Class 7 English Honeycomb Chapter 2 Practice Question Answers - A Gift of Chappals

Direction: Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow. Tick the correct answer from the given alternatives:

Mahendran looked up, alarmed. He had just been sharpening his claws on the edge of the coconut shell. But worse than Ravi’s awful whoop EEK was a ‘Kreech ….!’ from the window. What a weird sound! If Mridu was startled, M.P. Poonai was frightened out of his wits. Hair standing on end, he bounced up and scurried towards a bamboo tray of red chillies that had been set out to dry. Trying to hide beneath it, he tipped a few chillies over himself. “Mi-a-aw!” he howled miserably.

Question 1. Who looked up, alarmed?
(a) Mahendran
(b) Mridu
(c) Lalli
(d) Gopu Mama
Answer: (a) Mahendran

Question 2. What was ‘Kreech….’ coming from the window?
(a) Sound of kitten
(b) Sound of violin
(c) Sound of puppy
(d) None of the above
Answer: (b) Sound of violin

Question 3. Where did Mahendran run to hide itself?
(a) to the kitchen
(b) under the bed
(c) towards the tray of red chillies
(d) to the ground
Answer: (c) towards the tray of red chillies

Question 4. Give the meaning of ‘startled’.
(a) laughed
(b) looked
(c) amazed
(d) frightened
Answer: (c) amazed

Mridu did not have much time to wonder about whose slippers they were, because Ravi dragged her to the backyard, behind a thick bitter-berry bush. There, inside a torn football lined with sacking and filled with sand, lay a small kitten lapping up milk from a coconut half-shell.

Question 1. Mridu didn’t have much time to wonder about.
(a) overcoat
(b) slippers
(c) books
(d) none of these
Answer: (b) slippers

Question 2. What was behind the thick berry bush?
(a) A football
(b) A coin
(c) A pen
(d) A stone
Answer: (a) A football

Question 3. What was inside the torn football?
(a) A kitten
(b) A puppy
(c) A rat
(d) A stone
Answer: (a) A kitten

Question 4. From where was the kitten taking milk?
(a) From a bottle
(b) From a glass
(c) From the bowl
(d) From a coconut half-shell
Answer: (d) From a coconut half-shell

Question 5. Kitten is the young one of:
(a) bear
(b) cat
(c) dog
(d) cock
Answer: (b) cat

“I’ll go, I’ll go!” he said wearily. “Only let me have a rest here under this tree. The sun is so hot, the tar has melted on the road. My feet are already blistered.” He stretched out his feet to show large, pink, peeling blisters on the soles of his bare feet.

Question 1. Name the lesson.
(a) Three Questions
(b) A Gift of Chappals
(c) Expert Detectives
(d) Quality
Answer: (b) A Gift of Chappals

Question 2. Who is ‘I’ in these lines?
(a) The beggar
(b) Ravi
(c) Music master
(d) Mridu
Answer: (a) The beggar

Question 3. Where did he want to take rest?
(a) In the garden
(b) On a bench
(c) In the house
(d) Under the tree
Answer: (d) Under the tree

Question 4. Why did he want to take rest?
(a) He was hungry
(b) It was very hot outside
(c) He was tired
(d) None of these
Answer: (b) It was very hot outside

Question 5. Give the meaning of ‘blistered’.
(a) shone
(b) dimmed
(c) wounded
(d) stared
Answer: (c) wounded

He played a few notes. Lalli stumbled behind him on her violin, which looked quite helpless and unhappy in her hands. What a difference! The music-master’s notes seemed to float up and settle perfectly into the invisible tracks of the melody. It was like the wheels of a trained fitting smoothly into the rails and whizzing along, as Ravi said. Mridu stared at that huge, beringed hand moving effortlessly up the violin’s stem, making lovely music.

Question 1. Who is ‘he’ in the above lines?
(a) Ravi
(b) Mridu
(c) Meena
(d) Music master
Answer: (d) Music master

Question 2. What looked helpless and unhappy?
(a) The violin
(b) Lalh
(c) Meena
(d) Mridu
Answer: (a) The violin

Question 3. How were the notes played by music-master?
(a) Like the wheels of the train
(b) Like the sound of a kitten
(c) Like the horn of the bus
(d) None of the above
Answer: (a) Like the wheels of the train

Question 4. Give the opposite of ‘huge’.
(a) small
(b) big
(c) short
(d) tiny
Answer: (d) tiny

She hurried indoors and brought out Gopu Mama’s hardly worn, new chappals. “These should fit you, Sir. Please put these on. I am so sorry. My son has been very naughty.” The musicmaster’s eyes lit up. He put them on, trying not to look too happy. “Well, I suppose these will have to do These days children have no respect for elders, what to do? A Hanuman Incarnate … only Rama can save such a naughty fellow!” Rukku Manni’s eyes flashed.

Question 1. Who is ‘she’ in the above lines?
(a) Mridu
(b) Rukku Manni
(c) Meena
(d) Lalli
Answer: (b) Rukku Manni

Question 2. To whom did she give Gopu Mama’s chappals?
(a) Beggar
(b) Ravi
(c) Music master
(d) Mridu
Answer: (c) Music master

Question 3. Who said these words: “These days children have no respect for elders”?
(a) Gopu mama
(b) Music master
(c) Ravi
(d) Rukku Manni
Answer: (b) Music master

Question 4. Who said ‘A Hanuman Incarnate’?
(a) Music master
(b) Rukku Manni
(c) Gopu mama
(d) Mridu
Answer: (b) Rukku Manni