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The Night the Ghost got in
10th std Unit 2 Prose Slow Learner’s study materials.
Synonyms
- Hullabaloo – loud noise / uproar.
- Patrolman – a patrolling police officer.
- Attic – loft.
- Slammed – shut a door.
- Gruffly – roughly / rudely.
- Intuitively – instinctively.
- Whammed – stuck.
- Bevelled – reduced.
- Rending – tearing.
- Yanked – pulled.
- Guinea pig – a rodent.
- Zither – a musical instrument.
- Hysterical – uncontrolled / emotional.
- Creaking – showing anger.
- Holster – holder.
- Rafter – beam.
- Deserter – a person who leaves the army without permission.
Antonyms
- Whammed x pulled.
- Gaze x blink.
- Palely x brightly.
- Gruffly x happily / gently.
- Reluctant x keen.
- Advent x departure.
- Hullabaloo x silence.
- Conclusion x beginning.
- Gripped x released.
- Suspected x trusted.
- Gleamed x dark.
- Intuitively x sensibly.
- Hysterical x self-possessed / calm.
2 Marks:
- Where was the author when he heard the noise?
The author was just out of his bathtub.
- What did the narrator think the unusual sound was?
The narrator thought that it was a ghost.
- Who were the narrator’s neighbours?
Mr. Bodwell and his wife were the narrator’s neighbours.
- What did the Bodwells think when they heard the mother shout?
The Bodwells thought that there were burglars in their house.
- What conclusions did grandfather jump to when he saw the cops?
He thought that they were deserters.
- What made the reporters gaze at the author?
The author told they had ghosts in their house.
- Why did Herman and the author slam the doors?
They heard the footsteps coming towards them. They were afraid.
- What woke up the mother?
The slamming of the door woke up the mother.
- How did the cops manage to enter the locked house?
The cops broke open the doors and windows.
- Who used the zither and how?
The narrator’s pet Guinea pig used the zither. It used to sleep on it.
Paragraph
Prose: The Night the Ghost Got In.
Author: James Grover Thurber.
- The story took place in author’s house.
- The narrator heard a footstep.
- He thought it was a ghost.
- He woke up his mother.
- She thought it was a burglar.
- His mother threw a shoe to the neighbour’s house
- The cops came and searched.
- The cops left without any evidence.
- Grandfather mistook them deserters.
- He actually came to the dining room to drink water.
Misunderstanding leads to chaos.
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