The Real Princess 

SHORT QUESTION ANDANSWERS

 

Q1. Why did the prince feel distressed?

A- The prince wanted to marry some real princess, but he failed to find such a one. So he was distressed.

 

Q2. What did the king see on opening the gate?

A- The king saw a princess standing outside the gate.

 

Q3. How did the princess look and what did she say?

A- The princess looked strange and ugly. She said that she was the real princess.

 

Q4. Where was the princess to rest that night?

A- She was to rest on a soft bed in queen’s bedroom.

 

Q5. Why could the princess not have a wink of sleep?

A- A pea had been laid under twenty mattresses and twenty soft quilts on the bed where the princess was to sleep. This pea gave her much trouble. Her whole body was black and blue. So she could not have a wink of sleep.

 

Q6. Where was the pea preserved?

A- It was preserved in the museum of curiosities.

 

 

 

 

ESSAY TYPEQUESTION

Q1. Write briefly in your own words the story of “The Real Princess”?

A- There was once a prince who wanted to marry a real princess. He visited many kingdoms and met many princesses. He could not find a real princess so he was very sad.

One evening there was a terrible storm and heavy rainfall. The old king opened the gate after hearing a knock. The king asked her who she was. She answered that she was a real princess.

The old queen wanted to know if she was a real princess. She laid a pea under twenty mattresses and twenty soft quilts on the bed where the princess was to sleep. In the morning the queen asked the girl how she had slept. The girl replied she could not have a wink of sleep all night as there was something hard under the bed.

It was enough to prove that the girl was a real princess. The prince was very happy and he married her. The pea was preserved in a museum of curiosities.

•Once upon a time in a faraway kingdom there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess, but it was to be a real princess is a very sensitive one.

• So, the prince started his frustrating search. He traveled to every part of the world in search of the real princess. He looked in every country, great and small, but nowhere could he find what he wanted.

• So he returned from his exhaustive search, sad and discouraged, wondering how he would ever find a real princess.

• One evening, as the gloomy prince was pondering his dilemma, a terrible storm blew in. There was deafening thunder and brilliant lightning, along with torrential rains. It was dreadful.

• A princess stood outside, but she looked strange and ugly in rain. The water dripped down her hair and clothes, and ran into tips of her shoes and out again at the heels. Yet she said she was a real princess.

• The queen was doubtful, too. “We’ll soon see if she is a real princess," she said to herself. She told the prince about her plan to test the girl to see if she was telling the truth, showing him a tiny green pea that she was going to use for her test. The prince agreed it was a very good idea.

• The queen went to prepare the spare bed for their young visitor. First she took off all the bedding and then she laid a pea at the very bottom. On top of the pea she put twenty mattresses and on top of the mattresses she put twenty soft quilts

• With these words from the princess — for now they knew she was not just a maiden but a true princess — a great cheer went up from the prince, the king, and the queen .They knew without a doubt that she was a real princess because she had felt the tiny, soft pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty soft quilts. So she was a real princess as only real princess could be as sensitive as that, they all agreed. So the prince and the princess were married in an incredibly grand celebration.