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Notes of The Lumber Room

1. The document provides a textbook answer scheme for questions about the short story "The Lumber Room" including textual answers, short answer questions, and longer answer questions. 2. It includes sample answers to questions about key details of the story like why Nicholas was not allowed to go on an outing and what he discovered in the forbidden lumber room. 3. The answer scheme also provides model responses to questions that require inferences, such as how Nicholas misled his aunt in order to explore the secret lumber room.

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Notes of The Lumber Room

1. The document provides a textbook answer scheme for questions about the short story "The Lumber Room" including textual answers, short answer questions, and longer answer questions. 2. It includes sample answers to questions about key details of the story like why Nicholas was not allowed to go on an outing and what he discovered in the forbidden lumber room. 3. The answer scheme also provides model responses to questions that require inferences, such as how Nicholas misled his aunt in order to explore the secret lumber room.

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TEXTBOOK ANSWER SCHEME

Subject: English Topic: The Lumber Room Std: VII

Textual Answers:
1. Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
a) The children were to be driven, as a special treat, to the sands at Jagborough.
Nicholas was not allowed as he was in disgrace. Only that morning he had refused
to eat his wholesome bread and milk on the grounds that there was a frog in it.
i. Nicholas was in disgrace because he had refused to eat his wholesome bread and
milk on the grounds that there was a frog in it.
ii. Nicholas was not allowed to go to the sands at Jagborough where the other
children were going as a special treat.
iii. There was a frog in Nicholas’ basin of milk and bread as he had had put it there
himself to prove the older, wiser and better people wrong.
iv. wholesome

b) In the afternoon, the aunt spent an hour or two in trivial gardening operations
whence she could watch the doors that led to the forbidden area. Nicholas wriggled
his way with obvious stealth of purpose towards one of the doors.
i. The gooseberry garden was the forbidden area.

ii. In the afternoon, the aunt spent an hour or two in trivial gardening operations
whence she could watch the doors that led to the forbidden paradise.
iii. Nicholas wanted his aunt to think he had got into the gooseberry garden because
he wanted to go to the lumber room.
iv. stealth

2. Answer the following questions in 30-40 words.


a) The aunt knew that Nicholas would go to the gooseberry garden because she had
told him not to. Hence, she spent time guarding the entrance of the gooseberry
garden because she did not want him to enjoy his detention time in the gooseberry
garden.
b) Inside the lumber room, Nicholas found an interesting tapestry picture, candlesticks
in the shape of snakes, a teapot fashioned like a china duck, a carved sandalwood

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box packed with aromatic cotton-wool and brass figures of hump necked bulls,
peacocks and goblins and a large square book full of coloured pictures of birds.
c) Nicholas made frequent trips into the front garden to mislead his aunt and make
her believe that he wanted to enter the gooseberry garden, whereas his actual plan
was to discover the secret of the lumber room.
d) The aunt called out to Nicholas for help because she had slipped into the rain-water
tank and wasn’t able to get out. She wanted Nicholas to bring the little ladder from
under the cherry tree.

3. Answer the following questions in 80-100 words.


a) Whenever a child was under punishment, the aunt used to organise picnics or
something of a festive nature in which the offender was not allowed to participate.
The aunt decided to send the other three children to Jagborough as she wanted to
punish Nicholas for his disgraceful behaviour at the breakfast table when he had
brought a frog and put it in his bread and milk. Thus, the offender was made to feel
sorry for his mistake. In this case to punish Nicholas, she was sending the rest of the
children to Jagborough.
b) First, Nicholas misled his aunt to make her believe that he wanted to enter the
gooseberry garden, whereas his actual plan was to discover the secret of the lumber
room. Nicholas was fascinated with the exhibits of the lumber room as it was
forbidden delight for him. Then, his aunt fell into the rain-water tank. Though he
knew it was his aunt, he acted as if he was talking to someone who was trying to
mislead him into entering the forbidden gooseberry garden. Thus, it was a fun filled
day for him.

Language

4. Match the phrases with the meanings.


a) - iv b) – vi c) - v d) - ii e) - i f) - iii

5. Punctuate the following sentences correctly.

a) Older, wiser and better people had told him that he was not to talk nonsense.

b) “Nicholas, Nicholas!" she screamed, "you are to come out of this at once.”

c) I've slipped into the rain-water tank.

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d) "Your voice doesn't sound like aunt's," objected Nicholas.

e) "Will there be strawberry jam for tea?" asked Nicholas innocently.

7-8 Student specific

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