Class-5, EVS, Chapter-18, No Place for Us?, Additional Exercises with Solutions / NCERT

Chapter- 18

No Place for Us?

Choose the correct answer:

1-    Which job Jatryabhai started doing in Mumbai?

a.    Painting on walls

b.    Plumbing

c.    Repair torn fishing nets (√)

d.    Ironing clothes

2-    Jatryabhai used to money he earned to

a.    To pay for medicines, food and school fee

b.    Rent for the house

c.    Buying water

d.    All the above (√)

3-    What did children learn Jatryabhai’s village?

a.    To dance together, recognize birds and their sounds

b.    To play flute and dhol

c.    To make pots of clay and bamboo

d.    All the above (√)

4-    Young men of village would bring following things from forests and sell them in towns:

a.    Fruits, roots and plants for medicines

b.    Fish from river

c.    Both a and b (√)

d.    Firewood

5-    People of the Khedi village had to leave their lands because of:

a.    Upcoming factory

b.    Upcoming dam (√)

c.    They wanted to move to city for more money

d.    None of the above

6-    Where did Jatryabhai’s forefathers live?

a.    Kehdi Village (√)

b.    Sinduri Village

c.    Navagram

d.    Mumbai

True or False:

1-    Jatryabhai had to even buy water in Mumbai.                                        True

2-    Sidya goes to the railway station to pick up empty bottles and newspapers to sell to the kabadiwala.                                                                                             True

3-    Jatrya was born in Khedi village.                                                             True

4-    In Jatrya’s village people collected things from towns across the village and sell in the village.                                                                                                     False

5-    In Sindhuri village, there was a hospital but it was difficult to find doctors and there were no medicines.                                                                                                True

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Fill in the blanks:

 (quarrels, relative, school, fish factory, village)

1-    Jatrayabhai new only the family of a distant relative in Mumbai.

2-    Young Sidya worked in the nearby fish factory to earn some money.

3-    In village elders would arrange weddings and settle quarrels.

4-    The new village everything there- a school, electricity, hospitals, buses, trains, etc.

5-    Jatrya’s only dream was to send his children to school to give them a better future, a better life.

      (quarrels, relative, school, fish factory, village)

      

Match the column:

A	B
In towns there are taps	hot in summer
There are plenty of trees in village and	houses in towns
Roofs made of tin keep the house	the air is fresh and clean
Houses in villages have more space than	was not good for farming.
Piece of land Jatrya got in sindhuri village	but not enough water

Ans-

A	B
In towns there are taps	but not enough water
There are plenty of trees in village and	the air is fresh and clean
Roofs made of tin keep the house	hot in summer
Houses in villages have more space than	Houses in towns
Piece of land Jatrya got in sindhuri village	was not good for farming.

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Answer these questions:

1-    How is life in the village different from that of cities?

Ans-

Life in Village	Life in Cities
Villages have single story houses.	Cities have multi-story houses.
Houses have more open space in villages.	Houses have less or no open space in cities.
Villages have narrow roads or kachcha roads.	Cities have broad and multilane roads.
Villages do not have very good hospitals and other medical facilities.	Cities have good hospitals and other medical facilities.
Village schools do not have a good infrastructure.	City school and colleges have a good infrastructure.
People in village are mostly happy and satisfied with life.	People in cities are less happy and not satisfied with life.

1-    How does building of dams affect the life of the people living in that area? (or) What kind of problems people face who are displaced or asked to move from their place? (or) How does displacement affect the lives of the people?

Ans- Building of dams affect the life of people living in that area in following ways:

(a)  People have to relocate from the place where they were living from generations.

(b)  They have to leave their houses, farms and means of livelihood.

(c)  Starting a new livelihood is challenging.

(d)  Kids take time to adjust in new neighbourhood and new school.

(e)  It is difficult to adjust in new social set up.

2-    Why did Jatryabhai collect rubber pieces of old tyres?

Ans- Jatryabhai collected rubber pieces of old tyres to light his stove. It catches fire fast and saves firewood.

3-    How did Jatrya suffer in Sinduri?

Ans- Jatrya had following difficulties in Sinduri village:

(a)  He had to pay money for everything- medicines, food, vegetable, firewood, kerosene and fodder for the animals.

(b)  Roof of tin sheet made his house hot like an oven.

(c)  Electricity was available only for some time in a day.

(d)  Taps do not have water.

(e)  Land was not good for farming.

(f)   It was difficult to find doctor in hospital.

(g)  People made fun of Khedi people and called them ‘unwanted guests’.

4-    List the differences between the life of Jatrya used to lead in Khedi village and the life in Mumbai? (Write any two differences)

Ans-

Life in Khedi Village	Life in Mumbai
Jatrya’s house was good enough for his needs.	He live in a one room shack in Mumbai.
In Khedi people live together like a big family.	In Mumbai, Jatrya was lonely and isolated.
Jatya used to work hard in the fields and caught fishes from river to make livelihood.	Jatryabhai used to repair torn fishing nets to make livelihood.
In khedi village children learn to dance together, to play flute and dhol, to make pots of clay and bamboo, to recognize and imitate their sounds.	In Mumbai, Jatrya’s kids go to school for formal education.

5-    Why did Jatrya and his family leave Sinduri and migrate to Mumbai?

Ans- Jatrya and his family left Sinduri and migrated to Mumbai because they could not adjust in this new village and hoped for a better life and a better future in Mumbai.