manish go? Why?

(9) What did the friends promise each other?

(10) What did Manisha write in her letter?

(1) The friends moved out together on the railway tracks or in the garden behind the school.

(2) During the vacation, they explored the forest or did camping on Mount Abu.

(3) The narrator says that Manisha was tall and slim, good at Maths and a good athlete.

(4) The narrator says that she was short and plum and liked reading novels.

(5) The narrator says that they talked, sang, quarrelled, wept and yet sat together on one bench.

(6) The narrator calls the three years of their friendship as ‘miracle years’.

(7) The narrator calls the three years ‘miracle years’ because they were filled with fun, growth, discovery and intense feelings.

(8) Manisha went to Assam because her father got a promotion.

(9) The friends promised to write letters to each other.

(10) Manisha wrote in her letter that she fallen in love with a doctor, married him and had given birth to a beautiful baby girl.

A. deal for

B. look at

C. look into

D. deal with

Ans. D. deal with

A. trouble

B. pain

C. relief

D. irritation

Ans. B. pain

Ans. D. admire

A. fight

B. peace

C. argument

D. beating

Ans. A. fight

A. suppress

B. express

C. progress

D. depress

Ans. C. progress

A. reserve

B. join

C. connect

D. separate

Ans. D. separate

A. argue

B. order

C. beg

D. command

Ans. C. beg