Our Runaway Kite by Lucy Maud Montgomery – Textual Questions and Answers

Learning and understanding a story becomes much easier when we break it down into questions and answers. In this article, we explore Our Runaway Kite by Lucy Maud Montgomery through a series of comprehension exercises. These questions help us recall key details, analyze the characters, and understand the emotional depth of the story. Additionally, we practice grammar and writing skills with sentence transformations, dialogues, and creative storytelling. Whether you are a student preparing for an exam or simply someone who enjoys literature, these exercises will enhance your grasp of the story and improve your language skills. Let’s begin!

Our Runaway Kite by Lucy Maud Montgomery – Solved Textual Questions

1. Choose the correct alternative to complete the following sentences:

(a) The keeper of the Big Half Moon Lighthouse is (i) Aunt Esther (ii) Father (iii) Claude (iv) Dick

(b) The family moved over to the mainland in (i) summer (ii) spring (iii) monsoon (iv) winter

(c) When asked about relations, Father looked (i) happy (ii) angry (iii) sorrowful (iv) irritated

2. Fill in the chart:

3. True or False with Supporting Statements:

(i) People felt that Claude and the narrator were lonesome on the island.
Answer: True
Supporting statement: “The funny part used to be that people always pitied us when the time came for us to return. They said we must be so lonesome over there, with no other children near us.”

(ii) Claude and the narrator quarrelled.
Answer: False
Supporting statement: “Claude and I never quarrelled.”

(iii) Nobody on the mainland had relations.
Answer: False
Supporting statement: “Everybody on the mainland had relations.”

4. Choose the correct alternative to complete the following sentences:

(a) In summer the Big Half Moon is always (i) lovely (ii) unpleasant (iii) boring (iv) dull

(b) Back on the island, Claude and the narrator made plenty of (i) puppets (ii) masks (iii) kites (iv) envelopes

(c) The kite was patched with a (i) newspaper (ii) letter (ii) envelope (iv) card

5. Complete the following sentences:

(i) A boy on the mainland showed Claude how to make kites.

(ii) On the kite, Claude and the narrator pasted gold tinsel stars.

(iii) Claude was standing with a bit of cord in his hand, looking foolish.

6. Fill in the chart:

7. Choose the correct alternative to complete the following sentences:

(a) A letter came for father after a (i) day (ii) week (iii) fortnight (iv) month

(b) Father left home after quarrelling with his (i) brother (ii) sister (iii) aunt (iv) uncle

(c) Dick and Mimi discovered the kite on the top of a (i) roof (ii) tree (iii) lighthouse (iv) light post

8. Fill in the chart:

9. Answer the following questions:

(a) What did Father find when he went back home years afterward?
Answer: Father found that his brother had died and that he couldn’t find his sister.

(b) Where did Aunt Esther live?
Answer: Aunt Esther lived hundreds of miles inland.

(c) Why did Aunt Esther turn pale?
Answer: Aunt Esther turned pale because she recognized the letter patched on the kite. It was the very letter she had once written to her brother, proving that the children were her relatives.

10. Change the following sentences into questions, as directed:

(a) Shankha lives in Alipurduar. (Information question using ‘where’)
Answer: Where does Shankha live?

(b) They have gone to a picnic. (Interrogative sentence using ‘where’)
Answer: Where have they gone?

(c) I went to school yesterday. (Simple question using ‘did’)
Answer: Did you go to school yesterday?

(d) Tia studies in class X. (Information question using ‘which’)
Answer: Which class does Tia study in?

11. Suppose your bicycle has a sudden tyre puncture on your way to school. You have taken the cycle to a repair shop. Write an imaginary dialogue (within 100 words) between the shopkeeper and you.

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12. Write a story (within 100 words) using the given hints. Give a title to the story.

crow sitting on a tree – piece of meat in its beak – fox passing under the tree – wants the meat – asks the crow to sing – crow keeps meat under its feet and sings – fooled, fox leaves

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