Phulmani's India
'Fill in the Blanks' Question on Phulmani's India |
Class Five |
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1. Phulmani is a ________ girl.
Answer: Santhal
2. Her house is in a ________.
Answer: Village
3. Have you ever been to her
house? There are beautiful pictures painted on the wall both outside and inside
her ________.
Answer: house
4. All her neighbours have
painted on their ________ and interiors.
Answer: doorways
5. There are pictures of
________, flowers and birds on the walls and floors.
Answer: trees
6. Phulmani, like her
elders, loves to paint on the ________ walls.
Answer: mud
7. Her teachers told her
that even in ancient India, people used to paint inside the caves and on the
rocks of ________.
Answer: hills
8. The rock paintings of
Bhimbetka are more than twenty thousand years old. They are red, white, green
or ________ in colour.
Answer: Yellow
9. Phulmani has never been
to Bhimbetka to see the rock paintings of ancient men. But she has heard
stories about the famous rock paintings from her ________.
Answer: teacher
10. One day, her teacher
showed her a picture. She came to know that it was the picture of a very famous
cave painting of our ________.
Answer: Country
11. Do you want to see that
painting? Here it is: This is one of the paintings found in the ________ caves.
Answer: Ajanta
12. Almost two thousand
years ago, some great Indian artists painted inside the caves of Ajanta and
________.
Answer: Ellora
13. Our country is the home
to many ________.
Answer: religions
14. Hinduism, Buddhism and
Jainism appear together in the sculptures of ________.
Answer: Ellora
15. Down the ages, many
great artists painted inside many other temples and ________ of our country.
Answer: Churches
16. Little Phulmani is
surprised to know that many of the Indian dance forms started within the
________.
Answer: temples
17. Phulmani is a natural
________.
Answer: dancer
18. Her teacher said that
folk dance is a popular art form among the various ________ of India.
Answer: Communities
19. The Punjabis love the
________ dance.
Answer: Bhangra
20. In the same way, Dandiya
is popular in ________, Bihu in Assam and Chhau in West Bengal.
Answer: Gujarat
21. Phulmani loves to watch
________ dance performed during festivals.
Answer: Chhau
22. The performers wear
________.
Answer: masks
23. They shake their heads
and jump in the air in harmony with ________.
Answer: Music
24. Phulmani always cries
out in joy at the end of a Chhau dance ________.
Answer: performance
25. Last Sunday little
Phulmani went to see a ________ with her parents.
Answer: Jatra
26. Phulmani was thrilled to
see the ________.
Answer: Jatra
27. The next day when she
narrated the story of the performance to the class, her teacher said that Jatra
is actually a kind of folk ________.
Answer: theatre
28. This kind of theatre is
performed under different names in different parts of our ________.
Answer: Country
29. It is called tamasha in
Maharashtra, nautanki in North India and jatra in ________.
Answer: Bengal
30. Most of these folk
theatres are based on ________ incidents or characters.
Answer: mythological
31. India has a rich
heritage of classical ________.
Answer: dance
32. There are many classical
dance forms, and each deals with some ________ narrative.
Answer: mythological
33. The dancers wear
colourful dresses and dance in harmony with ________.
Answer: Music
34. Dramatics is an
essential part of the Indian classical dance ________.
Answer: tradition
35. Kathak is a dance of
________ India, while Bharatnatyam, Mohiniattyam, Kuchipuri and Kathakali are
all from South India.
Answer: North
36. Manipuri and ________
dance are dance forms of Eastern India.
Answer: Odissi
37. Such a wide variety of
dance forms cannot be found anywhere else in the ________.
Answer: world
38. Dance and music have
always been integral to the Indian ________.
Answer: culture
39. Phulmani has a sweet
________.
Answer: Voice
40. She believes that she can sing in harmony with musical instruments, like sitar,________ , sarengi, drum, and so on.
Answer: tabla
41. Phulmani came to know
that the Indian kings and rulers patronised classical music and dance in their
________.
Answer: courts
42. Emperor Akbar loved to
listen to the songs of ________.
Answer: Tansen
43. Our country is so big
that we have many different styles of classical music like ________ and
Carnatic.
Answer: Hindustani
44. Each of these styles
grew in ________ and developed down the ages.
Answer: temples
45. Phulmani is proud to be
an ________.
Answer: Indian
46. She has heard that our
country is full of great ________, forts and wonderful architecture.
Answer: monuments
47. She has seen the picture
of the ________.
Answer: Taj Mahal
48. It is one of the seven
wonders of the ________.
Answer: world
49. The fort at Agra and the
Red Fort in Delhi are also worth ________.
Answer: seeing
50. The huge gateway or
Buland Darwaza, built by Emperor Akbar, at Fatehpur Sikri, is also among the
monuments that Phulmani wishes to ________.
Answer: see
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