Class-8 Supplementary Reader (It so happened….) Chapter-4, The Treasure Within- Solution with Additional Exercises / NCERT/CBSE
The Treasure Within
Exercises
Choose the correct answer:
1) Hafeez
Contractor was an ________ school boy.
i) Unhappy
(✔)
ii) Achiever
iii) Average
iv) Obedient
2) He
used to get terrible nightmare about________ exam.
i) History
ii) Math
(✔)
iii) Architecture
iv) Art
and craft
3) What
interested Hafeez Contractor most in child hood?
i) Games
ii) Running
around
iii) Playing
jokes and pranks on others
iv) All
the above (✔)
4) When
he approached eleventh standard, whose words deeply influenced him?
i) His
Aunt
ii) His
mother
iii) The
principal of school (✔)
iv) Behram
Divecha
5) What
was his purpose behind going to the architect’s office?
i) Learning
architecture (✔)
ii) Earning
money through some part time job
iii) Helping
his anut design a house
iv) Learning
French
6) Who
asked him to drop everything and join architect?
i) Architect’s
wife (✔)
ii) Architect
iii) His
aunt
iv) His
Principal
State whether these
statements are true of false:
1) Every
child is a potential achiever. (True)
2) All
children have same style of learning but different areas of interest. (False)
3) At
school, mathematics gave shivers to Hafeez Contractor. (True)
4) Hafeez
Contractor got a 80 per cent, in his SSC after studying sincerely. (False)
5) Gang
fights and strategies used to interest him more than academics. (True)
Fill in the blanks with
proper words:
|
offbeat , attitude, detested, cooperation, calling |
1) He
loved doing things but detested mechanical learning.
2) He
was offbeat even in the pranks that he played on others.
3) When
he found his calling, there was no looking back.
4) The
only disability in life is a bad attitude.
5) Cooperation
is doing with a smile what one anyhow has to do.
Match these words with their
meanings:
|
Word |
Meaning |
|
distraction |
unusual or unconventional |
|
strategies |
methods of winning fights |
|
offbeat |
smart by doing things independently/
by choice rather than force |
|
calling |
work or vocation of one’s
choice |
|
cakewalk |
something amusing and
pleasurable |
|
street smart |
smooth ride or something easy
to achieve |
Ans-
|
Word |
Meaning |
|
distraction |
something amusing and
pleasurable |
|
strategies |
methods of winning fights |
|
offbeat |
unusual or unconventional |
|
calling |
work or vocation of one’s
choice |
|
cakewalk |
smooth ride or something easy
to achieve |
|
street smart |
smart by doing things independently/
by choice rather than force |
Answer these questions:
Q1. What did Hafeez Contractor
have nightmares about?
Ans- Hafeez Contractor had nightmares about appearing for a
maths examination where he did not know anything.
Q2. What did the Principal say
to him, which influenced him deeply?
Ans- The words of the Principal that influenced him deeply
were; “I have been seeing you from day one. You are a good student, but you
never studied. I have taken care of you till today. Now, I can no longer take care
of you so you do it yourself.
Q3. “... that year I did not
step out onto the field.” What was he busy doing that year?
Ans- He was busy studying for his SSC examination that year.
4. (i) What “distraction” did
Hafeez Contractor create one day?
Ans- The distraction that Hafeez Contractor created one day was
playing ‘chor police’ for one whole hour.
(ii) Would you have liked to
participate in the “distraction” had you
been with him?
Ans- No, I would not like to participate in the “distraction”
if I had been with him. I have learnt from my coach that we should not do right
thing at the right time time.
Q5. Hafeez Contractor wanted to
join the police force. Why didn’t he?
Ans- Hafeez Contractor wanted to join the police force but
he didn’t do that because his mother insisted on doing graduation.
Q.6 In the architect’s office,
Hafeez Contractor was advised to drop
everything and join
architecture. Why?
Ans- After winning a
bet with one of the staff, the architect asked him to draw a few things and
design a house which he did. Seeing this the architect advised him to drop everything
and join architecture.
Q7 (i). What was Mrs. Gupta’s
advice to Hafeez Contractor?
Ans- Mrs. Gupta’s advised him to be an architect after
growing up.
(ii) What made her advise him
so?
Ans- After seeing his sketches, she advised him so.
Q.8 How did he help fellow
students who had lost a button?
Ans- He helped fellow students who had lost a button by
cutting a button from chalk.
Q.9 Which rules did he break as
a school boy?
Ans- As a schoolboy, he defied every rule like not doing
homework, behaving badly, copying in test, trying to get the question paper
etc. so that nobody would stop him from doing what he needed to do.
Q.10 What is Hafeez Contractor’s
definition of mathematics?
Ans- Math according to Hafeez Contractor is putting design,
construction, psychology, and sociology together to make a sketch.
Q.11 How would you want to
define mathematics? Do you like the subject?
Ans- I would like to define mathematics as something which
can not be limited to books and gives you joy like a best friend. I like the
subject very much.
Think Over it
Is it likely that someone who is
original and intelligent does not do very well at school? Should such a learner
be called a failure? If not, why not?
It is likely that someone who is original and intelligent
does not do very well at school. This because in school evaluation of students’
performance if based of some fixed parameters and many dimensions of their
personality remain unexplored.
Who, in your view, is an ‘unusual’
learner?
In my view an unusual learner is one who learns even those
things which are not in syllabus.
What can schools do to draw out
the best in unusual learners? Suggest whatever seems reasonable to you.
Unusual learners must be assessed correctly and they should
be given education in the fields of their interest so that they can become
useful for the society.
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