Class 7 English Honeycomb Poem 1 Question Answers - Poem 1 - The Squirrel

Q1. What does a grey overcoat refer to?
Ans: The squirrel’s body is being refered to a grey overcoat.

Q2. How do squirrels usually sit?
Ans: The squirrel usually sits and runs with a bended back.

Q3. The poet talks about a small creature with sensitivity. Do you agree or not.
Ans: The poem is a reflection of the poet’s observation we come across in our day to day surrounding. A squirrel is the most commonly found animal that we see around us. Yet, very few of us would have thought of it as a subject matter.

Q4. How does squirrel eat a nut?
Ans: The squirrel sits up straight to eat a nut.

Q5. What did the squirrel do if someone came too close to his tree?
Ans: The squirrel would run away instantly if someone try to come too close to his tree.

Q6. Why does the poet say the squirrel ‘wore a question mark for tail’? Draw a squirrel or find a picture of a squirrel sitting on the ground. How would you describe its tail?
Ans: The Poet said that the squirrel “wore a question mark for a tail” because its tail is twisted appearing like a question mark.

Q7. Do we usually say that an animal ‘wears’ a tail? What do we say? (Think: Does an animal wear a coat? Consult a dictionary if you like, and find out how ‘wear’ is used in different ways.)
Ans: No, we do not usually say that an animal ‘wears’ a tail. We usually say that animal ‘has’ a tail.

Q8. “He liked to tease and play”. Who is teasing whom? How?
Ans: The squirrel is teasing the poet and his friends. When poet and his friends ran around the tree on which the squirrel is sitting, it went the other way teasing and playing with them.

Q9. He wore a question mark for tail,
An overcoat of gray,
He sat up straight to eat a nut.
The tail of the squirrel is twisted like a question mark. Its colour is grey and while eating a nut it sit straight on its legs and hold the nut in its forearms.
(i) Does a squirrel wear a overcoat?
(ii) What is the shape of squirrel’s tail?
(iii) How does it eat a nut?
(iv) What is its skin colour?
(v) Choose the past tense of wear from the above lines.
Ans:
(i) No, it does not.
(ii) Its shapes is twisted into a question mark.
(iii) It eats a nut by sitting on its hind legs
(iv) Its skin colour is grey.
(v) Wore.

Q10. He liked to tease and play,
And if we ran around his tree,
He went the other way.
The poet loves the game of hide and seek between him and the squirrel. If he went too close to the squirrel, the squirrel would go and hide in the other direction.
(i) What does he like to do?
(ii) Why does he went the other way?
(iii) Why is the squirrel scared?
(iv) Name the poem.
(v) Name the poet.
Ans:
(i) He likes to tease and play.
(ii) He went the, other way when he see human being around the tree.
(iii) The squirrel is scared because of the poet.
(iv) The poem name is ‘The squirrel’.
(v) The poets name is ‘Mildred Bowers Armstrong’.