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

Q1: Fill in the blanks.
(i) Mridu didn’t have much time to wonder about whose slippers they were, because Ravi dragged her to the backyard, behind a ______.
Ans: Thick bitter-berry bush
(ii) “People are always telling us to be kind to animals, but when we are, they scream ______,” said Ravi.
Ans: ‘Ooh, don’t bring that dirty creature here!’
(iii) “She’ll never learn a thing. The music master just goes on playing like a _______, while Lalli's all the time_____!
Ans: Train whizzing on and on, derailing
(iv) Mridu and Meena followed Ravi out. ____ was already in the garden, making himself quite at home.
Ans: The beggar

Q2: What animal does Ravi have in his backyard?
Ans: Ravi has a pet kitten in his backyard, who lives in a sand-filled torn football.

Q3: Where did Ravi find the kitten?
Ans: The kitten was found mewing one morning outside Ravi's gate.

Q4: Word – Meaning from the given chapter.
(i) Sacking – dismissing someone
(ii) Lapping up – to eat or drink greedily
(iii) Scrawny – skinny
(iv) Descendant – successor

Q5: What did Mridu see on the slippers?
Ans: Mridu saw a pair of large black slippers beside her slippers. The large black slippers had marks of toes on them.

Q6: What was the name of the grandfather of Mridu?
Ans: Thatha.

Q7: Where did Tapi take Mridu to?
Ans: Tapi took Mridu to her aunt's house.

Q8: What was the name of Mridu's aunt?
Ans: Rukku Manni.

Q9: Who was Rukku Manni?
Ans: She was the aunt of Mridu.

Q10: Why did Tapi take Mridu to her aunt's house?
Ans: Tapi took Mridu to her aunt's house to meet her cousins.

Q11: Who were the cousins of Mridu?
Ans: Lalli, Rani, and Meena.

Q12: Where did Rani drag Mridu to as she entered the house?
Ans: Rani dragged Mridu to the backyard.

Q13: Why did Rani take her to their backyard?
Ans: Rani took her to their backyard to show a small kitten.

Q14: Where was the small kitten sitting?
Ans: Behind a thick bitter–berry bush.

Q15: Where was the small kitten sitting?
Ans: The small kitten was sitting inside a torn football lined with sacking and filled with sand.

Q16: What was the kitten doing?
Ans: The kitten was drinking milk.

Q17: From where did the kitten drink milk?
Ans: It was drinking milk from a coconut half–shell.

Q18: Where did they find the kitten?
Ans: They found him outside their house that morning.

Q19: Why was the kitten kept as a secret?
Ans: Because if their grandmother learned about the kitten, she would leave the house.

Q20: Who named the kitten 'Mahendran'?
Ans: Rani and Meena.

Q21: What is the full name of Mahendran?
Ans: Mahendravarma Pallava Poonai.

Q22: Mahendravarna Pallava Poonai is also called in short as?
Ans: M.P Poonai.

Q23: What kind of cat Mahendran was, according to Ravi?
Ans: It is a fine breed of cat.

Q24: What did Ravi feel about the cat's descendant of?
Ans: According to Rani, the cat was a descendant of the Mohobalipuram Rishi cat.

Q25: Where was the 'Kreech' sound coming from?
Ans: From the window.

Q26: Who was learning to play the violin?
Ans: Lalli.

Q27: Who Lalli good at playing the violin?
Ans: No, she was going completely off track.

Q28: Who was teaching Lalli to play the violin?
Ans: The music master.

Q29: 'Ravi, send that beggar away!' - Who said this?
Ans: Rukka Manni.

Q30: Where was the beggar sitting?
Ans: The beggar was sitting under the neem tree.

Q31: Why did the beggar lean against the neem tree?
Ans: He leaned against the neem tree to take a short nap.

Q32: What happened to the beggar's feet?
Ans: The beggar's feet were blistered.

Q33: Why were the beggar's feet blistered?
Ans: His feet were blistered because of his bare feet.

Q34: Why was the beggar on his bare feet?
Ans: Because he didn't have money to buy chappals.

Q35: Why did not Rani give his own chappals to the beggar?
Ans: Because they were too small to fit his feet.

Q36: What did Mridu remember while she entered Ravi's house?
Ans: While she entered, she had seen a pair of old gray chappals.

Q37: What did the children do with that pair of old grey chappals?
Ans: They gave those chappals to the beggar.

Q38: What was the music master searching for?
Ans: He was searching for his own chappals.

Q39: Whose chappals were those that the children gave to the beggar?
Ans: The music-master.

Q40: Whose example was set by Ravi as kind and generous?
Ans: Ravi set an example of Karna who was very kind and generous.

Q41: Whose chappals were given to the music master?
Ans: Gopu Mama.

Q42: Whom did the music master compare Ravi to?
Ans: He compared Ravi with the incarnation of Hanuman, i.e., monkey.