Very Short and Short Answers - Chapter - 1, Three Men in a Boat | English Class 9 PDF Download

Very Short Answer Type Question

Q.1.What will you do If you suffer from a headache?
Ans.  I’ll take a painkiller.

Q.2.Do you like to go out for a picnic?
Ans. Yes/ no.

Q.3.What can keep you healthy?
Ans. A long walk daily can keep us healthy.

Q.4.When should one get up In the morning?
Ans. One should get up early

Q.5. Do you know how to swim?
Ans. No

Short Answer Type Question

Q.1. What did the three friends—George, Harris, and the narrator—think about their illness?
Ans: George and Harris thought that they suffered from fits of giddiness. But the narrator was sure that he suffered from the ailment of liver. He was certain because he thought, after reading a patent liver pill circular, that he had the same symptoms of the ailment as described in it.

Q.2. What did the narrator come to know after reading a medical dictionary In the British Museum?
Ans: After reading about every disease alphabetically in the medical dictionary he came to know that he suffered from every disease mentioned in it except the disease called the housemaid’s knee (arthritis).

Q.3. What were the medicines that the doctor prescribed the narrator?
Ans. The medicines prescribed were: ‘One pound beefsteak, with one pint bitter  beer every six hours, a ten-mile walk every morning, and sleep at eleven sharp every night.’

Q.4. What conclusion did the friends arrive at about their ailments?
Ans. The friends Concluded that the remedy for their ailments Was ‘rest’ and a holiday. They thought that they should seek out Some old-world spot far away from the crowd.

Q.5. What did George suggest? Who disagreed with the suggestion?
Ans. George suggested that they should take a boat trip along the river. Montmorency the dog, disagreed with the suggestion.

Q.6. In What way author’s illness different from his friend’s?
 Ans. The author actually suffers from a disease called ‘hypochondria’ whereas his friends suffer from strange attacks of giddiness.

Q.7. Why did the writer believe that he had all the diseases?
 Ans. A man suffering from hypochondria imagines that he has all diseases of the world and the writer suffers from ‘hypochondria’.

Q.8. What did the three friends eat for supper and how was it funny?

Ans. They ate a little steak, onions, and some rhubarb tart. Having fancied of illness, they took no interest in their food for half an hour. It was an unusual thing for the writer. It is quite funny that they are not ill, still avoid eating rather enjoy drinking and smoking.

Q.9. How did the writer’s family cure him from his supposed liver problem?

Ans. They striked him with clumps on his head and he felt cured of his liver problem. The incident also happened in the past with him.

Q.10. What surprised the two friends when George gave a suggestion?

Ans. George was a lazy person. He comes up with the find suggestion of taking a boat trip. His two friends were surprised, as they thought he was not capable of making such a sensible suggestion.