English book gulmohar class 7
zero hour chapter 6
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Explanation:
Q1. “I think I’ll go to the moon today.”
(a) Who said this to whom? In what context?
Ans. Bobby said this to his mother when she asked him his plans for the day.
(b) How was it understood by the listener?
Ans. The listener, Bobby’s mother, thought that Bobby was talking about games – his
toy rocket and make-believe moon missions.
(c) Did the speaker have a second meaning in mind? If so, what was that meaning?
Ans. The speaker, Bobby, had a second meaning in mind when he said this. He was
really planning to go the moon in a real rocket. He decided to give his mother a
hint though he knew that his mother would not guess his real plan.
Q2. What was Bobby’s own space rocket like? Did he spend time on it with real interest
that morning? How can you tell? What was the reason? (para 13-14)
Ans. Bobby’s own space rocket was six feet long with two seats and a neat instrument
panel. That morning, Bobby did not spend time on it with real interest. We know
that since he fussed around the rocket just until he could slip away without his
mother noticing. He was not interested in his rocket that morning because he was
planning to go to the moon in a real rocket and he was very excited about that.
Q3. How did Bobby come to know what the rocket was for and when it was going to go
off? Did he also come to know that his father was going on it? If not, what made
him believe that the father was going to? (para 19-23)
Ans. One day, as Bobby was peeking up at the rocket from his hiding place, two
scientists came and stood close to where he was hiding. One of them was his
father. Bobby listened to their conversation and realized that the rocket was going
to the moon. He did not hear anyone say that his father was going on the rocket,
but he believed it because his father was the second biggest scientist in the place.
The most important scientist was too old to go the moon, so Bobby felt confident
that his father would.
Q4. We see Bobby sitting firmly in the rocket in paragraph 26. When and where do we
see him next? Why was he there instead of inside the rocket?
Ans. In paragraph 26, Bobby is sitting inside the rocket. We see him next in the evening,
at his home, in his bed, in paragraph 37. He was there instead of inside the rocket
because while hiding inside the rocket, he thought that if his father went to the
moon, he should stay behind to look after his mother. So, he got down and came
back home.
Q5. “I got into the rocket and was all set…”
(a) Who said this to whom and when?
Ans. Bobby said this to his father at night in his bedroom.
(b) What was meant by the speaker?
Ans. The speaker, Bobby, meant that he had gone inside the real rocket and was
actually going to go off to the moon.
(c) What was understood by the listener?
Ans. The listener, Bobby’s father, thought that Bobby was talking about his toy rocket
and a make-believe mission to the moon.
Q6. Children were wonderful !.... What a wonderful dream world they lived in!
(a) Who thought this and why?
Ans. Bobby’s father john thought this when Bobby told him that he had been planning
to fly to the moon. Although Bobby was talking about really going to the moon in
the real rocket, John thought his son was talking about playing at going to the
moon in his toy rocket. He thought Bobby was talking about his ‘dream world’.
(b) In this situation, who thought that he is wiser – the grown-up or the child? Did he
really have the fuller and better understanding of the situation?
Ans. In this situation, it was the grown-up, Bobby’s father, who thought that he was
wiser. However, he did not really have the fuller and better understanding of the
situation. He did not realise that Bobby had found the real rocket and had been
inside it. He had no idea that his son had almost gone off to the moon and had got
down from the rocket just in time.