Class 8 English Chapter 1 Question Answers - It So Happened

Q1: What was not liked by the king about the councilors?
Ans: The king said that they say the same thing in seven different ways. He said that they say pleasing words without having genuine feelings.

Q2: What was the reason behind the delay in the arrival of the bird?
Ans: The bird answered that his father-in-law wanted him to stay for a party.

Q3: What inspires the bird to sing?
Ans: The bird gets his inspiration from trees, the lake, and the green rice growing in the fields.

Q4: What did the king like and dislike about parrots?
Ans: The king liked that parrot speaking ‘God save the king’ and disliked listening when parrots say ‘Pretty Polly’.

Q5: Why did September act upon the advice of her sisters?
Ans: Princess September let her bird visit his relative. Her sisters poisoned her mind by saying that the bird won’t return back to her. So she should cage him once he is back. The advice of her sisters made her insecure, and she put the bird into the cage.

Q6: What thoughts had haunted the mind of the princess when the bird took too long to return?
Ans: The princess thought that something might have happened to him. He might be in trouble because of hawks with snares or he might have forgotten her.

Q7: What was the offer of the eight princesses?
Ans: The eight princesses offered that they would put their pocket money and buy her a lovely green and yellow parrot.

Q8: What happened to the parrot of Princess September?
Ans: The parrot of Princess September was lying dead at the bottom of its golden cage.

Q9: What did the Maids of Honour do to comfort the princess?
Ans: The princess burst into tears at the loss of the parrot. Maids of honour tried to comfort her. Later they informed the queen.

Q10: Why was it difficult to put the happiness of someone you love before your own?
Ans: When we love a thing or person, we want to own it. We look to keep it with us. We don’t want to let it go. When our happiness comes in between the relation and the bond, then only we reconsider our approach. September wanted to keep the bird with her and thus caged it. She was almost on the verge of losing him. Then she set him free, although that made her sad. But happiness increases when we share it with open arms.

Q11: What was the idea that the eight sisters tried to put into September’s mind?
Ans: The eight princesses were jealous that September roamed about with her bird in the palace. They wanted her to put her bird into the cage.

Q12: Why were they named after the months of the years?
Ans: They were named after the months of the year because the queen could not recall their names easily.

Q13: What did the eight princesses conspire about?
Ans: The eight princesses were jealous of September and her bird. The king appreciated the song of the pet parrot. They felt little before the princesses because their parrots could utter only a few words, and those were too taught by them only.

Q14: Why did the bird say ‘What is the joke’?
Ans: The bird said so because September caged the bird whereas he preferred freedom.

Q15: What made September wipe her tears?
Ans: Princess September was crying over the death of her parrot. Then entered a little bird hopping into her room. He sang a beautiful song for her, and that made her wipe her tears.