(1) What does kalam's father say about the relevance of prayer?
Ans: Kalam's father says that prayer makes a possible communion of the spirit between people.
(2) Describe the ancestral house of Kalam.
Answer: Kalam's ancestral house built in the middle of the 19th century was a fairly large pucca house made of limestone and brick, on the Mosque street in Rameshwaram.
(3) Where did Kalam sit to eat?
Answer: Kalam normally sat on the floor on the kitchen to eat with his mother.
(4) Where did Kalam’s father go to collect coconuts?
Answer: Kalam’s father went to their coconut grove to collect coconuts.
(5) Who waited for Kalam’s father outside the mosque after the evening prayer?
Answer: People of different religions waited for Kalam’s father outside the mosque after the evening prayer.
(6) Who took Kalam for the evening prayer?
Answer: Kalam’s father took Kalam to the mosque for the evening prayer.
(7) Who got the title of ‘Bahadur’ from the British?
Answer: One of the forebears of Abdul Kalam’s mother got the title of ‘Bahadur’ from the British.
(8) Name a distinguished friend of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s father.
Answer: The name of the distinguished friend of Kalam’s father was Pakshi Lakshmana Shastri.
(9) Who was bestowed the title of 'Bahadur' in 'Strong Roots'?
Answer: In 'Strong Roots' one of the forebears of kalam's mother was bestowed the title of 'Bahadur' by the British.
(10) Who was the priest of Shiva temple in 'Strong Roots'?
Answer: In 'Strong Roots' Pakshi Lakshmana sastry was the priest of Shiva temple in Rameshwaram
(11) What did the narrator ask the new passenger about the girl?
Ans: the narrator asked the new passenger how the hair of the departing girl was.
(12) Why could not the girl bear a long journey in a train?
Ans: The girl could not bear a long journey in a train because she could not bear to sit long hours in a train.
(13) What remark did the narrator make about people with good eyesight?
Answer: The narrator remarked that people with good eye-sight often fail to see what is right in front of them as they have too much to take in.
(14) How did the narrator in 'The Eyes Have It' describe the voice of the blind girl?
Answer: The narrator in 'The Eyes Have It' said that the voice of the blind girl had The sparkle of a mountain stream.
(15) What were the eyes of the narrator in 'The Eyes Have It' sensitive to?
Answer: The eyes of the narrator in 'The Eyes Have It' are sensitive to light and darkness.
(16) How did the girl describe the narrator?
Answer: The girl remarked that the narrator was very gallant young man.
(17) When do the hills look lovely, according to Ruskin Bond?
Ans: According to Ruskin Bond the hills look lovely in October.
(18) Who would come to receive the girl at Saharanpur?
Ans: the aunt of the girl would come to receive the girl at Saharanpur.
(19) What did the second fellow- passenger say to the blind narrator about the girl’s eyes?
Answer: The second fellow-passenger told the blind narrator that the girl’s eyes were beautiful and attractive but were of no use to her.
(20) Why was the girl in “The Eyes Have It” startled by the narrator’s question?
Answer: The girl was startled by the narrator’s question because she did not know that there was any one in the compartment as she could not see even.
(21) What was the girl’s reply when the narrator told the girl that she had an ‘interesting face’?
Answer: The girl laughed and admitted that many of her acquaintances had already told her that she had an ‘interesting face’.
(22) At which station did the blind girl get into the train?
Answer: The blind girl got into the train at Rohana station.
(23) How did the narrator know that the girl wore slippers?
Answer: the narrator knew that the girl wore slippers from the sound of slippers when they slapped against her heels.
(24) Who broke the reverie of the narrator in train? Answer: The new passenger broke the reverie of the narrator in train.
(25) What advice did Mrs. Jones give to Rodger at the end of the story?
Answer: At the end of the story Mrs. Jones advised Roger to behave properly and never to steal anyone's pocketbook because it would bring him misfortune.
(26) What did Mrs. Luella Jones ask the boy to pick up?
Answer: Mrs. Luella Jones ask the boy to pick up her pocket-book.
(27) Why did Roger try to snatch the purse of Mrs. Jones?
Answer: Roger tried to snatch the purse of Mrs.Jones to buy a pair of blue suede shoes.
(28) When did Roger try to snatch the purse of Mrs. Jones?
Answer: Roger tried to snatch the purse of Mrs. Jones at about 11 o’clock at night.
(29) What was the full name of Mrs. Jones?
Answer: The full name of Mrs. Jones was Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones.
(30) According to Mrs Jones, how old was the boy?
Answer: According to Mrs. Jones the boy was 14 or 15 years old.
(31) What were there behind the screen in Mrs. Jones's room?
Answer: A gas plate and an icebox were there behind the screen in Mrs. Jones's room.
(32) Where did Mrs. Jones turn the boy loose?
Answer: Mrs. Jones turned the boy loose at her large kitchenette furnished room at the rear of his house.
(33) What was the price of the cake the boy was given a part of in “Thank you Ma’am”?
Answer: The price of the cake the boy was given a part of was ten cents in “Thank you Ma’am”.
(34) How did the Tsar meet the hermit?
Answer: The Tsar put on a simple clothes like a common man, left his bodyguards behind him and went alone to meet the hermit.
(35) Why did the Tsar put on simple cloth before meeting the hermit?
Ans: The Tsar put on a simple cloth before meeting the hermit because the hermit received only the common folk.
(36) Why did learned men come to the Tsar?
Answer: the learn men came to the Tsar to get answer of his three questions.
(37) What was the hermit doing when the Tsar came to visit him?
Answer: The hermit was digging the ground in front of his hut when the Year came to visit him.
(38) Where did the Tsar fall asleep?
Answer: The Tsar fell asleep on the threshold of the hermit's hut.
(39) Why did the man want to take revenge?
Answer: The man wanted to take revenge because the Tsar killed the man's brother and seized his property.
(40) Where did the hermit in 'Three Questions' live?
Answer: The hermit in 'Three Questions' lived in a wood that he never left.
(41) Which part of the body of the bearded man was injured in the story 'Three Questions'?
Answer: In the story 'Three Questions' the bearded man was injured in his stomach.
(42) How was the hermit?
Answer: The hermit was frail and weak.
(43) Why did the Tsar want to know the answers of all his questions?
Answer: the Tsar wanted to know the answers of all his three questions because the Tsar would never fail in anything if he knew this.
(44) How many beds had the Tsar dug?
Answer: The Tsar had dug two beds.
(45) What was the second question of the Tsar?
Answer: The second question of the Tsar was who the most necessary people were.
(46) What was the first question of the Tsar?
Answer: The first question of the Tsar was what the right time for every action was.
47) What was the third question of the Tsar?
Answer: The third question of the Tsar was whatthe most important time to do was.
N.B.: Students are requested to memorize excess from exercise book.