A Bicycle in Good Repair Class 7 Worksheet English Honeycomb

Q.1. Which of the following means the same as 'degenerated' in the prose A Bicycle in Good Repair?
(a) Joined
(b) Vanished
(c) Increased
(d) Reduced

Correct options is (d)
If something is being reduced to pieces or separated, it is referred to as being degenerated.

Q.2. The man proposed the speaker for a ________.
(a) bicycle ride
(b) bus ride
(c) lunch
(d) dinner

Correct options is (a)
The man proposed the speaker for a bicycle ride.

Q.3. What did the author see when he came back from the tool shed?

When the author came back from the tool shed he found his friend sitting on the ground with the front wheel between his legs and the remaining parts of the cycle on the gravel path beside him.

Q.4. In what condition did the author find the bicycle when he returned from the tool shed?

When author returned from the tool shed, he found that the man had removed the front wheel of his bicycle and was twiddling it round between his fingers. The rest of the machine lay on the gravel path beside him.

Q.5. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Then he lost his temper and tried bullying the thing. The bicycle, I was glad to see, showed spirit, and the subsequent proceedings degenerated into little else than a rough-and-tumble fight between him and the machine. One moment the bicycle would be on the gravel path and he on top of it; the next, the position would be reversed—he on the gravel path, the bicycle on him. Now he would be standing flushed with victory, the bicycle firmly fixed between his legs. But his triumph would be short lived. By a sudden, quick movement it would free itself and, turning upon him, hit him sharply over the head with one of its handles.
(i) Why did he try bullying the bicycle?
(ii) When did he feel a sense of victory?
(iii) Why was his triumph short lived?
(iv) Find from the passage: 

• one abstract noun.
• two adjectives. 
• two pronouns
• one adverb

(i) He tried bullying the bicycle because he lost his temper when he lost his balance and slid over onto his head.
(ii) He felt the sense of victory when he found the bicycle firmly fixed between his legs.
(iii) His triumph was short-lived because, by a sudden, quick movement, the bicycle would free itself and hit him sharply over the head with one of its handles.

(iv)

• triumph  
• quick, short lived
• I, him
• sharply

Q.6. According to the man, what was a mystery, as mentioned in the prose A Bicycle in Good Repair?
(a) The disappearance of screws
(b) Disappearance of wheels
(c) Disappearance of balls
(d) Disappearance of stars

Correct option is (a)
The man said that it was always a mystery to him the way screws disappeared.

Q.7. Who made the following statement: It looks to me as if the bearings were all wrong - in the prose A Bicycle in Good Repair?
(a) The narrator
(b) A bicycle mechanic
(c) A bicycle seller
(d) The man

Correct option is (d)
The man took the machine apart and started refixing it. He told the narrator that it seemed to him that the bearings were all put in the wrong places.

Q.8. Which figure of speech is observed in the statement - This front wheel wobbles - in the prose A Bicycle in Good Repair?
(a) Alliteration
(b) Pun
(c) Simile
(d) Metaphor

Correct option is (a)
Alliteration is a figure of speech that represents a repetition of sounds in consecutive words. In this statement, alliteration is observed in the phrase "wheel wobbles".

Q.9. Was it right for the author's friend to dismantle the bicycle?

The author's bicycle was in a perfect state, there was no use or need for dismantling its parts.

Q.10. How did the author of the story A Bicycle in Good Repair react to what his friend did?

The friend caught hold of the bicycle from the fork and front wheel. He shook it violently. The author took it ill. He asked his friend not to hurt the bicycle.