Class 7 English Honeycomb Chapter 7 Question Answers - The Invention of Vita-Wonk

Very Short Answer Type Questions

Ques 1: According to Charlie, what lives the longest?
Ans: According to Charlie, a tree lives the longest.

Ques 2: Bristlecone pine trees live the longest. Whom did Mr Wonka ask Charlie to confirm his fact with?
Ans: Mr Wonka asked Charlie to confirm this fact with a dendrochronologist.

Ques 3: What was unique about the Great Glass Elevator?
Ans: Mr Wonka used to travel across the world in the Great Glass Elevator.

Ques 4: Whose knucklebones were collected by Willy Wonka?
Ans: Mr Willy Wonka collected the knucklebones of a 700-year-old Cattaloo from Peru.

Ques 5: Where did the old flea collected by Mr Wonka live?
Ans: The old flea used to live on Crumpets, that was a 36-year-old cat.

Ques 6: What was special about the Arabian horse?
Ans: The Arabian horse was special because it lived for 51 years, which is much longer than the average lifespan of a normal horse. Mr. Wonka collected his tail as an ingredient for his invention, Vita-Wonk.

Ques 7: Mr Wonka collected whose toe-nail?
Ans: Mr Wonka collected the toe-nail clipping of an 168-year-old Russian farmer called Petrovitch Gregorovitch.

Ques 8: How did Mr Wonka collect all those ancient items?
Ans: Mr Wonka went all across the world in his Great Glass Elevator to collect all those ancient things.

Ques 9: Where did Mr Wonka carry on his experiments?
Ans: Mr Wonka carried on his experiments in his Inventing room.

Ques 10: On whom did Mr Wonka test the oily black liquid?
Ans: Mr Wonka tested the oily black liquid over an Oompa-Loompa volunteer.

Short Answer Type Questions

Ques 2: Name five ancient things collected by Mr Wonka.
Ans:  Mr Wonka collected several fascinating ancient items:

• A pint of sap from a 4000-year-old Bristlecone pine tree.
• Whiskers from a 36-year-old cat named Crumpets.
• An egg laid by a 200-year-old tortoise belonging to the King of Tonga.
• The tail of a 207-year-old rat from Tibet.
• The tail of a 51-year-old horse from Arabia.

Ques 3: What happened to the Oompa-Loompa volunteer after taking the drops of Vita-Wonk?
Ans: After taking drops of Vita-Wonk, the Oompa-Loompa volunteer experienced rapid changes:

• He began to wrinkle and shrivel all over.
• His hair started to fall out.
• Within a short time, he appeared as an old man, around 75 years old.

Long Answer Type Questions

Ques 1: Describe Mr. Wonka.
Ans: Mr Willy Wonka was a strange man. He used to make all strange inventions. He had a subordinate called Charlie. There were Oompa-Loompa volunteers on whom he used to carry out the testing of his inventions.
He had an Inventing Room where he carried out all such mysterious works.
He had earlier invented Wonka-Vite that had made people younger to an extent that their ages had gone into minus and they had become invisible.
He then invented Vita-Wonk after collecting ancient items from across the world, which could help people grow older.

Ques 2: Describe the process of invention of Vita-Wonk.
Ans: Mr Willy Wonka travelled across the globe in his Great Glass Elevator to collect items for Vita-Wonk. He collected samples from some of the oldest living creatures in the world. He mixed these items, boiled and bubbled them several times in his inventing room and then invented a tiny cupful of an oily black liquid. He tested this on a 20-year-old Oompa-Loompa volunteer and within minutes it turned into a 75-year-old creature. This was how Vita-Wonk was discovered.