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CBSE Solutions Class 8 English It So Happened
Page No. 38
Comprehension Check
Q1. How many daughters did the royal couple have?
Answer: A royal couple of Siam had nine daughters who they named following the name of the month.
Q2. Why were they named after the months of the year?
Answer: The princesses were named after the months of the year because the Queen of Siam found it difficult to remember so many names. Hence, the King decided to name the princesses as per the months of a calendar year.
Q3. The King had a peculiar habit. What was it? Why is it called peculiar?
Answer: The peculiar habit of the king was to give gifts on his birthday rather than receive them. Usually people get gifts on their birthdays.
Q4. (i) What was Princess September’s reaction to the loss of her parrot?
Answer: Princess September wept and wept. She could not be comforted. She was put to sleep
without supper.
(ii) What was her mother’s reaction to it?
Answer: Her mother declared it as nonsense, and said that she should go to bed without any supper.
(iii) What do the reactions indicate about the nature and temperament of each?
Answer: The princess September’s behaviour indicate that she was a sensitive, sentimental and kind hearted girl. The queen behaviour is little harsh. She did not understand her daughter’s grief and console her.
Q5. What pulled the Princess out of her gloom?
Answer: A little bird came out of nowhere and hopped into the Princess’ room. Then he began to sing a beautiful song all about the lake in the King’s garden and the willow trees that looked at themselves in the still water and the goldfish that glided in and out of the branches that were reflected in it.
Q6. How did the Maids of Honour come to know that the Princess and the bird had become intimate friends?
Answer: The Maids of Honour advised the Princess to get a new parrot and put it in a cage. But Princess September did not pay any heed to their advice. She liked the new bird, who sang sweet songs for her. She felt very sad when the little bird had gone out to his father-in-law’s house. But she welcomed him when he came back. She even freed him from the cage as she loved him. This was enough for the Maids of Honour to know that the Princess and the bird had become intimate friends.
Q7. The new bird was full of new songs but the old parrots always repeated themselves. What did they say?
Answer: All the old parrots could say ‘God save the king’ and some of them could even say ‘Pretty Polly’ in seven languages.
Q8. What is the King’s opinion about his Councillors? Why did he form that opinion?
Answer: The King said that the parrots repeating ‘Pretty Polly’ in seven different languages reminded him of his Councillors saying the same thing in seven different ways and meant nothing depending on which way they said it.
This was similar to the way the parrots keep on repeating what they had learned, without understanding the meaning of what they said.
Q9. (i) The eight Princesses made an offer to Princess September. What was it?
Answer: The eight Princesses were jealous of Princess September’s singing bird. Hence, they made an offer to buy her a lovely green and yellow parrot by contributing from their pocket-money together.
(ii) Why, in your view, did they do it?
Answer: They did that because they felt jealous of the song bird’s friendship with Princess September.
Q10. What did the sisters advise the Princess to do about her bird?
Answer: The sisters advised the Princess to put the little bird into the cage.
Comprehension Check
Q1. In the following sentence elaborate the parts given in bold. Under the circumstances it was a very unfortunate remark for the bird to make.
Answer: Under the circumstances
After what her sisters advised her to do, the Princess was worried about the bird. She feared that the bird might forget her or start liking someone else. She felt that in such a circumstance, she would lose her little pet.
A very unfortunate remark
On returning, the bird said that it very nearly did not come back that night as its father-in-law was giving a party and had wanted it to stay. This was the last thing that the princess wanted to hear as it only confirmed her fears.
Q2. (i) What did Princess September do to ensure the safety of her pet?
Answer: Princess September put the little bird in a cage to ensure his safety.
(ii) How did the bird react to it?
Answer: The bird reacted to it very strongly. He did not want to be in cage at all. He wanted full freedom.
Q3. Why did the bird refuse to be taken out in her cage?
Answer: Princess September promised to take the bird out every day to enable him to see the trees, the fields and the lake. But the bird refused her offer. He demanded full freedom. He said seeing the sky and the fields from inside the cage were not the same things as watching them in freedom.
Q4.(i) What persuaded Princess September to give the bird his freedom again?
Answer: The Princess noticed the bird almost dead the following morning. He had stopped eating anything. He had stopped singing at all. It didn’t open up its eyes yet. This persuaded the Princess to offer the bird freedom again.
(ii) How did the bird react to it?
Answer: The bird was filled with joy and happiness when the Princess freed him from the golden cage. He opened his wings and flew right away into the blue in far lands and promised the Princess that he would return and sing songs for her whenever she wanted.
Q5. Princess September kept her window open day and night.
(i) How did it help the bird?
Answer: The bird opened his wings and flew away.
(ii) How did it help the Princess herself?
Answer: It helped the Princess to be extremely beautiful. When she was mature enough she was married to the King of Cambodia.
Q6. The eight sisters kept their windows shut. How did it affect them?
Answer: The eight sisters grew extremely ugly and disagreeable. This was because they kept their windows shut.
Excercise
Q1. Are the sisters unkind and cruel? Find evidence in the text to support your idea.
Answer: Yes, it is very evident that the eight sisters were jealous of the bird and cruel to it. They advised September to keep her pet in the cage and be firm with it. They said that the bird was ungrateful. ‘If he’s obstinate and dies it’ll serve him right and you will be well rid of him. They said.
Q2.Which, to you, is the most important idea in this story, and why?
(i)importance of music
(ii) value of freedom
(iii) beauty of nature
Answer: The main theme of the story is the value of freedom. It illustrates that even love takes a second place to freedom. The bird can only sing when it is free. It is the only thing that makes him happy. He has a desire to see the blue sky, water, green grass and trees. The freedom to do so is dearer to him than everything else in the world. He almost dies with the lack of freedom. Similarly, all living beings are given their free will by the Maker. It is wrong to take that away from them. We must uphold the values of freedom and liberty. Without them, life would never have the same meaning as with them.
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