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The Hundred Dresses II- Summary & Question Answers ·       The part II of the story opens in Room No. 13 of the school where we find students having a look at all the magnificent drawings of Wanda Petronski. ·       However, Wanda isn’t there. ·       The teacher Miss Mason has received a note from Wanda’s father. ·       She is not only shocked but also embarrassed to read it. ·       Then, she reads it to the class and in that note Wanda’s father has written that his both children wouldn’t attend that school anymore. ·       They are moving to a big city where they are not made fun of on account of their names. ·       It intensely affects Maddie and Peggy. ·       They rush to Boggin Heights where Wanda used to live, to apologize for their   mi...

The Hundred Dresses Part 1 - Question & Answers Q1. How is Wanda seen as different by the other girls? How do they treat her? A. Wanda is an immigrant who belongs to a poor family. Other girls take her to be a strange person having an eccentric name and ethnicity. They ridicule her for wearing the same dress daily but claiming to have a hundred dresses all lined up in her closet.   Q2. How does Wanda feel about the dresses game? Why does she say that she has a hundred dresses? A. Wanda feels embarrassed and humiliated when the other girls played the dresses game on her. Wnada’s claim of having a hundred dresses put her in more severe situation, wherein the other girls cross all boundaries to insult her. They feel quite startled as to why a girl having a hundred dresses, wears the same dress daily.   Nobody bothered to care that Wanda is referring to her beautiful drawings of a hundred dresses, which she has made for the drawing competition. Q3. Why does M...

The Hundred Dresses Summary ·        The story brings to fore how a girl named Wanda Petronski is ridiculed on account of her ethnicity & eccentric name. ·        Wanda Petronski is a Polish immigrant. ·        She is a quiet and shy girl. Her family has settled in America. ·          She attends school with American children who mock her for her strange name. They find her name to be the weirdest in the classroom. ·        She is poor and can always be seen wearing a faded blue dress. ·        Her classmates tease her as she has claimed to have a hundred dresses “all lined up” in her closet; however, she is always seen wearing the same dress. ·        The ones who mainly tease her are - Peggy and Maddie, who are best friends. ·  ...

Question Answers of the story   ‘The Black Aeroplane’   Q1. “I’ll take the risk.” What is the risk? Why does the narrator take it? A. The risk of heading straight into the storm is being referred here. In spite of heading back to Paris to avoid any risk, he rather ventured to reach his destination navigating through the storm. He does so, so that he can reach his destination and meet his family members.   Q2. Describe the narrator’s experience as he flew the aeroplane into the storm . A. The narrator was frightened beyond extent, the moment he lost control of the plane. Compass and other instruments were broken; he was left with nothing to navigate further. The storm was too strong to be conquered. Nothing outside the aeroplane was visible but suddenly in the midst of nowhere, an unknown plane came in front of him and the pilot was gesticulated to help him. The narrator followed the plane for half an hour and his fuel was almost empty; and later the pilot g...

The Merchant of Venice Plot Overview SUMMARY  PLOT OVERVIEW   ·       Antonio, who is a Venetian merchant, complains to his friends of a melancholy which he can’t understand. He is unaware as to why he is sad.   ·       Bassanio, one of the best friends of Antonio is desperately in need of money.   ·       We come to know that he is a spendthrift who has squandered all his money.   ·       Antonio always helps him.   ·       This time Bassanio demands money from Antonio so that he can court Portia, who is a wealthy heiress of Belmont.   ·       Bassanio asks Antonio for a loan in order to travel in style to Portia’s estate.   ·       Antonio agrees, however he informs Bassanio that he wouldn’t be able to meet his demands this time as he has inv...