(b) Answer the following questions briefly in your own words,(i) What was Professor Plumb's newly invented form of food?(ii) What was lying under the thimble?(iii) Why did the father raise his voice in benediction?(iv) what did the little baby ,Gustavus Adolphus do with the pill ?(v) whose idea was fatal and why ? (vi) write a summary in 50 words
Answers
The New Food (Stephen Leacock)
- (i) Professor Plumb' newly invented food was full of nutrition. All the essential nutritive elements are put together in the form of pellets, each of which contains from one to two hundred times as much nourishment as an ounce of an ordinary article of diet. These pellets, diluted with water, will form all that is necessary to support life.
- (ii) A small pill of dense nutrients was lying under the thimble.
- (iii) The father raised his voice in benediction because the little ones were whispering and he had the pill waiting to expand.
- (iv) The little boy, Gustavus Adolphus snached the pill and also swallowed it.
- (v) The idea of Adolphus' mother was fatal because she gave her son water to swallow the pill and water should be avoided from the pill.
- (vi) Summary: Professor Plumb, of the University of Chicago, has just invented a highly concentrated form of food. A happy family was gathered round the hospitable board. There was a pill full of nutrients on a poker chip. Little baby, Gustavus Adolphus snached it and also swallowed it. And the pill exploded. It was the thirteenth Christmas dinners for the sad boy.
The correct answer is The New Food (Stephen Leacock)
Explanation:
(i) Professor Plumb's newly invented food was full of nutrition. All essential nutrients are grouped in the form of pellets, each containing one to two hundred times as much nutrition as one ounce of a typical diet. These pellets, diluted with water, will make everything necessary to support life.
(ii) A small tablet of concentrated nutrients was lying under the finger.
(iii) The father raised his voice in blessing as the little children were whispering and waiting for the bullet to spread near them.
(iv) The little boy, Gustavus Adolphus snatched the pill and swallowed it too.
(v) The idea of Adolphus's mother was fatal as she gave water to her son to swallow the pill and water from the pill should be avoided.
(vi) Summary: Professor Plumb of the University of Chicago has just invented highly concentrated food. A happy family gathered around the hospitable board. On the poker chip was a pellet full of nutrients. The small child, Gustavus Adolphus snatched it and swallowed it too. And the bullet exploded. It was the thirteenth Christmas dinner for the sad boy.