The Tail, Boat and Ant Questions & Answers
A. Answer in one word or phrase
1. In which class did Swaminathan study?Answer: First Class
2. What was Swaminathan called by his friends?
Answer: Tail
3. Whose son was Rajam?
Answer: A Police Superintendent
4. What did Swaminathan make with a sheet of paper?
Answer: A boat
5. What did Swaminathan put in the boat?
Answer: An ant.
B. Answer briefly:
Answer: Swaminathan felt about the small students that they were doing useless activities at school.
2. Why did Swaminathan not group the staircase leading to the second and third forms?
Answer: Swaminathan did not go up the staircase to second and third forms because the headmaster might be up there and the teachers there too were formidable, not to speak of the snob and bully boys.
3. Why did the students not allow Swaminathan to play with them?
Answer: The student did not allow Swaminathan to play with them because he always stuck to Rajam, the son of a police superintendent.
4. Why did student not allow Swaminathan do on seeing the gutter?
Answer: Swaminathan made a paper boat and put an ant in it and left on the gushing water.
5. How did the boat move on the quick water?
Answer: The boat sped, swirled and swerved and went round in eddies, and finally turned upside down.
6. What did Swaminathan do when the boat was upset?
C. Write TRUE of FALSE:
Answer: TRUE
2. Swaminathan was a tall boy.
Answer: FALSE
3. Swaminathan thought about small students that they were ridiculous.
Answer: TRUE
4. The friends allowed Swaminathan to play with them.
Answer: FALSE
5. Swaminathan was Rajam’s friend, so he was called Tail.
Answer: TRUE
6. Swaminathan sat an ant in the paper boat.
Answer: TRUE
7. Swaminathan was able to rescue the ant.
Answer: FALSE
D. Tick the right option:
1. Swaminathan felt _________ about the small students.
- Ridiculous
- Intelligent
- Proud
Answer: Ridiculous
2. The friends called Swaminathan the ___________
- Horn
- Tail
- Tooth
Answer:Tail
3. The friends did not allow Swaminathan to play with them because he was _________
- A poor boy
- A bully
- Answer: A bully
Rajam’s friend
4. Swaminathan put a/an __________ in the boat
- Ant
- Nail
- Egg
Answer: Ant
E. Give your views:
1. You are playing with your friends, who are not allowing a child to play with them because he belongs to a very poor family. What will you do?
Answer: I am playing with my friends who do not allow a poor child to play with, I would ask them to reconsider their decision. If they don’t agree, I would myself go with the poor child to play with him.
2. Swaminathan felt that the small students were ridiculous, while he had done the same thing in the past years. What will you advise him?
Answer: I would advise Swaminathan that the school activities are graded as per the age and class, and they were doing what the teachers thought were appropriate for them.
3. On seeing the gutter, Swaminathan made a paper boat and put an ant in it. Do you like the way he enjoyed himself?
Answer: Making a paper boat is okay but I don’t like his putting an ant on it, because it could drown if the boat were upset. An ant too has life.
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