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Why does father ask mother to stand away?

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Father asks mother to stand out of the way that she might not get hurt.

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अध्याय 7.2: Dad and the Cat and the Tree - Extra Questions

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एनसीईआरटी English - Honeycomb Class 7
अध्याय 7.2 Dad and the Cat and the Tree
Extra Questions | Q 10

संबंधित प्रश्न

Answer of these question in a short paragraph (about 30 words).

How does Tommy describe the old kind of school?


Thinking about the poem

Where does the traveller find himself? What problem does he face?


Do you think Prashant is good leader? Do you think young people can get together to help people during natural calamities?


What does he plant who plants a tree?
He plants, in sap and leaf and wood,
In love of home and loyalty
And far-cast thought of civic good____
His blessing on the neighbourhood,
Who in the hollow of his hand
Holds all the growth of all our land____
A nation's growth from sea to sea
Stirs in his heart who plants a tree.

Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow:

What is meant by a nation’s growth from sea to sea?


Bangle sellers are we who bear
Our shining loads to the temple fair...
Who will buy these delicate, bright
Rainbow-tinted circles of light?
Lustrous tokens of radiant lives,
For happy daughters and happy wives.

Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.

What is referred to Rainbow-tinted circles of light ?


"My father lived at Blenheim then,
Yon little stream hard by;
They burnt his dwelling to the ground,
And he was forced to fly;
So with his wife and child he fled,
Nor had he where to rest his head.
"With fire and sword the country round
Was wasted far and wide,
And many a childing mother then,
And new-born baby died;
But things like that, you know, must be
At every famous victory;

Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.

What happened to Kaspar’s family in the war?


Then, trying to hide my nervousness, I added, “How are you?”
“I’m fine. The question is: How are you?“
“What do you mean?” 1 asked “Something must be eating you,” he said—proud the way foreigners are when they’ve mastered a bit of American slang. “You should be able to qualify with your eyes closed.”
“Believe me, I know it,” I told him—and it felt good to say that to someone.

For the next few minutes we talked together. I didn’t tell Long what was “eating” me, but he seemed to understand my anger, and he took pains to reassure me. Although he’d been schooled in the Nazi youth movement, he didn’t believe in the Aryan-supremacy business any more than I did. We laughed over the fact that he really looked the part, though. An inch taller than I, he had a lean, muscular frame, clear blue eyes, blond hair and a strikingly handsome, chiseled face. Finally, seeing that I had calmed down somewhat, he pointed to the take-off board.

“Look,” he said. “Why don’t you draw a line a few inches in back of the board and aim at making your take-off from there? You’ll be sure not to foul, and you certainly ought to jump far enough to qualify. What does it matter if you’re not first in the trials? Tomorrow is what counts.”

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.

What was actually eating Jesse Owens?


What do we learn from the lives of great men? What is the final message of the poem ? Give one reason why the poem appeals to you. 


From the first paragraph

(i) pick out two phrases which describe the desert as most people believe it is;

(ii) pick out two phrases which describe the dessert as specialists see it.

Which do you think is an apt description, and why?


On which planet do Tilloo and his parents live?


Notice how in a comic book, there are no speech marks when characters talk. Instead what they say is put in a speech ‘bubble’. However, if we wish to repeat or ‘report’ what they say, we must put it into reported speech

Change the following sentences in the story to reported speech.  

(i) Why is your face half-shaven?Gopal’s wife asked him______________________.


Give a brief description about Mr Nath’s visitor.


What was Maya doing on her unexpected holiday?


What do you think the talking fan was demanding?


Multiple Choice Question:
How is English a wonderful game?


Who says this to whom and why?
 “What have you to say in your defence?”


Find out the different kinds of work done by the people in your neighbourhood. Make different cards for different kinds of work. You can make the card colourful with pictures of the persons doing the work.


What trick did the shopkeeper play to tempt his customers to play the los­ing game?


Complete the following sentences by providing a reason.

Macbeth returns to the witches in Act IV Scene i because ______.


Referring to the poem Tithonus, show how his immortality becomes a curse. Answer in 100-150 words incorporating the following details.

  1. Circumstances leading to Tithonus receiving a boon
  2. Reasons for the boon becoming a curse

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