Class 7 English An Alien Hand Question Answers - An Alien Hand

1. “He did the same... and the door opened noiselessly. A well-lit passage seemed to beckon him.” What do these lines refer to?
Ans: These lines imply the situation where Tilloo stole his father’s security card to the forbidden passage. Tilloo snuck past his father's nose and his mother's careful gaze to the metal door, slid the magic card into a slot, and the door slid open.

2. How did Tilloo return home?
Ans: After Tilloo stepped into the other side of the door; he marched his way to the upward slope that was moving to the surface of the planet. Tilloo thought of looking at the sun and stars but it couldn’t occur as he was detected and photographed as a small intruder and he was escorted back to his house by the security staff.

3. How did Tilloo’s father react when he found out about Tilloo evading?
Ans: Tilloo’s father behaves calmly. He informed his wife that he would speak to Tilloo. He thought that if he knows things about Tilloo briefly then he will not repeat anything like this. And then he started to explain.

4. What did his father tell him?
Ans: Tilloo’s father informed him that he is working on a surface and an ordinary person cannot live there, only those who carry an extraordinary suit and are trained can survive in such thin mid-air and low temperature. He told Tilloo that he has been trained to endure and work in such an atmosphere.

5. What does Tilloo’s father tell him about their forefathers?
Ans: Tilloo’s father told him that there was a time when their forefather survived in such an atmosphere naturally, without wearing any special suits or carrying equipment. They lived on the surface for millions of years. But over time, situations changed and the sun turned hostile and the balance of nature on the planet was disturbed.

6. What was the primary objective of the Viking Mission?
Ans: The primary objective of the Viking Mission was to capture images and samples of the surface and soil of Mars and look for any possible signs of life.

7. Where was Tilloo curious to go?
Ans: Tilloo was interested in going to an underground passage through which his father went each day to work and came back from the same passage.

8. Who all wanted to know about what lay at the end of the route?
Ans: Tilloo along with other individuals from the community or the colony needed to find out what lay at the end of the forbidden route.

9. What was Tilloo’s father doing when he stole his father’s card?
Ans: It was a holiday for Tilloo’s father and he was enjoying a siesta at home.

10. How Tilloo convinced his mother to go to the passage?
Ans: Tilloo did not try to persuade his mother to go to the passage. He evaded his mother’s attentive eyes.