Short and Long Question Answer: Garden Snake | Short & Long Answer Questions for Class 7 PDF Download

Q1. Where did the poet see the snake?
Ans: The poet saw the snake in the garden.

Q2. How long does it take for a grub to become a complete ant?
Ans: It takes five to six weeks for a grub to become a complete ant.

Q3. What jobs are new ants trained for?
Ans: The new ants are trained as workers, soldiers, builders, cleaners, etc.

Q4. Which is the wisest insect?
Ans: Ant is the wisest insect.

Q5. How do ants communicate with other ants?
Ans: Ants use its feelers or antennae to talk to other ants.

Q6. How do soldiers and workers live in anthills.
Ans: Soldiers and workers ants live cordially.

Q7. How do workers take care of eggs before they hatch?
Ans: Workers feed and clean eggs. They also carry them almost daily for airing, exercise and sunshine.

Q8. What did the mother say about snakes?
Ans: The poet’s mother said that every snake is not harmful.

Q9. Find the world that refers to the snake’s movements in the grass.
Ans: Wiggle

Q10. A snake has no legs or feet, but it moves very fast. Can you guess how? Discuss in the group.
Ans: A snake has no legs or feet. It wiggles on the surface.

Q11. In what ways is an ant’s life peaceful?
Ans: The ants live in peace because each one does its share of work honestly, wisely and bravely. They don’t interfere in the work given to others. They never fight in their group.

Q12. Why do the worker ants carry the grubs about?
Ans: The grubs are carried about daily for airing, exercise and sunshine.

Q13. Name some other creatures that live in anthills?
Ans: Some other creatures that live in anthills are beetles, lesser breeds of ants and the greenfly.

Q14. What facts are revealed in the lesson?
Ans: A number of facts that are revealed that ants are a hard-working and intelligent creature.

Q15. Where do the ants live?
Ans: The ants live in comfortable homes called nests or anthills.

Q16. What is the life span of a queen?
Ans: The queen lives for about fifteen years.

Q17. Why did the narrator run away when he saw the garden snake?
Ans: The narrator thought the snake to be dangerous and he ran away.

Q18. What does a garden snake eat?
Ans: A garden snake survives on insects.

Q19. There are four pairs of rhyming words in the poem. Say them aloud.
Ans: Good, food
Pass, grass
Away, say
Mistake, snake.

Q20. Mention three things we can learn from the ‘tiny teacher’. Give reasons for choosing these items.
Ans: We can learn team work from ants as they do their work by sharing and contributing without interference in other’s work. We can learn hard work as ants spend most of their time in doing their respective jobs without hesitation. We can learn discipline as ants live a disciplined life and always follow the rules of their group and are loyal towards it.

Q21. What was the opinion of his mother regarding snake?
Ans: She said to the poet that there are some snakes who are not harmful, for example, garden snake. They are kind too and only eat insects in the garden.

Q22. What did the poet learn about snakes?
Ans: However, on being told by his mother that the particular snake is not dangerous, the child becomes comfortable the next time he encounters the garden snake.

Q23. What qualities of an ant do you wish to inculcate and why?
Ans: No wonder, ants are the tiniest insect around us out it can teach us to fead coordinated and systematic strategy for community living. Ants are social insects that live in a community of co-existence where every member plays its role in perfection without fuss. So I will try to inculcate the behaviour of ants.

Q24. Can you recall the word used for a cobra’s long sharp teeth? Where did you come across this word first?
Ans: Cobra’s long sharp teeth are like two bows or forks that are ready to chase you down. It makes me frightened, they are called fangs which is hollow tube attached to a poisonous gland on one side. I came across these words as it looks very dangerous and sharp like knife.

Q25. How did the poet describe the garden snake?
Ans: According to the poet, all snakes are dangerous therefore, he was very much scared of them and runs away. However, his fear regarding snakes vanished as his mother said not all snake s are dangerous , some are harmless too. Thus, he watch a snake wiggling in the garden.

Q26. “I saw a snake and ran away
Some snakes are dangerous, they say”. –
Explain.
Ans: The poet, Muriel L. Sonne in the poem “Garden snake” describes the fear regarding a snake whenever he see any snake in the garden , he runs away as he thinks that snakes are meant to be dangerous and harmful too.

Q27. ‘Perhaps they have, but they have not put their learning to good use’. What qualities should be adopted from Ants?
Ans: The ants are one of the smallest creatures yet they can add a lot to humanity. Human beings can learn hard work, dutifulness, discipline. By loving and taking care of the young ones and loyalty towards land can help individually and society at large.

Q28. Answer the following questions.
(i) Pick out the line that suggests that the child is afraid of snakes.
(ii) Which line shows a complete change of the child’s attitude towards snake? Read it aloud.
(iii) “But mother says that kind is good ” What is mother referring to?
Ans: (i) The line that suggests that the child is afraid of snakes is ‘i saw a snake and run away…”
(ii) ‘I’ll stand aside and watch him pass,
And tell myself. “There’s no mistake,
It’s just a harmless garden snake!”
(iii) The mother is referring to the harmless garden snake.