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

Q1: What was the first invention of Mr Wonka? What was its result?
Ans: Mr Wonka’s first invention was Wonka-Vite. He invented that medicine to make people younger. Instead, Wonka-Vite was not appropriate for consumption. It was too strong and many side effects began to appear among people.  It was so strong that some people disappeared as their age became worse. A person turned minus eighty-seven years old, which means he had to wait eighty-seven years before he could come back into existence.

Q2: Give a character sketch of Mr Wonka.
Ans: Mr Willy Wonka was a strange man. He made all the strange inventions. He had an assistant, Charlie. There were volunteers, Oompa-Loompa, on whom he tested his inventions. Mr Wonka also had an inventing room in which he performed all his experiments and the mysterious work. Once, he had invented a tonic called Wonka-Vite which made people younger but soon it started having side effects so he had to make a tonic that would reverse the effect of Wonka-Vite. So, he invents Vita-Wonk, a tonic made from all the ancient things he had collected to make people grow older.

Q3: Write the moral of the story “The Invention of Vita Wonk.”
Ans: The moral conclusion of the story “The Invention of Vita Wonk '' is that humans should not interfere with the natural processes of life. God has created us in the most perfect way he could. When we play with it as Mr Wonka did, we may suffer consequences. When he made the first tonic to make people younger, it had side effects and people went invisible. So, to reverse it he makes another tonic to make people older, but when he tested it on his volunteers, he saw that his volunteer had turned very old in the blink of an eye. Therefore, we shouldn’t play with nature or beauty as perfection lies in imperfections.

Q4: What were the things collected by Mr Wonka while travelling from the Great Glass Elevator?
Ans: Mr Wonka collected the diverse items while travelling from the Great Glass Elevator. He collected a pint of sap collected from a Bristlecone pine tree, that was about four thousand years old, an egg laid by a 200-year-old tortoise that belonged to the king of Tonga. He also gathered the toe-nail clipping is from a 168-year-old Petrovitch Gregorovitch, a Russian farmer. His collection also included the whiskers of a 36-year-old cat called Crumpets and also an old flea that lived on Crumpets, the tail of a 51-year-old horse in Arabia and the tail of a 207-year-old giant Rat from Tibet. In his possession, he had the black teeth gathered from a 97-year-old Grimalkin who lived in a cave on mount Popocatepetl as well as the knucklebones of a 700-year-old Cattaloo from Peru.

Q5: What is the poem “Dad and the Cat and the Tree” about?
Ans: The poem “Dad and the Cat and the Tree” is about a man who climbs up the tree to save a cat. One morning, the narrator’s dad sees that a cat got stuck in the tree, so he decides to climb up and save it. He is continuously being warned by his wife, the narrator’s mother, that he might fall, but he ignores it. The father climbs up again and again but fails, and when he made the final chance, he climbed it up easily, but the cat sprung on the ground, and the father got stuck on the tree.

Q6: How does the Roald Dahl story to infuse the creativity increase the power of imagination in the children?
Ans: The children are a powerhouse of imagination and creativity. The story boosts the spirit and it gives wings to the imagination of the children. Roald Dahe has a humorous and creative writing style that suits to the delicate mind of children. The language, description of characters is simple. Yet bombastic words used in the lesson helps cognitive development of child.

Q7: (i) What trees does Mr Wonka mention? Which trees does he say lives the longest?
(ii) How long does this tree live? Where can you find it?
Ans: (i) Mr Wonka mentions fir, Oak, cedar and Bristlecone Pine trees lives the longest.
(ii) Bristlecone Pine lives for over 4000 years and one can find them upon the slopes of wheeler peak in Nevada, USA.

Q8: Why the impact of inventions and discoveries need to be regulated?
Ans: Life is an ongoing process with development and growth. Various invention and discoveries benefitted humanity and nature: Yet a few were disastrous. Human mind is highly creative but its energy should be used in doing general good for everybody. The medicine for making young did no good to Mr. Wonka, so he prepared antidote named. Wonka – Vite. Nature needs to be balanced. Service to nature should be aimed at with every research/invention.

Q9: What was special about the Arabian horse? Mr. Wonka collected whose tow-nail?
Ans: The Arabian horse lived for 5 years which is quite unusual for any normal horse. Mr. Wonka collected the toenail clipping of a 168 years old Russian farmer called Petrovitch Gregorovitch.

Q10: What were the ancient things that Mr. Wonka collected?
Ans: Mr. Wonka had collected five ancient things. Mr. Wonka collected a pint of sap from a 4000 years old Bristlecone pine tree, whiskers of a 36 years old cat called Crumpets, an egg laid by a 200 years old tortoise that belonged to the king of Tonga. He also collected tail of 207 years old rat from Tibet and tail of 51 years old horse in Arabia.

Q11: How has the of invention of Vita-Wonk progressed?
Ans: Willy Wonka took much pain. He travelled across he 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 one tiny cupful of an oily black liquid. He tested this on a 20 years old Oompa – Loompa volunteer and within minutes he turned into a 75 years old creature. This was how Vita-Wonk was discovered.

Q12: What happened when Oompa –Loompa Swallowed the oily black liquid?
Ans: The medicine produced by Mr. Wonka was like oily black liquid torture. As he poured four drops of it to Oompa-Loompa, he started wrinkling and shriveling up and his hair started falling off, also his teeth. Thus, he was turned to an old fellow of seventy five years who was twenty years before experimenting. However, Mr. Wonka was successful in his new invention called Vita-Wonk.

Q13: What happens to the volunteer who swallows four drops of the new invention? What is the name of the invention?
Ans: The moment the brave twenty years old Oompa-Loompa volunteer swallowed four drops of the new invention, he began wrinkling and shriveling up all over. His hair started dropping off and his teeth started falling out. Before Mr Wonka knew it, the volunteer had suddenly become an old man of seventy five. The name of the invention was Vita-work.

Q14: What was the need for Mr. Wonka to invent Vita – Wonk?
Ans: It Vita – Wonk after taking many people have grown younger to an extent that their ages have gone in minus. All such people have disappeared and will be back only after they spend all those minus years being invisible. To counter these changes Mr. Wonka decided to invent a new drug to help people to grow older.

Q15: What changes in the appearance of Oompa – Loompa volunteer after taking the drops of Vita – Wonk?
Ans: The obvious changes of again appeared on Oompa-Loompa. After taking drops of Vita-Wonk the Oompa-Loompa volunteer began to wrinkle and shrivel its hair started falling. Within no while the changes were visible and become an old man who looked around 75 years old.

Q16: Write any three collections of oldest living things mentioned by Mr. Wonka?
Ans: (i) Firstly, The Toe nail clipping of a Russian farmer named Petrovitch Gregorovitch. The Toe all is almost 168 years old.
(ii) The tail of a giant rat that was found from Tibet the Tail is 207 years old.
(iii) The black teeth of Grimalkin, who lived in a cave on Mount Popocatepetl that was 97 years old.