Extract Based Questions: Three Questions | English Honeycomb Class 7 PDF Download

Q1: “You do not know me, but I know you. I am that enemy of yours who swore revenge on you, because you put my brother to death and seized my property. I knew you had gone alone to see that hermit, and I made up my mind to kill you on your way home. But the day passed and you did not return. So I left my hiding-place, and I came upon your bodyguard, who recognised me and wounded me. I escaped from him but I should have died if you had not dressed my wounds. I wished to kill you, and you have saved my life. Now, if I live, I will serve you as your most faithful servant and will order my sons to do the same. Forgive me!”
(i) Why did he call the Jing his‘enemy’?
Ans: Write past participle of ‘forgive’.

(ii) Where did he decide to kill the king?
Ans: The king was his enemy as he killed his brother and seized his property. He decided to kill the king on his way back home.

(iii) Why did he come out of his hiding place?
Ans: He waited for long but the king did not come out of the hermit’s hut. So when he in his desperation came out of his hiding place.

(iv) What did body guards do when they recognized him?
Ans: The bodyguards attacked him and wounded him.

Q2: The hertnit lived in a wood which he never left. He saw no one but simple people, and so the king put on ordinary clothes. Before he reached the hermit’s hut the king left his horse with his bodyguard, and went on alone. As the king came near the hermit’s hut, he saw the hermit digging the ground in front of his hut. He greeted the king and continued digging. The hermit was old and weak, and as he worked, he breathed heavily.
(i) Where did the hermit live?
Ans: The hermit lived in a jungle.

(ii) Why did the king choose to wear ordinary clothes?
Ans: The hermit saw simple people only, so the king put on simple clothes to visit him.

(iii) What was the hermit doing when the king visit him?
Ans: The hermit was digging the ground in front of his hut when the king visited him.

(iv) Why was he breathing heavily?
Ans: He was breathing heavily while digging the grounds, because he was old and weak.

(v) Convert the adjective for “heavy’ into adverb.
Ans: Heavily.

Q3: The king turned round and saw a bearded man running towards them. His hands were pressed against his stomach, from which blood was flowing. When he reached the king he fainted and fell to the ground. The king and the hermit removed the man’s clothing and found a large wound in his stomach. The king washed and covered it with his handkerchief, but the blood would not stop flowing. The king re-dressed the wound until at last the bleeding stopped.

(i) Whom did the king see when he turned around?
Ans: The king saw a bearded man running toward him.

(ii) What happened to the man?
Ans: The man was injured and when he reached the king, he fainted.

(iii) What did the king do to stop blood flowing?
Ans: The king washed the wound and covered it with his handkerchief.

(iv) Had the efforts of the king to stop blood paid off?
Ans: Yes, the efforts of the king had paid off. The king dressed his wound until the bleeding stopped.

(v) Who is a ‘Hermit’?
Ans: Hermit is a person who lives in solitude.

Q4: In reply to the first question, some said the king must prepare a timetable, and then follow it strictly. Only in this way, they said, could he do everything at its proper time. Others said that it was impossible to decide in advance the right time for doing something. The king should notice all that was going on, avoid foolish pleasures, and always do whatever seemed necessary at that time. Yet others said that the king needed a council of wise men who would help him act at the proper time. This was because one man would find it impossible to decide correctly, without help from others, the right time for every action.

(i) What was the advice of people on making timetable?
Ans: They advised him to prepare timetable to complete everything on time.

(ii) What was the reason of opposing the timetable?
Ans: A few people opposed it because they felt that it was impossible to decide in advance for doing something;

(iii) In their opinion, what the king should do?
Ans: The king should avoid pleasure and always be vigilante.

(iv) How would the council of wise men be help to the king?
Ans: The council of wise men would give advice to the king to decide correctly for every action.

(v) What is a ‘council’?
Ans: It is a group of people chosen to give advice.