FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH - KSEEB - CLASS 07 - SUPPLEMENTARY- QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - A DAY’S WAIT

 

Supplementary

Unit -03

A DAY’S WAIT

Ernest Hemingway

 Answer these questions.

1) How old was Schatz? What disease was he suffering from?

Ans: Schatz was nine years old boy. He was suffering from fever.

 

2) What is the relationship of the author with Schatz? Which line gives you that information?

Ans: The author was the father of Schatz. And the line which gives that information is, “You don’t have to stay in her with me, Papa, if it bothers you.”

 

3) How many capsules did the doctor prescribe? State the purpose of each one?

Ans: The doctor prescribed three different capsules. One was to bring down the fever, another purgative, and the third to overcome an acid condition.

 

4) How does the author describe nature?

Ans: The author described nature as it was a bright, cold day and the ground covered with a sleet that had frozen so that it seemed as if all the bare trees, the bushes, the cut brush and all the grass and the bare ground had been varnished with ice. It was difficult to stand or walk on the glassy surface and he fell twice, hard.

 

5) “I took the young Irish setter up the road and along a frozen creek”. Who does the young Irish setter refer to?

Ans: The young Irish setter referred to a red dog.

 

6) Why did the writer go out of the house? What did he hunt?

Ans: The writer went out of the house for a walk with the young Irish setter. He hunted two quail with his gun.

 

7) What happened at the house in the absence of the writer?

Ans: The boy didn’t allow anyone to enter his room and he was in exactly the same position as the writer left him, white-faced, but with the tops of his cheeks flushed by the fever, staring still, as he had stared, at the foot of the bed.

 

8) What caused Schatz to panic?

Ans: Schatz was panic as the doctor said that he had 102^o degree temperature and he remembered the words of his friends where a boy died with only 44^o degree temperature in France.

 

9) How could the author convince Schatz that nothing was wrong with him?

Ans: The author explained him difference with an example, he said that it’s same like miles and kilometers. He wouldn’t die due that temperature as in different thermometer is used to measure body temperature. On that thermometer thirty seven was normal and on another thermometer would be ninety eight.

 

10) What was the effect of the clarification of Schatz? Which lines tell us about the effect?

Ans: Schatz was relaxed and he was free from the fear of death, and next day it was very slack and he cried very easily at little things that were of no importance. The lines tell us about the effect are, “Poor old Schatz. It’s like miles and kilometers,. You aren’t going to die. That’s a different thermometer. On that thermometer thirty seven is normal. On this kind it’s ninety-eight.”

 

11) Are these statements true or false:

a. Schatz was suffering from Pneumonia. False

b. Schatz liked his father reading to him. False

c. The father shot down a fox when he was hunting. False

d. The cat in the house accompanied his father when he went out hunting. False

e. The normal temperature of the human body is 100 Degrees centigrade. False

Think and answer

1) How was Schatz really cured? Was it by medicine or by the clarification given by his father?

Ans: Schatz was really cured by the clarification given by his father.

 

2) Why didn’t the boy allow anyone into his room?

Ans: The boy didn’t allow anyone into his room because he didn’t want anyone should affect by that disease.