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The World in A Wall STD 7 PDF
The World in A Wall STD 7 PDF
Std Vll
Ref.I. "But the shyest and most self- effacing of the wall community were the most
dangerous; you hardly ever saw one unless you looked for it."
Q.l. Describe the shyest and most self - effacing creatures of the wall community.
Ans. The shyest and most self - effacing creatures of the wall community were the black
scorpions. They were an inch long and looked as though they were made out of polished
chocolate. They were weird -looking things, with flattened, oval bodies, neat crooked legs
and enormous crab - like claws, bulbous and neatly jointed as armour. The tail-was like a
string of brown beads ending in a sting like a rose thorn.
Q.2. Why does the author call these creatures the shyest and most self - effacing
creatures?
Ans. The author, Gerald, calls the scorpions the shyest and most - effacing creatures because
you can hardly ever see one unless you looked for it, and yet there are several hundred living
in the cracks of the wall .
Q.5.What did the author discover about their food habits and how did he
feel about the same?
Ans. Gerald found out that they ate bluebottles, grasshoppers, moths and lacewing flies.
Several times he found them eating each other, a habit he found most distressing in a creature
otherwise so impeccable.
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Ref.II “By crouching under the wall at night with a torch, I managed to catch
some brief glimpses of the scorpions' wonderful courtship dances.”
Q.1.Describe the wonderful courtship dances witnessed by the author.
Ans. Gerald would crouch under the wall at night to catch a glimpse of the scorpions'
wonderful courtship dance. He saw the scorpions standing, claws clasped, their bodies
raised to the skies and their tails lovingly entwined. He saw them waltzing slowly in
circles among the moss cushions, claw in claw.
Q.2. Why was Gerald unable to view the courtship dances properly?
Ans. Gerald was unable to view the courtship dances properly as these performances were
all too short, for almost as soon as he switched on the torch the partners would stop,
pause for a moment, and then, seeing that he was not going to extinguish the light,
they would turn round and walk firmly away, claw in claw, side by side. They were
definitely beasts that believed in keeping themselves to themselves.
Ref III “Then one day I found a fat female scorpion in the wall, wearing what
at first glance appeared to be a pale fawn fur coat.”
Q.2. What did the author discover when he had a closer look at the fat female
scorpion?
Ans. When Gerald inspected the fat female scorpion closely he realized that the strange
garment, the pale fawn fur coat was made up of a mass of tiny babies clinging to the
mother's back.
Q.3.Why did Gerald have to smuggle the scorpion into the house? How did he
plan to do this?
Ans. Gerald was enraptured by the fat female scorpion so he made up his mind to smuggle
the family into the house and up to his bedroom so that he could keep them and watch them,
grow up. He planned to manoeuvre the mother and family into a matchbox and smuggle them
into the house.
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carefully on the mantelpiece in the drawing room, so that the scorpions would get
plenty of air, and he made his way to the dining room and joined the family for
the meal.
Q.6 Why did Mother lose her breath and sit gasping?
Ans. Mother, completely bewildered by this sudden and rapid change from peace to chaos,put
on her glasses and peered down the table to see what was causing the pandemonium. At that
moment Margo, in a vain attempt to stop the scorpion’s advance, hurled a glass of water at
it.The shower missed the animal completely, but successfully drenched Mother, who, not
being able to stand cold water, promptly lost her breath and sat gasping.
Q.7. What were some of the things that the family wanted to do to the scorpions?
Ans. Leslie wanted to hit the scorpions with a book. The other members of the family also
wanted the scorpions to be slaughtered.
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Q.10. Do you think it was wise of Gerald to spend the afternoon away from home? Give
reasons.
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