the sound of music class 9 summary

Extract Based Questions (3 marks each)

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.

Q.1.Her mother remembers noticing something was wrong when the eight-year-old Evelyn was waiting to play the piano. "They called her name and she didn't move. I suddenly realized she hadn't heard," says Isabel Glennie. For quite a while Evelyn managed to conceal her growing deafness from friends and teachers. But by the time she was eleven her marks had deteriorated and her headmistress urged her parents to take her to a specialist.

(i)What made Isabel suspect Evelyn's hearing ability ?

(ii)Why did Evelyn's headmistress advised her parents to consult a specialist?

(iii)Find the word/phrase in the passage which means the same as "to hide".

(SA-1, DDE-2014) (Board Term 1,2012, ELI-016)

Ans.(i) Isabel had a doubt about Evelyn's hearing ability when she did not move when her name was called to play on the piano.

(ii) Evelyn's headmistress advised her parents to consult a specialist when her marks deteriorated.

(iii) Conceal.

Q.2.As for music, she explains "it pours in through every part of my body. It tingles in the skin, my cheekbones and even in my hair". When she plays the xylophone, she can sense the sound passing up the stick into her finger tips. By leaning against the drums, she can feel the resonances flowing into her body. On a wooden platform, she removes her shoes so that the vibrations pass through her bare feet and up her legs.

(i)How does Evelyn hear the sound of xylophone ?

(ii)Why does she remove her shoes on a wooden platform during her performance ?

(iii)Find a word from the passage that means "'take off". (Board Term 1,2012, ELI-015)

Ans.(i)Evelyn hears the sound of xylophone through her finger tips.

(ii)She removes her shoes on a wooden platform during her performance so that she can feel the vibrations of music through her feet to legs.

(iii)Removes.

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