Class 7 English Honeycomb Chapter 2 Question Answers - A Gift of Chappals

Q1. Who visited Rukku Manni’s place?
Ans: Mridu is a young girl. Mridu went to Rukku Manni's place along with her Tapi.

Q2. What was Kama famous for?
Ans: Kama from Mahabharat used to give away everything he had, including his gold earnings.

Q3. What did Mridu see in front of Ravi’s house?
Ans: Mridu had seen the pair of chappals in front of Ravi’s house, which belonged to the music teacher.

Q4. Has Lalli learnt to play the guitar?
Ans: Lalli kept on going off tracks, It was like her train getting derailed again and again while the teacher’s was running smoothly on the track.

Q5. Where was the small kitten?
Ans: The small kitten was behind a thick, bitter berry bush in their house's backyard. The kitten was lying inside a torn football and drinking milk from a half shell of a coconut.

Q6. Where was the ‘Kreech’ sound coming from?
Ans: The weird ‘Kreech’ Sound was coming from the window. It was Lalli who learned to play the violin. She was not doing good, but the music master was trying his best to train her.

Q7. Why did the beggar come to their house?
Ans: Although the beggar had no place to rest., he made himself quite comfortable in the garden he had spread his piece of cloth under the neem tree and leaned against its trunk.

Q8. What is the music master searching for and why?
Ans: An the music master came out of the house., he was searching for his chappals that was the left in the verandah. He scurried around and looked over the railing and everywhere but did not find them.

Q9. What was the surprise for Mridu?
Ans: Ravi took Mridu to the backyard to show her the new foundation.

Q10. Why was the beggar waiting outside Ravi’s garden?
Ans: The beggar was leaning against the trunk of the neem tree in Ravi’s garden for alms from ladies of the house.

Q11. How did the music teacher react to Ravi's act?
Ans: The music teacher compared Ravi with the lord Hanuman and called him a Hanuman incarnate.

Q12. Who was Mridu, and Where did she go one afternoon?
Ans: Mridu was a young and kind girl who grew up in Madras. She went to her aunt’s house, i.e., Rukku Manni’s house, one afternoon.

Q13. What was the name given by Ravi to the Kitten?
Ans: Ravi named him as Mahendran. Further, he added that the full name was Mahendravarma Pallava Poonai and, in short, M P Poonai.

Q14. Describe briefly the appearance of the music master.
Ans: The music master had a bold head, a fringe of oiled black hair falling around his ears, and an old-fashioned tuft. He wore a gold chain around his neck and also a diamond ring on his hand.

Q15. How did the children manage to give the beggar a chappals?
Ans: The children searched everywhere for a pair of chapplas. Later, Mridu noticed the looking but sturdy old slippers in the verandah. They gave them to the beggar and asked him to lease them at once.

Q16. How was the problem with the chappals solved by Rukku Manni?
Ans: As Rukka Manni came to know, the children gifted those chappals to the beggar. She went inside and brought out Gopu Mama’s hardly worm new chappals and gave them to the music master.

Q17. Character sketch of the music master
Ans: The music master was a bony figure with a bold head and a fringe of oiled black hair falling around his cars. He wore a gold chain around his neck and had a diamond ring on his finger. The music master was sitting in front of Lalli and training her to play the violin. He wore a golden boarded dhoti and beat time on the floor with his toe.

Q18. Why was the beggar unable to walk?
Ans: The beggar let himself rest under the neem tree of Rukka Mannis house, because it was too hot walk on the road,. His feet were already blistered due to his bare feet. So he requested to sit until the heat of the sun down later, the children provided him a pair of chappals.

Q19. The children move by seeing the pathetic state of the needy. What traits should they have, and should they be appreciated or scolded?
Ans: The love of animals, especially for young and dependent ones, is evident in the story as well. But their passion to look after them is often looked down upon by elders. Rather than allowing them to follow their heart, they are instructed to be at a safe distance from them. In juxtaposition of what is preached and practised confuses the young and sensitive minds.

Q20. What was Ravi’s argument for his charity of chappals to the beggar? ‘
Ans: Ravi was upset with the elders because they had always told him to be kind towards animals, but he had to hide milk for a kitten. Rukku Manni had told us about Karan, who would give away everything he had to help others. Ravi tried to help the beggar by giving away the music teacher’s chappals to him, but Rukku Manni still scolded him.

Q21. Ravi was confident and opinionated. Do you agree or not?
Ans: Ravi was an intelligent child. He had good observation skills and possessed a sound knowledge of history. He was playful but had a good sense of humour. He managed to get milk for the kitten in front of Paati’s eyes. He also applied his intelligence and gave the music teacher’s chappals to the beggar. He was kind and generous and remembered the story of Karan, which Rukku Manni had told him.

Q22. What was the source of information about the legacy of cats?
Ans: Ravi felt that his cat was a descendant of the Rishi cat of Mahabalipuram. He claimed that during his class trip to Mahabalipuram, he had seen the statue of a cat there, which he believed was an ancestor of this cat. He felt that the lion in the emblem of the Pallava king was a close relative of his cat.

Q23. Why was Rukkau Manni angry with the children?
Ans: Rukka Manni was very angry with the children as she had learnt about the chappals given to the old beggar that belonged to Lillis's music teacher. She was very much embarrassed in front of the music master and decided to provide him with Gopu Mama’s new and hardly worn pair of chappals. Rukku Mani wanted him to leave the house at once, and after learning, she wondered what she was going to tell Gopu's Mama that winning about his new slippers.

Q24. Children’s world is full of spontaneity and imagination. Elucidate.
Ans: Ravi hid the kitten in a safe place yet was excited to display it to Mridu, the like-minded one. He fed it with his own share of milk without letting Patti know about it. When he donated slippers to a beggar after seeing his blisters, he wanted to give his own. He christened the kitten after relating its ancestors to be from Mahabalipuram Rishi cat. Thus, their world is full of imagination and spontaneity, and they have creative minds.

Q25. What was the beggar’s expectation from the ladies of the household?
Ans: The beggar felt that the ladies of the household were very kind. They have enabled him to survive for a week by giving him food to eat. He called them generous and found it hard to believe that they wanted to send him away.