Class 7 English
1. Where did Ravi spend his summer vacation?
Ans. Ravi spent his summer vacation at a village
2. How does a dictionary help us?
Ans. A dictionary helps us in looking up the correct spellings of the words.
3. Where did the merchant live?
Ans. The merchant lived in an Indian town.
4. What was the maid doing?
Ans. The maid was combing the hair of the princess.
5. Why was he silent during the farmer’s story?
Ans. He was silent during the farmer’s story because if he raised objection, he would undergo a loss of money.
6. How much money did he pay to the farmer?
Answer: He paid rupees seventy five to the farmer. It was the price of 75 kilos of wheat
7. What does the bee tell the wasp?
Ans. The bee tells the wasp that the people love her because she does not do any mischief with them
8. Whom do the people like, the bee or the wasp?
Ans. The people like bee better than the wasp
9. Where did the king and his courtiers go in search of food?
Ans. The king and his courtiers went to a desert. It was some miles away. The camel lived there.
10. What did the lion say to the camel in the end?
Ans. In the end the lion said to the camel, “You have been loyal and good. You shall be my friend as long as I live.”
11. How did Birbal solve the problem?
Ans. Birbal drew a longer line. It made Akbar’s line shorter. In this way, he solved the problem.
12. Why did Akbar put Birbal in prison?
Ans. One day Birbal remained absent from court without any information. Akbar became angry and thought of punishing Birbal. Therefore Akbar put Birbal in prison.
13. Where does the poet shoot an arrow?
Answer: The post shoots an arrow into the air
14. Where does the poet find the song?
Ans. The poet finds the song in the heart of a friend.
15. Which river flowed near Kaushal Pradesh?
Ans. The Saryu-river flowed near Kaushal Pradesh.
16. Why is Shravan Kumar famous?
Ans. Shravan Kumar is famous for his devotion and obedience to his blind parents
17. When did Tom start his experiments?
Ans. At the age of eight, Tom started his experiments.
18. What is a talking machine? What is a ‘talkie’?
Ans. A talking machine is one that can talk. The modern gramophone is an improvement on this talking machine. A 'talkie' is a talking machine, a modern cinema.
19. What do the busy and anxious people miss daily in their lives?
Ans. The busy and anxious people miss the general happenings around them, daily in their lives.
20. What do you understand by the lines, ‘No time to wait till.............. began.’?
Ans. The smile appears in the eye before it reaches the mouth. It takes a few moments but the poet has no time even to see that smile.
21. Why was the Ramakrishna mission established?
Ans. . The Ramakrishna mission was established to run many schools and colleges in India to help the poor and to educate the young
22. What was the early name of Swami Vivekananda?
Ans. The early name of Swami Vivekananda was Narendra.
23. How did Anand look?
Ans. Anand looked very cross with himself.
24. What words and phrases did Anand fail to understand?
Ans. The words and phrases which Anand failed to understand were; cross, boiling of blood, get , novel..
25. When does the bell ring?
Ans. The bell rings at the morning.
26. Whom do the villagers give credit for their prosperity?
Ans. The villagers give credit for their prosperity to the God.
27. Who has written the poem Uphill?
Ans. Christina George Rossetti has written the poem Uphill.
28. What happens at the end of the journey?
Ans. At the end of the journey, the travellers forget all his pain and feel relax.
29. Where was the Mayor?
Ans The Mayor was in the Town Hall with his councillors
30. How much time did the Mayor want to settle things?
Ans. Mayor wanted a month to settle things but only a week was given by the people of Hamelin.
31. Why did the Mayor not get the rats poisoned?
Ans. The Mayor did not get the rats poisoned because by poisoning the rats he would be getting the people poisoned as well. No one in Hamelin could eat food before rats had tasted it.
32. What did the Pied Piper do with the rats?
Ans. The Pied Piper played a tune on his Pipe. An army of rats followed him. He led the rats to river Weser. All the rats except one rat ran into the water and were drowned.
33. Where did Radha carry her curds to?
Ans. Radha carried her curds to the Mathura fair.
34. What did she do at the altar?
Ans. She folded her hands at the altar and prayed for divine guidance at all times.
35. What does hieroglyphics mean?
Ans. Hieroglyphics means ‘sacred writing.’ It is a kind of picture writing.
36. In what direction are most languages written?
Ans. Most languages are written from left to right. However there is no fixed direction of writing. For instance, Urdu and Arabic are written from right to left, Chinese is written vertically and hieroglyphics could be written in all directions.
37. When did Tansen die?
Ans. Tansen died in 1585.
38. Why did Akbar punish Tansen’s enemies?
Ans. Tansen’s enemies wanted to ruin him. Akbar came to know about their conspiracy. Therefore, he punished Tansen’s enemies.