Chapter 8 A Bicycle in Good Repair Important Questions Class 7 Honeycomb English
Short Answer Type Questions
Question 1. What did the friend say by looking at the author’s bicycle?
Answer
He said, “That’s a good looking machine of yours. How does it run?”
Question 2. What did the author’s friend do next after he look out the front wheel?
Answer
He unscrewed something somewhere, and out rolled all over the path so little balls.
Question 3. What did the author’s friend do with the bicycle’s chain?
Answer
He lightened it till it would not move and next loosened it until was twice as loose as it was before.
Question 4. What did the author find about his friend?
Answer
That his friend was inexperienced and knew nothing about repairing a bicycle.
Question 5. Where did the author keep the balls?
Answer
In his hat.
Question 6. What did the friend do which the author was away looking for a hammer?
Answer
The friend look out the front wheel of the cycle.
Question 7. What did the friends do next after unscrewing the balls?
Answer
He took of the gear case so easily, but had a nightmare while fixing it back to its place.
Question 8. What did the author’s friend want to do after applying his tricks on the cycle?
Answer
The author’s friend seemed to be contended and now wanted to put all the pieces back into their place.
Question 9. Why was the author happy?
Answer
The author and his friend planned to go for ride on his bicycle. So, he woke up early than usual and that made him happy.
Question 10. Why could not the narrator stop the man?
Answer
The narrator was weak and couldn’t gather the strength to say no to stop the man from further damaging the machine.
Question 11. What was the complaint of the boy?
Answer
The boy complained that the cycle goes ‘a little stiffy after lunch’.
Question 12. What goes in the mind of the boy?
Answer
The boy wanted to kick the man for manhandling his machine.
Question 13. Why was the author not able to stop his friend from doing machines with his bicycle?
Answer
Because the author was weak when it comes to hurting other people feeling and could not stop his friend from causing damage to the bicycle.
Question 14. How did the bicycle look in the end?
Answer
The bicycle looked as if it also had enough of it, and had received most punishment it would have been difficult to say.
Question 15. How the author spoiled the entire day of the narrator?
Answer
The author’s friend dismantled the bicycle parts one-by-one for the entire day and then he spent the entire day fixing them at their place. Thus the day was wasted.
Question 16. What did he observe when he came back from tool shed?
Answer
The boy found the man was turning the wheel of the cycle round between his fingers and other parts were lying on the ground.
Question 17. What did the author see when he came back from the tool shed?
Answer
The author came back and saw that his friend was sitting on the ground with the front wheel between his legs.
Question 18. What was the situation when the author’s friend unscrewed something in the bicycle?
Answer
When the author’s friend unscrewed something somewhere, so little balls came out from the bicycle and rolled over the path. They growled round for half an hour, and found sixteen.
Question 19. What let the man the ‘Middle one’?
Answer
The narrator was weak and he could not hurt feelings of others. So he let him muddle on with his bicycle.
Question 20. Was the bicycle repaired?
Answer
No the bicycle was not repaired at all. It was totally manhandled by an inexperienced person.
Question 21. The friend shook the bicycle violently. Find two or three sentences in the text which express the author’s disapproval of it.
Answer
(i) “Don’t do that; you’ll hurt it”
(ii) “It doesn’t if you don’t wobble it.”
(iii) “Don’t you trouble about it any more; You will make yourself tired.”
Question 22. How did the author encourage his friend to re fix the gear-case?
Answer
The author encouraged his friend by saying that it was not only his skill that fascinates the author but also his cheery confidence in himself and his inexplicable hopefulness.
Long Answer Type Questions
Question 1. What did common sense continue whisper in the author’s mind?
Answer
The word that whispered, “Stop him, before he does any more mischief. You have a right to protect your own property from damage of a mad person. Take him by the scruff of the next and kick him out of the gate”. But the author was weak when it comes to hurting other people feelings and couldn’t stop his friend from causing damage to the bicycle.
Question 2. Explain – ‘trust too providence’.
Answer
The man did not have knowledge of cycle repairing. He was just hit and trying everything. Because he was not sure that he could repair the bicycle, he asked the boy to have faith in powers of God.
Question 3. What was the regret of the narrator regarding the ball – bearing?
Answer
Author’s friend unscrewed the ball bearings without informing him. They started rolling on the ground and then might have lost some of it there. Then the author kept them in his hat which was later blown away by the wind because of which they again lost five of those bearings.
Question 4. Describe ‘the fight’ between the man and the machine. Find the relevant sentences in the text and write them.
Answer
On one moment the bicycle would be on the gravel path, and he on top of it. Next moment, the position would be reversed, he on the gravels path, the bicycle on him. Now he would be standing flushed with victory. The bicycle firmly fixed between his legs. But his triumph would be short-lived. After being dirty and disheveled, cut and bleeding ‘the fight between the man and the machine’ was over. The bicycle looked as if it also had enough of it.
Question 5. The lesson teaches a moral lesson that half knowledge is a dangerous thing. Elucidate.
Answer
The lesson is a story of a timid boy who could not hurt the feelings of a man whose adventure turned disaster. He was not a technician yet he shook the bicycle and dismantled it beyond repairs. The man should have been responsible. He should have proper knowledge of his surroundings to help others when required. He should have respected the sentiments of the body. He left the boy heartbroken, who was in mood of having a cycle ride. But his mood has spoiled.
Question 6. Was the boy scared or hesitant what would you do if you have to face such problem?
Answer
The boy was happy to go for a ride on bicycle. But the man spoiled his day and damaged the bicycle. The boy observed everything silently; he should have stopped him from dismantling his bicycle. All he needed was little courage. He did not want to hurt him whereas the man kept on damaging his bicycle. The boy was not scared of anything, he was just hesitant. And if I were in his place, I would have stopped him taking advantage any further.
Question 7. ‘The bicycle had received punishment’. Who was more guilty?
Answer
The bicycle was damaged beyond repairs. The boy shares equal responsibility because it belongs to him. He should have stopped the man on the other hand, the man who knows nothing should not have taken advantage of the boy’s simplicity.
Question 8. “Nothing is easier than taking off the gear-case.” Comment on or continue this sentence in the light of what actually happens.
Answer
This sentence was said in the sense that taking off the gear case was an easy task. Actually the author tried to dissuade him from taking off the gear-case by telling him that his one of the friend said that if anything went wrong with gear-case, he can sell the machine and buy a new one; it comes cheaper. But he said that nothing is easier than taking off a gear-case and author’s friend didn’t have knowledge about machine. In less than five minutes. He had the gear-case in two pieces lying on the path and was grovelling for screw.
Question 9. How did the author say to encourage his friend to fix the gear – case?
Answer
They author said that it was fascinating to observe his friend working on the bicycle. He called his confidence as cheery and the hopefulness as inexplicable. His friend found these words to be encouraging and started re-fixing the gear – case.
Question 10. Why was the man exhausted at the end? Was it justified or not.
Answer
The author’s friend was completely tired. He was soiled with oil and dirt. He was found fixing the parts of the bicycle extremely tough. He did futile effort and spoiled the setting of the bicycle to the extent that it was repairable. No his act was not justified at all.
Question 11. Describe the day of the author and his friend?
Answer
The author’s friend proposed him that they should go for a bicycle ride on the following day. His friend was half an hour late and the author was waiting for him in the garden. But the ride did not happen because his friend dismantled the bicycle parts one by one for the whole day and then he spent the entire day fixing the parts of the bicycle. Thus, he was completely tired, dirty and dishevelled. In the end, he sent his friend back home.
Question 12. How did the author’s friend try building the bicycle?
Answer
When the author’s friend was refixing the dismantled parts of the bicycle, he lost his temper and tried building the thing. The bicycle, I was glad to see, should spirit; and the subsequent proceedings degenerated into little else than a rough and tumble was between him and the machine.
Extract Based Questions
Extract 1
A man I knew proposed one evening we should go for a long bicycle ride together on the following day, and I agreed. I got up early, for me; I made an effort, and was pleased with myself. He came half an hour late; I was waiting for him in the garden. It was a lovely day. He said, “That’s a good looking machine of yours. How does it run?” “Oh, like most of them!” I answered; “easily enough in the morning; goes a little stiffly after lunch.
(i) Who is T in the above lines?
(ii) What was his plan?
(iii) Why was he ‘pleased’ with himself?
(iv) What was the complaint about the cycle?
(v) Give antonym of ‘stiffly’
Answer
(i) T is the boy who owns the cycle.
(ii) His plan was to go out for cycling in the morning.
(iii) He was pleased because he got up early that he usually do.
(iv) He complaints that the cycle was a little stiffly after lunch.
(v) Smoothly, Softly.
Extract 2
He said, “This is dangerous; have you got a hammer?” I ought to have been firm, but I through that Perhaps he really did know something about the business. I went to the tool shed to see what I could find . When I came back he was sitting on the ground with the front remnant of the machine was lying on the gravel path beside.
(i) Why did he ask for hammer?
(ii) What was the impression of the boy?
(iii) What did the boy see when he came back?
(iv) Where were the remnants of bicycle lying?
(v) What is the meaning of twiddling?
Answer
(i) He asked for hammer because he found the dangerous condition of the bicycle.
(ii) The boy has impressioned that the technician might be knowledgeable about cycle.
(iii) The boy saw that the man was sitting on the ground with front wheel between his legs.
(iv) The remnants of bicycle were lying on the gravel path beside him.
(v) Turning.
Extract 3
He they said that while he was about it he would see to the chain for me, and at once began taking off the gear-case. I did try to dissuade him to from that. I told him what an experienced friend of mine once said to me solemnly: “If anything goes wrong with your gear-case, sell the machine and buy a new one; It comes cheaper.” He said, “People talk like that who understand nothing about machines. Nothing is easier than taking off a gear-case.”
(i) What did he begin doing with the bicycle?
(ii) What did he say about his friend advice?
(iii) Was he successful in stopping the man?
(iv) What was the reply of the man?
(v) Give antonym of ‘dissuade’.
Answer
(i) He began taking off the gear case.
(ii) He said that if the gear case not functioning properly, the machine should be sold off.
(iii) No, he wasn’t successful.
(iv) The man replied that nothing was easier than taking off a gear – case.
(v) Persuade.
Extract 4
Then he lost his temper and tried bullying the thing. The bicycle, I was glad to see, showed spirit; and the subsequent proceeding degenerated into little else than a rough-and-tumble fight between him and the machine. One moment the bicycle would be on the gravel path, and he on top of it; the next, the position would be reversed – he on the gravel path, the bicycle on him. Now he would be standing flushed with victory, the bicycle firmly fixed between his legs. But his triumph would be short-lived. By a sudden, quick movement it would free itself and, turning upon him, hit him sharply over the head with one of its handles.
(i) Whom was the man bullying?
(ii) Explain: showed spirit.
(iii) Choose the lines that shows the bicycle wasn’t repaired?
(iv) Why did he says that his ‘triumph would be short lived’?
(v) Change adverb sharply into noun.
Answer
(i) The man was bullying the bicycle.
(ii) The man was trying hard to repair the bicycle. Although he dismantled it so badly, yet bicycle was repaired to the extent it could be tested foraride.
(iii) The write explained ‘One moment the bicycle would be on the gravel path, and he on top of it; the next, the position would be reversed – he on the gravel path, the bicycle on him.’
(iv) The bicycle was not thoroughly repaired because of the naive technician. Initially it showed some signs of recovery but later he failed in it.
(v) Sharpness.