CBSE solutions for इंग्लिश लिटरेचर रीडर कक्षा ९ chapter F.2 - A Dog Named Duke [Latest edition]

Duke is a Doberman. What are the other known breeds of dogs?

Match the words in the boxes with their explanations given below:

1. This is the other word for trembling.
2. This is used for smile.
3. You call a person this if he/she has pale gold coloured hair.
4. This is a quality which relates to high energy and noise.
5. This is related to dancing or moving in a way that involves shaking your hips and shoulders.
6. This is to express a tendency to show violent and wild behaviour often causing damage.
7. We use it for a condition which is serious, uncertain and dangerous.
8. This is a state in which one is forced to stay in a closed space.
9. This is a medical condition involving bleeding in the brain.
10. It is a loud, deep shout to show anger.
11. This is a condition when the rope or leash is stretched tightly.

Now read the following account

Based on your reading of the story answer the following question by choosing the correct option:
With reference to Hooper, the author says, “Every thing was going for him”. What does it imply?

Duke never jumped on Chuck again because ______.

Based on your reading of the story answer the following question by choosing the correct option:

The author says that Duke ‘knew his job’ The job was __________

Based on your reading of the story answer the following question by choosing the correct option:

“_______ even Duke’s presence didn’t reach Chuck”. Why?

In 1953, Hooper was a favoured young man. Explain.

They said that they would create a desk job for Hooper at the headquarters.

1. Who are ‘they’?
2. Why did they decide to do this?

Duke was an extraordinary dog. What special qualities did he exhibit to justify this? Discuss.

What problems did Chuck present when he returned to the company headquarters?

Why do you think Charles Hooper’s appointment as Assistant National Sales Manager can be considered to be a tribute to Duke?

What thoughts do you think might have crossed Chuck’s mind when Marcy quietly went to work and Chuck was alone with his thoughts’?

‘Small wins help achieve big goals.’ Support, with evidence from the text, to show how this applies to Chuck.

Following dates were important in Charles Hooper’s life in some way. Complete the table by relating the description with the correct dates:

Given below are five qualities that Charles Hooper displayed during his struggle for survival.

Get into groups of four. Each team will choose one quality to talk about to the whole class for about one minute. But before you talk you have two minutes to think about it. You can make notes if you wish.

Listen to the teacher/student read out, from page no. 144, an excerpt from a news telecast on a national channel and complete the table given below.

BRAVE HEARTS

Read the diary entry written by Charles Hooper on the day he received the order, Charles Hooper is appointed Assistant National Sales Manager.”
March 1, 19… Thursday 10 pm
Last four years have been eventful. The day I brought Duke home… (Marcy was almost impolite to him because she would have preferred a Pomeranian to a Doberman)… to a stage on October 12, 1957 (when she would not allow anyone else to carry the injured Duke to the vet)… much water has flowed under the bridge. From being a very fit high-charging zone sales manager, I was reduced to a paralysed cripple forced to lie on a bed alone with my thoughts due to a small error by a car driver. Despair had led me on to helplessness… Was I to be a vegetable for the rest of my life ? I never wanted to be a burden on Marcy.

Duke’s re-entry into my life lifted my numb spirits. The day he made me take my first step, there was a rekindled hope. Duke assumed all the responsibility for leading me back to my office desk… Life had taken a full circle. From shock to denial and helplessness to anger, Duke taught me to cope with the challenge and led me to accept the changed mode of life. I am happy to be living as well as working successfully.

The order that I have received today is my tribute to Duke who would always be alive with me and be a part of everything else I achieve in my life.

When a person loses something, he is shocked and gets into a state of denial leading to anger. In such a situation coping well leads to acceptance and a changed way of living in view of the loss. Taking clues from what happened or might have happened with Hooper, write your views in the form of an article about’ ‘Coping with Loss’ in 150-175 words.