Princess September question answer: it so happened class 8 chapter 5 question answer
| Textbook | Ncert |
| Class | Class 8 |
| Subject | English it so happened |
| Chapter | Chapter 5 |
| Chapter Name | Princess September ncert solutions |
| Category | Ncert Solutions |
| Medium | English |
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Comprehension Check
Question 1: How many daughters did the royal couple have?
Answer 1: What did the sisters advise the Princess to do about her bird?
Question 2: Why were they named after the months of the year?
Answer 2: They were named after the months of the year because the King and the Queen had many daughters, and it confused the Queen to have to remember so many names.
Question 3: The King had a peculiar habit. What was it? Why is it called peculiar?
Answer 3: The King’s peculiar habit was that rather than getting gifts on his birthday, he gave them. It is referred to as peculiar because generally, people get gifts on their birthdays.
Question 4: (i) What was Princess September’s reaction to the loss of her parrot?
(ii) What was her mother’s reaction to it?
(iii) What do the reactions indicate about the nature and temperament of each?
Answer 4: (i) Princess September took the loss of her parrot to heart. She wept continuously.
She was put to sleep without supper.
(ii) Her Mother said that Princess September’s weeping was simply nonsense. She asked the maids to put the child to sleep without supper.
(iii) The princess was very simple-hearted and sensitive. She was stricken with grief when her parrot died. But the Queen mother was not moved at all. She had nothing to console the child.
Question 5: What pulled the Princess out of her gloom?
Answer 5: The Princess was really upset and depressed over the sudden demise of her parrot and wept continuously. While she lay in her bed crying, she saw a little bird hop into her room. She wiped her tears and watched the little bird sing a beautiful song. This pulled the Princess out of her gloom.
Question 6: How did the Maids of Honour come to know that the Princess and the bird had become intimate friends?
Answer 6: When the Maids of Honour brought in the princess’ breakfast the following morning, they noticed the Princess in a happy mindset. They noticed bird-eating rice out of her hand and taking its bath in her saucer. This revealed to them that the princess and the bird had been turned into close friends.
Question 7: The new bird was full of new songs but the old parrots always repeated themselves. What did they say?
Answer 7: All the old parrots could say ‘God save the king’ and some of them could even say ‘Pretty Polly’ in seven languages.
Question 8: What is the King’s opinion about his Councillors? Why did he form that opinion?
Answer 8: The king declared that his councillors said the same thing in seven different ways and whatever they said did not mean anything. He formed this opinion probably because they could not take strong decisions.
Question 9: (i) The eight Princesses made an offer to Princess September. What was it?
(ii) Why, in your view, did they do it?
Answer 9: (i) The eight princesses offered to buy a lovely green and yellow parrot for Princess September by putting in all their pocket money.
(ii) They did so because they were distressed by the fact that everybody was praising Princess September’s bird, which could sing. Their parrots looked sad and repeated the same things. They wanted her to have the same pet as they had.
Question 10: What did the sisters advise the Princess to do about her bird?
Answer 10: The sisters advised the Princess to keep her bird in a cage so that she could be sure of where it was.
Comprehension Check
Question 1: In the following sentence elaborate the parts given in bold. Under the circumstances it was a very unfortunate remark for the bird to make.
Answer 1: The circumstance was that the bird hadn’t come back because of the party at his father-in-law’s house. The princess was naturally worried. The remark of the sisters added to her worry.
Question 2: (i) What did Princess September do to ensure the safety of her pet?
(ii) How did the bird react to it?
Answer 2: (i) To ensure the safety of her pet, Princess September put it in the cage.
(ii) Bird reacted to it sharply. He didn’t want to be in cage. He wanted full freedom. He did not like it.
Question 3: Why did the bird refuse to be taken out in her cage?
Answer 3: The bird said that he loves nature and he couldn’t stay happy and normal if he was kept in a cage. He would not be able to enjoy the rice fields, the lake and the willow trees as they would look quite different and dull when seen through the cage bars.
Question 4: (i) What persuaded Princess September to give the bird his freedom again?
(ii) How did the bird react to it?
Answer 4: (i) The Princess noticed the bird almost dead the following morning. He had stopped eating anything. He had stopped singing at all. It didn’t open up its eyes yet. This persuaded the Princess to offer the bird freedom again.
(ii) The bird was filled with joy. He flew away to the far lands with the promise that he would return and sing for her every time she needed.
Question 5: Princess September kept her window open day and night.
(i) How did it help the bird?
(ii) How did it help the Princess herself?
Answer 5: (i) Princess September kept her window open day and night. This helped the bird as it could come into her room and leave whenever it felt like.
(ii) Sleeping with the window open proved to be very good for the princess as she grew extremely beautiful because of this reason.
Question 6: The eight sisters kept their windows shut. How did it affect them?
Answer 6: The eight sisters who kept their windows shut grew up to be extremely ugly and disagreeable. They were later married off to the King’s Councillors with a pound of tea and a Siamese cat.
Exercise Discuss the following questions in small groups. Write their answers later.
Question 1: Are the sisters unkind and cruel? Find evidence in the text to support your idea.
Answer 1: Yes, the eight sisters of the princess were unkind and cruel. They were jealous too. They advised her to encage the bird. This suggestion might have killed the bird.
Question 2: Which, to you, is the most important idea in this story, and why?
(i) importance of music (ii) value of freedom (iii) beauty of nature
Answer 2: Value of freedom is the most important idea in this story. The little bird in the story valued freedom above everything else and once he was given that, everything turned right.