Class 6 English Chapter 8 Practice Question Answers - A Pact with the Sun

Q1: What did the specialist prescribe in addition to medicine?
Ans: The specialist prescribed, in addition to medicine, to shift to a bigger room with open doors and windows. He also advised her to sit for one hour daily in the sunshine and breathe in fresh air.

Q2: What did the physician ask Saeeda’s mother to do to get well? Did their advice help her? If not, why?
Ans: The physicians advised Saeeda’s mother not to take normal food, and to remain shut in a small dark room. Their advice did not help her as she showed signs of improvement initially but soon relapsed into her old, sick self.

Q3: How did Saeeda’s mother recover?
Ans: Saeeda’s mother recovered when she felt the warmth of the Sun on her face and breathed in fresh air. Her condition improved rapidly, and her eyes started shining brightly.

Q4: Why did the sun ask the rays to stay up in the sky?
Ans: The sun asked the rays to stay up in the sky because the pathway to the Earth was blocked by thick, dark clouds. The sun warned the rays to avoid the dark clouds.

Q5: What did Saeeda’s mother ask God?
Ans: Saeeda’s mother asked God why He had ordered the sun to hide behind the clouds, questioning how she would ever be cured.

Q6: She was fully recovered. What did she follow?
Ans: She was fully recovered but she still followed the doctor's advice, spending an hour in sunlight and breathing in fresh air every day.

Q7: Who made the pact with the sun? What was it about?
Ans: The small girl Saeeda made a pact with the sun. The pact was about her requesting the rays of the sun to come the next day with warmth to cure her mother.

Q8: What did she do to pay the doctor’s fee and cost of medicine?
Ans: She sold a few trinkets to pay the doctor’s fees and the cost of medicine.

Q9: What did the little ray say?
Ans: The little ray said that she could not stay back as she had given her word to Saeeda. Her mother was ill and needed their help.

Q10: What else did the doctor suggest her?
Ans: The doctor suggested her to immediately leave the dingy room and occupy a bigger room with open doors and windows. He advised her to use sunshine and fresh air regularly

Q11: ‘The doctor advised her sunlight and normal diet’. Why the neighbors reacted differently?
Ans: When a person fall sick, he is confined to a room with closed windows. Normal diet is restricted. But these things worsen the condition of the sick person. The doctor prescribed medicine and asked to provide Saeeda’s mother proper sunlight in the morning for faster recovery. The people were dubious. They thought that her cold and cough won’t get cured if she is not tended in a closed room. While others supported doctor’s advice.

Q12: Who made the pact with the Sun and why? How did the pact prove fruitful?
Ans: Saeeda’s mother had been ailing for quite some time. No medicine proved effective. She was shut up in a small dark room. The cloudy weather continued for a few days. So Saeeda, the little girl, made a request to the rays of the sun to come down to the earth and give warmth to the ailing woman. The sunrays agreed and also kept their word. They came down in large numbers and gave ‘ new life to Saeeda’s mother. In this way Saeeda’s pact with the sunrays helped her mother get well.

Q13: What is your own formula for keeping good health?
Ans: Health is wealth, so I get up early do some exercises and yoga. I eat breakfast including fruits and whole grain. Than I go to school. I play in the evening and after taking my dinner, I go to sleep. I firmly believe that early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Q14: When would you make a pact, with the sun? When you are going on a picnic, or when you are playing a cricket match? Think of other occasions.
Ans: I am very fond of playing outdoors games. Generally most of us are forced to stay indoor to avoid exhaustion and heat stroke. So I will pact with the sun to remain hidden in clouds so that we could play more often for long hours atleast on Sundays.

Q15: The simplicity of a child is special for the heavens. Comment.
Ans: The blessings of heaven is showered upon those who are innocent. Their prayers are heard and heavenly bodies keep their promises as the ray defied the orders of her father and shooed away the bewildered clouds their way to Saeeda’s house. So a child has a power to communicate with .heaven and their prayer are often heard.