The Boy Who Borrowed Solutions (Question and Answer) Class- V My English Reader

DAV Class 5 Solutions The Boy Who Borrowed

The Boy Who Borrowed

B.1. Match the writers with their creations.

Ans- Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
The Adventures of Rusty – Ruskin Bond
The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
Swami and Friends – R. K. Narayan
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
Gitanjali – Rabindranath Tagore
Five on a Treasure Island – Enid Blyton

B.2. My Reading Record

Ans- This is about your own reading, so fill it in for yourself. A sample:
My favourite book is The Jungle Book.
The character I like the most in the book is Mowgli.
Other books/stories that I have liked are The Adventures of Rusty and Swami and Friends.
When I go to the library, I like to take out books about animals and adventure.
My favourite author is Ruskin Bond.
My favourite fairy tale is Cinderella.
If I could write a book, I would call it The Talking Bookshelf.

B.4. Tick the correct option to complete the sentences.

(a) Benny got books only…………

i. at Christmas time.
ii. on his birthday.
iii. when he demanded them.

(b) Benny completed reading a book in………..

i. three days.
ii. half a day.
iii. two hours.

(c) Benny had the habit of…………

i. stealing things.
ii. lending things.
iii. borrowing things.

(d) All the borrowed books wanted to………..

i. return to their owners.
ii. stay with Benny.
iii. praise Benny’s passion for reading books.

(e) When children asked for their books back, Benny………

i. returned them.
ii. avoided them.
iii. pretended that he had not got them.

(f) The funny dream that Benny narrated to his mother was about…..

i. his reading a funny book.
ii. his writing a book.
iii. books walking downstairs and running away.

(g) Books made Benny feel ashamed and so he……….

i. did not talk to his friends.
ii. returned all borrowed things.
iii. cried loudly.

(h) Benny promised to borrow books……………

i. again and again.
ii. only if he returned them quickly.
iii. only from relatives

B.5. Answer the following questions briefly.

i. What was Benny’s favourite hobby?

Ans- Benny’s favourite hobby was reading books.

ii. What kind of book did Benny want?

Ans- He wanted adventure and nature related books.

iii. How many books did he have?

Ans- He had about eight books.

iv. Why could Benny not bear to return books?

Ans- He could not bear to return books because they looked beautiful in his bookshelf.

v. Whose voices did Benny hear one night?

Ans- One night he heard the voices of books.

vi. What horrid thing had Benny done with one of the books?

Ans- Benny had turned down some of the pages of  the books to mark his place.

vii. How did the books leave the house?

Ans- They left the house walking downstairs and ran away.

viii. Why were the children surprised when Benny returned them their things?

Ans- The children were surprised because they never expected that the books would be returned by Benny.

B.6. Life Skills: Imagine Benny had borrowed a book from you and has not returned it back. How would you convince him to return your book and all the other things that he has borrowed from other people?

Ans- I would talk to Benny politely, not angrily. I would tell him that I am happy he loves reading, but I need my book back because I want to read it again and my friends are waiting for it too. I would remind him how upset Eric, Lucy, Kenneth and Eileen felt when he did not return their ball, pen, jigsaw and rubber. I would offer to lend him another book once he returns this one, and suggest that he join the library so that he can borrow as many books as he likes and return them on time. That way he keeps his friends and his reading habit.

B.7. Value Based Question

‘Books are our best friend. The values that we get from them are timeless and priceless’ Do you agree with this statement? Discuss in class what values do we get from books.

Ans- Yes, I agree. A book is a friend that never leaves us. Stories like The Boy Who Borrowed teach honesty and respect for other people’s things. Books give us knowledge about the world, improve our language, and help us understand people from other places and times. They teach patience, kindness and courage through their characters, and they give us company and comfort when we are alone. What we learn from a good book stays with us all our life, so its value is timeless and cannot be measured in money.

B.8 Find words from the story which mean the same as the following:

Ans- (i) created a false impression – pretended
(ii) angry – cross
(iii) strange – peculiar
(iv) horrible – horrid
(v) hurry in a disorderly manner – helter-skelter
(vi) strange, odd – queer

B.9. Imagine you are Benny. Write a diary entry describing your unbelievable experience of hearing the books talk, leave the house and reach their owners houses.

Ans-
Tuesday, 14 March
Dear Diary,
Something very peculiar happened last night. I woke up and heard voices coming from my bookshelf. It was the books talking! The borrowed books were cross with me because I had kept them for so long, and one of them complained that I had turned down its pages to mark my place. Then the door was pushed open and they came out, pushing and jostling, walked over my toes and tumbled helter-skelter down the stairs. They went into the little room off the hall and out through the open window. In the morning I told Mother it was a funny dream, but at school Mary thanked me for sending back The Boy Next Door. All the books had gone home by themselves! I felt so ashamed that I returned Eric’s ball, Lucy’s pen, Kenneth’s jigsaw and Eileen’s rubber. From now on I will borrow only if I give things back very quickly.
Benny

B.10. Arrange the steps of joining a library and getting a book issued in the correct order.

Ans- 1. Secure membership form.
2. Fill details.
3. Submit form and membership fee.
4. Collect library card.
5. Refer to catalogue.
6. Select book.
7. Hand over book and library card to librarian.
8. Get due return date stamped in the book.

C.2 On the basis of the book reviews you have read, write the titles of the books that you would read for the following:

Ans- From the annotated bibliography in C.1:
For an adventure in the jungle – The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling)
For funny poems – The Fried Frog and Other Funny Freaky Foodie Feisty Poems (Sampurna Chattarji)
To learn about the states of India – Amazing India: A State-by-State Guide (Anita Vachharajani)
For a magic story – It’s All Relative! Disney: Wizards of Waverly Place
To keep my desk and homework organised – Get Organized Without Losing It (Janet Fox)
To practise maths – Fractions & Decimals: 5-Minute Daily Practice (Jill Safro)