Our Runaway Kite by Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Questions and Answers (SAQ)

Our Runaway Kite by Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Questions and Answers | Our Runaway Kite Short Questions and Answers (SAQ) | Our Runaway Kite short questions for class 10 WBBSE

1. Who is the speaker of Our Runaway Kite?

Ans :- The narrator herself is the speaker of Our Runaway Kite.

2. Who is the keeper of the Big Half Moon lighthouse ?

Ans :- Narrator's father is the keeper of the Big Half Moon lighthouse.

3. Where did the narrator and her family live?

Ans :- The narrator and her family lived on Big Half Moon island.

4. How old was the narrator?

Ans :- The narrator was eleven years old.

5. How old was Claude?

Ans :- Claude was twelve years old.

6. Who was there to play with the children on Big Half Moon?

Ans :- There was nobody to play with the children on the Big Half moon.

7. Describe the weather during summer on the Big Half Moon island?

Ans :- It is always lovely on the Big Half Moon in summer with little wind and ripples.

8. When was the harbour frozen?

Ans :- The harbour was frozen in winter.

9. When did the narrator and her said family move to the mainland?

Ans :- The narrator and her said family would move over to the mainland in winter.

10. How does the harbour look in summer?

Ans :- In summer, the harbour is blue and calm with wind and ripples.

11. What did the people of the mainland say about the narrator and Claude?

Ans :- The people of the mainland said that no other children were there to play with them so they must be very lonesome on the island.

12. What did the children do with kites?

Ans :- The children would play Shipwrecked Mariners. During the game, they signalled to each other with kites.

13. How did the island children behave with the mainland children in winter?

Ans :- The children of the island used to quarrel with the mainland children so the mainland children never visited the Big Half Moon island.

14. How is the summer on the Big Half Moon island?

Ans :- The Big Half Moon island is always lovely in summer.

15. What question did the children ask themselves?

Ans :- The children asked themselves why, like others, they didn't have relations.

16. What according to the narrator's father was the reason for not having any relations?

Ans :- According to the narrator's father, it was his fault that they did not have any other relations.

17. What couldn't Philippa and Claude understand?

Ans :- Philippa and Claude couldn't understand why their father said that it was his fault that they didn't have any relations.

18. From whom did Claude learn the making of kites?

Ans :- Claude learned the making of kites from a boy of the mainland.

19. Who showed Claude how to make kites?

Ans :- A boy on the mainland showed Claude how to make kites.

20. How did the kite look like?

Ans :- The kite was big and covered with lovely red paper with gold tinsel stars pasted all over it.

21. Where did the kite sail away ?

Ans :- The kite sailed away over to the mainland.

22. When did the narrator and others come back?

Ans :- The narrator and others came back to their dear island at the advent of Spring.

23. How did Claude and the narrator play in the last summer?

Ans :- In the last summer, Claude would go around to the other side of the island and they would play shipwrecked mariners signalling to each other with kites.

24. How did they decorate their kite?

Ans :- They decorated the big kite with lovely red paper, pasted gold tinsel stars all over it and had written their full names and address on it. 

25. How a hole was made in the kite?

Ans :- When the narrator was bringing the kite, she tripped and fell over the rocks and her elbow went clear through the kite making a hole in the kite.

26. How did they patch up the torn kite?

Ans :- They patched the kite up with an old letter and dried it by fire.

27. Why did the children have to make the most of each other?

Ans :- There was none to play with them on the island so they had to make most of each other.

28. What was funny to the children?

Ans :- It was funny to the children that people pitied them when they went back to the island.

29. Where did Aunt Esther live?

Ans :- Aunt Esther lived hundreds of miles inland. 

30. Why did narrator’s father leave home?

Ans :- The narrator’s father quarrelled with his brother and left home.

31. How did Dick and Mimi get the kite?

Ans :- Dick and Mimi were out in the woods suddenly they saw the kite on the top of a tree and carried it home.

32. What story does Philippa want to tell us?

Ans :- Philippa wants to tell us how their family was reunited on account of the kite.

33. Who sent the letter to the narrator’s father?

Ans :- The narrator’s Aunt Esther sent the letter to the narrator’s father.

34. How were Aunt Esther, Dick and Mimi?

Ans :- Aunt Esther was a dear and Dick and Mimi were too jolly for words.

35. What was the best thing for the narrator and her family?

Ans :- The best thing for the narrator and her family was that they had relations like other since then.

36. "Once we asked father about it" - Who are ‘we’ referred here?

Ans :- Here 'we' refers to the narrator and Claude.

37. "Once we asked father about it" - What did they ask their father?

Ans :- The narrator and Claude asked their father why they had not any relations like others.

38. Why didn't other children join Philippa and Claude on the island?

Ans :- Philippa and Claude used to quarrel a lot with other children, so they didn't join them on the island.