Class-7 Supplementary Reader (An Alien Hand) Chapter-4, The Cop and the Anthem, Solutions with Additional Exercises / NCERT/CBSE
The Cop and the
Anthem
एक सिपाही और नैतिक
पाठ
Exercises
Match these words with their
meanings:
|
Word |
Meaning |
|
Irony |
name of a prison |
|
Embarrassing |
policeman
(American English) |
|
Southern skies |
making you
feel uncomfortable or shy |
|
Blackwell’s Island
|
warmer places |
|
Cop |
an unusual or unexpected part of a situation |
Ans-
|
Word |
Meaning |
|
Irony |
an unusual or
unexpected part of a situation |
|
Embarrassing |
making you feel
uncomfortable or shy |
|
Southern skies |
warmer
places |
|
Blackwell’s Island
|
name of a
prison |
|
Cop |
policeman (American English) |
Fill in the blanks
with the given words:
(homeless, sick,
turn over, prison, wrong side)
1- If Soapy went to prison,
the government would look after his food and stay.
2- Soapy is a homeless,
jobless man.
3- Soapy does his
best to be on the wrong side of the law.
4- The fear that no
cop will ever catch him makes him sick at heart.
5- Soapy is suddenly
reminded of his childhood home and mother, and resolves to turn over a
new leaf.
Click here for reading Hindi translation of this chapter.
Answer the
following questions:
1. What are some of
the signs of approaching winter referred to in
the text?
Ans- Following
signs of approaching winter are referred to in the text-
1.
Birds begin to fly south.
2.
People want new warm coats.
3.
Falling of dead leaf on Soapy’s feet
2. Write ‘True’ or
‘False’ against each of the following.
(i) Soapy did not
want to go to prison. (False)
(ii) Soapy had been
to prison several times. (True)
(iii) It was not
possible for Soapy to survive in the city through
the winter. (False)
(iv) Soapy hated to
answer questions of a personal nature.(True)
3. What was Soapy’s
first plan? Why did it not work?
Ans- Soapy’s first
plant that he would have a dinner at some fine restaurant, then he would say
that he had no money to pay. And then a cop would arrest him. He would be taken
to a judge. The judge would do the rest.
4. “But the cop’s
mind would not consider Soapy”. What did the
cop not consider,
and why?
Ans- The cop’s mind
could not consider Soapy because men who
break windows do
not stop there to talk to cops. In fact, they run away as fast as they can.
5. “We have orders
to let them shout”. What is the policeman
referring to?
Ans- The policeman
was referring to the college boys when he said that they had orders to let them
shout.
6. Write ‘True’ or
‘False’ against each of the following.
(i) Soapy stole a
man’s umbrella.(True)
(ii) The owner of
the umbrella offered to give it to Soapy. (True)
(iii) The man had
stolen the umbrella that was now Soapy’s. (True)
(iv) Soapy threw
away the umbrella. (True)
7. “There was a
sudden and wonderful change in his soul”. What
brought about the
change in Soapy?
Ans- In his way to
the park, Soapy saw his childhood home. He had spent many happy and peaceful
moments in this home. Sweet music came to his ears and seemed to hold him
there. This reminded him of his mother and flowers and high hopes and friends
and clean thoughts and clean clothes. His worthless days, his wrong desires,
his dead hopes, the lost power of his mind brought him to this point.
He decided that he
would make a man out of himself. He would pull himself up, out of the mud.
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