The Bear Story - Solutions
CBSE Class–7 English
NCERT solution
An Alien Chapter - 8
The Bear Story
Page No: 57
Exercises
Answer the following questions.
1. Where did the lady find the bear cub? How did she bring it up?
Ans: The lady found the bear cub in the forest. It was brought up on the bottle because it was almost dead due to hunger and was so small and helpless.
2. The bear grew up but "he was a most amiable bear". Give three examples to prove this.
Ans: Three examples to prove that the bear grew up but "he was a most amiable bear" :
(i) He did not dream of harming anybody, no man or beast.
(ii) He look with his small intelligent eyes most affectionately at the cattle grazing in the field near by.
(iii) The children used to ride on his back and he never harmed them.
3. What did the bear eat? There were two things he was not allowed to do. What were they?
Ans: He ate the same food as the dogs and often out of the same plate like bread, porridge, potato, cabbage, turnip. He liked fruit the best. Two things he was not allowed to do were to climb trees for his favourite apples as there were beehives and he could get stung by them.
4. When was the bear tied up with a chain? Why?
Ans: He was tied up with chain whenever he did mischief. He was also chained during nights and on Sundays when his mistress went to spend the afternoon with her married sister. It was done because it was not good for him to wander about in the forest with all its temptations; it was better to be on the safer side.
5. What happened one Sunday when the lady was going to her sister’s house? What did the lady do? What was the bear’s reaction?
Ans: One Sunday when the lady was going to her sister’s house, she saw a bear coming behind her in the forest in full speed. Thinking that it was her bear, she scolded him and told him to go back as she didn't want him to come with her. She became very angry when she saw that the bear had lost his new collar and hit him on his nose with her parasol. The bear opened his mouth several times as if he wanted to say something and looked at her with his cunning eyes. After that, it turned around and went on its way.
6. Why was the bear looking sorry for himself in the evening? Why did the cook get angry with her mistress?
Ans: The bear was looking sorry for himself in the evening because he had been chained for the whole Sunday afternoon and was looking for his mistress without doing any mischief. The cook got angry with her mistress because she was scolding the bear for no mistake of his.He had been sitting there quite still on his haunches as meek as an angel, looking all the while towards the gate for the mistress to come back.
Discuss the following topics in groups.
1. Most people keep dogs and cats as pets. Can you think of some unusual pets that people keep?
Ans: Some people keep guinea pigs, parrots,love birds and domestic animals as pets.
2. The second bear did not attack the lady because he was afraid of her. Do you agree?
Ans: No, I don't agree that second bear did not attack the lady because he was afraid of her. I think, the second bear was also amiable and want to befriend someone. Even when she lost her appetite and scolded him and hit the bear with her parasol, he did not attack her. Although, bears are capable of killing a person easily. He opened his mouth several times as if he wanted to say something and looked at her with his cunning eyes which tells us that he was not afraid of her at all but wanted to be loved by her. He had come stopping now and then look at the lady, till at last she lost sight of him which shows the affection he had with the lady.
