Extract Based Questions: The Invention of Vita-Wonk

Q1: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
Let me just say quickly that in the end, after lots of boiling and bubbling and mixing and testing in my inventing Room, I produced one tiny cupful of oily black liquid and gave four drops of it to a brave twenty-year-old Oompa-Loompa volunteer to see what happened." "What did happen?" Charlie asked. "It was fantastic!" Cried Mr Wonka. "The moment he swallowed it, he began wrinkling and shrivelling up all over and his hair started dropping off and his teeth started falling out and, before I knew it, he had suddenly become an old fellow of seventy-five! And thus, my dear Charlie, was Vita-Wonk invented!"

(i) What did Mr. Wonka tell Charlie in the end?
Ans: Mr. Wonka told Charlie that he boiled, mixed and tested black liquid.

(ii) Who had volunteered to take the medicine?
Ans: A twenty years old Oompa - Loompa volunteered to take the medicine.

(iii) What did happen to the volunteer?
Ans: The volunteer grew older to the age of seventy five. Wrinkles appeared on his face.

(iv) What signs of ageing appeared on him?
Ans: The volunteer began wrinkling; shrivelling up his hair and his teeth began to fall.

(v) Give the meaning of 'shriveling up'.
Ans: To contract.

Q2: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
"All over the world, Charlie," Mr Wonka went on
"I tracked down very old and ancient animals and
took an important little bit of something from each
one of them-a hair or an eyebrow or sometimes it
was no more than an ounce or two of the jam scraped
from between its toes while it was sleeping. I tracked
down the whistle-pig, the Bobolink, the skrock, the
Pollyfrog, the Giant Curlicue, the Stinging Slug and
the Venomous Squerkle who can spit poison right
into your eye from fifty yards away. But there's no
time to tell you about them all now, Charlie.

(i) What is the quality of venomous squerkle that has been talked about in the passage?
Ans: A venomous squerkle can spit poison right into on eye from 50 yards away.

(ii) What does Mr Wonka say that he has no time to tell about? To whom does he say this?
Ans: Mr Wonka tells Charlie that he had observed and studied many of very old and ancient animals and collected some parts of their bodies. But he didn't have time to tell in detail about his expedition.

(iii) How did he produce his magic liquid?
Ans: He took some body parts of all very old animals and boiled them together. This is how he produced the magic liquid.

(iv) Where did Mr Wonka take the jam from?
(a) From the stings of venomous curlicue
(b) From the paws of whistle pig
(c) From between the toes of an animal when it was sleeping
(d) From the mouth of the animals when they were awaken.
Ans: (c) From the between the toes of an animal when it was sleeping

(v) Which parts of the animal body did Mr Wonka collect?
(a) Toes and fingers
(b)Tongue or sting
(c) A hair or an eyebrow
(d) An eye or an ear
Ans: (b)

(vi) Which of the following animals has not been mentioned by Mr Wonka?
(a) Giant curlicue
(b) A blue whale
(c) The bobolink
(d)The stinging slug
Ans: (b)

Q3: Mr. Wonka said, " So once again I rolled my sleeves and set to work. Once again I squeezed my brain, searching for the new recipe... I had to create age... to make people old... old, older, oldest... 'Ha-ha!' I cried for now the ideas were beginning to come. "What is the oldest living thing in the world? What lives longer .then everything else?'

(i) Who is I in the above line?
Ans: T is Mr. Wonka in the above lines.

(ii) Whom is he talking to?
Ans: He was talking to Charlie.

(iii) Why did he roll up his sleeves?
Ans: Mr. Wonka rolled up his sleeves in search for new recipe.

(iv) What was he looking out for?
Ans: He was looking out for the oldest living things in the world.

(v) Write three degree of adjective's (old) from the passage.
Ans: old-older-oldest.

Q4: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
"So once again I rolled up my sleeves and set to
work. Once again I squeezed my brain, searching
for the new recipe I had to create age... to make
people old....old...older, oldest..."Ha-ha!' I cried for
now the ideas were beginning to come. 'What is the
oldest living thing in the world? What lives longer
than anything else?"

(i) Name the speaker in the above lines.
Ans: Mr Willy Wonka is the speaker in the above lines.

(ii) Who is he talking to?
Ans: He is talking to Charlie.

(iii) Why he needs to work?
Ans: He needs to invent a new drug that could help people grow older and alter the changes done by Wonka-Vite.

(iv) What is the new recipe he is searching for?
(a) Recipe for Wonka-Vite
(b) Recipe for Vita-Wonk
(c) Recipe for chocolates
(d) None of the above
Ans: (b)

(v) What is the oldest living thing in the world?
(a) Cedar
(b) Oak
(c) Bristlecone Pine
(d) Fir
Ans: (c)

(vi) What lives longer than anything else?
(a) Cattaloo
(b) Crumpets
(c) Petrovitch Gregorovitch
(d) Trees
Ans: (d)