question answers of grandma climbs a tree
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1) The poet Ruskin Bond does not call his grandmother ‘childish’. What else was she according to him? Why does he consider her to be so?
OR What is the uncommon quality of the grandmother? How does the term this uncommon quality?
Ans: The poet Ruskin Bond calls his grandma a ‘genius’ because she could climb trees very quickly. It may be a spreading tree or tall tree she could climb up quickly even at the age of sixty-two.
2) How do you say that grandma had been in the habit of climbing trees for a very long period? Justify this quoting the lines from the poem.
Ans: Yes, The grandma was in the habit of climbing trees for along time. She learnt climbing the from her loving brother when she was six. Having learned to climb from a loving brother when she was six.
3) What did the neighbors advise the Grandma? How did she respond them?
Ans: The neighbors advised that the grandma should stop climbing the trees as she was growing old. They suggested that old people should spend their old age gracefully. But the grandma did not listen to their advice. She would laugh say that “I’ll grow disgracefully. I can do it better”.
4) Others feared that granny would fall from a tree one day or the other. Did this happen? Or did something else happen?
Ans: Yes’ others feared that granny would fall from a tree one day or the other. It did not happen. One day something different happened. When the poet and his family were in the town, she climbed up a tree but could not come down. She was suffering from fever. The doctor checked her temperature and suggested her bed rest for a week.
5) What did the doctor recommend Grandma? What was the reaction of the kids to this advice?
Ans: The doctor checked granny’s temperature and recommended her bed rest for a week. The kids sighed with a relief that she would not climb up trees and risk her life.
6) Quote the lines from the poem which suggests how whole heartedly granny enjoyed climbing a tree.
Ans: The poem suggests that granny whole heartedly enjoyed climbing a tree.
These are the lines: 1.For being happier in a tree than in a lift; 2.While every breeze whispered of summer and dancing leaves.
3. She sits there in state and drinks sherry with me.
7)’ My dad knew his duties’. What did he think his duty was?
Ans:’My dad’ (the poets father /granny’s son) knew his duties. He thought his duty was to fulfill his mother’s wish. He built a house on the tree top for his mother with the help from the poet.
8) Both the poet and his father were considerate towards Grandma. Substantiate the statement with textual support.
Ans: The poet and his father were considerate towards grandma.They built a house on a tree-top with windows and a door.
My dad knew his duties.he said,That’s all right-You’ll have what you want,dear.I’llstart work tonight.’
With my expert assistance,he soon finished the chore; Made her a tree-house with windows and a door.
9) ‘For being happier in a tree than in a lift.’ What is suggested through this line?
Ans: ‘For being happier in a tree than in a lift.’This line suggests that grandma enjoyed climbing a tree more than any other comforts of city life.
Extracts(3 marks)
Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow:-
1)“Ever since childhood, she’d had this gift For being happier than in a lift;”
A) Who does ‘she’refer to ? Ans: ‘She’ refers to Granny.
B)What was the gift she had? Ans: Climbing the tree was the gift she had.
C) Where was she happier? Ans: She was happier in a tree than in city life.
2)‘ I strongly recommend a quiet week in bed’
A) Who had fever? Ans: Granny had fever.
B) Why was she suggested rest for a week? Ans: Because Granny had high fever.
C) What was the response from others? Ans:The kids felt a sigh of relief that she would not climb up trees.
3) “For her, it was like a brief season in hell.”
A) What was felt like a hell? Ans: A week in bed was felt like a hell by Granny.
B) Why did she feel like hell? Ans:Granny couldn’t climb trees during bed rest and felt it was like a hell to her.
C)What was heaven to her? Ans:She was happy in climbing trees.It was like a heaven to her.
4) ‘I’ll lie here no longer!’
A) Who said this? Ans: Granny said this.
B) Where was she? Ans: She was in bed rest.
C) Why couldn’t she lie there no longer? Ans: She wanted to climb up trees again. So she could not lie no longer.
5) “That’s all right-You’ll have what you want, dear.I’ll start work tonight.’
A) Who does ‘my dad ’refer to? Ans: ‘my dad ’refers to the poet’s father.
B) What did he consider his duty was? Ans: He considered his duty was to build a tree-house for his mother.
C) Who wanted that? Ans: the poet’s Granny wanted the house on tree top
6) “With my expert assistance, he soon finished the chore;”
A) Who assisted whom? Ans: The poet assisted his father.
B) What did he assist for? Ans: He assisted his father to build a house on tree top for Granny.
C) Whose responsibility was that ? Ans :It was poet’s father’s responsibility to finish the chore.
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