Chapter- 7 Jimmy Jet and His TV Set
1. Who is the poet of the poem “Jimmy Jet and His TV Set”?
Answer: The poet is Shel Silverstein.
2. Who is Jimmy Jet?
Answer: Jimmy Jet is a boy who loved watching television too much.
3. What did Jimmy love to watch?
Answer: He loved to watch his TV set.
4. How much did Jimmy love watching TV?
Answer: He loved it almost as much as the poet loved the children.
5. When did Jimmy watch TV?
Answer: He watched TV all day and all night.
6. Which TV shows did Jimmy watch?
Answer: He watched from “The Early Show” to “The Late Late Show” and all the shows in between.
7. What happened to Jimmy because of watching TV too much?
Answer: He grew pale and lean.
8. What happened to Jimmy’s eyes?
Answer: His eyes were frozen wide.
9. What happened to Jimmy’s bottom?
Answer: His bottom grew into his chair.
10. What did Jimmy’s chin turn into?
Answer: His chin turned into a tuning dial.
11. What grew out of Jimmy’s hair?
Answer: Antennae grew out of his hair.
12. What happened to Jimmy’s brain?
Answer: His brain turned into TV tubes.
13. What did Jimmy’s face turn into?
Answer: His face turned into a TV screen.
14. What grew where Jimmy’s ears had been?
Answer: Two knobs marked ‘VERT’ and ‘HORIZ’ grew there.
15. What grew like a tail on Jimmy’s body?
Answer: A plug grew that looked like a tail.
16. What did people do with the plug?
Answer: They plugged in little Jim.
17. Who watches TV at the end of the poem?
Answer: People watch Jimmy instead of Jimmy watching TV.
18. Is the poem serious or humorous?
Answer: The poem is humorous and imaginative.
19. What bad habit of children does the poem show?
Answer: Watching too much television.
20. What is the message of the poem?
Answer: Too much TV watching is harmful and can affect our health and life.
Answer by Dimpee Bora
