Question 1:
What did Patrick think his cat was playing with? What was it really?
Answer:
Patrick thought that his cat was playing with a little doll. But it was not a doll. It was really a very tiny man.
Question 2:
Why did the little man grant Patrick a wish?
Answer:
The little man granted Patrick a wish because he had saved his life from the cat.
Question 3:
What was Patrick’s wish?
Answer:
Patrick wished that the little man did all his homework till the end of the semester.
Question 4:
In what subjects did the little man need help to do Patrick’s homework?
Answer:
The little man needed help in all the subjects, especially in English, Mathematics and History.
Question 5:
How did Patrick help him?
Answer:
Patrick helped him in completing his homework by staying up at nights.with the elf while he did Patrick's homework.
Question 6:
Who do you think did Patrick’s homework—the little man or Patrick himself? Give reasons for your answer.
Answer:
Patrick himself did all his homework. The elf had simply tricked Patrick. He made Patrick help him do the homework of all the subjects. Patrick worked harder than ever. The author too shares this secret with us in the end of the story.
Question 7:
Answer:
chores
Question 8:
Answer:
mystery
Question 9:
Answer:
semester
Question 10:
Answer:
true to his word
Question 11:
Answer:
look up
Question 12:
Answer:
out of luck
Question 13:
Answer:
between you and me
Question 14:
Use the clues given below to complete this crossword puzzle.
Answer:
Question 15:
In the story Patrick does difficult things he hates to do, because the elf pretends he needs help. Have you ever done something difficult or frightening, by pretending about it in some way? Tell your classmates about it.
Answer:
Amusement parks had never appealed to me. This is because I used to be scared of rides. I was however once forced to go there on a school trip. All my friends were keen on sitting on all the rides. They were fond of rides. They even forced me to sit on one ride saying that it's very simple. They helped me overcome my fear by holding my hand and by making me sit in the middle. After the first ride they convinced me to sit on another. Gradually I developed a liking for it and started enjoying the rides. I was able to overcome my fears with the help of my friends.
Question 16:
This story has a lot of rhyming words, as a poem does. Can you write out some parts of it
like a poem, so that the rhymes come at the end of separate lines?
For example:
Patrick never did homework. “Too boring,” he said.
He played baseball and hockey and Nintendo instead.
Answer:
One day he found his cat playing with a little doll.
To his surprise it wasn’t a doll at all.
“Save me! Don’t give me back to that cat.
I’ll grant you a wish, I promise you that.”
As a matter of fact …elf was a nag.
Patrick was working …was it a drag!
Question 17:
Rewrite the following incomplete sentences carefully, so that the reader does not have to
guess what is left out.
more and more books
Answer:
We should read more and more books to increase our knowledge.
Question 18:
Rewrite the following incomplete sentences carefully, so that the reader does not have to
guess what is left out.
too difficult
Answer:
This sum is too difficult to solve.
Question 19:
Rewrite the following incomplete sentences carefully, so that the reader does not have to
guess what is left out.
got up late, missed the bus
Answer:
I got up late, so I missed the bus.
Question 20:
Rewrite the following incomplete sentences carefully, so that the reader does not have to
guess what is left out.
solved the mystery
Answer:
The police were able to catch the thief after they solved the mystery.
Question 21:
Answer:
