Class 8 English Chapter 6 Extract Based Question Answers - This is Jody’s Fawn

Q1: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
Jody then went to the kitchen. The fawn wobblfed after him. A pan of morning’s milk stood in the kitchen safe. The cream had risen on it. He skimmed the cream into a jug. He poured milk into a small gourd. He held it out to the fawn. It butted it suddenly, smelling the milk. He saved it precariously from spilling over the floor. It could make nothing of the milk in the gourd. He dipped his fingers in the milk and thrust them into the fawn’s soft wet mouth. It sucked greedily. When he withdrew them, it bleated frantically and butted him.
He dipped his fingers again and as the fawn sucked, he lowered them slowly into the milk. The fawn blew and sucked and snorted. It stamped its small hoofs impatiently. As long as he held his fingers below the level of the milk, the fawn was content. It closed its eyes dreamily. It was ecstasy to feel its tongue against his hand. Its small tail flicked back and forth. The last of the milk vanished in a swirl of foam and gurgling.

(i) Where did he pour milk?
Ans: He poured milk into a small gourd.

(ii) What was the problem with the gourd?
Ans: It was difficult for him to feed from gourd.

(iii) What did he feed him with?
Ans: He dipped his finger in the milk and thrust them into the fawn’s mouth.

(iv) Was the fawn contended?
Ans: The fawn was contended after drinking milk.

(v) Why did its small tail flicked back and forth?
Ans: The fawn was secured and contented. So it moved its tail back and forth.

Q2: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
Movement directly in front of him startled him so that he tumbled backward. The fawn lifted its face to his. It turned its head with a wide, wondering motion and shook him through with the stare of its liquid eyes. It was quivering. It made no effort to rise or run. Jody could not trust himself to move. He whispered, “It’s me.” The fawn lifted its nose, scenting him. He reached out one hand and laid it on the soft neck.
The touch made him delirious. He moved forward on all fours until he was close beside it. He put his arms around its body. A light convulsion passed over it but it did not stir. He stroked its sides as gently as though the fawn were a China deer and he might break it. Its skin was very soft. It was sleek and clean and had a sweet scent of grass. He rose slowly and lifted the fawn from the ground. Its legs hung limply. They were surprisingly long and he had to hoist the fawn as high as possible under his arm.

(i) Why was he ‘startled’?
Ans: Jody went to the forest to find the fawn. He was not sure about the success of search. When it suddenly came to him, he was surprised.

(ii) Why couldn’t he trust himself to move?
Ans: Jody found the fawn who was scared. So he thought if he moved ahead to pick it up, it would run away.

(iii) How did he manage to get hold of it?
Ans: He crawled towards it, so that it won’t run away.

(iv) What is a ‘China deer’?
Ans: ‘A China deer’ is a clay deer that is easily broken.

(v) Write the past participle of ‘hang”.
Ans: Hung.

Q3: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
He remembered his father saying that a fawn would follow if it had first been carried. He started away slowly. The fawn stared after him. He came back to it and stroked it and walked away again. It took a few wobbling steps toward him and cried piteously. It was willing to follow him. It belonged to him. It was his own. He was light-headed with his joy. He wanted to fondle it, to run and romp with it, to call to it to come to him. He dared not alarm it. He picked it up and carried it in front of him over his two arms. It seemed to him that he walked without effort.

(i) What did his father tell him?
Ans: His father told him that a fawn would follow if it had first been carried.

(ii) Why was it taking ‘wobbling’ steps?
Ans: It was taking wobbly steps as it was meek and fearful.

(iii) Why did he pick up again?
Ans: He picked it up as it was taking too long to move.

(iv) Why did it want to fondle?
Ans: He was willing to hold it and took care of it but he had to reach home at the earliest.

(v) Give a synonym of ‘Romp’.
Ans: Jumping about.

Q4: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
He waited for the sound of the hooves to end, then cut to the right. The scrub was still. Only his own crackling of twigs sounded across the silence. He wondered for an instant if he had mistaken his direction. Then a buzzard rose in front of him and flapped into the air. He came into the clearing under the oaks. Buzzards sat in a circle around the carcass of the doe. They turned their heads on their long scrawny necks and hissed at him. He threw his bough at them and they flew into an adjacent tree. The sand showed large cat prints but the big cats killed fresh, and they had left the doe to the carrion birds.

(i) How could he hear the ‘cracking of twigs’?
Ans: As he was heading towards the place where doe was killed, the forest was quiet and peaceful. So he could easily hear the sound of twig’s cracking.

(ii) Was he sure of his direction?
Ans: No, he wasn’t sure of his direction.

(iii) What were buzzards doing around the carcass of doe?
Ans: Buzzards sat in a circle around the carcass of the doe.

(iv) Whose footprints were imprinted on the sand?
Ans: The footprints of a large cats were imprinted on sand.

(v) ‘Hooves’ is a plural form of
Ans: Hoof.