Chapter 1 Three Questions Important Questions Class 7 Honeycomb English
Short Answer Type Questions
Question 1. What had compelled the king to leave his guards and horse?
Answer
The king knew that the hermit meet only ordinary man so left behind his horse and bodyguards and went to meet the hermit in his hut in the woods all alone.
Question 2. Where did the king and wounded bearded man stay that night?
Answer
The king and wounded bearded man stayed at hermit’s hut that night.
Question 3. How did the bearded man wound?
Answer
When he was waiting at the hiding place for the king to return, but the king did not return, so he left his hiding-place, and he came upon your bodyguard, who recognized him and wounded him.
Question 4. What did the king do to get an answer to these questions?
Answer
The king sent messengers throughout his kingdom, promising a large sum of money to anyone who would answer these three questions.
Question 5. Was the king satisfied with the answers? What he did next?
Answer
No, the king was not satisfied as the answers to his questions were so different and he gave no reward to anyone. He decided to seek the advice of a certain hermit, who was widely known for his wisdom.
Question 6. Why was the king happy?
Answer
The king was very happy to have made peace with his enemy so easily and to have won him over as a friend. He not only forgave him but said he would send his servants and his doctor to look after him, and he promised to give back the man his property.
Question 7. What is the most important time according to the hermit?
Answer
There is only one important time and that time is “Now”. It is the most important time because it is the only time we have any power to act.
Question 8. Messengers were sent throughout the kingdom
(i) to fetch wise men.
(ii) to find answers to the questions.
(iii) to look for the wise hermit.
(iv) to announce a reward for those who could answer the questions.
Mark your choice.
Answer
(ii) to find answers to the questions.
Long Answer Type Questions
Question 1. How the king and the hermit did save his life?
Answer
The king and the hermit removed the man’s clothing and found a large wound in his stomach. The king washed and covered it with his handkerchief, but the blood would not stop flowing. The king re-dressed the wound until at last, the bleeding stopped. The man felt better and asked for something to drink. The king brought fresh water and gave it to him.
Question 2. King has right sense of judgement. Do you agree or not? Give examples in support of your answer.
Answer
The king wanted to be a good ruler and has a fair sense of judgement. He was seeking answers for the three questions which he thought would help him in his mission. The king was kindhearted, when he found the old man tired of digging the ground, he offered him his help. He kept on bandaging the bearded man’s wound until blood stopped coming out from it. He was down to earth, he dressed up like a common man spent the night sleeping on floor at the hermit hut. He forgive the wrong and promised to help him in every possible way.
Question 3. (i) Who was the bearded mem?
(ii) Why did he ask for the king’s forgiveness?
Answer
(i) The bearded man was an enemy of the king. He wanted to take revenge of his brother’s death by killing the king and taking away all his property.
(ii) The bearded man asked for the king’s forgiveness because he wanted to kill but the king has saved his life. He was grateful to the king now.
Answer
In answer to king’s first the hermit said that there is only one important time ‘Now’. It is the only time when you have power to act. In answer to king’s second question, the hermit said that the most important person is the one with whom we are at the present. In response to king’s second question, the hermit answered that the most important things to do is to do that person good. I like the answers of the first the most because time has the supreme power. It can take you to height if you do something good and can also make you fall on ground if you won’t act in presence. One should live and act according to present.
Question 5. The king is the main character of the story. Explain giving three examples.
Answer
The whole story revolves around the king. The king had known the hermit’s nature of meeting only ordinary men. So, he gave up his king’s attire, left behind his soldiers and the horse and went alone to meet him. He offered the hermit his help in digging the ground. He did this till evening. This helped him avoid the attack planned by the bearded man. He helped the bearded man bandaging his wound and offered him water. He saved his life. This helped him made friends with his enemy.
Answer
The lung wasn’t carried away with immature suggestions of his courtiers. The king found the old hermit tried digging the beds so he offered his help to the man. He was accustomed of comfort and lavishness in his palace still at hermit’s home he slept on the floor. At our homes we get all the luxuries but if one day there comes a situation where we have to live without them we should be prepared for that. At the end, we must say that he was an embodiment of intellect humility and decisive in true sense.
Question 7. The king helped the hermit digging the beds. He even slept on the floor of the hut and lived like a simple man in the hermit hut. What lesson we learnt from this?
Answer
The lung wasn’t carried away with immature suggestions of his courtiers. The king found the old hermit tried digging the beds so he offered his help to the man. He was accustomed of comfort and lavishness in his palace still at hermit’s home he slept on the floor. At our homes we get all the luxuries but if one day there comes a situation where we have to live without them we should be prepared for that. At the end, we must say that he was an embodiment of intellect humility and decisive in true sense.
Question 8. What were the hermit’s answers to the three questions? Write each answer separately. Which answer do you like most, and why?
Answer
In answer to king’s first question the hermit said that there is only one important time ‘Now’. It is the only time when you have power to act. In answer to king’s second question, the hermit said that the most important person is the one with whom we are at the present. In response to king’s second question, the hermit answered that the most important things to do is to do that person good. I like the answers of the first question the most because time has the supreme power. It can take you to height if you do something good and can also make you fall on ground if you won’t act in presence. One should live and act according to present.
Extract Based Questions
Extract 1.
In reply to the first question, some said the king must prepare a timetable, and then follow it strictly. Only in this way, they said, could he do everything at its proper time. Others said that it was impossible to decide in advance the right time for doing something. The king should notice all that was going on, avoid foolish pleasures, and always do whatever seemed necessary at that time. Yet others said that the king needed a council of wise men who would help him act at the proper time. This was because one man would find it impossible to decide correctly, without help from others, the right time for every action.
(i) What was the advice of people on making timetable?
(ii) What was the reason of opposing the timetable?
(iii) In their opinion, what the king should do?
(iv) How would the council of wise men be help to the king?
(v) What is a ‘council’?
Answer
(i) They advised him to prepare timetable to complete everything on time.
(ii) A few people opposed it because they felt that it was impossible to decide in advance for doing something;
(iii) The king should avoid pleasure and always be vigilante.
(iv) The council of wise men would give advice to the king to decide correctly for every action.
(v) It is a group of people chosen to give advice.
Extract 2.
The hermit lived in a wood which he never left. He saw no one but simple people, and so the king put on ordinary clothes. Before he reached the hermit’s hut the king left his horse with his bodyguard, and went on alone. As the king came near the hermit’s hut, he saw the hermit digging the ground in front of his hut. He greeted the king and continued digging. The hermit was old and weak, and as he worked, he breathed heavily.
(i) Where did the hermit live?
(ii) Why did the king choose to wear ordinary clothes?
(iii) What was the hermit doing when the king visit him?
(iv) Why was he breathing heavily?
(v) Convert the adjective for “heavy’ into adverb.
Answer
(i) The hermit lived in a jungle.
(ii) The hermit saw simple people only, so the king put on simple clothes to visit him.
(iii) The hermit was digging the ground in front of his hut when the king visited him.
(iv) He was breathing heavily while digging the grounds, because he was old and weak.
(v) Heavily.
Extract 3.
The king turned round and saw a bearded man running towards them. His hands were pressed against his stomach, from which blood was flowing. When he reached the king he fainted and fell to the ground. The king and the hermit removed the man’s clothing and found a large wound in his stomach. The king washed and covered it with his handkerchief, but the blood would not stop flowing. The king re-dressed the wound until at last the bleeding stopped.
(i) Whom did the king see when he turned around?
(ii) What happened to the man?
(iii) What did the king do to stop blood flowing?
(iv) Had the efforts of the king to stop blood paid off?
(v) Who is a ‘Hermit’?
Answer
(i) The king saw a bearded man running toward him.
(ii) The man was injured and when he reached the king, he fainted.
(iii) The king washed the wound and covered it with his handkerchief.
(iv) Yes, the efforts of the king had paid off. The king dressed his wound until the bleeding stopped.
(v) Hermit is a person who lives in solitude.
Extract 4.
“You do not know me, but I know you. I am that enemy of yours who swore revenge on you, because you put my brother to death and seized my property. I knew you had gone alone to see that hermit, and I made up my mind to kill you on your way home. But the day passed and you did not return. So I left my hiding-place, and I came upon your bodyguard, who recognised me and wounded me. I escaped from him but I should have died if you had not dressed my wounds. I wished to kill you, and you have saved my life. Now, if I live, I will serve you as your most faithful servant and will order my sons to do the same. Forgive me!”
(i) Why did he call the Jing his‘enemy’?
(ii) Where did he decide to kill the king?
(iii) Why did he come out of his hiding place?
(iv) What did body guards do when they recognized him?
Answer
(i) Write past participle of ‘forgive’.
(ii) The king was his enemy as he killed his brother and seized his property. He decided to kill the king on his way back home.
(iii) He waited for long but the king did not come out of the hermit’s hut. So when he in his desperation came out of his hiding place.
(iv) The bodyguards attacked him and wounded him.
(v) Forgiven.