The Bond of Love | Question and Answer |
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I. Thinking about the Text
Question I Given in the box are some headings. Find the relevant paragraphs in the text to match the headings.
An Orphaned Cub; Bruno’s Food-chart; An Accidental Case of Poisoning; Playful Baba; Pain of Separation; Joy of Reunion; A Request to the Zoo; An Island in the Courtyard
Answer
An Orphaned Cub – paragraph 3
Bruno’s Food-chart – paragraph 6
An Accidental Case of Poisoning – paragraph 8
Playful Baba – paragraph 12
Pain of Separation – paragraph 14
Joy of Reunion – paragraph 16
A Request to the Zoo – paragraph 18
An Island in the Courtyard – paragraph 21
II. Answer the following questions.
1. “I got him for her by accident.”
(i) Who says this?
Answer The narrator
(ii) Who do ‘him’ and ‘her’ refer to?
Answer ‘Her’ refers to the narrator’s wife and ‘him’ refers to a sloth bear.
(iii) What is the incident referred to here?
Answer Two years ago while passing through a sugarcane field near Mysore, the narrator and his companions saw a black sloth bear. One of the narrator’s companion shot the bear on the spot. As they saw the animal fall, they were surprised to see that the black fur on its back moving even after it died. Soon after they realised that it was baby bear that had been riding on its mother’s back. The narrator rescued the baby and returned home and gifted it to his wife.
2. “He stood on his head in delight.”
(i) Who does ‘he’ refer to?
Answer ‘He’ refers to the bear, Bruno.
(ii) Why was he delighted?
Answer Bruno was delighted to see the narrator’s wife after three months of separation.
3. “We all missed him greatly: but in a sense we were relieved.”
(i) Who does ‘we all’ stand for?
Answer We all stand for the narrator , his wife and his son.
(ii) Who did they miss?
Answer Bruno (Baba) was missed by them.
(iii) Why did they nevertheless feel relieved?
Answer They felt relieved because Bruno was growing in size and getting too big to be kept at home. That is why he had to be sent off to a zoo.
Question III. Answer the following questions in 30 to 40 words each.
(1) On two occasions Bruno ate/drank something that should not be eaten/ drunk. What happened to him on these occasions?
Answer Bruno ate some poison-barium carbonate He also vomited and breathed heavily, but was later cured. In another incident, he drank nearly a gallon of old engine oil meant for the rats. Fortunately, he remained unaffected but it paralysed and weakened him.
(2) Was Bruno a loving and playful pet? Why, then, did he have to be sent away?
Answer Yes , Bruno a loving and playful pet. Everybody in the family was emotionally attached to it, especially the narrator’s wife. He was getting too big to be kept at home and had to be sent away to a zoo.
(3) How was the problem of what to do with Bruno finally solved?
Answer Bruno was not happy at the zoo. Seeing his poor condition and state of happiness at seeing narrator’s wife, Bruno was allowed to go back to Bangalore. There was an island made for him to suit all his needs when his condition got worse at the zoo. After he was shifted to the island his condition improved and he was happier.
Thinking About Language
I 1. Find these words in the lesson. They all have ie or ei in them.
| f_ld | ingred_nts | h_ght | misch_vous |
| fr_nds | _ghty-seven | rel_ved | p_ce |
Answer Field , Ingredients , height, mischievous, friends, eighty-seven, relieved, piece
2. Now here are some more words. Complete them with ei or ie. Consult a dictionary if necessary.
| bel_ve | rec_ve | w_rd | l_sure | s_ze |
| w_ght | r_gn | f_gn | gr_f | p_rce |
Answer believe, receive, weird, leisure, seize, weight, reign, feign, grief, pierce
(There is a popular rule of spelling: ‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’. Check if this rule is true by looking at the words above.)
II. Here are some words with silent letters. Learn their spelling. Your teacher will dictate these words to you. Write them down and underline the silent letters.
knock wrestle walk wrong
knee half honest daughter
hours return hornet calm
could sign island button
Answer
knock wrestle walk wrong
knee half honest daughter
hours return hornet calm
could sign island button
III How to look at an Index.
An index is a list of names or topics that are to be found in a book. It is a list arranged in alphabetical order at the end of a book. The following paragraph shows that the doctor is consulting the index of a medical book to find out which injection is appropriate for Bruno. “Out came his medical books, and a feverish reference to the index began: What poison did you say, sir?” “Barium carbonate.” “Ah yes—B—Ba— Barium Salts—Ah! Barium carbonate! Symptoms—paralysis— treatment—injections of … Just a minute, sir. I’ll bring my syringe and the medicine.”
1. You have read about the French Revolution and you want to know more about the Third Estate in the context of the French Revolution. You can refer to the index of the book Living World History by T. Walter Wallbank and Arnold Schrier. On which pages in this book will you find information about the French Revolution and the Third Estate?
Answer French Revolution : Pages No. 393, 404-405, 427 and 489
Third Estate : Pages 404 and 405.
2. To know what ‘Food Security’ and ‘Minimum Support Price’ mean in the context of the economic growth of a country you can go to the subject index given below from Poverty and Famines — An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation by Amartya Sen. Under which heading in the index are you likely to find these topics?
Answer Food security and minimum support price can be seen in the following topics.
Food Availability Decline ( FAD Thesis) :
6-7 , 7-8 , 41-2 , 43-4 , 53 , 57 -63 , 80-1 , 82-3 , 88-93 , 111, 117-20 , 125 , 137 , 141, 153 , 154-6 , 157-8 , 162.
3. Given below is a portion of an index page from the book, French’s Index of Differential Diagnosis, edited by F. Dudley Hart M.D., F.R.C.P.
(i) bronchitis due to cigarette smoking : page 223
(ii) heart failure due to bronchitis : page 82
(iii) bronchitis in children : page 178
IV The Narrative Present
1. Notice the incomplete sentences in the following paragraphs. Here the writer is using incomplete sentences in the narration to make the incident more dramatic or immediate. Can you rewrite the paragraph in complete sentences?
(You can begin: The vet and I made a dash back to the car. Bruno was still floundering…)
(i) A dash back to the car. Bruno still floundering about on his stumps, but clearly weakening rapidly; some vomiting, heavy breathing, with heaving flanks and gaping mouth.
Hold him, everybody! In goes the hypodermic – Bruno squeals – 10 c.c. of the antidote enters his system without a drop being wasted. Then minutes later: condition unchanged! Another 10-c.c. injected! Ten minutes later: breathing less stertorous – Bruno can move his arms and legs a little although he cannot stand yet. Thirty minutes later: Bruno gets up and has a great feed! He looks at us disdainfully, as much as to say, ‘What’s barium carbonate to a big black bear like me?’ Bruno is still eating.
(i) The vet and I made a dash back to the car. Bruno was still floundering about on his stumps, but clearly, he was weakening rapidly. There was some vomiting and heavy breathing. His flanks were heaving and his mouth was gaping. Everybody was asked to hold him. The hypodermic medicine went into Bruno, who squealed. 10 c.c. of anecdote entered his system without a drop being wasted. Even ten minutes later, the condition was unchanged. Another 10 c.c. was injected into him. Ten minutes later, his breathing became less stertorous. Bruno could move his arms and legs a little although he could not stand yet. Thirty minutes later, Bruno got up and had a great feed. He looked at us disdainfully, as much as to say, ‘What’s barium carbonate to a big black bear like me?’ Bruno was still eating.
Question 2. Adverbs
Find the adverbs in the passage below. (You have read about adverbs in Unit 1.)
We thought that everything was over when suddenly a black sloth bear came out panting in the hot sun. Now I will not shoot a sloth-bear wantonly but, unfortunately for the poor beast, one of my companions did not feel that way about it, and promptly shot the bear on the spot.
Answer We thought that everything was over when suddenly a black sloth bear came out panting in the hot sun. Now I will not shoot a sloth-bear want only but, unfortunately for the poor beast, one of my companions did not feel that way about it, and promptly shot the bear on the spot.
(i) Complete the following sentences, using a suitable adverb ending in –ly.
(a) Rana does her homework ____________.
(a) Rana does her homework timely.
(b) It rains ___________in Mumbai in June.
(b) It rains heavily in Mumbai in June.
(c) He does his work ___________.
(c) He does his work properly.
(d) The dog serves his master ___________.
(d) The dog serves his master faithfully.
(ii) Choose the most suitable adverbs or adverbial phrases and complete the following sentences.
(a) We should__________ get down from a moving train. (never, sometimes, often)
(a) never
(b) I was ___________ in need of support after my poor performance. (badly, occasionally, sometimes).
(b) badly
(c) Rita met with an accident. The doctor examined her ___________. (suddenly, seriously, immediately)
(c) immediately
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