Supplementary
Unit
– 01
THE NEW FLOWER
Ruskin Bond
1) This is an interesting
story. Did you enjoy reading it? Now you have to tell your partner about some
interesting points you must have noted:
a) At the beginning, the
story tells us that two people – a man and a girl – have become friends (true /
not true)
Ans: True
b) The man’s name is Bond. The girl’s name is Usha.
c) The man is a writer.
The girl is a school girl.
d) The girl is a good student.
e) The man and the girl share a common
interest. They both keep looking for new species.
f) They are both attracted by
i) a new flower.
ii) the goats that they meet.
iii) the rain clouds in the Himalayas.
iv) the cold winds that hum and whistle through the pines.
Ans: i) a new flower
g) On the Yugadi day the man finds a new
flower (true / not true)
Ans: True
h) We call this day Yugadi. What do people in
Himachal Pradesh call it?
Ans: People in Himachal Pradesh call Yugadi
as Basant Panchami.
i) The girl predicts a heavy rain on that day
(true/ not true)
Ans: True
j) The man teaches the girl how a plant
seeds, (true / not true)
Ans: Not true
k) Who saved the plant from the goats? How?
Ans: Usha saved the plant from the goats when
she advanced on the goat shouting with an open blue umbrella and drives them
away.
l) The girl knows the goat language because she had her own goats at home.
m) A year passes. The plant withers, (true /
not true)
Ans: Not True
n) The two friends could not say that the new
flower was their discovery because they did not know its botanical name.
o) The author had wondered what its name
could be. But the villagers had given it the name Basant.
p) What Latin name is given
for another flower in the story? (Botany gives Latin names for trees, plants,
flowers and fruits.)
Ans: Nasturtiums
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