CBSE Class 7 English A Gift of Chappals Worksheet

            Questions

SUMMARY OF THE CHAPTER
Ravi and Meena were visited by Mridu. She left her slippers at the gate with a pair of slippers which is old and weary. Ravi then took her to the backyard. Behind a thick bush sat a kitten in a torn football sipping milk from a coconut shell.
They secretly kept the kitten as it might annoy their grandmother . He added that it was difficult for him to manage milk for Mahendran the kitten.
Lalli was learning to play violin from her music master who was bald-headed and with an old fashioned tuft. He was wearing a gold chain and a diamond ring.
A beggar was at their doorstep calling from the back verandah. He spread a cloth to settle himself under the neem tree. Ravi asked him to find another home for alms.
He requested to allow him to sit until the burning heat of the sun to cool down, as it could hurt his already blistered feet.
They were considerate enough to give him their own slippers yet found them too small for him to wear. They found shabby looking, sturdy old chappals and gave those to him. He was obliged and moved. Actually, those were slippers of the music master.
when music-master came out and searched for his chappals. He called Lalli to help him in finding his slippers Rukku Manni and Lalli were embarrassed and looked around suspiciously.
The mother enquired from the children if anyone around the verandah. She got angry when she learned that the slippers were given away to the beggar.
Mother rebuked them by saying that he gave away what was his own. She hurriedly went inside to bring Golu mama’s slippers. The teacher gave disapproving look to the children. Everyone knew as that would be a temporary relief to the problem, as Golu mama would disapprove of theirs acts too.

Q.1 WRITE AND LEARN THE WORD MEANING :-
1) Scrawny - thin
2) Patti - grandmother ( in Tamil )
3) Thatha - grandfather ( in Tamil )
4) Weird - strange or unusual
5) Glided - moved along smoothly
6) Veshti - dhoti ( in Tamil )
7) Stumbled - followed haltingly
8) Snooze - short sleep
9) Fed up - tired and unhappy
10) Blisters - boils / bubbles on the skin from burning or rubbing
11) Eye filling - with tears
12) Unappreciative - disapproving
13) Lurking - waiting quietly
14) Clattered off - gone off noisely

SHORT QUESTION ANSWERS:-

Question. What is the secret that Meena shares with Mridu in the backyard?
Answer : Meena shared the secret of having a kitten in the backyard inside a torn football lined with sacking and filled with sand. They found him outside the gate in the morning.

Question. What was the noise that startled Mridu and frightened Mahendran?
Answer : The sound of kreeching startled Mridu and frightened Mahendran. It was the sound of Violin that Lalli was learning to play.

Question. Had the beggar come to Rukku Manni’s house for the first time? Give reasons for your answer.
Answer : No, the beggar had not come to Rukku Manni’s house for the first time because Paati said to Tapi that he had been coming in their house every day for the past week, and it’s time to found him another house to beg from!

Question.“A sharp V-shaped line had formed between her eyebrows.” What does it suggest to you about Rukku Manni’s mood?
Answer : V-shaped eyebrow is formed only when people are in anger. This suggests that Rukku Manni was in very angry mood when she came to know about the missing chappals of the music teacher.

Question. What makes Mridu conclude that the beggar has no money to buy chappals?
Answer : Mridu conclude that the beggar had no money to buy chappals because his feet were blistered.

Question. What does she suggest to show her concern?
Answer : She suggested Mridu and Ravi about the pair of old slippers so that they could give it to the beggar.

LONG QUESTION ANSWERS

Question. Describe the music teacher, as seen from the window.
Answer : As seen from the window, music teacher had the bony figure. He had a mostly bald head with a fringe of oiled black hair falling around his ears and an old-fashioned tuft. A gold chain gleamed around his leathery neck, and a diamond ring glittered on his hand as it glided up and down the stem of the violin. A large foot stuck out from beneath his gold-bordered veshti edge, and he was beating time on the floor with the scrawny big toe.

Question. How does Ravi get milk for the kitten ?
Answer : Ravi got milk for the kitten from the kitchen. When his grandmother saw him holding the glass of milk, he told her that he was hungry. In order to avoid suspicion, he had to even drink most of the milk. When she asked for the tumbler, he told her that he would wash it himself. Then, he ran and poured the milk into a coconut shell. Before his grandmother could get really suspicious, he ran back to the kitchen, washed the tumbler and put it back. HOMEWORK - Make sentences by using the following words :-
scream, tumbler, suspicious, ancient, shrieked, effortlessly.

Very Short Answer

Q1)      Who was Mridu?

Q2)      Who welcomed Mridu and Tapi?

Q3)      What is the secret that Meena shares with Mridu?

Q4)      What is stowaway?

Q5)      Who is the writer of the story?

            Short Answer

Q6)      How was the name of the cat different?

Q7)      What was Ravi’s argument for his charity of chappals to the beggar? ‘

Q8)      What is the moral of a gift of Chappals?

Q9)      What was beggar’s expectation from the ladies of the household?

Q10)    What did Ravi say about Mahabalipuram Rishi cats and cats in the Egypt?

            Long Answer

Q11)    Write the summary of the part 2 of the story?

Q12)    Who is Bastet and how is Bastet connected to the kitchen in the story?

Q13)    Write about the music teacher as seen from the window?

Q14)    Write the summary of the part 1 of the story?

Q15)    What was the kreech noise in the story?

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