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CBSE Solutions Class 8 English It So Happened
Page No. 28
Comprehension Check
Q1. What did Hafeez contractor have nightmares about?
Answer: Hafeez contractor had nightmares about appearing in for a Maths examination where he did not know anything.
Q2. What did the Principal say to him, which influenced him deeply?
Answer: When Hafeez approached eleventh standard, the Principal called him and told him that he would no longer take care of him, and that he would have to start studying. He tried to make Hafeez realize that his mother had brought him up after so much trouble and that the time had come for him to rise to the occasion and study.
Q3. “… that year I did not step out onto the field.” What was he busy doing that year?
Answer: That vear Hafeez Contractor remained extremely busy in prayers, eating and studying. That is why he did not step out on to the field to play. It was due to the inspiring words of his Principal, who advised him to study.
Q4. (i) What “distraction” did Hafeez Contractor create one day?
Answer: Hafeez mentions how one day he did not want to study. Thus, he decided to create a “distraction”, and for one whole hour, he played ‘chor-police’ with his classmates.
(ii) Would you have liked to participate in the “distraction” had you been with him?
Answer: I would have participated in such a distraction if I were Hafeez Contractor.
Comprehension Check
Q1. Hafeez Contractor wanted to join the police force. Why didn’t he?
Answer: Hafeez Contractor was interested to join the police force, but his mother did not accept the prospect. Instead, she told him to complete his graduation first. Soon after that he joined Jaihind College in Bombay.
Q2. In the architect’s office, Hafeez Contractor was advised to drop everything and join architecture. Why?
Answer: It happened quite by chance. One day he saw somebody drawing a window design. He pointed out that the drawing was wrong, and the window would not open. And he was proved right. His cousin’s husband was surprised. He asked him to design a house and he did that. After that he told Hafeez to leave everything and join architecture.
Q3. (i) What was Mrs Gupta’s advice to Hafeez contractor?
Answer: Mrs Gupta’s advice to Hafeez Contractor was to become an architect on growing up.
She was Hafeez Contractor’s teacher in 3rd standard.
(ii) What made her advise him so?
Answer: She always said to him that he was quite useless in everything, except for his sketches, which were always very good. Therefore, she advised him to take up architecture.
Q4. How did he help fellow students who had lost a button?
Answer: His fellow student who had lost a button would come to him. Hafeez used to create a button by sculpting chalks. And button looked real. Hence, the student would get past dinner with a full neat uniform.
Q5. Which rules did he break as a school boy?
Answer: As a school boy, Hafeez used to be interested in games, running around, and playing jokes and pranks on others. He would copy in class during exams. He would try to get hold of the examination paper that had been prepared and study it, as he could not remember things that had been taught to him in class.
Q6. (i) What is Hafeez contractor’s definition of mathematics?
Answer: Hafeez contractor defines mathematics as putting designs, constructions, psychology and sociology together and making a sketch from all that.
(ii) How would you want to define mathematics? Do you like the subject?
Answer: I am not fond of mathematics. For me, it’s a mere play of symbols and numbers.
Excercise
Q1. 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?
Answer: A learner who is original and intelligent, but does not do very well at school cannot be called a failure in life. This is because every student has his/her own set of strengths and weaknesses. From this conversation between Ms. Bela Raja and Mr. Hafeez Contractor, we learn that being bright in academics is not enough to do well in life. A person should try to nurture his/her natural talent and polish it in order to stand out in a crowd. We observed that Hafeez was not so bright academically, but he had a hidden talent and knew how to draw beautiful sketches of different things such as forts, houses, etc. However, it is evident that an individual’s talent is not always visible in his/her academic records. Hence, such people should be encouraged to showcase their hidden talent and be appreciated for it, instead of considering them to be an utter failure.
Q2. Who, in your view, is an ‘unusual’ learner?
Answer: An unusual learner can be a genius in any subject. He will be different from the rest.
Q3. What can schools do to draw out the best in unusual learners? Suggest whatever seems reasonable to you.
Answer: The schools should encourage them to learn what they like best.
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