Chapter 5 Golu grows a Nose Important Questions Class 7 An Alien Hand English
Short Answer Type Questions
Question 1. What was ‘advantage number one’?
Answer
Golu hit the fly with his elongated nose which was disturbing him. Then python reacted by saying it to be his advantage number one.
Question 2. Which uncle of Golu had red eyes?
Answer
Golu’s huge uncle hippopotamus had red eyes.
Question 3. Who helped Golu on the bank of the river?
Answer
The python helped Golu on the bank of the river.
Question 4. The crocodile lay on the bank of the Limpopo River. Golu thought it was:
(i) a living crocodile.
(ii) a dead crocodile.
(iii) a log of wood.
Answer
Golu thought it was a log of wood.
Question 5. How did the python rescued Golu?
Answer
The python coiled himself round Golu’s stomach and asked him to pull himself from clutches of the crocodile.
Question 6. Where did mynah suggest him to go?
Answer
Mynah suggested Golu to go to the banks of the great, grassy Limpopo River.
Question 7. How long did it take for Golu to reach the Limpopo River?
Answer
It took a few days-for Golu to reach the Limpopo River.
Question 8. Who had a bulgy nose?
Answer
Golu had a bulgy nose as big as a boot.
Question 9. What did Golu take along?
Answer
Golu took away a hundred sugar canes, fifty dozen bananas and twenty-five melons as food.
Question 10. What did crocodile do assure Golu of his being crocodile?
Answer
The crocodile winked at first and later shed tears to assure Golu of his being a crocodile.
Question 11. How long was Golu’s nose after being pulled?
Answer
Golu’s nose was five feet long after being pulled.
Question 12. What were the benefits of having of long trunk?
Answer
Golu could eat better and could throw mud at his opponent easily with his long trunk.
Question 13. Who advised Golu to go to the Limpopo River?
Answer
The mynah advised Golu to go to the Limpopo River.
Question 14. What did the crocodile do to show that it was a real crocodile?
Answer
The crocodile shed its false tears to show that it was a real one.
Question 15. Golu’s realtives did not answer his questions because
(i) they were shy.
(ii) the questions were too difficult.
(iii) Golu was a naughty boy.
Answer
(ii) The questions were too difficult.
Question 16. What did Golu ask from Mynah?
Answer
Golu asked mynah about crocodile’s food.
Question 17. How did Golu help the python?
Answer
Golu helped the python to coil around the branch of a tree.
Question 18. How did the crocodile reply to Golu about his dinner?
Answer
The crocodile caught hold of Golu’s nose when he asked about his dinner.
Question 19. What did Golu do to cool his nose?
Answer
Golu wrapped up his elongated nose in a big banana leaf and hung it in the great, grassy Limpopo River to cool.
Question 20. Whom does Golu ask, “Why don’t you ever fly like other birds”?
Answer
Golu asked his tall aunt, the ostrich that ‘Why don’t you ever fly like other birds?”
Question 21. Why did Golu go to the river?
Answer
Golu went to the river to know what the crocodile had for his dinner.
Question 22. Name two things the elephant can do with his trunk, and two he cannot.
Answer
The elephant can lift his food with his trunk. The elephant can also put mud on his body with the half of the trunk. He cannot scratch himself with his trunk. He also cannot eat his food with his trunk.
Long Answer Type Questions
Question 1. What are the questions that Golu asks other birds and animals?
Answer
Golu was full of questions. He asked his tall aunt i.e. ostrich that why don’t she ever fly like other birds. Then he asked his tall uncle i.e. giraffe that what makes his skin so spotty. Again, he asked him huge uncle i.e. hippopotamus that why his hairy uncle i.e. baboon that why melons were taste like melons. Thus, there are the questions Golu asks other birds and animals.
Question 2. ‘Co-existence and universal brotherhood can be learnt from the animals’. Comment in the. light of the lesson.
Answer
Life on earth is always inter-dependent. Co-existence and interdependence bring together various specious. Python was helped by the baby elephant that in turn saved his life from deadly beast, the crocodile. He also talked about the utility of his trunk. Thus he was helped in understanding himself by none other than a python who was unknown to him earlier. Golu was grateful to him.
Question 3. What happened when Golu reached the Limpopo river?
Answer
After a few days, he reached the very edge of the great, grassy Limpopo river. On the bank of the river, he saw a log of wood but it was the crocodile who winked at him. He asked the crocodile whether he had seen a crocodile or not. Later the crocodile introduced himself and said to go near him. Golu was much afraid, but he sat down on the back. As Golu put his head down close to the crocodiles snout, the crocodile caught him by the nose.
Question 4. What did the birds and animals reply to Golu?
Answer
The Ostrich, the giraffe, the hippopotamus and the baboon has no answers to Golu’s stupid questions. They could not answer him because he always ask such a difficult questions. He also asked to mynah bird sitting in the middle of a bush.
Question 5. ‘Co-existence and universal brotherhood can be learnt from the animals’. Comment in the. light of the lesson.
Answer
Life on earth is always inter-dependent. Co-existence and interdependence bring together various specious. Python was helped by the baby elephant that in turn saved his life from deadly beast, the crocodile. He also talked about the utility of his trunk. Thus he was helped in understanding himself by none other than a python who was unknown to him earlier. Golu was grateful to him.