THE APPLE TREE' Question answers,

 English Literature

Class VII

Chapter 6

THE APPLE TREE

Question answers

Q 1. Why is one orchard described as 'wild' ? What grew there and how was it used by the family?

Ans. One orchard is described as wild because it lay beyond the vegetable garden. Bitter cherries, damsons and transparent yellow plums grew there. It was not used by the family members but the servant girl and the washerwoman carried wet clothes of the family to get them dry.

Q. 2 Why did father believe his friend’s suggestion that the apples were marvelous?  

Ans. Father believed his friend's suggestion that the apples were marvelous because he knew nothing whatever about the names of fruit trees.

Q. 3 What was it about the Apple Tree that delighted father?

Ans. About the apple tree that delighted father was that they were very rare and hardly found in England.

Q. 4 Describe what the author intends to convey through the following lines from the story:

Great Scott! — — — — — — — — — — names of fruit trees.

Ans. Through these lines the author intends that father's friend said thinking about the apple tree that every look at the tree gives a feeling of great wonder and surprise. This apple tree looks quite different and strange in the garden like an unknown bird upon the little tree.

Father believes his friend because he knows nothing whatever about the names of trees.

Q. 5 What was the difference in the tone of the warning given to the children by father before and after his friend had left?

Ans. In front of his friend, father gave the warning to the children in a friendly tone but after his friend had left, he gave a warning in a menacing or threatening tone.  

Q. 6 Write a short paragraph on how the children reacted when they tasted the apples?

Ans. The children stared each other, chewing the apple desperately. While chewing and swallowing, a long silent conversation passed between them and decided what to tell father. This resulted to the conclusion that they both lied and told the father that the Apple was perfect and lovely.

Q. 7 Why did father spit out the apple when he tasted it. Do you think he ever bothered about the Apple Tree again?

Ans. When father tasted the apple, he spat it out because its skin was hard and tasted bitter like a horrible taste of something dry. No, never bothered about the apple tree again because he never went near it.