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

Q1. Who is the poet of the poem “Chivvy”?
Ans: Michael Rosen.

Q2. Why do the adults instruct their child?
Ans: The adults instruct their child to learn good manners.

Q3. “Don’t talk with your mouth full”— what does the line mean?
Ans: This line presented by the grownups delivering to the children. They said not to talk while eating a food to the young ones because it shows a bad manner.

Q4. “Say thank you” – who says this line and why?
Ans: This is said by the grownups to their children. They said to than ones who gifts or helps other and it represents a good manner.

Q5. What all instructions are given by the adults regarding noise?
Ans: The adults tell the children not to make much noise, neither while talking nor while eating or walking.

Q6. “Sit up”, “Say please”, “say thank you”, etc who says this and to whom?
Ans: The young ones hate to be dominated by the adults.

Q7. When do the grownups say to speak up to the children?
Ans: When the children do not walk to talk.

Q8. Why does it annoy the young ones to be dominated?
Ans: As the children are treated to learn good manners, but they do not want to be dominated by their elders, their annoys them the most.

Q9. Why do the grown-ups tell the children not to talk with their mouthful?
Ans: The grown-ups tell the children not to talk with their mouthful of food because it can choke the throat secondly it is considered as a bad social manner.

Q10. Why do you think adult keep on instructing always?
Ans: The adults keep on instructing always to make their children well acquainted with social manners. Habits can only inculcated in young age.

Q11. What is the consequences when the children are instructed to do?
Ans: When the children are dominated and forced to listen what the elder mean, they lack respect and get annoyed with the elder. The instructions would make the children dependent on their parents for the rest of their lives. Dominating the young ones may also regard as harmful for them in future.

Q12. Discuss these questions in small groups before you answer them.
(i) When is a grown-up likely to say this?
Don’t talk with your mouth full.
(ii) When are you likely to be told this?
Say thank you.
(iii) When do you think an adult would say this?
No one thinks you are funny.
Ans: (i) A grown up is likely to say so when the child is talking in the middle of a meal.
(ii) A child is likely to be told so when somebody has given him a gift or offered him something to eat.
(iii) An adult would say so when the child has done some mischief and is finding it funny and hence, annoying everybody else.

Q13. Why do you think grown-ups say the kind of things mentioned in the poem? Is it important that they teach children good manners, and how to behave in public?
Ans: He grown-ups say such kind of things to their children in order to teach them good manners. They want their children to be a responsible citizen and behave good in public. Yes, it is important to teach the children all these things so that they learn good manners and how to behave in the society, at home and with their elders and youngsters. Our elders are our teachers and we can learn a lot from their experience.

Q14. What is the negative impact of adults too much interference?
Ans: When the adult give too many instructions to their children, they kill their children’s spontaneity and willingness to use his/ her mind to understand life. These instructions rob away their innocence, making them dependent on their elders.

Q15. The last two lines of the poem are not prohibitions or instructions. What is the adult now asking the child to do? Do you think the poet is suggesting that this is unreasonable? Why?
Ans: The adult is now asking the child to think independently. The poet finds this entirely unreasonable * because the young child has not been trained to use his mind. He has only been trained to follow the instructions given by the adults.