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Extract from the Story
"At that time, I never understood why there was so much of debate about the story.
Once I went for a wedding with my cousins to the neighbouring village. In those days, a wedding was a great event. We children enjoyed ourselves thoroughly. We would eat and play endlessly, savouring the freedom because all the elders were busy. I went for a couple of days but ended up staying there for a week."
Once I went for a wedding with my cousins to the neighbouring village. In those days, a wedding was a great event. We children enjoyed ourselves thoroughly. We would eat and play endlessly, savouring the freedom because all the elders were busy. I went for a couple of days but ended up staying there for a week."
Summary in Bullet Points
- Once, the narrator went to a wedding in a neighbouring village.
- In those days a wedding was a great event.
- Children spent days savouring the freedom. savouring = enjoying something slowly and fully; taking great pleasure in an experience
- She planned to stay two days but ended up staying a week.
- So nobody read the new Kashi Yatre episode to Avva.
- She missed it thoroughly . thoroughly = completely; in every way
NCERT Questions (from the Textbook)
Check Your Understanding — Part I (NCERT Kaveri page 6)
The cause-effect table (Part I) includes events from this section. See Check Your Understanding
Board Pattern
Questions Mapped to Exam Format
Fill in the Blank (Bracket Choice)
1 mark - 1 sentence only
The children enjoyed the freedom at the wedding, __________ every moment. (savouring / wasting)
How to answer:
Start with the key word from the question. Support your answer with specific details from the story. Write in complete sentences.
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savouring
savouring = enjoying something slowly and fully; taking great pleasure in an experience
Why: The extract says the children were "savouring the freedom". Enjoying it fully and deeply, not wasting it.
savouring = enjoying something slowly and fully; taking great pleasure in an experience
Why: The extract says the children were "savouring the freedom". Enjoying it fully and deeply, not wasting it.
Answer 'savouring' hai — wedding mein bachche khul ke enjoy kar rahe the. 'Wasting' galat hai — story mein clearly 'savouring' use kiya hai.
MCQ. What Does Action Reveal (1 mark)
The phrase "I went for a couple of days but ended up staying for a week" reveals that the narrator:
How to answer:
Start with the key word from the question. Support your answer with specific details from the story. Write in complete sentences.
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Answer: (C)
- The narrator was a twelve-year-old child at a wedding full of food and play. The phrase "ended up" suggests an unplanned extension. She was having too much fun to leave.
Short answer mein seedha bolo: bus hi village ka bahar se ek hi connection tha. 'Eagerly' feel dikhata hai ki sab log kitna wait karte the — isolation clear hai.
Short Answer. Inference (1 mark)
What does the description of the wedding tell us about village life "in those days"?
How to answer:
Start with the key word from the question. Support your answer with specific details from the story. Write in complete sentences.
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It suggests village life was community-centred. Weddings were multi-day celebrations where children roamed freely while elders stayed busy.
Village mein shaadi multi-day celebration hoti thi — poora community saath rehta tha. Bacche freely ghoomte the. Yeh community-centred life dikhata hai, aaj ki city life se bilkul alag.
