This is Jody’s Fawn question answers: Ncert solutions for class 8 english honeydew chapter 6
| Textbook | Ncert |
| Class | Class 8 |
| Subject | English Honeydew |
| Chapter | Chapter 6 |
| Chapter Name | This is Jody’s Fawn ncert solutions |
| Category | Ncert Solutions |
| Medium | English |
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Comprehension Check
Question 1: What had happened to Jody’s father?
Answer 1: Jody’s father had been bitten by a rattlesnake.
Question 2: How did the doe save Penny’s life?
Answer 2: When Jody’s father, Penny, was bitten by a rattlesnake, he quickly killed a doe and used its heart and liver to draw out the poison as a home remedy to save his life.
Question 3: Why does Jody want to bring the fawn home?
Answer 3: The fawn has become an orphan because its mother was killed by Jody. He wants to bring the fawn to return the obligation because he was the one who made the fawn an orphan.
Question 4: How does Jody know that the fawn is a male?
Answer 4: Jody’s father explained that the spots on a male fawn are all in a line, whereas the spots on females are arranged randomly. This knowledge assisted him in identifying the fawn as a male.
Comprehension Check
Question 1: Jody didn’t want Mill-wheel with him for two reasons. What were they?
Answer 1: Jody did not want Mill-wheel with him for two reasons. One reason was that if the fawn was dead or could not be found, he did not want him to see his disappointment. The second reason was that if they found the fawn, then the meeting would be so lovely and secret that he could not endure to share it.
Question 2: Why was Mill-wheel afraid to leave Jody alone?
Answer 2: Mill-wheel was afraid to leave Jody alone because he might get lost or could be bitten by the snake.
Comprehension Check
Question 1: How did Jody bring the fawn back home?
Answer 1: Jody brought the fawn back home partly by lifting it and partly by making it walk after him on its own.
Question 2: Jody was filled with emotion after he found the fawn. Can you find at least three words or phrases which show how he felt?
Answer 2: Jody was filled with emotion after he found the fawn. When he stroked its neck, the touch made him ‘delirious’. When he realised that it was his fawn now, he was ‘lightheaded with his joy’. When he finally brought the fawn into the house, Penny thought that “the boy’s eyes were as bright as the fawn’s”.
Question 3: How did the deer drink milk from the gourd?
Answer 3: Jody dipped his fingers in the milk. Then he left the fawn suck his fingers. He did so several times. Finally, the fawn drank off all the milk from the gourd.
Question 4: Why didn’t the fawn follow Jody up the steps as he had thought it would?
Answer 4: As the fawn is a wild animal, it is not aware of how to climb the stairs in a house. Hence, when it reached Jody’s home, it failed to follow him up the staircase or even drink the milk offered in the gourd. It simply didn’t know how to react in such an unfamiliar situation.
Working With the Text
Question 1: Why did Penny Baxter allow Jody to go find the fawn and raise it?
Answer 1: Penny Baxter allowed Jody to go find the fawn and raise it because its mother save him at the cost of her life. Moreover, he thought it ungrateful to leave the fawn to starve.
Question 2: What did Doc Wilson mean when he said, “Nothing in the world ever comes quite free”?
Answer 2: Penny had killed the doe to save his life. Therefore, in regard to what the doe had done, its fawn needed to be taken care of and saved from starvation. This was what Doc Wilson meant when he said that nothing in the world came for free.
Question 3: How did Jody look after the fawn, after he accepted the responsibility for doing this?
Answer 3: Jody looked after the fawn with motherly love and affection. He taught it how to walk and suck milk.
Question 4: How does Jody’s mother react when she hears that he is going to bring the fawn home? Why does she react in this way?
Answer 4: Jody’s mother turned her nose when she heard that he was going to bring back the fawn. She gasped with surprise because she didn’t want to see an animal in her home.
Working with language
Question 1: Look at these pairs of sentences.
Penny said to Jody, “Will you be back before dinner?”
Penny asked Jody if he would be back before dinner.
“How are you feeling, Pa?” asked Jody.
Jody asked his father how he was feeling.
Here are some questions in direct speech. Put them into reported speech.
(i) Penny said, “Do you really want it son?”
(ii) Mill-wheel said, “Will he ride back with me?”
(iii) He said to Mill-wheel, “Do you think the fawn is still there?”
(iv) He asked Mill-wheel, “Will you help me find him?”
(v) He said, “Was it up here that Pa got bitten by the snake?”
Answer 1: (i) Penny asked his son if he really wanted the fawn.
(ii) Mill-wheel asked if Jody would ride back with him.
(iii) Jody asked Mill-wheel if he thought the fawn was still there.
(iv) Jody asked Mill-wheel if he would help him find the fawn.
(v) Jody asked Mill-wheel if it was up there that Pa got bitten by the snake.
Question 2: Look at these two sentences.
He tumbled backward.
It turned its head.
The first sentence has an intransitive verb, a verb without an object.
The second sentence has a transitive verb. It has a direct object. We can ask: “What did it turn?” You can answer: “Its head. It turned its head.”
Say whether the verb in each sentence below is transitive or intransitive. Ask yourself a ‘what’ question about the verb, as in the example above. (For some verbs, the object is a person, so ask the question ‘who’ instead of ‘what’).
(i) Jody then went to the kitchen.
(ii) The fawn wobbled after him.
(iii) You found him.
(iv) He picked it up.
(v) He dipped his fingers in the milk.
(vi) It bleated frantically and butted him.
(vii) The fawn sucked his fingers.
(viii) He lowered his fingers slowly into the milk.
(ix) It stamped its small hoofs impatiently.
(x) He held his fingers below the level of the milk.
(xi) The fawn followed him.
(xii) He walked all day.
(xiii) He stroked its sides.
(xiv) The fawn lifted its nose.
(xv) Its legs hung limply.
Answer 2: (i) Intransitive
(ii) Intransitive
(iii) Transitive
(iv) Transitive
(v) Transitive
(vi) Intransitive, Transitive
(vii) Transitive
(viii) Transitive
(ix) Transitive
(x) Transitive
(xi) Transitive
(xii) Intransitive
(xiii) Transitive
(xiv) Transitive
(xv) Intransitive
Question 3: Here are some words from the lesson. Working in groups, arrange them in the order in which they would appear in the dictionary. Write down some idioms and phrasal verbs connected to these words. Use the dictionary for more idioms and phrasal verbs.
| close | draw | make | wonder | scrawny |
| parted | clearing | sweet | light | pick |
Answer 3: The words would appear in the following sequential order when arranged properly:
| clearing | close | draw | light | make |
| parted | pick | scrawny | sweet | wonder |
- Some idioms and phrasal verbs connected to these words are listed below:
- Clearing: clearing out, clearing the air, clearing off.
- Close: a close shave, a close thing, a close call.
- Draw: draw a blank, draw a line, draw interest.
- Light: a light heart, bring to light, a guiding light.
- Make: make a last-ditch effort, make a pass, make up your mind.
- Parted: part with, parting of the ways, part and parcel.
- Pick: pick out, pick at, take your pick.
- Scrawny: scrawny thin, scrawny neck, scrawny persona.
- Sweet: sweet tooth, sweet sixteen, sweet-speaking.
- Wonder: little wonder, a nine days’ wonder, do wonders.