Chapter 9 A Tiger in the House Important Questions Class 7 An Alien Hand English
Short Answer Type Questions
Question 1. What did Grandfather do when he met Timothy in the cage of the zoo?
Answer
He put both his hands around the tigers head and stroked his forehead and tickled his ears.
Question 2. When the author took timothy put for walks, what would people do?
Answer
People would keep a quite safe distance from them.
Question 3. How long timely was, Grandfather found him?
Answer
He was about eighteen inches long.
Question 4. Whom did Grandfather find in the forest?
Answer
Grandfather found a tiny tiger-cub in the forest.
Question 5. Where was timothy hidden?
Answer
He was hidden among the intricate roots of a banyan tree.
Question 6. Where was the Zoo?
Answer
The zoo was in Lucknow.
Question 7. What did the old keeper say to Grandfather?
Answer
He said that timothy had died two months ago.
Question 8. How Timothy was brought up in the beginning?
Answer
He was brought up entirely on milk a feeding bottle.
Question 9. Where did he sleep at night?
Answer
He slept at night in the cook’s quarters.
Question 10. How did Grandfather take him to Lucknow?
Answer
By reserving a first class compartment for himself.
Question 11. What was the name given to the tiger cub?
Answer
The name given to the tiger cub is Timothy.
Question 12. How did timothy die?
Answer
He died of pneumonia.
Question 13. When Timothy was six months old, want changes came over him?
Answer
He became less friendly and rather dangerous.
Question 14. Why did Grandfather want to meet the superintendent of the Zoo?
Answer
Grandfather wanted the tiger to shift somewhere else, so he went to meet the superintendent.
Question 15. Why did Grandfather walk briskly out of the zoo?
Answer
He could not think of anything when he heard that timothy was dead.
Question 16. Where did grandfather found Timothy?
Answer
Grandfather found Timothy in the Terai jungle near Dehradun hiding among the intricate roots of a banyan tree.
Question 17. How was his relationship with the puppy?
Answer
Timothy initially was afraid of the puppy later he became friendly with him and allowed him to crawl on his back.
Question 18. Why was Timothy chained up?
Answer
Timothy was chained up because he became fierce and hunts chickens at night.
Question 19. In what way did grandfather make him quiet?
Answer
Grandfather stroked the tiger’s forehead and tickled his ear whenever he growled. He also smacked him across the mouth.
Question 20. What was the revelation made by the keeper?
Answer
The keeper revealed that Timothy died two months ago because of pneumonia.
Question 21. What happened six months later when the narrator’s grandparents visited lucknow?
Answer
After six months, the narrators grandparents visited to their relatives in Lucknow. Grandfather decided to see Timothy at the zoo. So he directly went to the zoo to meet his Timothy.
Question 22. How did Timothy play with the narrator?
Answer
The narrator told that with his bright eyes, he tried to come close. He rolled over on his back and kick with delight. It pretended to bite his ankles.
Question 23. What was the arrangement made for Timothy’s shifting?
Answer
Grandfather reserved a first-class compartment for himself and Timothy to take him to Lucknow zoo.
Question 24. What scared Timothy away on the cage?
Answer
Grandfather observed that Timothy was scared away by a leopard.
Question 25. What was the reaction of the grandfather on learning the death of Timothy?
Answer
Grandfather was scared yet he gently bade goodbye to the tiger.
Question 26. What was Timothy’s diet?
Answer
Timothy’s diet included milk, raw mutton and cod liver oil. He followed diet of pigeons and rabbits.
Question 27. How had Timothy changed with time?
Answer
Timothy grew into an adult tiger, and it became difficult to go for walk. People were scared of him. It became difficult to remove him from recliner where he prefer to take rest.
Question 28. What was unusual that attracted the attention of visitors and zoo authorities?
Answer
Visitors and zoo authorities were surprised to see the reunion of grandfather and the tiger.
Question 29. What did Grandfather decide?
Answer
Grandfather took decisions to transfer him to the zoo, because timothy’s dangerous and villainous intent to everyone.
Question 30. Who were the other companions of Timothy at grandfather’s house?
Answer
The companions of Timothy were Toto, the monkey, and a small mongrel puppy.
Question 31. How long did it take grandfather to meet Timothy?
Answer
Grandfather met Timothy after six months when he went to Lucknow to visit his relatives.
Question 32. Why was grandfather eager to meet authorities?
Answer
Grandfather did not like that Timothy was scared to hell by leopard. Out of concern, he wanted the authorities to change cage for Timothy.
Question 33. How did Grandfather take timothy to Lucknow?
Answer
He took timothy to Lucknow by reserving a first class compartment for Timothy and himself too, where no other passengers would share that compartment with them.
Question 34. What did Grandfather do when he saw the tiger in the zoo?
Answer
Grandfather went forward the cage and said ‘Hello timothy” and put his arm through the bars of the cage. The tiger too approached the bars and grandfather put both of his hands around his head.
Question 35. What timothy was given to eat?
Answer
At the beginning he was brought up entirely on milk given by their cook in a feeding bottle. But later milk proved too heavy for him and was put on diet of raw mutton and cod liver oil.
Question 36. What was grandmother’s prophecy about the cook? Did it come true?
Answer
Grandmother’s prophecy about that cook was the one-day Timothy would make a meal of Mahmoud. It did not come true. However, the tiger had begun to stalk. Mahmoud about the house with a villainous intent.
Long Answer Type Questions
Question 1. ‘Love begets love’. How far this phrase applies to the story?
Answer
Grandfather was fond of bringing home the deserted animals. Once he brought a tiger cub. He fed it up with a milk bottle. He coexisted and played with other animals, Toto, the monkey and a small mongrel puppy. Until he became threat to his surrounding, he was kept at home. When an unknown tiger was loved and patted by the grandfather, he was tamed as well. He responded to the love.
Question 2. Why did Grandfather want Timothy to be put in another enclosure?
Answer
Grandfather wanted Timothy to be put in another enclosure as the leopard in the next cage would constantly rush at Timothy. Whenever this happened, the frightened Timothy would sink to a comer.
Question 3. What changes occurs when Timothy was six months old?
Answer
When he was about six months old, Timothy grew less friendly with everyone. When he was taken out for a walk, he used to scare and snatch the street cats and pet dogs. Even at night grandparents would hear the cackling from the poultry house and next morning there would be feathers lying on the ground. Therefore, he was often put on a chain.
Question 4. What changes appeared on him when he was six months old?
Answer
When he was about six months old, he become less friendly with everyone and also dangerous. Often he had to be chained up at home. He used to scare the cats and dogs in the road.
Question 5. How did Grandfather find the tiger cub?
Answer
Once Grandfather was strolling down the forest path at some distance. Suddenly he discovered tiny tiger, cub, hiding among the intricate roots of a banyan tree, Grandfather picked him up and brought home.
Question 6. Whom did Timothy afraid of?
Answer
Timothy seemed to be quite afraid of the small mongrel puppy. Timothy would rush back a spring if the puppy came too near to him. But later, he allowed the puppy to move forward slowly on his back and rest there.
Question 7. Describe the true companions of Timothy?
Answer
Timothy had two companions like the monkey and the dog. They monkey was named as Toto, he was a very courageous animals and he used to pull Timothy by his tail and later climb up the certain when timothy loses him temper. And there was a small mongrel puppy, who was found by Grandfather on the rood. Timothy was quite sourced of him and rushed back with a spring if the puppy comes near him at the beginning. But finally, Timothy allowed him to crawl on his back and rest too.
Question 8. What did the old keeper say to Grandfather?
Answer
The old keeper in a stammering manner said that this tiger does not belong to him because Grandfather tiger, i.e. Timothy had died ago months before due to pneumonia. And the tiger who was in the cage was trapped in the hills last months and was very dangerous. This made Grandfather Heartbreaks and with deep sorrow he left the zoo by wishing the tiger “Goodnight Timothy”.
Question 9. What made Grandfather decide to transfer Timothy to the zoo?
Answer
When Timothy was about six-month old, he grew less friendly. When out for a walk with the author, he would try to steal away to stalk a cat or someone’s pet dog. Sometimes at night they heard frenzied cackling from the poultry house, and in the morning, feathers were lying all over all verandah. And finally, when he began to stalk Mahmoud about the house with what looked like villainous intent, Grandfather decide to transfer Timothy to the zoo.
Question 10. Brief describes Timothy?
Answer
Timothy was little tiger cub found by Grandfather in the Terai jungles near Dehra. He was about eighteen inches long. He was named ‘Timothy’ by Grandmother. Timothy was playful and he has his companions like Toto, the monkey and a small puppy.
Question 11. What was the decision of Grandfather and days?
Answer
The decision of Grandfather was to transfer timothy to the zoo. Because timothy was growing less friendly and more dangerous those days. His villainous intent to everyone makes Grandfather to transfer him to the zoo. Grandfather took him to Lucknow, in the zoo authorities where a welt fed and civilised tiger were put in.
Question 12. What values of grandfather impressed you the most? Which ones would you like to imbibe?
Answer
The narrator portrayed grandfather with an essence of humanity. His generosity and kindness was the most impressive ones. He was caring enough to meet Timothy even in zoo. He asked authorities to change his cage because he was afraid of a leopard. His love and care impressed the zoo authorities. They were scared of the dangerous tiger into a meek one who allows an unknown man to pat and tickle his ears, had shocked them.
Question 13. What shocked Grandfather in the end?
Answer
Grandfather visited the zoo after six months to see Timothy and went to the cage where he was put in straight away. When Grandfather asked the keeper to transfer Timothy to another cage, he said that the tiger in the cage was not Timothy. He was informed by the zoo keeper that his tiger Timothy had died two months ago, which shocked him in the end.
Question 14. How timothy was brought up?
Answer
Timothy was found by Grandfather, while he was strolling down the forest. He was almost eighteen inches long, hiding under the roots of a banyan tree. Therefore, he was brought home. Grandmother named him ‘Timothy’ and he was a very lovable tiger cub. He was given milk in a feeding bottle by their cook at the very beginning. But it was found that proved to be too heavy for him. Later he was put on diet of raw mutton, cod liver oil, pigeons and rabbits. Thus, everyone took care of him very well.
Question 15. What happened when Grandfather visited to the zoo after six month?
Answer
When he reached the zoo, he sprightly move forward to the cage where Timothy was kept he saw the tiger behind the bars of the cage and said “Hello Timothy” The Tiger too approached the bars and Grandfather put his both hands around his head, also stroked the tigers forehead and tickled his ears too. Even though the tiger was very dangerous, he became calm and quite when Grandfather cuddled him. He too ticked Grandfather’s hands.