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

Q1: Why are dreams important? Mention two reasons.
Ans: Dreams are important because they help us sleep through noise or other disturbances. They can also provide a key to the solution of problems.

Q2: What is the importance of dreams?
Ans: The importance of dreams lies in their ability to help us sleep through noise and disturbances.

Q3: What have certain doctors found about dreams?
Ans: Certain doctors think that our dreams can provide a key to the solution of problems.

Q4: What is sleep? Why is it necessary to enjoy sound sleep?
Ans: Sleep is a state of rest. It is necessary to enjoy sound sleep because it gives rest to our tired body. After a good sleep, we feel fresh, alert, and active.

Q5: What is a dream? Define it in your own words.
Ans: A dream is an activity of the mind in which the things happening around are not real.

Q6: Why is it necessary to enjoy sound sleep?
Ans: Sleep gives rest to our tired body. After a good sleep, we feel fresh, alert, and active.

Q7: Why do we tend to forget dreams?
Ans: Dreams are often forgotten because they fade away quickly upon waking up.

Q8 What happens when we wake up?
Ans: When we wake up, our temperature and blood pressure rise to normal. Our heart rate and breathing also become normal.

Q9: Why does the body become alert and active after sleep?
Ans: After a good sleep, the body and brain are well-rested, which leads to increased alertness and activity.

Q10: What happens to our body when we are asleep?
Ans: When we are asleep, our muscles relax, body temperature drops, heartbeat slows down, and our ever-active brain slows down too.

Q11: What is the significance of dream?
Ans: What is a dream? We have strange, funny and even frightening dreams as we sink into sleep. The brain can’t think or act consciously when we fell asleep. Some dreams are believable, and could happen when we are awake. But most of them are absurd. Dreams are important because they help us to sleep through noise even. Some doctors say that one’s dreams can suggest solutions to one’s problem or tell the future. But this is not wholly true.

Q12:  Enlist the changes that occur in our body when we sink deep into sleep?
Ans: Sleep is a necessary activity is our life. When we enjoy more and more sound sleep, our temperature and blood pressure both go down, our muscles relax and heartbeat becomes slower. Sleep also brings relaxation to the ever-active brain which slows down so that we could not think and put pressure on our mind. During our sleep we are not in the position to think or act consciously. When we wake up after a sound sleep, our temperature and blood pressure rise to normal. Our heartbeat and breathing also become normal and there is no botheration in our mind and we are fully awake and have forgotten most of the dreams. Such are the blessings of sleep.

Q13: What happens to our body when we sleep?
Ans: 

• Our muscles, relax.
• Our heart beat become slower.
• Our temperature and blood pressure go down.
• The activity of the brain slows down.

Q14: Are the dreams important in our life? How?
Ans: The importance of dreams is our life is very vast. They are an activity of the mind when we are asleep. Some dreams appear to be true while others prove to be futile. Many things that happen in dreams won’t happen when we are awake. But the most important thing about dreams is that they help us to sleep in spite of noise or other disturbances. It is the opinion of some doctors that dreams can reveal a great deal about one’s problems and can provide a key to the solution of those problems. But, dreams can never tell about the future. This is an irony that so many people are afraid of dreams and sometimes they feel delighted with their dreams.

Q15: ‘The lullaby of grandmother helps in deep sleep’. How does it helps in personality development?
Ans: Sleep relaxes body and muscle. Lullaby’s of mother and grandmother comforts a child with music to the extent they goes into sleep. Children who listen to the lullaby’s have stronger personalities. The discipline and virtue of respect in relationships grows with time in these children.