Tom Sawyer Class 6 Questions Answers SCERT Assam

Tom Sawyer Class 6 Questions Answers SCERT Assam: Tom Sawyer is the lesson 2 from Class 6 SCERT, Assam text-book Sunbeam English Reader. Here you'll get to read Tom Sawyer Class 6 Questions Answers SCERT Assam. 

Tom Sawyer Questions Answers SCERT, Assam

ACTIVITIES

1. Let's find out how much we have understood. Choose the correct alternative from the options to complete each sentence.

(a) On a Saturday night tom and huck went out to find                                     

(i) ghosts

(ii) hidden treasure

(iii) thieves

(iv) tools 

Ans: hidden treasure

(b) Tom and huck entered the house armed with a                             

(i) pickaxe

(ii) spade

(iii) pickaxe and spade

(iv) axe and spade

Ans: pickaxe and spade

(c) Tom and Huck saw

(i) two men entering the house

(ii) one man entering the house

(iii) Joe entering the house

(iv) there thieves entering the house

Ans: two men entering the house. 

(d) ''thank god! we had a narrow escape!'' Who said this to whom ?

(i) Tom said it to Huck.

(ii) Joe said it to Huck.

(iii) Huck said it to Joe.

(iv) Huck said it to Tom.

Ans: Huck said it to tom. 

2. Read the story and answer the following  questions briefly in your own words:

(a) What did Tom always dream of ?

(b) What plan did Tom make with his friend Huck ?

Ans:

(a) Tom always dreamt of finding boxes of hidden treasures in haunted houses. 

(b) One day Tom and Huck planned to go on a treasure hunt to a broken-down house far away from their village. 

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3. (a) let us learn some words and their meanings.

midnight: 12 o' clock at night

haunted house: a house visited by ghosts

thief: a person who steals something  from another person or place

dig: to make a hole in the ground or to remove something from the ground with a tool

staircase: a set of stairs inside a building including the posts and rails

lame: unable to walk well because of an injury to the leg or foot

grumbled: complained about something

toppled: became unsteady and fell down

wrap: to cover something completely in paper or other material

(b) now rewrite the sentences replacing the underlined parts with the words you learnt above.      

(i) Tom and Huck selected a house visited by ghosts for their new adventure.

(ii) Tom and Huck started their journey at 12 o' clock at night.

(iii) The thief was trying to make a hole in the ground.

(iv) He saw a set of stairs including posts and rails inside the haunted house.

(v) Joe, one of the two men was a person  who steals things.

Ans:

(i) Tom and Huck selected a haunted house for their new adventure. 

(ii) Tom and Huck started their journey at midnight.

(iii) The thief was trying to dig.

(iv) He saw a staircase inside the haunted house.

(v) Joe, one of the two men was a thief. 

4. Arrange the jumbled sentences in the proper order to get the summary of the story "Tom Sawyer". Rewrite the sentences in the correct order. Begin some of the sentences with Then, After that, Next and Finally to show the events happen.

(a) They heard a voice outside. 

(b) Two men entered the house.

(c) Tom and Huck went out to find some treasure.

(d) They started to dig at the place which Tom and Huck had chosen. 

(e) The two men left the place taking the box of the gold coins.  

(f) Tom and Huck hid inside a room on the first floor.

(g) The boys started to dig at a place inside the house.

(h) They selected a broken down house. 

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Ans:

(c) Tom and Huck went out to find some treasure.

(h) They selected a broken down house. 

(g) After that, the boys started to dig at a place inside the house.

(a) They heard a voice outside.

(f) Then, Tom and Huck hid inside a room on the first floor.

(b) Next, two men entered the house.

(d) Then, they started to dig at the place which Tom and Huck had chosen. 

(e) Finally, the two men left the place taking the box of the gold coins.  

5. (a) Work in pairs. Take turns and ask your partner to answer questions like the ones given below:

• What story did you read last month ?

Ans: Last month I read the story about a monkey and a fox. 

• What is the name of the story ?

Ans: The name of the story is A Monkey and a Fox. 

• Who is the author ?

 Ans: The author of the story is Lakhsminath Bezbaruah.

• What is the story about ?

Ans: The story was about two friends - a monkey and a fox. They did adventures for food together. One day, they looted a banana seller, and the monkey climbed up a tree with the bananas. But the fox could not climb. The monkey cheated him and ate all the bananas alone.

• Which character in the story you liked most ?

Ans: In the story I liked the character of the fox.

• Who was the character in the story you didn't like ?   

Ans: I did not like the character of the monkey. 

(b) Now, write a paragraph on a story you have read in your own words. 

Ans:                The Greedy Man and the Golden Eggs

Long ago, in a certain village, there lived a poor peasant. One day he found a swan in a pond. He caught it and brought it to his house. He liked the beautiful swan and kept it in his room at night. 

The next morning there was a big surprise for him. He saw that the swan had laid an egg that was golden in colour. He then realises that the swan laid golden eggs. He took the egg  to the market and sold it at a very high price. Every day the swan laid a golden egg, soon the man became rich. 

But he was not only a greedy but also a dull. He wanted to have all the eggs in the swan's stomach at a time. He thought that there were a large number of golden eggs in the swan's stomach. So he killed it, but he did not find any eggs.

Class 6, Lesson 2, Tom Sawyer Questions Answers

6. (a) Read the following sentence. We use them generally while giving directions to someone. Remember, these are called imperative sentence.

• Go straight.

• Walk to the road.

• Turn to your left.

• Walk to the north.

• Open the gate and there you are.

(b) Now , use some sentence like the ones you have just learned to help your friend to find the way home from the haunted house.

7. Let's learn some type of sentences:

We use sentences to perform certain functions. Depending on the function we have different types of sentences. e.g.

(a) Tom was fond of adventures.

(b) Tom and Huck entered the house.

These two sentences are assertive sentences. They state something or give some information.

Here are two other sentences:

(c) Have you thought of the pickaxe ?

(d) Who bought them here ?

Sentences (c) and (d) are interrogative sentences. They are used to ask questions.

Here are two other sentences:

(e) Read the story.

(f) Switch on the light please.

These sentences are instructions or orders or requests. They are called imperative sentences.

Now look at two other sentences:

(g) What a beautiful picture!

(h) How lovely the picture is!

These sentences express strong feelings or emotions. They are called exclamatory sentences.

9. Identify the different types of sentences and write what they are called:

(a) Tom and Huck decided to go on a treasure hunt.

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(b) Go and search for hidden treasure, Joe.

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(c) Who buried the box in this house ?

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(d) Tom and Huck ran downstairs.

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(e) Dig the ground.

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(f) The boys began to breathe more easily.

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(g) Let's search the house.

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(h) Oh! It's a great discovery.

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(i) Thank God! We had a narrow escape!

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(j) The two men cried out in joy.

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Ans:

(a) Assertive Sentence

(b) Imperative Sentence

(c) Interrogative Sentence

(d) Assertive Sentence

(e) Imperative Sentence

(f) Assertive Sentence

(g) Imperative Sentence

(h) Exclamatory Sentence

(i) Exclamatory Sentence

(j) Assertive Sentence