A Bottle of Dew Class 6 English Poorvi Question Answer
Chapter 1 A Bottle of Dew Questions Answers Class 6 English
Short Question Answer
Question 1. What did the sage do to the dew vessel when it was presented to him by Rama Natha?
Answer
The sage took the vessel of dew and smiled. He chanted some magic words and gave them back to Rama Natha.
Question 2. What was the funny idea that Rama Natha had?
Answer
The funny idea that Rama Natha had was that there existed a magic potion. This potion had the power to convert anything into gold.
Question 3. What funny idea did Rama Natha have?
Answer
Rama Natha had a funny idea that there was some magic potion that could turn any object into gold. He spent all his time to learn about this potion. People often cheated him promising to tell him about it, but he did not give up.
Question 4. Why was Madhumati worried?
Answer
Rama Natha was frantic to know about the magic potion because he believed that it could change any object into gold. People cheated him promising to tell him about the magic potion. Madhumati was worried because Rama Natha was spending too much money and time on finding the potion.
Question 5. What is the moral of the story?
Answer
The moral of the story is crystal clear. There is no such potion that could convert things into gold. It is simply the hard work. If one worked hard one could earn lots of money.
Question 6. Who was Mahipati? Why was Rama Natha surprised?
Answer
Mahipati was a famous sage. When Rama Natha asked him about the magic potion, -he replied that he had heard about how it could be made, Rama Natha was surprised to know that the sage knew about it.
Question 7. What did the sage tell Rama Natha to do with five litres of morning dew?
Answer
The sage told Rama Natha to collect five litres of dew and bring it to him, he would chant some magic words which will turn it into the magic potion. A drop of it will turn any object into gold.
Question 8. What did the sage tell Rama Natha about the magic potion?
Answer
The sage told Rama Natha that he had heard on his Himalayan tours about the magic potion. It was that with a magic potion, one could make much gold.
Question 9. What special instructions did the sage give to Rama Natha?
Answer
The sage told Rama Natha to plant a banana plant and water it regularly with his own hands. He told him he could plant as many banana plants but he should look after them himself. He should collect five litres of dew from the leaves.
Question 10. What happened to the fields that were lying empty for years?
Answer
The fields that were lying empty for years were first cleaned, then according to the instruction of the sage, Rama Natha planted rows and rows of banana plants and the large tracts of land turned into a huge plantation.
Question 11. How and why did the people cheat Rama Natha?
Answer
The people knew that Rama Natha was desperate to get the magic potion. They cheated him promising to tell him about it. However, after charging him for the same, they would disappear.
Question 12. What did the sage do on receiving the bottle of dew? How did Rama Natha react?
Answer
On receiving the bottle of dew, the sage smiled and muttered something over the water. Then he returned the bottle to Rama and asked him to sprinkle a faw drops on a copper vessel.
Question 13. Why did Mahipati ask Madhumati to come forward?
Answer
Mahipati, the sage asked Madhumati to come forward and show Rama Natha the stacks of gold coins. The sage wanted Madhumati to show Rama Natha how his hard work had yielded gold.
Question 14. Why did the sage play a trick on Rama Natha.
Answer
The sage was a wise person, he knew that the persons who look for magic potion to get gold are not hard working. If the sage would have told Rama that there was no magic potion, he would have not listened to him. He played a trick on him so that he could understand that only hard work can make a person wealthy.
Question 15. What troubled Rama Natha’s wife about her husband?
Answer
Madhumati, Rama Natha’s wife, suffered much because of her husband’s funny idea. Her husband spent a lot of money on this idea. She felt that if her husband went on spending money, they would be left with no money.
Question 16. What did the sage say about the magic potion?
Answer
The sage told Rama Natha that he should collect dew and store it in a bottle. When he had five litres of dew he should come to him. The sage would chant some magic words. Then the magic potion would convert the thing into gold.
Question 17. How did Rama Natha collect five liters of dew?
Answer
Rama Natha started growing bananas on his land. During winter the banana leaves had dew on them. Then Rama Natha collected dew. He grew these bananas every year to call the dew.
Question 18. What happened when Rama Natha was given the potion by the sage? Why did the sage call for his wife?
Answer
When Rama Natha did what the sage told him to do, nothing happened. The sage asked Madhumati to open the box. It had stacks of gold inside.
Question 19. What did the sage tell Rama Natha and his wife?
Answer
The sage told Rama Natha that no potion could turn things into gold. Rama Natha and his wife worked very hard in their fields. Madhumati also worked hard to sell bananas in the market. Thus they worked hard which earned them a lot of money.
Extract Based Questions
Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:
Extract 1
1.“I will chant some magic words, which will turn it into the magic potion. A drop of the potion will change any object into gold.”Rama Natha was worried, “But winter is only for a few months.”
Questions:
(a) What does the word ‘it’ stand for?
(b) What does the word ‘chant’ mean?
(c) Which part of speech is the word ‘object’?
(d) Why was Rama Natha worried?
(e) Name the lesson from which the above extract been taken.
Answer
(a) The word ‘it’ stands for -the dew collected by Rama Natha.
(b) The word ‘chant’ means to repeat or sing a word or a phrase.
(c) The word ‘object’ is a common noun.
(d) Rama Natha was worried because winter is only for a few months.
(e) The extract has been taken from the lesson, ‘A Bottle of Dew’ by Sudha Murty.
Extract 2
2. Rama Natha was the son of a rich landlord. His father left him large tracts of land when he died. But Rama Natha did not spend a day looking after his land.Questions:
(a) What was Rama Natha’s father?
(b) What does ‘large tracts of land’ mean?
(c) Who is the author of the story from which the extract has been taken?
(d) Give the present form of the word left’.
(e) What does ‘did not spend a day’ signify? Answers:
Answer
(a) Rama Natha’s father was a landlord.
(b) ‘Large tracts of land’ means large areas of land.
(c) Sudha Murty is the author of the story.
(d) The present form of word left’ is ‘leave’.
(e) ‘did not spend a day’ here means that Rama Natha did not look after the land at all.
Extract 3
3. This was because he had a funny idea – he believed there was a magic potion that could turn any object into gold. He spent all his time to learn more about this potion. People cheated him often, promising to tell him about it, but he did not give up. His wife, Madhumati, was tired of this and also worried because she saw how much money Rama Natha was spending. She was sure that soon they would be without money. (Page 2)Question 1. On what did Rama Natha spend time?
(a) On the magic potion
(b) Planting bananas in the field
(c) In talking to people about the magic potion
(d) He spent time to know more about the magic potion
Answer
(d) He spent time to know more about the magic potion
Question 2. Madhumati worried on
(a) Rama Natha’s funny idea
(b) Rama Natha’s not giving up his idea
(c) Rama Natha’s meeting the people
(d) Cheating Rama Natha
Answer
(b) Rama Natha’s not giving up his idea
Question 3. Rama Natha’s not giving up caused
(a) Madhumati’s worries
(b) Wastage of time
(c) Financial loss
(d) All of the above
Answer
(d) All of the above
Question 4. As per Rama Natha, What could Magic Potion do?
(a) Could make people healthy
(b) Could change water in soil
(c) Could convert any object into Gold
(d) Can change soil into silver
Answer
(c) Could convert any object into Gold
Extract 4
4. Carefully, he took the bottle to the sage. The sage smiled and muttered something over the water. Then he returned the bottle and said, “Try it out.” Rama Natha sprinkled a few drops on a copper vessel and waited for it to turn to gold. To this surprise, nothing happened! “This is cheating”, “he told the sage. “I have wasted six precious years of my life.” (Page 5)Question 1. What for did Rama Natha take the bottle to the sage?
(a) to obtain gold
(b) as a mark of respect
(c) to convert it into a magic potion
(d) for converting into the gold
Answer
(c) to convert it into a magic potion
Question 2. What did the sage do to the bottle?
(a) throw water on the vessel
(b) broke the bottle
(c) transformed the water into gold
(d) muttered a few words over the water
Answer
(a) muttered a few words over the water
Question 3. “Try it out” means here
(a) testing the bottle
(b) sprinkling the water on the vessel
(c) obtaining gold
(d) chanting magic words
Answer
(b) sprinkling the water on the vessel
Question 4. What surprise did Rama Natha get?
(a) not finding gold as he expected
(b) that the water had turned into gold
(c) magic would surely act
(d) All of the above
Answer
(a) not finding gold as he expected
Extract 5
5. But sage Mahipati only smiled and called Madhumati to come forward. She came with a big box. When she opened it, inside shined stacks of gold coins!Question 1. What made Mahipati smile?
(a) his simplicity
(b) his thought about Rama Natha
(c) his victory over Rama Natha
(d) his general estimate about Rama Natha’s outlook.
Answer
(b) his thought about Rama Natha
Question 2. What did Madhumati have in the box?
(a) a lot of gold
(b) fruits
(c) gifts for the sage
(d) sweets
Answer
(a) a lot of gold
Question 3. Who was behind the story of teaching Rama Natha the truth of life?
(a) The sage
(b) Madhumati
(c) Rama Natha’s father
(d) All of the above
Answer
(a) The sage
Question 4. What was the result of this meeting of all?
(a) Rama Natha realizing a new understanding
(b) Rama Natha understood the truth of existence
(c) that day-dreaming is all false
(d) none of the above
Answer
(c) that day-dreaming is all false