NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English Chapter 9 Madam Rides the Bus

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Oral Comprehension Check:

Q. What was Valli’s favourite pastime?

Ans. Valli’s favourite pastime was standing in the front doorway of her house and watching what was happening in the street outside.

Q. What was a source of unending joy for Valli? What was her strongest desire?

Ans. The sight of the bus, that travelled between her village and the nearest town and filled each time with a new set of passengers, was a source of unending joy for Valli. Her strongest desire was to ride the bus.

Q. What did Valli find out about the bus journey? How did she find out these details?

Ans. Valli listened carefully to the conversations between her neighbours and the people who regularly used the bus and she also asked a few discreet questions here and there. This way she picked up various small details about the bus journey. The town was six miles away from her village. The fare was thirty paise for one way. The trip to the town took fortyfive minutes. On reaching the town, if she stayed in her seat and paid another thirty paise, she could return home on the same bus.

Q. What do you think Valli was planning to do?

Ans. Valli was planning to take a bus ride to the city and come back in the same bus

Q. Why does the conductor call Valli ‘madam’?

Ans. The conductor is amused to see an eight year old who wants to behave like a grown up and in jest e calls her ‘madam’.

Q. Why does Valli stand up on the seat? What does she see now?

Ans. Valli found her view cut off by a canvas blind that covered the lower part of her window. So she stood up on the seat and peered over the blind. On one side, she sees the canal and beyond it, palm trees, grasslands, distant mountains and the blue sky. On the other side, she sees a deep ditch and then acres of green fields.

Q. What does Valli tell the elderly man when he calls her a child?

Ans. When the elderly man calls her a child, Valli gets annoyed and says that she is not a child as she has paid the full fare.

Q. Why didn’t Valli want to make friends with the elderly woman?

Ans. The elderly woman was repulsive to Valli with big holes in her ear lobes and ugly earrings in them. She could smell the betel nut the woman was chewing and see the betel juice that was threatening to spill over her lips at any time. So she did not want to become friends with the elderly woman.

Q. How did Valli save up money for her first journey? Was it easy for her?

Ans. Valli had saved up the money for her first journey by resisting every temptation to buy peppermints, toys, balloons etc. At the village fair, she had
resolutely stifled a strong desire to ride the merrygo-round, even though she had the money. Saving the money had not been easy for her.

Q. What did Valli see on her way that made her laugh?

Ans. On her journey to the city, Valli saw a young cow, tail high in the air, running very fast, right in the middle of the road, in front of the bus. The driver sounded his horn loudly but the more he honked, the more frightened the animal became and the faster it galloped — always right in front of the bus. This sight of the cow running made her laugh.

Q. Why didn’t she get off the bus at the bus station?

Ans. Valli didn’t get off the bus because she was too scared to get down. Also, she just wanted to take a ride in the bus and go back to her village by the same bus.

Q. Why didn’t Valli want to go to the stall and have a drink? What does this tell you about her?

Ans. Valli didn’t want to get down at the city stop and go to the stall for a drink because she was scared and also, did not have enough money. This tells us that she was careful not to venture into something she had no idea about