Class 7 English Honeycomb Chapter 5 Extract Based Question Answers - Quality

Q1: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
But his face and voice made so deep an impression that
during the next few minutes I ordered many pairs. They
lasted longer than ever. And I was not able to go to him
for nearly 2 years.
It was many months before my next visit to his shop.

(i) Name the speaker in the above lines.
Ans: The author of the lesson John Galsworthy is the speaker of the above lines.

(ii) Whom does ‘his’ refers to in the above lines?
Ans: ‘His’ in the above lines refers to Mr Gessler.

(iii) Why his voice and face made such an impact?
Ans: The author was moved after realising the hard times Mr Gessler was going through. The truth about Mr Gessler’s hardship has made such an impact over the author.

(iv) What did the author placed the order for?
(a) Gloves
(b) Boots
(c) Socks
(d) None of these
Ans: (b)

(v) What has caused such reaction from ‘him’?
(a) The author had bought shoes from a big firm
(b) The author’s shoe didn’t last long
(c) The fact that the Mr Gessler was losing on business and was having a difficult time
(d) The author had not visited Mr Gessler’s shop for long
Ans: (c)

(vi) The above lines show that the author was
(a) a kind person
(b) careless about other’s emotions
(c) avoiding going to the shop
(d) a busy man
Ans: (a)

Q2: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
Low starvation, the doctor called it! You see he went to work in such a way! Would keep the shop on; Wouldn’t have a soul touch his boots except himself. When he got an order, it took him such a time. People won’t wait. He lost everybody. And there he’d sit, going on and on. I will say that for him-not a man in London made a better boot. But look at the competition! He never advertised! Would have the best leather too, and do it all himself. Well, there it is. What would you expect with his ideas?”

(i) Who died to starvation?
Ans: The German shoemaker died of starvation.

(ii) Why ‘would not have a soul touch his boots’?
Ans: He wanted to do his job with perfection so he would not have a soul touch his boots except himself.

(iii) What was his best quality?
Ans: His boots were of best leather and were stitched with perfection.

(iv) What has failed him?
Ans: The competition and consumerism has failed him.

(v) What is the meaning of the expression ‘bitter struggle’?
Ans: ‘Bitter struggle’ means a struggle where lots of opposition and criticism is faced.

Q3: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
Once (once only) I went absent-minded into his shop in a pair of boost bought in an emergency at some large firm. He took my order without showing me any leather and I could feel his eyes penetrating the inferior covering of my foot. At last he said, “Dose are nod my hoods.” The tone was not one of anger, nor of sorrow, not even of contempt, but there was in it something quiet that froze the blood. He put his hand down and pressed^’finger on the place where the left boof was not quite comfortable.

(i) Why was the author conscious about?
Ans: The author was conscious about wearing a pair of books bought from large firm.

(ii) Where was the shoe making looking at?
Ans: The shoemaker was looking at the author’s shoes.

(iii) Why did he comment oh the shoes?
Ans: He commented on the shoes as they were of inferior quality.

(iv) How can it be said that he was an expert?
Ans: He touched exactly at uncomfortable place on shoes.

(v) Give antonym of‘inferior’.
Ans: Superior.

Q4: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
I remember well my shy remarks,
1 day, while stretching out to him my youthfull foot. “Isn’t it
awfully hard to do, Mr Gessler?” And his answer
given with a sudden smile from out of the redness of
his beard: “id is an ardt!”

(i) Whom does T refer to in the above lines?
Ans: In the above lines T refers to the author.

(ii) Why is he feeling awkward?
Ans: Mr Gessler was many years elder than him, he felt awkward in stretching his feet before him and allowing him to touch them.

(iii) What is the art Mr Gessler refers to?
Ans: Mr Gessler refers to the art of bootmaking.

(iv) Find a word from the above lines that means ‘introvert’.
(a) Awful
(b) Shy
(c) Redness
(d) Ardt
Ans: (b)

(v) Mr Gessler smiled while replying the question because he
(a) agreed with the speaker
(b) felt proud of his work
(c) was pleased that someone had praised him
(d) None of the above
Ans: (b)

(vi) Find out one word from the that means ‘terrible’.
(a) Shy
(b) Youthfull
(c) Awful
(d) Hard
Ans: (c)

Q5: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
“Dey get id all, “ He said, “dey get id by advertisement, nod by work. Dey take id away from us, who lofe our boods. Id gomes to dis – bresently I haf no work. Every year id gets less. You will see.” And looking at his lined face I saw things I had never noticed before, bitter things and bitter struggle and what a lot of grey hairs there seemed suddenly in his red bread!

(i) What does the expression ‘Dey get id all’ mean?
Ans: It means that the big firms sell their product by advertising.

(ii) Why did not he have any work?
Ans: He did not have any work because most of their customers have turned away.

(iii) What were the sign’s of his struggle?
Ans: The sign of his struggle were the advent of grey hairs in his red beard.

(iv) Explain ‘Every year id gets less’.
Ans: It means that every year their business was going down.

(v) Change ‘advertisement into verb.
Ans: Advertise.

Q6: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
Without a word he would leave me retiring whence he came, or into the other portion of the shop, and I would continue to rest in the wooden chair inhaling the incense of his trade. Soon he would come back, holding in his hand a piece of gold-brown leather. With eyes fixed on it he would remark, “What a beautiful biece!” When I too hard admired it, he would speak again. “When do you wand dem?” And I would answer, “Oh! As soon as you conveniently can.” And he would say, “Tomorrow fordnight?” Or if he were his elder brother: “I will ask my brudder.”

(i) Why was the narrator inhaling ‘the incense’?
Ans: When the narrator has to wait for him, he was inhaling the foul smell in the shop.

(ii) What ‘was a beautiful piece’ for the German shoemaker?
Ans: The beautiful piece was a piece of gold- brown leather.

(iii) What would have been reply of his brother?
Ans: He would have replied ‘I will ask my brudder’.

(iv) What was the accent of shoemaker and his brother?
Ans: The shoemaker and his brother were having German accent.

(v) Give the meaning of ‘whence’.
Ans: ‘From what or which place’.