NCERT Solutions for Class 6 English
A Pact with the Sun NCERT Solutions for Class 6 A Pact with the Sun Chapter 8
A Pact with the Sun NCERT Text Book Questions and Answers
Question 1.
What did the physicians ask Saeeda’s mother to do to get well? Did their advice help her? If not, why?
Answer:
The physicians forbade Saeeda’s mother to have normal food and ordered her to remain perpetually confined to her small, dingy room with doors and windows fastened, deprived of sunshine and fresh air. No, their advice did not help her condition. Rather, it made it worse. This might be because she was deprived of fresh air and sunlight, which are essential for good health.
Question 2.
What did the specialist prescribe in addition to medicine?
Answer:
The specialist prescribed her to occupy a bigger room with doors and windows open. He asked her to make it a point to get ample quantities of sunlight and fresh air by soaking in the morning sun for an hour daily. He asked her to eat normal, healthy food and take her medicines regularly.
Question 3.
What did Saeeda tell the sum ays to do?
Answer:
Saeeda told the sunrays to come the next day with lots of warmth and brightness. She told the rays that her mother was ill and that she needed their help to make her feel better.
Question 4.
Why were the sunrays keen to go down to the earth the next day?
Answer:
The sunrays had made a promise to Saeeda to visit the earth the next day. So, they were keen to go down to the earth the next day. Besides, they did not want the earthlings to consider them as liars.
i. What is your own formula for keeping good health?
ii. Who would you recommend to a patient in your neighbourhood—the physicians contacted first or the specialist contacted next? Give reasons for your choice.
iii. When would you make a pact with the sun? When you are going on a picnic, or when you are playing a cricket match? Think of other occasions.
(Encourage the students to come up with individual answers.)
Answers.
i. My absolute formula for keeping good health is healthy food, dollops of laughter and oodles of happiness. Additionally, I think eating small meals at frequent intervals and drinking sufficient quantities of water is essential to good health. I would also recommend daily exercise to keep fit.
ii. If someone were unwell in my neighbourhood, I would advise them to see a physician first, who could recommend them to a specialist, if need be. This is because not every problem is a grave one, and we should let the doctors do their job.
iii. I would make a pact with the sun when I am playing a cricket match, or even when I travel to a new place. I would not like the sun to spoil my plans.