Reach for the Top 🔝 (Part 1): Class 9th

 👉 Short answer type question.

👉 Question (1) What is the name of the protagonist of the story ? What unique achievement did she make ? 

कहानी की नायिका का नाम क्या है ? कौन-सी अद्वितीय उपलब्धि उसने पाई ? 

✍️ Answer. Santosh is the name of the protagonist of the story. The unique achievement that she make is that she is the only woman in the world to scale Mt. Everest twice.

👉 Question (2) What type of dresses did Santosh prefer to wear ?

संतोष किस प्रकार के वस्त्र पहनना अधिक पसंद करती थी ? 

✍️ Answer. Santosh prefers to wear modern dresses like shorts.

👉 Question (3) How many siblings did Santosh have ? How many brothers and how many sisters, in all, were they ?

संतोष के कितने भाई बहन थे ? कुल मिलाकर वे कितने भाई और कितनी बहनें थीं ?

✍️ Answer. Santosh had five siblings. They were five brothers and one sister.

👉 Question (4) Santosh's parents were affluent landowners, then why did they not send her to a good school ?

संतोष के माता-पिता धनी जमींदार थे, तब क्यों उन्होंने उसे अच्छे स्कूल में नहीं भेजा ?

✍️ Answer. Although Santosh's parents were affluent landowners and they could send her to a good school, they did not do so because of the prevailing custom in the family.

👉 Question (5) What happened to most of the girls in Santosh's village when they were sixteen ?

संतोष के गाँव में अधिकांश लड़कियों का क्या होता था ? जब वे सोलह वर्ष की हो जाती थी ? 

✍️ Answer. Most of the girls in the village used to get married when they were sixteen.

👉 Question (6) What condition of her marriage did she put before her parents ?

उसने अपने माता-पिता के सामने अपने विवाह की क्या शर्त रखी ? 

✍️ Answer. The condition that Santosh put before her parents for her marriage was that she would marry only after getting a proper education.

👉 Question (7) When did her parents agree to pay for her education ?

उसके माता-पिता उसकी शिक्षा का खर्च उठाने के लिए कब सहमत हुए ? 

✍️ Answer. When Santosh politely informed her parents that she would herself earn money by working part time if they refused to pay her school fees, her parents agreed to pay.

👉 Question (8) What was the name of the school at Jaipur that she joined ? Also tell the name of the hostel where she lived ?

जयपुर के उस विद्यालय का क्या नाम था जिसमें उसने प्रवेश लिया ? उस छात्रावास का नाम भी बताइए जहाँ वह रहती थी ? 

✍️ Answer. The name of the school at Jaipur that she joined was Maharani college, and the name of the hostel was Kasturba hostel. 

👉 Question (9) What did her hostel face, and what used she to watch from her room ? 

उसके छात्रावास के सामने क्या था और वह अपने कमरे से क्या देखा करती थी ? 

✍️ Answer. Her Hostel faced the Aravali hills. She used to watch villagers from her room, going up the hill and suddenly vanishing after a while.

👉 Question (10) What did she ask the mountaineers, and what was a pleasant surprise to her ? 

उसने पर्वतारोहियों से क्या पूछा, तथा उसका सुखद आश्चर्य क्या था ? 

✍️ Answer. She asked the mountaineers if she could join them. It was a pleasant surprised to her that they not only answered in the affirmative but also motivated her to take to climbing. 

👉 Question (11) How did she manage to join in a course in Uttarkashi ? What was the name of the institute she joined ?

वह उत्तरकाशी में एक कोर्स में कैसे प्रवेश ले पाई ? उस संस्थान का नाम क्या था जिससे वह जुड़ी ? 

✍️ Answer. She enrolled in a course in Uttarkashi and reached there just after her semester in Jaipur had ended. The name of institute was Nehru institute of mountaineering.

👉 Question (12) After joining the Uttarkashi institute, what did she do every year ? 

उत्तरकाशी संस्थान में प्रवेश लेने के बाद उसने प्रतिवर्ष क्या किया ? 

✍️ Answer. After joining the Uttarkashi institute Santosh went on expedition every year.

👉 Question (13) At what age did she scale Mt. Everest ? How was she event remarkable ? 

वह किस उम्र में माउंट एवरेस्ट पर चढ़ी ? घटना किस प्रकार उल्लेखनीय है ? 

✍️ Answer. She scaled Mt. Everest at the age of just twenty. This event was remarkable in the sense that she became the youngest woman in the world to achieve the feat.

👉 Question (14) What thing impressed her seniors, and what thing made her dear to her fellow climbers ? 

उसके वरिष्ठों को किस बात ने प्रभावित किया, और किस बात ने उसे अपने सह-पर्वतारोहियों का प्रिय बनाया ? 

✍️ Answer. Her climbing skills, physical fitness, and mental strength impressed her seniors, and her concern for others and desire to work together with them made her dear to her fellow climbers.

👉 Question (15) In 1992, what happened to two of her fellow climbers ?

1992 में उसके दो सह-पर्वतारोहियों को क्या हुआ ?

✍️ Answer. In 1992, one of her fellow climbers lay dying at the South col. She provided him special care but in vain. To the other she saved by sharing her oxygen with him.

👉 Question (16) What record did Santosh set ? 

संतोष ने कौन सा कीर्तिमान स्थापित किया ?

✍️ Answer. Santosh scaled Mt. Everest a second time. Thus, she set a record as the only woman to have scaled Everest twice. 

👉 Question (17) Which award was bestowed upon her ?

उसे कौन-सा पुरस्कार प्रदान किया गया ? 

✍️ Answer. One of the nation's top honours the ' Padam shri' was bestowed upon her.

👉 Question ( 18) What were her feelings when she was literally ' on top of the world' ? 

जब वह सचमुच ' संसार की चोटी पर ' थी तो उसकी भावनाएं क्या थी ? 

✍️ Answer. When she was literally ' on top of the world', for some time she could not believe it. Then she unfurled the Indian tricolour and held it aloft on the roof of the world. She felt proud as an Indian. 

👉 Question (19) How can you say she was also a fervent environmentalist ? 

आप कैसे कह सकते हैं कि वह उत्साही पर्यावरणविद् भी थी ? 

✍️ Answer. She was really a fervent environmentalist. When she came down with her she brought down 500 kilograms of garbage from the Himalayas. 

👉 Long answer type question.

👉 Question (1) Describe Santosh's life in her village, and her problems as well. How did she overcome them ?

गाँव में संतोष के जीवन का और साथ ही उसकी समस्याओं का वर्णन कीजिए | उसने उन पर कैसे विजय पाई ? 

✍️ Answer. Santosh yadav was born in the small village of Joniyawas of Rewari district in Haryana. People there lived a traditional life which Santosh did not like to live. In place of traditional dresses, she preferred shorts. She wanted to lead her own correct and rational path.

In her village, girls were married at sixteen. She opposed the custom and declared that she would get married only after getting proper education. She even made it clear to her parents that if they did not pay for her education, she herself would earn money.

👉 Question (2) How did she get interested in mountaineering ? 

उसकी रुचि पर्वतारोहण में कैसे जगी ?

✍️ Answer. While in Jaipur's maharani college, from her room at Kasturba hostel, she used to wath villagers getting up the hill and disappearing. One day, to check it out herself, she came out and saw some mountaineers.

She asked them if she could join them. Their answer was not only 'yes' but they motivated her too. Thus she got interested in mountaineering. 

👉 Question (3) Describe her achievements.

उसकी उपलब्धियों का वर्णन कीजिए | 

✍️ Answer. After getting herself enrolled at Uttarkashi, Santosh went on an expedition every year. In 1992 when she was just so, she scaled Mt. Everest, and became the youngest woman in the world to achieve the fat.

She became the first woman in the world to have scaled Mt.Everest twice. Santosh was awarded with the ' Padam shri' for her achievements. 

👉 Question (4) What incident took place during the 1992 Everest mission ? What quality of Santosh's character can be seen here ? 

1992 के एवरेस्ट अभियान के दौरान कौन-सी घटना घटित हुई ? यहाँ संतोष के चरित्र के कौन-से गुण देखे जा सकते है ? 

✍️ Answer. During the 1992 Everest mission, Santosh yadav provided special care to a climber who lay dying at the South Col. But in spite of doing her best, she could not save the mountaineer. However, she managed to save another climber whose name was Mohan Singh who saved she.

Mohan singh would surely have died, had she not shared her oxygen with him. These two incidents show how caring Santosh was and that she believed in just selfless service.

👉 Question (5) Give a brief character sketch of Santosh.

संक्षेप में संतोष का चरित्र-चित्रण कीजिए |

✍️ Answer. Santosh yadav is born in a traditional village of Haryana. But she is not an ordinary girl. She does not wear traditional dresses. She opposes her marriage at an early age.

She insists her parents to send her out for education. She makes climbing her ambition and overcoming all difficulties, she scales Everest twice and becomes the only woman to do the miracle twice.