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A Legend of the Northland - By Phoebe Cary Lesson - 5, Page No: 65 Question and Answers: 1. Which country or countries do you think “the Northland” refers to? Ans. The northland refers to the region around the north pole which is extremely cold. It could be any country like Russia, Canada, Greenland, Norway, etc. 2. What did Saint Peter ask the old lady for? What was the lady’s reaction? Ans. Saint Peter asked the lady to give him a cake as he was hungry. The lady did not give him a cake out of the ones that she had baked, instead she baked a smaller one for him. 3. How did Saint Peter punish the lady? Ans. He punished the selfish lady by turning her into a woodpecker bird that had to bore into the dry wood all day to get some food and shelter. 4. How does the woodpecker get her food? Ans. The woodpecker gets food by boring holes in the wood. 5. Do you think that the old lady would have been so ungenerous if she had known who Saint Peter really was? What would she have done then? Ans.

THE FUN THEY HAD By Isaac Asimov Lesson - 1 (Page No : 5) Q.1. “Margie even wrote about it that night in her diary”    (i) What did Margie write about?   (ii) When was the diary entry dated? Answer: 1. (i) Margie wrote down that her friend Tommy had found a real book that day. It was a very old book with still words printed on pages that had yellowed with age.             (ii) The diary entry in question was dated 17th May 2157. Q.2. Whom did the book belong to? Answer:  The book must have belonged to Tommy’s grandfather. Q.3. What did Margie write in her diary? [Text I. 2.] Answer:  Margie excitedly wrote in her diary that her friend Tommy had found a real printed book that day. Q.4. Had Margie ever seen a book before? [Text I. 3.] Answer:  No, Margie had never seen a real printed book before. Q.5. What was funny about the book? Answer:  The children found it funny that the words in the book stood still instead of moving, as in the telebooks they were used to. Q.6. What th