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 8Lesson – 11
Art is For Everyone
Question Answers
Reference to context
3. a. Margaret and her mother were at Tippity
Witchet’s House.
b. Margaret had drawn an image of Tippity
Witchet’s house and her garden.
c. Margaret was hurt when a boy laughed at
her drawing but after talking with Tippity
Witchet, Margaret felt relieved.
4. a. Tippity Witchet and her friend Uncle Dot
were with them.
b. ‘In no time means soon.
c. All of them drew a scene which had boats
fishermen, the sea, the sky and the sun.
Read, reflect and write
5. Margaret cried because a boy in her school
made fun of her drawing. He also told her
that the drawing was awful and that she
would never be an artist.
6. Tippity took Margaret and her mother to a
place near some fishing boats where they
met Uncle Dot. They reached there with the
help of Tippity Witchet’s magic.
7. After an afternoon with Tippity and Uncle
Dot, Margaret learnt that everyone is
different and every one sees the word
differently. She also realised that she
shouldn’t care if others thought her drawings
were not good enough, she only had to keep
drawing.
8. I would tell him it is for him to think so and
Ask him to suggest ways that I can improve.
I will tell him how every’s art is different from
others and that it good to have so many different
Forms.
Integrate
When the colour spinner is spun, instead of all
the seven colours, only white can be seen. This
is because the seven rainbow colours (violent,
Indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red)
compline to make the colour white.
Chapter – 12
Tales of Young Gandhi
Question Answers
1. Quick answers
a. Gandhi was born on 2nd October 1869.
b. Gandhi was born In Porbandar, Gujarat.
c. Gandhi’s parents were Karamchand and Putlibai.
d. The Gandhi family had moved to Rajkot because Gandhi
‘s father had joined the Rajasthanik Court in Rajkot.
e. Sanskrit, Persian, English
f. He felt very sad.
g. He received scholarships of Rs. 4 and Rs. 10 for two years.
Reference to context
2.a.Gymnastic, football, and cricket
b. He avoided the physical training
c. He started taking long walks in the open air.
3.a.Gandhi’s teacher
b. Gymnastics
c. He had miscalculated the time as he did not have a watch and
arrived
late for class.
Read,reflect and write
4. The school was a large building with a central courtyard. It had
two levels. The entrance had a
Decorative arch and the school had a clock tower.
Classrooms were large and it had open windows
and tables and benches for the students.
5. Gandhi had previously tried to skip his class and leave early to
attend to his ill father. This request of his
had been denied so when
he arrived late for another
gymnastic class, it was assumed that he wanted to avoid gymnastic
classes
and was making excuses.
6. My heart was not in my
studies. He was more interested in mocking his teachers. He was an
average who barely learnt
His multiplication tables. He was also a very shy student.
7.Truthfulness and integrity.
8. Your own answer

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Poem
The Mountain and the Squirrel
Question Answers
2. formar_ latter
Large _ small
Little _ big
3. a. i The Mountain and the Squirrel
ii. The quarrel was about which of them was more important
and
Superior.
iii. The Mountain called the Squirrel ‘Little Prick’
b. i. Squirrel to the Mountain
ii. Different seasons with different characteristics combine to
make up
an entire year. The Squirrel uses the anecdote of a year to
emphasis
one the importance of unity in diversity..
iii The world or Earth
4. The Mountain cannot move as quickly as the Squirrel, nor can it
crack
a nut.
5. It is true that the Squirrel doesn’t have what the Mountain has
(its big size) but the Mountain also doesn’t have what the Squirrel
has
(its small size). Being small doesn’t mean being inferior or less
useful
than being big.
6. Your own answer
7. The Mountain would have learned some humility and agreed with
the
Squirrel.
8. Yes, this poem is a fable. The moral of the poem is that no one in
the
World is superior or inferior to another. Everybody and every has a
unique talent and a particular place in the world.

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CHAPTER - !0
BLACK BEAUTY
QUESTION ANSWERS

Reference to context
3. a. Yes, Black Beauy liked the meadow. In the story, we see that Black Beauty and
the other colts enjoined playing in the meadow and he called the meadow pleasant.
b. Black Beauty could see the ploughed field on one side and his master's
On the other side.
C. Black Beauty used to play the other colts and used to run with the older colts.
4. a. Black Beauty's mother gave him the advice when she saw that Black Beauty and the
older colts had started a rather rough play, kicking and biting.
b. Black Beauty’s mother told him that he should not be like the other colts, kicking and
biting; instead she hoped he would grow up gentle and good and never learn bad ways. she
also told him to do his work with good will and to lift his feet up well while trotting.
c. Three things we learnt about Black Beauty’s mother are
1. The master was very fond of Black Beauty’s mother.
2.She was wise and good.
3. Her name was Duchess, but the master called her pet.
Read, reflect and write
5. Black Beauty’s mother told him that his father had a great name and even his
grandfather won the Newmarket race cup two years in a raw .She told him that his
grandmother had the sweetest temper of any horse she’d ever known.
6. We know that the master was very fond of Black Beauty’s mother because notonly
did he give them food and good lodging, he usually brought carrots for her. He even
had a nickname for her.He called her ‘Pet’.
7. Your own answer

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