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SPRINT CLASS-9TH ONE SHOT SERIES
Sound of Music PRACTICE SHEET
SECTION-A SECTION-B
Objective Type Questions Very Short Answer Type Questions
(1 5 = 5) (2 5 = 10)
1. When Evelyn enrolled at the Royal Music 6. How was Evelyn asked to hear music by Ron Forbes?
Academy, what was her age?
(A) 17 years old 7. On the platform of the underground train platform,
(B) 18 years old Evelyn was waiting for which train? How did she
(C) 19 years old feel when she sensed the train approaching?
(D) Below 17
8. Why is Bismillah Khan so attached to the sacred
2. When was Evelyn’s deafness noticed? river Ganga?
(A) when she was 11
9. When Bismillah Khan was five years old, where
(B) when she was 17
did he usually sing? How was he rewarded and by
(C) when she was 8
whom?
(D) none of the above
10. “I5th August. 1947, the first Independence Day was
3. How did Evelyn hear music? the happiest day of Bismillah Khan’s life.” Why?
(A) through drums
(B) through fingers SECTION-C
(C) by feeling vibrations through her different Short Answer Type Questions
parts of body- fingers, hair, feet (3 5 = 15)
(D) all of the above 11. Who was Ali Bux? What was his influence over
Bismillah Khan and where did he work?
4. What was the source of inspiration for Bismillah
Khan Sahib? 12. Which locations were the favourite haunts for
(A) Red Fort young Bismillah Khan to practice music? Why?
(B) Royal Palaces
(C) Ganga Ghats 13. When and how did Bismillah Khan get his big
(D) None of the above break?
14. Where did Bismillah Khan go on his first foreign
5. What did Evelyn want to spread through her
trip? How did he receive honors there?
music?
(A) message of love, peace and happiness 15. For which movies did Bismillah Khan compose
(B) music is not difficult at all music? Why did he discontinue playing the
(C) music is only for adults and not for kids shehnai for films?
(D) deaf people too can learn music
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ANSWER KEY
1. (A) 9. (Hints & solution)
2. (C) 10. (Hints & solution)
3. (C) 11. (Hints & solution)
4. (C) 12. (Hints & solution)
5. (A) 13. (Hints & solution)
6. (Hints & solution) 14. (Hints & solution)
7. (Hints & solution) 15. (Hints & solution)
8. (Hints & solution)
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HINTS & SOLUTIONS
1. (A) 17 years old For him, it was a big honor. That day was
therefore the happiest of his life.
2. (C) when she was 8
11. Bismillah Khan's maternal uncle, Ali Bux, served
3. (C) by feeling vibrations through her different as both a mentor and a trainer to him. He was
parts of body- fingers, hair, and feet. hired by the Benaras Vishnu temple to play the
shehnai because he was an excellent player.
4. (C) Ganga Ghats Bismillah Khan began to accompany him at a very
young age, and he taught him how to play the
shehnai. The small child would practice all day
5. (A) message of love, peace and happiness
long after spending hours listening to his uncle.
6. Evelyn was asked to listen to music using different 12. Young Bismillah Khan's favorite places to be were
parts of her body instead of her ears the banks of the Ganga, the temple of Balaji and
Mangala Maiya because he could practice his
7. Evelyn was waiting for a train to London, where music there alone.
she was supposed to enroll at the esteemed Royal He was motivated to improvise and create raagas
Academy of Music, on the platform of an by the flowing waters of Ganga that were earlier
underground train. She was excited and nervous at considered beyond the range of the shehnai.
the same time as she could feel the train
approaching.
13. When All India Radio was established in Lucknow
in 1938, Bismillah Khan received his "big break".
8. Bismillah Khan has a strong bond with the holy Khansaab was frequently asked to perform on the
Ganga river. He had played and practiced Shehnai shehnai and quickly rose to prominence as a
on the holy river's blanks throughout his early shehnai player on the radio.
years. It inspires him. He cannot imagine his life
being happy if he is away from her. He has a deep
14. During Bismillah Khan's first foreign trip, he
passion for the Ganga.
visited Afghanistan. There, King Zahir Shah was
so impressed by the shehnai recital of the maestro
9. When Bismillah Khan was five years old, he that he presented him with gifts of valuable
would frequently sing the Bhojpuri "chaitaa" in Persian carpets and other mementos.
the Bihariji temple in his hometown of Dumraon,
Bihar. The local Maharaja awarded him a big
15. Vijay Bhatt's "Gunj Uthi Shehnai" marked
laddu, weighing 1.25 kg, as a prize at the end of
Bismillah Khan's cinematic debut.
the song.
Next, he played in the Kannada movie "Samadhi
Apanna." Despite his great success, he left the
10. Bismillah Khan performed the Shehnai on the first film industry because he did not find the
Independence Day at the Red Fort's ramparts in artificiality and glamour of the industry appealing.
Delhi. He had accepted Prime Minister Jawaharlal
Nehru's invitation to perform the Shehnai there.
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