NCERT Solutions for Class 7 English
The Bear Story NCERT Solutions for Class 7 English An Alien Hand Chapter 8
The Bear Story NCERT Text Book Questions and Answers
The Bear Story Exercises Question and Answer
Answer the following questions.
Question 1.
Where did the lady find the bear cub? How did she bring it up?
Answer:
The lady found the bear cub in the forest, half dead of hunger. It was so small and helpless that the lady had to bring it up on the bottle.
Question 2.
The bear grew up but “he was a most amiable bear”. Give three examples to prove this.
Answer:
The bear was a most amiable bear. He used to sit outside his kennel and look with his small intelligent eyes most amicably at the cattle grazing in the field nearby.
The children used to ride on his back and had more than once been found asleep in his kennel between his two paws. The three dogs loved to play all sorts of games with him, pull his ears and his stump of a tail and tease him in every way, but he did not mind it in the least.
Question 3.
What did the bear eat? There were two things he was not allowed to do. What were they?
Answer:
The bear ate apples, bread, porridge, potato, cabbage and turnip. He was nQt allowed to climb the apple trees to eat apples or to go near beehives.
Question 4.
When was the bear tied up with a chain? Why?
Answer:
The bear was tied up with a chain during the night so that it would not run away to the forest at night. He was also put on the chain on Sundays when his mistress went to spend the afternoon with her married sister.
Question 5.
What happened one Sunday when the lady was going to her sister’s house? What did the lady do? What was the bear’s reaction?
Answer:
One Sunday when the lady was going to her sister’s house, she had reached halfway through the forest when she heard the cracking of a tree branch. She looked back, and saw the bear coming towards her. He sat at her heels like a dog and began to sniffle at her.
First she sternly asked him to go back home. When he kept sniffling at her, she hit him on his nose with her parasol so hard that it broke into two. The bear stopped for a moment, shook his head and opened his big mouth several times as if he wanted to say something. Then he turned round and began to shuffle back.
Question 6.
Why was the bear looking sorry for himself in the evening? Why did the cook get angry with her mistress?
Answer:
The bear was looking sorry for himself in the evening because he had been waiting for so long for his mistress to come back home. The cook got angry with her mistress because she treated the bear like her own son and could not bear it when the lady scolded him for no reason. He had done nothing to deserve all that scolding.
Discuss the following topics in groups.
Question 1.
Most people keep dogs and cats as pets. Can you think of some unusual pets that people keep?
(Encourage the students to discuss the given topics in groups.)
Answer:
Some unusual pets that people keep include monkeys, iguanas, spiders, coyotes, turtles, guinea pigs and tortoises.”
Question 2.
The second bear did not attack the lady because he was afraid of her. Do you agree?
Answer:
The second bear did not attack the lady because he had no intention of attacking her. After catching her mid-way through the forest, he sat at her heels like a dog. He sniffled at her and did not stop until the lady firmly told him to stop.
He was caught by surprise when he saw that she was not at all scared of him. This made him respect her even more. Perhaps he wanted nothing more than the lady to shower some affection on him. So, when she hit him on his nose with her parasol, he felt hurt. He went back to his place looking back at her till the time she lost sight of him. This shows that he was hurt on receiving a bad treatment from the lady.