The treasure within question answer: it so happened class 8 chapter 4 question answer
| Textbook | Ncert |
| Class | Class 8 |
| Subject | English it so happened |
| Chapter | Chapter 4 |
| Chapter Name | The treasure within ncert solutions |
| Category | Ncert Solutions |
| Medium | English |
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Comprehension Check
Question 1: What did Hafeez Contractor have nightmares about?
Answer 1: A nightmare is a bad dream or haunting fear. Hafeez had nightmares about mathematics examination.
Question 2: What did the Principal say to him, which influenced him deeply?
Answer 2: The principal said to him how his mother toiled hard to bring him up inspite of his father’s death. She further said that he was grown up and should start taking care of himself. That he should start giving top priority to his study instead of sports.
Question 3: “… that year I did not step out onto the field.” What was he busy doing that year?
Answer 3: After his Principal inspired him to focus on his studies, he left the playground. He didn’t indulge himself in cricket and just studied, ate, and went for prayers.
Question 4: (i) What “distraction” did Hafeez Contractor create one day?
(ii) Would you have liked to participate in the “distraction” had you been with him?
Answer 4: (i) Hafeez was always interested in playing funny pranks. One day, he created a distraction by playing chor police for one full hour at school.
(ii) Yes, I would have loved to participate in such a “distraction”, as it is kind of a break from the regular routine work.
Comprehension Check
Question 1: Hafeez Contractor wanted to join the police force. Why didn’t he?
Answer 1: Hafeez Contractor wanted to join the police force but his mother asked him not to join the police force but do his graduation. So he went to Jaihind College in Bombay.
Question 2: In the architect’s office, Hafeez Contractor was advised to drop everything and join architecture. Why?
Answer 2: It happened quite by chance. One day he saw somebody drawing a window design. He pointed out that the drawing was wrong, and the window would not open. And he was proved right. His cousin’s husband was surprised. He asked him to design a house and he did that. After that he told Hafeez to leave everything and join architecture.
Question 3: (i) What was Mrs Gupta’s advise to Hafeez Contractor?
(ii) What made her advise him so?
Answer 3: (i) Mrs. Gupta, who was Hafeez Contractor’s teacher in the second and third grades, advised him to become an architect when he grew up.
(ii) She always said to him that he was quite useless in everything, except for his sketches, which were always very good. Therefore, she advised him to take up architecture.
Question 4: How did he help fellow students who had lost a button?
Answer 4: When his fellow students lost a button while playing or fighting, they would often come running to him and he would help them by cutting a button from chalk by using an ordinary blade.
Question 5: How did he help fellow students who had lost a button?
Answer 5: He cut off a button from chalk, using a blade when one of the fellow students lost a button.
Question 6: (i) What is Hafeez Contractor’s definition of Mathematics?
(ii) How would you want to define Mathematics? Do you like the subject?
Answer 6: (i) He said that putting design, construction, psychology and sociology together, and making a sketch from all that is ‘mathematics’.
(ii) I would like to define mathematics as the science of numbers. I do like mathematics because it has a lot of practical utility in life.
Exercise Answer the following Questions:
Question 1: It is likely that someone who is original and intelligent does not do very well at school? Should such a learner be called a failure? If not, why not?
Answer 1: It is likely that someone who is original and intelligent does not do very well at school. Such a learner should not be called a failure as everyone has his or her own strengths and weaknesses. Those who are academically brilliant do well in other fields. Hafeez Contractor was not a very good student.
However, he had the talent for construction, and he is now one of the leading architects. Each individual has his or her own individual talents, which may or may not be visible in the academic report. That is why students should be encouraged to showcase their talents, and work on them. They should not be called failures.
Question 2: Who, in your view, is an ‘unusual’ learner?
Answer 2: In my opinion, an unusual learner is one who is a genius in his/her own right. This means that a person who is bright and intelligent and has a hidden talent or skill needs to polish it from every angle.
Question 3: What can schools do to draw out the best in unusual learners? Suggest whatever seems reasonable to you.
Answer 3: School should stop treating all the learners as ordinary. They should not follow old mechanical methods of teaching. They should try to discover the hidden talent in each learner and encourage him to do his best developing it.