Class7 Seventeen Oranges

Exercise B
Ans1. The narrator drove a little pony -and-cart for Swift Delivery Company and most of his pick ups were at the docks.

Ans2. The narrator had stolen the oranges frim a boat that was being unloaded at the docks.He hid them in various pockets of his clothes, covered by his brat. Unfortunately, the string of his brat broke off right in front of Pongo, the policeman, revealing bulging pockets stuffed with stolen oranges.

Ans3. The narrator had read too many detective stories to make the mistake of blabbing. Thus he refused to be interrogated and remained quiet.

Ans4. Pongo went to call a colleague to be his witness and strengthen his case.

Exercise C
Ans1. The narrator feared that once proved guilty, he would be put in jail and ruined for life. He wondered what his mother would say and his father would do then.

Ans2. A voice in his mind prompted the narrator to eat up all the oranges pips, peel and all to destroy the evidence and escape imprisonment.

Ans3. The narrator had to eat up seventeen oranges pips, peel and all in a very short time. Thereafter, he fell sick with an upset stomach and couldn't stand still and think clearly for days. Ever since then, he had never looked at oranges.

Ans4. Pongo had locked the narrator in his cabin with the seventeen stolen oranges. There were no eindows and no way for him to sneak the oranges out. But whem Pongo returned with a mate, there was no sign of the oranges. Although, it took Pongo no time to figure out what had happened, he found it difficult to believe that such a small boy could finish off all those oranges in such a short while.

Class 7 The Nightingale and the glowworm

Ans1. The nightingale wanted to have the glow worm for his meal as he was hungry.
Ans2. The glow worm told the nightingale that the same Divine power that has blessed the nightingale with a melodious voice to enthrall everyone blessed the glow worm with the ability to glow worm to shine in the dark.
Ans3. The glow worm told the nightingale that since the same God has blessed them with their respective talents, they should respect and admire each other. Instead of harming each other, they should continue to glorify their creator.

Ans4. The nightingale proves to be noble, compassionate and understanding as he spared the glow worm's life and flew away to look for his meal elsewhere.

Class 6 My Childhood

Exercise B
Ans1. Kalam's father,Jainulabdeen, had neither much formal education nor wealth but possesed great innate wisdom. He was kind, just like Ashiamma, Kalam's mother and together, they fed many people at their home everyday. His austere father believed in simple living and religious tolerance
His mother told him stories from the Ramayana as well as life of the Prophet.

Ans2.Kalam inherited honesty, self discipline, spirit of generosity and faith in goodness from his parents. He also learnt to believe in simplicity and religious tolerance from them.

Ans3. Kalam's family lived in their ancestral house, built in the middle of the 19th century. It was a fairly large pucca house made of limestone and bricks on the Mosque street in Rameswaram.

Ans4. In 1939, when he was eight years old, Kalam earned one anna every day by selling tamarind seeds at a provision store.
Later, he earned wages by catching bundles of newspaper thrown out of a moving train between Rameswaram and Dhanuskodi.

Ans5.When the Second World War broke out in 1939, there was a sudden demand for tamarind seeds in the Rameswaram market. Also, once a kind of emergency was declared , the train halt at the Rameswaram station was suspended.

Ans6. The new teacher could not stomach a Hindu priest boy sitting with a Muslim boy. He asked Kalam to go and sit on the last bench, according to his social ranking as the new teacher saw it.

Ans7. When Kalam and Ramanadha Sastry went home, they told their respective parents about the social discrimination practised by the teacher. Lakshamana Sastry summoned the teacher and asked him to either apologize or quit the school and the Island. He warned him against spreading the poison of social inequality and religious intolerance in the minds of innocent children. His strong sense of conviction reformed the teacher.

Hots Ans2. Kalam's best friends at school came from Orthodox Hindu Brahmin families.During the annual Sri Sita Ram Kalyanam ceremony, his family arranged boats for the idols of the Lord. At home, his mother and grandmother told them stories from the Ramayana as well as life of the Prophet.