Mind map on the lesson "the treasure within"
8th class
Answers
Answers of Textbook Questions
1.What did Hafeez Contractor have nightmares about?
Ans. Nightmares about appearing Maths test where he didn’t know anything.
2.What did the Principal say to him, which influenced him deeply?
Ans. That he should act as a responsible grown up person and take his studies seriously.
3.“…….that year I did not step out onto the field”. What was he busy doing that year?
Ans. He would go for prayers, would eat and study. He read all the books, starting right from the 5th class.
4.(i) What ‘distraction’ did Hafeez create one day?
Ans. One day, Hafeez did not want to study. So, he created a ‘distraction’ by playing ‘Chor-Police’ for an hour.
(ii) Would you have liked to participate in the distraction had you been with him?
Ans.(For self attempt)
5.Hafeez wanted to join the police force. Why couldn’t he?
Ans. Because his mother didn’t like so. She wanted him to do his graduation.
6.In the architect’s office, Hafeez Contractor was advised to drop everything and join architecture. Why?
Ans. Hafeez Contractor had a natural talent of drawing sketches. The architect asked him to design a house. He did so immediately which impressed the architect. Then he asked Hafeez to drop everything and join architecture.
7.(i) What was Mrs. Gupta’s advice to Hafeez Contractor?
Ans. Mrs. Gupta was Hafeez Contractor’s teacher in 3rd Standard. Her advice was to become an architect on growing up.
(ii) What made her advise him so?
Ans. Mrs. Gupta saw that Hafeez Contractor’s sketches were very good which is a quality possessed by an architect.
8.How did he help his fellow students who had lost a button?
Ans.- Hafeez Contractor would cut a chalk piece in the shape of a button and fixed it in the shirt. It looked like a real button.
9.Which rules did he break as a school boy?
Ans. Hafeez Contractor used to copy in every test, it was against the rule of the school.
10.What is Hafeez Contractor’s definition of Mathematics?
Ans. Putting design, construction, psychology & sociology together and making a sketch from all these is Mathematics.
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