The Squirrel Class 7 Worksheet English Honeycomb Chapter 1

Q.1. The squirrel wore
(a) a smile
(b) a tail
(c) a coat
(d) a wig

Correct option is (c)
a coat

Q.2. What would the squirrel do if the poet ran around his tree?
(a) Hide behind another tree
(b) Run along with him
(c) Climb up tree
(d) Run the other way

Correct option is (d)
The poet stated in the poem that if he along with others would run around the squirrel's tree, he would instead go the other way as he liked to tease and play.

Q.3. Why does the poet say the squirrel wore a question mark for a tail?

The poet says so because the bushy tail of a squirrel sitting on the ground is curled back on its body in a curved shape that looks very similar to the question mark at the end of an interrogative sentence. I would describe it as a furry and bushy cloth worn on its back that seems to ask you the question - what?

Q.4. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
He liked to tease and play
And if we ran around his tree
He went the other way.
(i) Name the poem and the poet.
(ii) Who does ‘we’ refer to?
(iii) When does the squirrel run away?
(iv) Give the quality revealed of the squirrel.

(i) ‘The Squirrel’ by Mildred Bowers Armstrong.
(ii) ‘We’ refers to the people who are chasing the squirrel.
(iii) The squirrel runs away when the people chase them round the tree.
(iv) This reveals the fun-loving and playful nature of the squirrel.

Q.5. When the squirrel raises the tail
(a) its tip keeps pointing down
(b) it looks strange
(c) it is never perpendicular
(d) it sends a caution to others

Correct option is (a)
its tip keeps pointing down

Q.6. Who is the poet of the poem The Squirrel?
(a) Frank Flynn
(b) Michael Rosen
(c) Mildred Bowers Armstrong
(d) Kazi Nazrul Islam

Correct option is (c)
The poem has been penned by the well-known children's book author of the 1950s Mildred Bowers Armstrong.

Q.7. The poetic device used, In the tail was like a question mark, is:
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) personification
(d) rhyme

Correct option is (a)
The poetic device used in the line is a simile. (A simile is nothing but a comparison between two very different objects. While comparing we need to use comparative words:  like, as etc.)

Q.8. What is being compared to a grey overcoat? Write your answer in the context of The Squirrel.

The squirrel’s body is being compared to a gray overcoat.