A House is not a home Class 9th

 👉 Question (1) What thing felt awkward to the author ? 

कौन-सी बात लेखक को अजीब लगी ? 

✍️ Answer. The author's first year of high school felt awkward to him. He was new to this school. 

👉 Question (2) How big was this new school ? 

नया विद्यालय कितना बड़ा था ? 

✍️ Answer. This new school of his was twice as big as his old school.

👉 Question (3) What did his old teachers encourage him to ? 

उसके पुराने अध्यापकों ने उसे क्या करने को प्रोत्साहित किया ?

✍️ Answer. Whenever he went to them, his old teachers encouraged him to get involved in school activities and see new people. They said them he would adjust and begin to love his new school.

👉 Question (4) What promise did the author's old teacher's make him do ?

लेखक के पुराने शिक्षकों ने उससे क्या वादा किया ?

✍️ Answer. They made him promise that when he adjusted in the new school, he would still come by and visit them from time to time. 

👉 Question (5) When the author was sitting doing homework, how did his red tabby cat behave ? 

जब लेखक बैठे हुए गृहकार्य कर रहा था, तो उसकी लाल गहरी भूरी धारियों वाली बिल्ली ने कैसा व्यवहार किया ? 

✍️ Answer. When the author was sitting doing his homework, his red tabby cat was lying on top of all his papers, as she usually did. She was purring loudly and now and then hitting his pen, and enjoying herself. 

👉 Question (6) How had the author got the cat ? What did she somehow know ?

लेखक को बिल्ली कैसे मिली ? वह किस प्रकार क्या जान गई थी ?

✍️ Answer. The cat was rescued by the author when she was a kitten. The cat somehow knew that the author was the one responsible for giving her 'the good life'. 

👉 Question (7) When was the fire noticed ? Who came to know of it ?

आग का पता कब लगा ? इस विषय में किसे पता चला ?

✍️ Answer. When the author was doing his homework and her mother was adding fuel to the fire, the fire was noticed. It was the author who came to know of it.

👉 Question (8) What had happened by the time they made their way outside ?

जब तक वे बाहर निकले तब तक क्या हो चुका था ?

✍️ Answer. By the time they made their way outside, the whole roof was engulfed in flames and it was spreading quickly. 

👉 Question (9) Why did the mother run into the burning house ?

माँ जलते मकान में क्यों दौड़ी ?

✍️ Answer. A small metal box full of important documents was left inside the house. The mother ran into the burning house to take it out.

👉 Question (10) Who emerged from the house with the author's mother ? What treatment was she given ? 

लेखक की माँ के साथ मकान से कौन निकला ? उसे (माँ को) क्या उपचार दिया गया ?

✍️ Answer. A fireman emerged from the house with the author's mother. She was quickly taken over to the truck and no oxygen mask was put on her. 

👉 Question (11) After how long was the fire out ? What was the condition of the house ?

आग कितनी देर बाद बुझी ? मकान की क्या स्थिति थी ?

✍️ Answer. After five hours the fire was out. The house was in a very bad condition. It was completely burned down. 

👉 Question (12) Where did the mother and the son spend that night ?

माँ तथा बेटे ने वह रात कहाँ बिताई ?

✍️ Answer. The mother and the son went to his grandparent's house, and they spent the night there. 

👉 Question (13) How was the author dressed when he reached the school the next day ? 

जब लेखक अगले दिन स्कूल पहुंचा तो वह कैसे कपड़े पहने था ? 

✍️ Answer. When, the next day, the author reached the school , he was wearing the same dress he had worn to church that morning. He wore borrowed tennis shoes as his shoes had been burnt.

👉 Question (14) What things were not destroyed by fire ? Why ?

आग में क्या-क्या चीजें नष्ट नहीं हुई ? क्यों ?

✍️ Answer. The things that had not been destroyed by fire were the photo albums, documents and some other personal items that his mother had brought out of burning house.

👉 Question (15) Why had they to borrow money from his grandparents ? 

उन्हें उसके दादाजी से धन उधार क्यों लेना पड़ा ? 

✍️ Answer. They had no credit cards, cash or any identification, for they were all destroyed by fire. They had, therefore, to borrow money from his grandparents.

👉 Question (16) Why would the author go over to the sight of the burnt house ?

लेखक जले मकान की जगह पर क्यों जाया करता था ? 

✍️ Answer. They had been clearing off the rubble at the site of their house. The author would go over in hope that he might somewhere find his cat.

👉 Question (17) What did the author see in the gym ? 

लेखक ने जिम (ब्यायामशाला) में क्या देखा ? 

✍️ Answer. Inside the gym, on a big table, he saw all kinds of stuff on it- jeans, tops, sweatsuits, notebooks, etc. They were all fir him.

👉 Question (18) When did the author make friends in his new school ?

लेखक ने अपने नए विद्यालय में मित्र कब बनाए ? 

✍️ Answer. The help they extended to him, and the genuine concern they showed him touched him. He felt relieved, and the same day he made friends.

👉 Question (19) What did he realise when he sat there watching his house being rebuilt ? 

जब लेखक बैठे हुए मकान को पुनःनिर्मित होते देख रहा था, तो उसे क्या अनुभव हुआ ? 

✍️ Answer. He sat there watching his house being rebuilt. He was not alone. He was with two of his friends. He realized that like the house life was being rebuilt.

👉 Question (20) When they sat on the curb, planning his new bedroom, what good news did he receive ? 

जब वे मुंडेर पर उसके (लेखक के) नए शयनकक्ष की योजना बनाने बैठे थे, तब कौन-सा अच्छा समाचार उसे मिला ? 

✍️ Answer. When they sat on the curb, planning his new bedroom, the author heard someone walk behind him. It was a woman holding his cat, it was the good news for him.

👉 Question (21) Seeing the cat in the woman's arms how did the author, the cat, and author's friends react ? 

बिल्ली को स्त्री की बाँहों में देखकर लेखक, बिल्ली तथा लेखक के मित्रों ने क्या प्रतिक्रिया दी ? 

✍️ Answer. Seeing the cat in the woman's arms, the author leapt up and grabbed the cat, held her close to him and cried. The cat purred, and the friends hugged him and the cat, and began jumping around. 

👉 Question (22) How was the cat lost ?

बिल्ली कैसे खो गई थी ?

✍️ Answer. Seeing the house was on fire, the cat got frightened, and she ran over a mile away. She was thus lost.

👉 Question (23) How did the woman manage to hand the cat to its real owner ? 

स्त्री किस प्रकार बिल्ली को इसके वास्तविक स्वामी को दे पाई ? 

✍️ Answer. The woman who found the cat, somehow knew that the cat was loved and intensely missed. She, therefore, worked hard to find out whose cat that was and finally reached the real owner.