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DAV CLASS 8 English Literature Father’s Help Question and answer Question and answer
I. Understanding the Story
A. Tick `T” for true statements and ‘F’ for false ones.
- Swami did not want to go to school because he had a headache. Ans :- False
- Swami’s school began at 9:00 a.m. Ans :- False
- Samuel taught arithmetic and history to Swami and his class fellows. Ans :- True
- Swami decided to fling the complaint letter written by his father into a gutter. Ans :- True
- Swami was overjoyed at getting the complaint letter against Samuel. Ans :- False
- Swami reached the school an hour late. Ans :- False
- Samuel had two arithmetic periods with Swami’s class on Monday.Ans :- False
- Samuel gave Swami eight cuts of cane. Ans :- False
- Swami delivered the complaint letter to the headmaster after the last bell rang. Ans :- False
B. Answer the following questions in about 30 words each.
1. How did Swami’s father react when Swami told him that he was not going to school? How different was his reaction from that of Swami’s mother?
Ans: Swami’s father scolded him and insisted that he must go to school even with a headache, and despite it already being late for school. Swami’s mother had generously suggested that he might stay at home.
2. ‘Father’s behaviour took an unexpected turn.’. What was unexpected about Swami’s father’s behaviour?
Ans: Swami had hoped that father would allow him to stay at home. But unexpectedly, he got excited and wrote a complaint letter to the headmaster against Samuel, when he heard about Samuel’s aggression.
3.Why didn’t Swami hand over the complaint letter to the headmaster in the morning?
Ans: Swami knew well that he had given the wrong description of Mr. Samuel to his father. So he didn’t hand over the complaint letter to the headmaster in the morning. He wanted that Samuel should do such an act that might make him justified for the punishment.
4. Could Swami deliver the complaint letter to the headmaster after the school? Why/Why not?
Ans: Swami got success in annoying his teacher too much that he caned him. He found Mr. Samuel’s act was justified for the punishment. So after the school was closed, he went to the headmaster’s room, but he could not deliver the letter of complaint to the headmaster because the headmaster had gone on earlier. II. HOTS ‘Swami went to school feeling that he was the worst perjurer on earth.’
II. HOTS
‘Swami went to school feeling that he was the worst perjurer on earth.’ Describe Swami’s feelings at this point. Why did he feel like ‘the worst perjurer’?
Ans. Swami told several lies about his teacher Samuel for not going to school. He was feeling very bad because after reading the letter, the headmaster might dismiss him and hand him over to the police. Samuel was not a bad teacher but Swami made him so saying that he beats boys severely. Sadly, he felt like ‘the worst perjurer’. His conscience chided him for his false imagination.
III. Life Skills
What impression have you formed of Swami’s relation with his father? How should children and their parents behave with each other?
Ans. Swami’s father is a very strict person. He never listens excuses for not going to school. He is disciplined in nature and wants the same in his son. At the same time, he is a caring father. He feels angry when he hears that Samuel beats children severely. He even writes a letter to the headmaster so that the children would be escaped from the punishment and Samuel must be punished for his cranky attitude towards students.
IV. Values
Swami gives a very unfair description of Samuel to his father. How would you have behaved, had you been in Swami’s place?
Ans. For self-attempt.
V. Writing Skills
A. Imagine that you are Swami. Write a diary entry relating your experience with Samuel in the school.
B. Imagine that you are Samuel. Write a diary entry expressing your surprise at Swami’s strange behaviour in the class and your feelings at caning him.
Ans. A.
23rd July, 20XX 10:00 p.m.
Monday
What a bad day it was for me! I was forced by my father to go to school. Unwillingly, I had to go to school. I made an excuse that my teacher Mr. Samuel would beat me because I was late. Being angry, my father wrote a letter against him and asked me to give it to my headmaster. I reached school and I knew that I told lies to my father about Mr. Samuel. I decided to provoke my teacher to beat me. The teacher said nothing on my lame excuse of getting late and not doing homework. It was four then. Samuel came again and I began to ask him silly questions loudly. He scolded me several times and asked me to shut my mouth. But he found me quite indisciplined. He took out his stick from the drawer and beat me. It was I who provoked him to do so.
B. 23rd July, 20XX 10:00 p.m.
Monday
Oh! What a bad experience I had today in my class! Today, I was teaching arithmetic when Swami came in. He was half-an-hour late. When I asked him the reason, he answered that he was having a headache. He had not done his homework. I said nothing. It was four then. It was my history period in Swami’s class. I felt that he was behaving in an unusual manner as he did never before. He asked me a question in a loud voice. I controlled my anger and told him to sit down, I even told him that his headache had made him mad. I threatened to cane him. I asked question on the Mughal period. Swami stood and began to interrupt. He provoked me with his annoying questions. It made me out of temper. I canned him but I felt very sad. I am never in favour of corporal punishment in schools. But he provoked me so much that I had to beat him. My heart is heavy till then.
Samuel
Nice
Very nice