Class 7 English Honeycomb Extract Based Question Answers - The Ashes that Made Trees Bloom

Q1: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
He sprinkled a pinch of ashes on it, and lo! It sprouted blossoms until it became a cloud of pink blooms which perfumed the air. The news of this filled the village and everyone ran out to see the wonder. The covetous couple also heard the story and gathering up the ashes

(i) Who has been referred as ‘he’ in the above lines?
Ans: The kind old farmer has been referred in these lines as ‘he’.

(ii) ‘It’ sprouted blossoms. What has been referred as ‘it’ in the given lines?
Ans: The cherry tree has been referred as ‘it’ in the given lines.

(iii) What is the wonder that has been referred to in the given lines?
Ans: The withered bare cherry tree has been transformed into a blossom with the ashes of mill and mortar sprinkled over it. This wonder has been referred in the given lines.

(iv) In the given lines what has been burnt down to form the ashes?
(a) The dog
(b) The pine tree
(c) The cherry tree
(d) The mortar and the mill
Ans: (d)

(v) Find synonym of ‘jealous’ from the given lines.
(a) Pinch
(b) Sprinkled
(c) Blooms
(d) Envious
Ans: (d)

(vi) Find a word from the given lines that means ‘flower’.
(a) Blossom
(b) Bloom
(c) Sprouted
(d) Sprinkled
Ans: (b)

Q2: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
Then they dragged him out of doors, taking a spade and hoe with them. No sooner had the dog got near a pine tree growing in the garden than he began to paw and scratch the ground, as if a mighty treasure lay beneath.

(i) In the above lines who have been referred as ‘they’?
Ans: The wicked old couple has been referred as ‘they’ in the above lines.

(ii) Whom did they drag out of doors?
Ans: They dragged the good old couple’s dog from the doors.

(iii) Why they did so?
Ans: They did so to find way to the treasure.

(iv) What lay beneath the ground?
(a) Gold coins
(b) A vast treasure
(c) A dead kitten
(d) None of these
Ans: (c)

(v) Why did they carry spade and hoe with them?
(a) To kill the dog
(b) To dig the Earth
(c) To plough the field
(d) To chase the birds
Ans: (b)

(vi) What follows immediately after this?
(a) They begin to dig the ground
(b) They killed the dog
(c) They found a cast treasure
(d) They ran away with fear
Ans: (b)

Q3: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
Now, in? the days of the daimios, it was the custom, when their lord passed by, for all the loyal people to shut up their high windows. They even pasted them fast with a slip of paper, so as not to commit the impertinence of looking down on his lordship. All the people along the road would fall upon their hands and knees and remain prostrate until the procession passed by. The train drew near. One tall, competent man marched ahead, crying out to the people by the way, “Get down on your knees! Get down on your knees!” And everyone kneeled down while the procession was passing

(i) What was the custom of the daimyo’s?
Ans: In the days of the daimio’s, it was the custom, when their lord passed by, for all the loyal people to shut up their high windows.

(ii) What did they paste on high windows?
Ans: They pasted the windows with a slip of paper.

(iii) How long did they remain prostrate?
Ans: They remained prostrate until the procession passed by.

(iv) Who cried out to the people?
Ans: One tall, competent man cried out to the people to get down.

(v) Write an antonym competent’.
Ans: Incompetent/ inefficient.

Q4: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
So the old man chopped down the tree and cut out of the middle of the trunk a section about two feet long. With great labour, partly by fire, partly by the chisel, he scraped out a hollow place as big as a small bowl. He then made a long handled hammer of wood, such as is used for pounding rice.
When New Year’s time drew near, he wished to make some rice pastry. When the rice was all boiled, granny put it into the mortar, the old man lifted his hammer to pound the mass into dough, and the blows fell heavy and fast till the pastry was all ready for baking. Suddenly the whole mass turned into a heap of gold coins. When the old woman took the hand-mill, and filling it with beans began to grind, the gold dropped like rain.

(i) What did the old man do to the tree?
Ans: The old man chopped down the tree and cut out of the middle of the trunk a section about two feet long.

(ii) What did he wish to make for New Year?
Ans: When New Year’s time drew near, he wished to make some rice pastry.

(iii) What did they do when the rice was boiled?
Ans: When the rice was all boiled, granny put it into the mortar, the old man lifted his hammer to pound the mass into dough.

(iv) What happened to the food?
Ans: The whole mass turned into a heap of gold coins. When the old woman took the hand-mill and filling it with beans began to grind, the gold dropped like rain.

(v) Give the meaning of ‘Pounding’.
Ans: It means repeated and heavy striking or hitting someone or something.

Q5: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
“Goody me!’ cried the old hag, as she saw each dripping of sauce turning into yellow gold, until in a few minutes the tub under the mill was full of shining mass of gold. So the old couple was rich again.

(i) Who has been referred as ‘old hag’ in the above lines?
Ans: The wicked old man’s wife has been referred as ‘old hag’ in the above lines.

(ii) From where was she watching the above incident?
Ans: She was peeping from the window to watch the incident.

(iii) ________ each dripping of sauce which sauce has been referred here?
Ans: Bean sauce has been referred in above lines.

(iv) At what time during the year the above incidence is taking place?
(a) Summer
(b) Winter
(c) New Year
(d) Both ‘b’ and ‘c’
Ans: (d)

(v) Find a word from the given lines that means ‘witch’
(a) Drip
(b) Hag
(c) Wicked
(d) None of these
Ans: (b)

(vi) What is the process that is taking place in the above lines?
(a) Baking of pastry
(b) Preparing of dough
(c) Boiling of rice
(d) Making of bean sauce
Ans: (d)

Q6: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
Not long after that, the good old man dreamed again, and the spirit of the dog spoke to him, telling him how the wicked people had burned the mill made from the pine tree. “Take the ashes of the mill, sprinkle them on the withered trees, and they will bloom again,” said the dog-spirit.

(i) Who came in good old man’s dream?
Ans: The spirit of the dog came in the good old man’s dreams.

(ii) What did wicked man do with the mill?
Ans: The wicked man had burned the mill.

(iii) What instruction did the spirit give to the old man?
Ans: The spirit instructed the old man to take the ashes of the milk and to sprinkle them on the withered trees.

(iv) What change happen to the withered trees?
Ans: The withered trees started blooming again.

(v) Give past participle of ‘spoke’.
Ans: Spoken.