Class 7 English Honeycomb Chapter 7 Question Answers - The Invention of Vita-Wonk

Q1. According to Charlie what lives the longest?
Answer: According to Charlie a tree lives the longest.

Q2. How did Mr. Wonka travel?
Answer: Mr. Wonka used to travel across the world in the Great Glass Elevator.

Q3. Why does Mr Wonka collect item from the oldest things? Do you think this is the right way to begin his invention?
Answer: Mr Wonka wanted to create an item that will make people older so he collected items from the oldest thing. This is in fact a foolish way to begin an invention.

Q4. Who did Mr. Wonka asked Charlie to confirm Bristlccone pine trees live the longest?
Answer: Mr. Wonka asked Charlie to confirm the fact with any dendrochronologist.

Q5. Who was Mr. Willy Wonka?
Answer: Mr. Willy Wonka was a scientist who invented a medicine called Wonk Vite or Vita- Wonk that makes people look much younger.

Q6. What information did Mr.Willy wonka tell about Bristlecone pine tree?
Answer: He told that the Bristlecone pine grows upon the slops of Wheeler Peck in Nevada, USA. This tree is almost 4000 years old from now.

Q7. Whom did he experiment on and how?
Answer: He poured four drops of the liquid to the volunteer named oompa-Loompa who was twenty years old. Later he turned to an old man of seventy five years.

Q8. Whose knucklebone were collected by Willy Wonka? Where did the old flea collected by Mr. Wonka live?
Answer: Mr. Willy Wonka collected the knucklebones of a 700 years old Grimalkin that lived in a cave on Mount Popocatepetl. The old Flea used to live on Crumpets that was a 36 years old cat.

Q9. On whom did Mr. Wonka tested the oily black liquid?
Answer: Mr. Wonka tested the oily black liquid over an Oompa – Loompa volunteer.

Q10. What was told about Vita- Wonka in this story?
Answer: Vita-Wonk is the name of a medicine produce by a scientist named Mr. Willy Wonka. This medicine makes people younger by swallowing only four drops. Thus, it was experimented on the volunteer called Oompa-loompa and was successful.

Q11. Name any two collection of oldest living thin g researched by Mr.Wonka?
Answer: Firstly, the tail of a horse that is found in Arabia. The tail was 51 years old .the second collection was an egg laid by a Tortoise that belongs to the king of Tonga and it was 200 years old.

Q12. How does the Roald Dahl story to infuse the creativity increase the power of imagination in the children?
Answer: The children are a powerhouse of imagination and creativity. The story boosts the spirit and it gives wings to the imagination of the children. Roald Dahe has a humorous and creative writing style that suits to the delicate mind of children. The language, description of characters is simple. Yet bombastic words used in the lesson helps cognitive development of child.

Q13. (i) What trees does Mr Wonka mention? Which trees does he say lives the longest?
(ii) How long does this tree live? Where can you find it?
Answer: 
(i) Mr Wonka mentions fir, Oak, cedar and Bristlecone Pine trees lives the longest.
(ii) Bristlecone Pine lives for over 4000 years and one can find them upon the slopes of wheeler peak in Nevada, USA.

Q14. Why the impact of inventions and discoveries need to be regulated?
Answer: Life is an ongoing process with development and growth. Various invention and discoveries benefitted humanity and nature: Yet a few were disastrous. Human mind is highly creative but its energy should be used in doing general good for everybody. The medicine for making young did no good to Mr. Wonka, so he prepared antidote named. Wonka – Vite. Nature needs to be balanced. Service to nature should be aimed at with every research/invention.

Q15. What was special about the Arabian horse? Mr. Wonka collected whose tow-nail?
Answer: The Arabian horse lived for 5 years which is quite unusual for any normal horse. Mr. Wonka collected the toenail clipping of a 168 years old Russian farmer called Petrovitch Gregorovitch.

Q16. What were the ancient things that Mr. Wonka collected?
Answer: Mr. Wonka had collected five ancient things. Mr. Wonka collected a pint of sap from a 4000 years old Bristlecone pine tree, whiskers of a 36 years old cat called Crumpets, an egg laid by a 200 years old tortoise that belonged to the king of Tonga. He also collected tail of 207 years old rat from Tibet and tail of 51 years old horse in Arabia.

Q17. How has the of invention of Vita-Wonk progressed?
Answer: Willy Wonka took much pain. He travelled across he globe in his Great Glass Elevator to collect items for Vita-Wonk. He collected samples from some of the oldest living creatures in the world. He mixed these items, boiled and bubbled them several times in his inventing room and then invented a one tiny cupful of an oily black liquid. He tested this on a 20 years old Oompa – Loompa volunteer and within minutes he turned into a 75 years old creature. This was how Vita-Wonk was discovered.

Q18. What happened when Oompa –Loompa Swallowed the oily black liquid?
Answer: The medicine produced by Mr. Wonka was like oily black liquid torture. As he poured four drops of it to Oompa-Loompa, he started wrinkling and shriveling up and his hair started falling off, also his teeth. Thus, he was turned to an old fellow of seventy five years who was twenty years before experimenting. However, Mr. Wonka was successful in his new invention called Vita-Wonk.

Q19. What happens to the volunteer who swallows four drops of the new invention? What is the name of the invention?
Answer: The moment the brave twenty years old Oompa-Loompa volunteer swallowed four drops of the new invention, he began wrinkling and shriveling up all over. His hair started dropping off and his teeth started falling out. Before Mr Wonka knew it, the volunteer had suddenly become an old man of seventy five. The name of the invention was Vita-work.

Q20. What was the need for Mr. Wonka to invent Vita – Wonk?
Answer: It Vita – Wonk after taking many people have grown younger to an extent that their ages have gone in minus. All such people have disappeared and will be back only after they spend all those minus years being invisible. To counter these changes Mr. Wonka decided to invent a new drug to help people to grow older.

Q21. What changes in the appearance of Oompa – Loompa volunteer after taking the drops of Vita – Wonk?
Answer: The obvious changes of again appeared on Oompa-Loompa. After taking drops of Vita-Wonk the Oompa-Loompa volunteer began to wrinkle and shrivel its hair started falling. Within no while the changes were visible and become an old man who looked around 75 years old.

Q22. Write any three collections of oldest living things mentioned by Mr. Wonka?
Answer: 
(i) Firstly, The Toe nail clipping of a Russian farmer named Petrovitch Gregorovitch. The Toe all is almost 168 years old.
(ii) The tail of a giant rat that was found from Tibet the Tail is 207 years old.
(iii) The black teeth of Grimalkin, who lived in a cave on Mount Popocatepetl that was 97 years old.