Question

Icse Gulmohar class 8
English literature
Feathered friend answers

Answer 1

1...a)What kind of escape is the speaker talking about?

ans)The speaker is talking about the escape of canary bird in a space station.

b)How did the canary come in the space station?

ans)The canary bird was carried in the space station by Sven Olsen.

c)Where they usually hide the canary?ans)They usually used to hide the canary in the space station.

2...a)Who said this to whom?

ans)The narrator said to Jim.

b)Why does the speaker feel that there is something wrong in the air?

ans)The speaker felt that there is something wrong in the air because he was also

feeling sluggish that morning.

c)What had speaker just remembered?

ans)The speaker remembered that the miners used to carry canaries down to warn

them of gas.

C.ANSWER IN DETAIL:

a)Why does the narrator feel that Sven's selection was very sensible?

ans)The narrator felt that Sven's selection was very sensible because Claribel

weighed practically nothing,her food requirements were minimal and she was not

worried as most animals would have been by the absence of gravity.

b)How did the canary adopt to the absence of gravity?

ans)The canary adopted to the absence of gravity by doing a backward loop which

no earthbound canary had never managed and departed with a few leisurely flicks.

c)How did Sven and the others revive the canary?

ans)Sven and the others revived the canary by passing oxygen to her.

d)Why did the alarm fail to go off?

ans)The alarm had failed to go off because of eclipse the part of the air purifier had

frozen up.

e)How had half a million dollar's wrath of equipment let them down?

ans)Half of million dollar's worth of equipment let them down they could not save

Claribel.

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