Jalebis class 8 question answer: it so happened class 8 chapter 7 question answer
| Textbook | Ncert |
| Class | Class 8 |
| Subject | English it so happened |
| Chapter | Chapter 7 |
| Chapter Name | Jalebis ncert solutions |
| Category | Ncert Solutions |
| Medium | English |
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Comprehension Check
Question 1: Why didn’t he pay the school fees on the day he brought money to school?
Answer 1: The boy couldn’t pay the school fees on the day he brought to school because the teacher Master Ghulam Mohammed was on leave.
Question 2: (i) What were the coins ‘saying’ to him?
(ii) Do you think they were misguiding him?
Answer 2: (i)The coins were asking him to buy the jalebis.
(ii)Yes, they were misguiding him. Even though the money was for the payment of fees, they urged him to spend all on jalebis.
Question 3: Why didn’t he take the coins’ advice? Give two or three reasons.
Answer 3: (i) He was a good boy.
(ii) He got so much at home that he considered even looking at something in the market a sin.
(iii) The money he had was for the school fee and he did not want to spend it.
Question 4: (i) What did the oldest coin tell him?
(ii) Did he follow his advice? If not, why not?
Answer 4: (i) The oldest coin convinced him that they were telling him for his own good. He can pay his fee next day with his scholarship money. So he should not suppress his desire for jalebis. .
(ii) He didn’t follow his advice. He was a promising student. He was from a good family of repute. He didn’t want to get defame for it
Question 5: He reached home with the coins in his pocket. What happened then?
Answer 5: Upon reaching home, the coins in his pocket kept persuading him. When he went inside to have lunch, they began to shriek. Thoroughly fed up, he rushed out of the house barefoot and ran towards the bazaar. Unable to suppress his temptation and totally terrified, he told the halwai to weigh a whole rupee worth of jalebis quickly. The halwai opened up a whole newspaper and heaped a pile of jalebis on it.
Comprehension Check
Question 1: (i) Why didn’t he eat all the jalebis he had bought?
(ii) What did he do with the remaining jalebis?
Answer 1: (i) He had bought jalebis for one rupee. But he couldn’t eat all of them because of their quantity.
(ii) He distributed the remaining jalebis among the boys from the neighbourhood.
Question 2: “The fear was killing me.” What was the fear?
Answer 2: After eating, he realized he’d made a huge mistake. His greatest worry was being discovered and his parents discovering that he had spent all of his fees on jalebis. With each breath, he burped. Every burp posed the risk of bringing a jalebi or two to the surface. He was dying from terror.
Question 3: “Children’s stomachs are like digestion machines.” What do you understand by that? Do you agree?
Answer 3: This means that children have a very good digestive system. They can eat as much as they can, and their stomach digests the food easily.
Question 4: How did he plan to pay the fees the next day?
Answer 4: He planned to pay the fees with the previous month’s scholarship that he would get the next day.
Question 5: When it is time to pay the fees, what does he do? How is he disobeying the elders by doing so?
Answer 5: When it is time to pay the fees, he leaves the school and reaches a deserted corner of the railway station. The elders had forbidden him to cross the railway tracks and eat sweets with one’s fees money. He is, therefore, disobeying his elders.
Comprehension Check
Question 1: What was the consequence of buying jalebis with the fees money?
Answer 1: The consequence of buying jalebis with the fees money was that for the first time in his life he was absent from his school.
Question 2: His prayer to God is like a lawyer’s defence of a bad case. Does he argue his case well? What are the points he makes?
Answer 2: He tries to please God with his requests and the recitation of the entire namaz. He admits that he made a mistake. He wouldn’t have spent his money on jalebis if he had known about the delay in scholarship. Thus, he argues his case like a lawyer.
Question 3: He offers to play a game with Allah Miyan. What is the game?
Answer 3: The game was that he would go up to the signal, touch it and return. In the meantime, God should secretly put four rupees under a big rock. Once he lifts it, he should be able to find the four rupees underneath the rock.
Question 4: Did he get four rupees by playing the game? What did he get to see under the rock?
Answer 4: He didn’t win four rupees because he played the game. Instead of money, he noticed a large hairy worm curving, twisting, and moving towards him when he lifted the rock.
Question 5: If God had granted his wish that day, what harm would it have caused him in later life?
Answer 5: If God had granted his wish that day, he would never have learnt from his mistake. He would have continued doing such wrong deeds, believing that God would save him after his persuasion.
EXERCISE Work in small groups.
Question 1: Select and read sentences that show
(a) that the boy is tempted to eat jalebis.
(d) that he is feeling guilty
(c) that he is justifying a wrong deed.
Answer 1: (i) “But then, these jalebis are not common sort of jalebis either. They are crisp, fresh and full of sweet syrup.”
(ii) “Now for the crime of eating a few jalebis, for the first time in my life I was absent from school, and crouching in the shade of a tree in a deserted corner of the railway station.”
(iii) “So, Allah Miyan, just this once, help me out. There is no shortage of anything in your treasury. Even our chaprasi takes a whole lot of money home every month, and Allahji, after all I am the nephew of a big officer. Won’t you give me just four rupees.”
Question 2: Discuss the following points.
(a) Is the boy intelligent? If so, what is the evidence of it?
(b) Does his outlook on the jalebis episode change after class VIII? Does he see that episode in a new light?
(c) Why are coins made to ‘talk’ in this story? What purpose does it serve?
Answer 2: (a) The boy is definitely intelligent. The first evidence is that he has won a scholarship. He is a promising boy. He knows what is right and what is wrong. He argues his case before God like a lawyer.
(b) Yes, certainly, his outlook changed after class VIII. He kept wondering what harm it could have caused anyone if God had sent him four rupees the other day. He later realised that everything comes with a price. This means that if God provides all that man asks, then man will be living in nests like birds and would have never learnt the art of making jalebis too.
(c) Coins are made to ‘talk’ in the story to show the greedy nature of the boy. His good nature, which prevented him from spending money on jalebis, comes out in the form of the words spoken by him. His greed, which was pushing him to get the jalebisand devour them, is brought out in the words uttered by the coins.