Short and Long Question Answer: Dad and the Cat and the Tree | Short & Long Answer Questions for Class 7 PDF Download

Q1. What happened to the cat?
Ans: The cat climbed the tree and unfortunately got stuck into the tree . The tree was very unstable and tall . He can’t get down without any help.

Q2. What did Mum say and why?
Ans: Mum said to dad to be careful while climbing the tree. She said because Dad was to confident about himself and this made Mum very tensed.

Q3. What were the narrator’s father plan to try to climb the tree?
Ans: The narrator’s father planned to climb the tree thrice with plan A, B, and C.

Q4. What was the plan A?
Ans: In ‘plan A’ father brought a ladder to climb the tree.

Q5. How was the plan C foiled?
Ans: Plan C was foiled because father himself got stuck in the crook of the tree trunk.

Q6. Who finally saved the cat?
Ans: The cat itself jumped off the tree.

Q7. Which phrase in the poem expresses Dad’s self-confidence best?
Ans: The phrase in the poem expresses Dad’s self-confidence best is ‘Childs play, this is!’

Q8. Plan C was a success. What went wrong then?
Ans: Even through Plan C was a success, it did not work out as planned. The moment the father reached the tree top, the cat jumped and touched the ground and was again out of father’s reach.

Q9. Describe the cat and Dad’s situation in the beginning and at the deft of the poem.
Ans: At the onset, the cat was stuck on the tree and father was confident to be able to drive it away. By the time the poem ended, the cat was free and the father got stuck in the tree.

Q10. Who tried to help the cat? Was he successful in doing that?
Ans: Dad tried to help the cat in different way. No, he was not able to help the cat.

Q11. Was Dad really a good climber?
Ans: No, he wasn’t a really good in climbing tree because he fell down on the ground many times while helping to get down the cat from the tree.

Q12. Where was the ladder kept?
Ans: The narrator’s father got the ladder from the garden shed.

Q13. Was the plan B successful?
Ans: No, the plan B was not successful when father swung himself on a branch, the branch broke.

Q14. Why did the narrator’s father dismissed his wife’s warnings every single time.
Ans: When his wife warned him the first time, father was really astonished. He thought how a good climber like him could fall. The second time his wife warned him, he laughed at her finding her warning to be a funny joke.

Q15. Why was Dad sure he wouldn’t fall?
Ans: Dad was sure he wouldn’t fall because he thought himself as a climber and climbing on trees was a child’s play for him.

Q16. Describe Plan A and its consequences?
Ans: According to Plan A, father would have reached the treetop with the help of the ladder. However, the ladder slipped and father fell on the ground.

Q17. The cat was very happy to be on the ground. Pick out the phrase used to express this idea.
Ans: The phrase used to express this idea is ‘pleased as punch to be’.

Q18. What was his plan A and B?
Ans: Dad thought a ladder from their garden shed. As he climbed, it slipped and landed in the flower bed. Thus it failed to climb. Secondly he tried to climb the branch of the tree and unfortunately he fell down again. Therefore both the plan A and B failed.

Q19. Why and when did Dad say each of the following?
(i) fall?
(ii) never mind
(iii) funny joke
(iv) rubbish
Ans: (i) Dad said ‘fall?’ when Mum warned him about fall while climbing the tree. He said so scornfully.
(ii) Having fallen to the ground, the father did not give up and brushing the dirt from his hair and clothes said, “never mind”.
(iii) Dad said “funny joke” when mum warned him of falling again. He said so because he was over confident of the success of the his Plan B.
(iv) After the second fall. When his wife intervened saying that he might break his neck, he again dismissed her concern by saying “rubbish”.

Q20. What was the result at the end of the poem?
Ans: As the former plans failed by Dad, he tried his next plan to climb the tree and help the cat. He climbed up high on the wall of the garden and fortunately succeeded on that. Later as he stepped in the crook of the tree trunk near the cat, the cat yelled loudly and directly fell on the ground without any harm. Eventually, Dad got stuck up the tree and was unable to get down from the tree.

Q21. Do you find the poem humorous? Read aloud lines which make you laugh.
Ans: Yes, the poem is humorous. It draws funny situation of Dad while climbing trees. Moreover, Dad over-confidence of climbing tree added more humour to the poem. The dialogue is written in more funny way.