Question-Answers
A. Answer these questions.
1. What was the island boy admiring on the
day of the tsunami?
Ans- The island boy was
admiring the fabulous waves of the sea, on the day of the tsunami.
2. Why was the Shompen boy forced to pick the
island boy’s pocket?
Ans- The Shompen boy was forced to pick the
island boy’s pocket because when he told the island boy that the mountain waves
are coming, he didn’t listen to him.
3. Pick out lines in the text that show that
the island boy was an obedient son.
Ans- The lines in the
text that show that the island boy was an obedient son are—‘My mother had always
told me never to follow a Shompen anywhere, especially into the forest. I did
not intend to disobey her.’
4. The Shompen boy believed that he had done
his best in the situation. How does he prove it?
Ans- The Shompen boy
knew that the mountain waves are coming. He picked up the pocket of the island
boy and the boy ran behind him to take his money pouch back. By doing this, the
Shompen boy took the boy to the highest point of the hill and saved their
lives.
B. Read these lines from the text and answer
the questions.
1. The
wave was high with white foam at its head.
a. Where was the speaker?
Ans- The speaker was
near the sea.
b. What is being talked about?
Ans- Sea waves are being
talked about.
c. What happened after this?
Ans- Then it rumbled
closer. It made a noise like all the creatures of the world rolled up in a ball—the
lion’s roars, the bull’s bellow, even the snake’s hiss.
2. He
had risked his own life and save mine. And all I had done in return was to
mistrust him.
a. Who does ‘he’ refer to?
Ans- ‘He’ refers to the
Shompen boy.
b. How had ‘he’ risked his own life to save
the speaker?
Ans- ‘He’ had risked his own life to save the
speaker by picking the pocket of the island boy and saving his life by reaching
the summit.
c. When and how did the speaker realise that
he had misunderstood ‘him’?
Ans- When the boys
survived through the mountain waves and the narrator noticed that his money
pouch is back in his pocket and there was something else in it—two black
stones. When he saw the precious fire stones as a gift, that’s when the speaker
realised that he had misunderstood ‘him’.
