chapter. 2 Shipwreck
Vocabulary Words:
∂ alert: prepared and watchful
∂ absolutely: very, extremely
∂ cargo: load
∂ barrel: drum
∂ wreck: ruins of the ship
∂ perceive: become aware or conscious of
∂ fatigued: tired
∂ voyage: travelling by a sea or air
∂ gloomy: causing or feeling depression
∂ haul: pull or drag with effort or force
∂ triumph: victory
∂ jutted: extend out, over, or beyond the main body or line
of something
Comprehension Questions:
1. Why did it feel as if nature had unleashed all its fury?
They felt so as even at daybreak there was no hope.
2. Why could the family not get into a boat?
The family could not get into the boat because the crew had
already crowded it.
3. What was the only comfort that the father had?
The only comfort was to observe that the slanting position
of the ship could protect them from water and the stern seemed immovable.
4. When did the storm hit them?
On the sixth day.
5. Describe the ship during the storm.
The masts had torn apart and gone to the side of the ship,
leaks appeared in every direction, and the ship began to fill with water.
6. Why did the narrator’s heart sink?
The writer’s heart sank as he looked at his family in the
midst of the horrors.
7. What was the narrator’s duty?
The narrator’s duty was to appear calm and collected before
his family.
8. What did Fritz suggest?
Fritz suggested that if they had some cork jackets for
mother and his younger brothers, they could swim to land.
9. What did they use as swimming jackets?
Small empty tin cans)
Chap 3 Landing on the deserted island
Vocabulary words
∂ anxiously: nervously
∂ rage: anger
∂ revenge: inflict hurt or harm on someone for an injury or
wrong done to oneself
∂ compliment: politely congratulate or praise
∂ booty: something gained or word
Answer the following
questions:
What startled the narrator?
Jack’s cry for help startled the narrator.
What made Jack cry for help?
A large lobster fastened to his hand, made Jack cry for
help.
∂ What had Ernest found?
Oysters
∂ What did the narrator’s wife inform?
The narrator’s wife informed that they had no spoons to eat
the soup.
∂ What did Ernest suggest?
He suggested using the oyster shells as spoons.
∂ What made the narrator guess that they were close to the
equator?
The night fell on the island without any twilight. Thus the
narrator guessed that they were close to the equator.
VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY chap4
∂ voyage: travelling by a sea or air
∂ dawn: just before morning
∂ defend: protect
∂ accompany: go along
∂ obstacles: difficulties
∂ pursued: followed
∂ glimpse: a quick sight
∂ inedible: cannot be eaten
∂ rind: the tough outer skin of certain fruits
imitate: act out
∂ furiously: angrily
∂ hurl: throw
Comprehension Questions:
1. Why did the narrator and his eldest son go on a discovery
voyage?
(to look for traces of their ship companions and to examine
the nature of the soil on the other side of the river)
2. Why did the narrator not take the other three children
with them?
(as they would be better able to defend themselves in any
danger without the children)
3. What did they carry with them on the journey?
(a bag for game, a hatchet, pistols, biscuits, a flask of
fresh river water)
4. What did they discover after a few hours of the journey?
(that the banks of the river were very steep and there was
no real path on the other side)
5. What did Fritz’s sharp eye observe in the bushes?
(that some of the trees were of a singular kind)
6. How is the bottle gourd useful?
(It‘s rind can be used for making various utensils like
plates, dishes, basins and flasks)
7. How did the narrator divide the bottle gourd into two?
(The narrator taught Fritz how to divide the gourd with a
bit of string, which would cut more equally than a knife. He tightly tied the
string round the middle of the gourd and striking it hard with the handle of
the knife, he drew it tighter and tighter, till it separated into two regular
shaped bowls or vessels.)
8. What did they do with the two pieces of bottle gourd?
(They left them to dry in the sun, filling them with sand so
that they did not lose their shape.)
9. What left the narrator and Fritz spellbound?
(The sight of the sea gently moving by the waves in which
the rays of the sun were reflected and the woods, of various hues of greenness
left them spellbound.)
Chapter 5 Night
Fright
Vocabulary words:
fatigue: extreme tiredness
sap: the fluid which circulates in a plant,
consisting of water, dissolved sugars
and mineral salts
scarcely: only a very short time before
remedy: a medicine or treatment for a disease
or injury
unfortunate: unlucky
interrupt: break the continuity of
acquisitions: object bought or obtained
commotion: a state of confused and noisy
disturbance
Comprehension Questions:
∂ 1Why did Fritz began
to complain of fatigue?
Ans Fritz began to
complain of fatigue as the sugarcanes weighed heavily down
on his shoulders, and he
was forced to shift them from shoulder to shoulder.
∂ 2What happened as they
were passing the woods?
AnsTurk sprang away and
tried to seize upon a troop of monkeys who were
skipping about and
amusing themselves without observing the narrator’s
approach.
∂ 3What was the result
of Turk’s attack on the monkeys?
Ans Before the narrator
and Fritz could get to the spot, Turk had already seized
one monkey. The mother
was killed instantly but her young one escaped and
hid himself in the
grass.
∂4 What did the young
monkey do?
Ans The young monkey
sprung nimbly on Fritz’s shoulders and fastened his feet in
the stiff curls of his
hair.
∂5 What disturbed the
Swiss Family’s night sleep?
Ans The barking of the
dogs and the commotion of the fowls outside their tent disturbed the Swiss
Family.
∂6 Why were they taken
aback?
Ans They noticed at
least a dozen jackals had surrounded the dogs.
∂7 How did they defend
themselves?
Ans They defended
themselves well, taking down three or four of the jackals. The
others made their
escape.
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