Chapter 5
1. The feeling of a person when he commits a mistake is –
Answer: He tries to justify it
He tries to hide it
He tries to get sympathy
He becomes offensive as offence is the best form of defense
He pretends to be innocent
2. The person who makes a mistake or commits a crime should be punished because –
Answer: He should not repeat his mistake.
He can misunderstand forgiveness as weakness.
The punishment can reform his character as he may feel ashamed and repentant.
The punishment will be an example to others not to commit such crimes.
The punishment may save him from being a hardcore anti social.
3. Describe the atmosphere in the woods when Peter Crouch was heading towards Mrs. Adis’s house. It was –
Answer: (a) A dark moonless night.
(b) A night without even a twilight and the only light seen was the light from the stars far away on the black sky.
(c) A soundless, windless, clear night where only the sound of the dogs barking and a man’s own footsteps could be heard.
4. Peter Crouch didn’t knock before entering Mrs. Adis’s house, because –
Answer: he was in trouble.
he did not want anybody to know that he had entered the house.
he knew he had shot a man.
5. Find the reasons that forced Peter to shoot down a person
Answer: The reasons that forced peter to shoot down a person were:
The keepers spotted him
He was scared that the keepers would arrest him for hunting the rabbits
He knew that it was too dark a night for the keepers to recognize him
6. Mrs. Adis didn’t hand over Peter Crouch to the keepers because –
Answer: She knew he was a good friend of her son Tom
She believed that Peter would never have harmed Tom knowingly because of their friendship
Probably she thought Tom would not have liked his friend to be arrested because of his mother and
anyway her dead son would not come back even if Peter was arrested.
7. The writer has used a phrase ‘Thudding Heart’ which means pounding, or beating of heart, Do you know ‘Thud’ is an onomatopoeic word which means a heavy sound made by an object falling to the ground. Discuss with your partner and make a list of Onomatopoeic words that you find in the text.
Answer: Crackling
Rustling
Dragging
8 a. The writer describes Mrs. Adis as –
Answer: a. A small woman
b. A woman of not more than forty two years
c. A thin woman with a brown hard face
d. Having dried skin on the face that caused wrinkles
b. Mrs. Adis asks Peter Crouch whether he has had quarrel with the keepers. This shows that –
Answer: She was extremely intelligent
She was quite observant
She was alert and quick in thinking
c. “That was the keepers”… make trouble” (Refer textbook page 47)
List some characteristics of Mrs. Adis based on the incident of the passage
Answer:
a. Helpful
b. Kind
c. Matter-of-Fact
d. Loved her son very dearly
e. Practical
9. Viider guessed that Crouch has taken refuge in Mrs. Adis’ house because –
Answer: Vildar must have guessed the nearby places where it was possible for Crouch to hide. Crouch thought that Vilder’s guess was correct since he had come to the right place. Crouch also felt that the keepers had followed him to reach the exact destination.
10. “There’s been a row”- the row took place because –
Answer: A man was trying to hunt rabbits and the keepers could hear the noise of it. The man thought they did not see him because of the darkness, the man probably had seen them. So, he ran away as the keepers had scared him.
11. Mrs. Adis unlocked the door because –
Answer: She wanted Crouch to leave her place safely as Crouch was a good friend of her son Tom. She wanted to respect the friendship of her dead son. Crouch was the killer of her son but punishing him could not get her son Tom back.
12. Then silently, each ‘wrung’ the mother by the hand and went away. Guess the meaning, ‘wrung’ here.
Answer: ‘Wrung’ here means holding the mothers hand tightly to give her assurance of their co-operation.
13. Arrange the events according to their occurrence in the passage :
(i) Peter did not knock because he did not want anybody to hear.
(ii) Peter could see Mrs. Adis lend over the fire, taking some pot or kettle off it.
(iii) Peter wanted to stay in Mrs. Adis’s house for sometime.
(iv) Mrs. Adis kept the kettle at the side of the fire as it boiled over.
14. Whatever Mrs. Adis’s justifications in favour of Peter?
Answer: Mrs. Adis wanted to justify to the keepers that even if Peter had killed Tom, he must have done it unknowingly as they were good friends. But she did not want to face the killer of her son and wanted him to leave silently.
15. How did Peter Crouch confess to Mrs. Adis.
Answer: Peter Crouch accepted to Mrs. Adis that he had shot a man and did not know whether that man was dead. He confessed that he had not knocked at Mrs. Adis’s door as he did not want anybody to know that he was there. The keepers were chasing him.
16. Why didn’t the man speak for a moment?
Answer: The man was surprised that Mrs. Adis was helping him so much in spite of knowing very well that he was hiding from the keepers. She figured out the route for him to escape so that, the keepers could not see him. She even paid him the train fare to go to London as he did not have any money. He was speechless for a moment since he was trying to guess the reason for her kindness towards him.
17. “I didn’t want anybody to hear”
This sentence implied –
Answer: 1. Peter entered Mrs. Adis’s house without knocking because he did not want anybody to hear the knock and find out his whereabouts.
2. Peter was running away from the keepers as he had shot a man. He wanted to take shelter at Mrs, Adis’s place for sometime and would escape at a convenient time.
18. Point out two instances when the man felt that Mrs. Adis was an intelligent lady.
Answer: 1. Mrs. Adis told the man to leave her house immediately after the keepers had crossed the house and she also instructed him to take the opposite direction so that the keepers would not be able to see him.
2. Mrs. Adis wanted the man to leave her house before Tom came back as she was expecting Tom to bring one of his friends. She wanted to arrow a situation when tom might suspect something wrong after seeing that man at her place.
19. Explain why Peter went out silently without talking to Mrs. Adis.
Answer: Peter knew that he had committed a glare crime of killing his friend Tom, he might have done it unknowingly but he could feel the loss of Mrs. Adis. Tom was her only son and Peter, being his friend, knew about their attachment. He was repentant and could understand that he had no word to console Mrs. Adis who, in spite of losing her son, saved him. So he went out silently without disturbing Mrs. Adis.
20. What characteristics of Mrs. Adis, form the passage, do you admire the most? Justify your answer.
Answer: I appreciate the calmness of Mrs. Adis the most in a difficult situation when a criminal was standing in front of her, she did not lose her cool and maintained her patience. She was obviously disturbed by Peter’s presence lent did not take any hasty decision.
Answer by Dimpee Bora
