Class 8 English Chapter 1 Question Answers - It So Happened

Q1: How did the Giant realize that spring has visited his garden?
Ans: One morning, the Giant heard music from outside. It was a little linnet singing outside his window. Hail and the North wind had stopped. He could smell the delicious perfume of flowers, and this filled him with joy for the arrival of spring.

Q2: Why did the Giant say that the ‘children are the most beautiful flowers of all’?
Ans: The Giant had a garden. The children played around him. He liked their games and liveliness. He wanted to be in their company. Although there were beautiful flowers in his garden, he loved the children playing because of their vivid color and enthusiasm towards life.

Q3: ‘It was a lovely scene’. How?
Ans: The Giant was desperately waiting for spring. The smile of the children brought it. The trees were so glad and were gently waving above the children’s heads.

Q4: Who was roaring in the garden and why?
Ans: The North wind was invited by the snow and the frost to stay with them. It was wrapped in furs and it roared all day about the garden.

Q5: Why did the children go to the Giant’s garden?
Ans: The children used to go to the Giant’s garden because it was a large lovely garden with soft grass, beautiful flowers, and peach trees bearing fruits.

Q6: Where do Giant go for seven years?
Ans: The Giant went to visit his friend the Cornish ogre and stayed there for seven years.

Q7: ‘The Giant’s heart melted’. How did he become a changed person?
Ans: Once the Giant looked out and found that children were playing in his garden. By then, he realized that the wall he had built had stopped the entry of children and thus stopped the entry of spring. So, he broke the wall and allowed the children to play.

Q8: Why did the children say ‘How happy we were there’?
Ans: The children could not go to the garden as the Giant had barred their entry. They could go to dusty roads to play, so they were distressed and were missing the garden.

Q9: Why was the Giant angry?
Ans: The Giant was waiting desperately to meet the child for many years, and when he returned, he madly rushed to meet him. But when he saw the marks of nails on the palms and feet, he grew angry.

Q10: Why did not spring enter the Giant’s garden?
Ans: Spring did not enter the Giant's garden because the Giant did not allow the children to play there.

Q11: What did the Giant do to stop the entry of children?
Ans: The Giant built a high wall all around it and put up a notice board. ‘Trespassers will be prosecuted’.

Q12: How did the Giant react to the child?
Ans: The Giant was infused with energy seeing the child again in his garden. He ran downstairs in great joy and hastened across the grass.

Q13: Why did the flower go back into the ground?
Ans: Once a beautiful flower put its head out from the grass, but when it saw the notice-board, it was so sorry for the children that it slipped back into the ground again and went off to sleep.

Q14: Why were the snow and the frost happy?
Ans: The snow and the frost were happy because spring had forgotten the garden, allowing them to stay all year round.

Q15: How did the children enter into the garden?
Ans: The children crept in through a little hole in the wall.