11th Class English Chapter 2 Clearing in the Sky Short Questions Answers
11th Class English Chapter 2 Clearing in the Sky Short Question Answer
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1. Why did the old man follow the advice of the doctor?
The doctors advised the old man not to do any work. While the old man wanted to work. He wanted to lough land and raise crops. Therefore, he did not follow the advice of doctor.
2. What had the doctors told the old man? OR what was the advice the doctor gave to father many times in his life?
The doctor had asked him to enjoy the few remaining days of his life with his family. They told hin not to do any work. They asked him not to walk even.
3. Where did the old man take his son? OR Why did the father take his son up the mountain?
The father had formed a piece of land on the top of a hill. He took his son there. He wanted to him appreciate his efforts.
4. Had the son ever been there before? OR Had jess already visited the top of the mountain?
Yes, he had visited it many times except the last three years.
5. What were the names of the vegetables the old man grew on his farm? OR what vegetables had been cultivated on the farm?
The old man grew potatoes, yams and tomato on his farm.
6. Why did the old man take the steep path?
He took the steep path to show his son that he was still healthy and strong. The old man judged his health in his way.
7. Why had son at the age of six cried? OR When did Jess’ father make him a little plough and what happened to it?
When jess was six year old, his father made a little wooden plough. While playing the son lost it in a furrow. So he cried at this loss.
8. What were the feelings of the old man at the age of seventy?
Even at the age of seventy, the old man showed his love for soil and farming. He remembered his bygone days. He smelt the direct and shifted though his fingers.
9. Why did the old man planted secret garden? OR Why did the old men plough and cultivate the patch of land on the top of mountain?
In fact, the old man wanted to return to the places he had loved. He wanted to taste the things grown in a few land. Therefore, he grew vegetable on the top of mountain.
10. Describe the physical appearance of the old man?
The old man is seventy years old. He is a thin and ill man. He walks with the help of a stick. He has a red – wrinkled face.
11. How did the old man feel about the land?
The old man loved his land. He wanted to smell the rich loam. He wanted to plough a new land. He wanted to dig earth. He wanted to sift through his fingers.
12. Why did the son remember about his childhood? Were these good memories?
He remembered that his father and mother worked together on the farm. He remembered that his father made him a little wooden plough. He lost it and wept. Then his father made him another plough but he did not like it.
13. Write the story in your own words?
An ill father was advised not to work. But he worked hard and became healthy. He grew vegetables on the top of the mountain. He took his son there. They talked about their bygone days.
14. What moral lesson does the story teach?
It teaches us the lesson of courage and determination. It tells us that work makes us health and strong. It tells us that we should never lose hope. It urges us to love land and nature.
15. What is meant by ‘A Clearing in the sky’?
‘ A Clearing in the sky’ stand for a patch of land nearer to the sky. The patch has been prepared for farming on the top of a high mountain. So it is nearer to the shy.
16. What is the significance of the title of the story “A Clearing In the sky’?
The old man very significance. It is the key would in the whole story. The old man and his son go up to the clearing talk about it comes down again and the story ends. So the whole story resolves round it.
17. Why did jess not want to go with his father?
Jess did not want to go with his father as it was very hot weather and he had just finished half a mile uphill journey. He had brought his mother basket of dishes. He was probably tired.
18. what did a doctor tell jess’s father to do?
He asked him not to walk the length of a city block. He asked him to get a taxi to take him home. But he walked five miles to reach his home.
19. What did people tell jess’s father about farm?
They told him that he would end up with his family if je tired to make a living there.
20. Why did the farmers raise the clouds of smoke?
The farmers raised the clouds of smoke to prevent the main swarm of locusts from landing on their farms. The farmers were throwing wet leaves onto the fires to make the smoke acrid and black.
21. Why did jess’s father like the wood?
He liked the woods because he had many beautiful memories linked to them. He had spent a major part of his life there.
22. What did jess’s father remember about hunting in the woods?
He remembered that they use to hunt for squirrels there. They had two hounds. Rags and scout. They hunted ripe rabbits with their help.
23. What charms of the woods jess’s father mention?
He asked about hunting squirrels and rabbits the morning winds in August and the frosts in October, the rusting of leaves and the falling of yellow leaves like yellow rain drops.
24. What were the charms of the woods on October for jess’s father?
In October, the rabbits were ripe and the frosts had come. The hickory leaves had turned yellow. When the winds below, there leaves rustled and fell to the ground like yellow rain drops.
25. How many paths were going to the top of the mountain?
There were many paths that left the main path. They are circled around the slope to the top of the mountain.
26. What did jess see when they reached the top of the hill?
He saw a clearing in the heart of wilderness right on the mountain top. Its area was not more than three – fourth of an acre.
27. What did jess father pick in his hands on the top of the hill? OR What did the father do with the dirt at the top of mountain? Or what did the father say about the dirt at the top of the mountain?
He picked up a double handful of leaf-rot loam (dirt). He smelled of the dirt. Then he left the dirt run through his fingers. It flew like fresh air. He said that it was a real fertile land.
28. How did jess’s father praise the dirt of his clearing?
He said that it was very fertile land. It was like the fresh air. He whiffed in into his nostrils. He said that it was pleasant to touch even.
29. What happens to a man after seventy years according to jess’s father?
According to him, after seventy years something goes back. A man wants to return to his past. He wants to repeat his past activities. He wants to return to the places he loved.
30. When did jess’s father and mother work together and what crops did they grow?
When his father was twenty two and his mother was nineteen, they cleared a slope together. They ploughed it raised corn, beans and pumpkins there. They also grew corn, maize and can.
31. Why did jess’s father build so many paths going to the hills?
During illness, he could not climb the steep path. He made easier paths them .As he continued to get better, he kept on making steeper paths. It proved that he was getting better.
32. Why did the old man recall his past memories?
The old man wanted to recall his past memories because they were beautiful. He just wanted to refresh his bygone days. Those days were full of joy and hope. By recalling his old memories, he wanted to return to his youth.
33. How did the old man plan to live long?
The old man planned to live long life by working hard. He did not follow the advice of his doctors to take life easy. He rather walked along distances, climbed the mountains and worked hard in the fields. This made him healthy a long life and he lived.
34. What guaranteed the old man’s health?
Courage, determination, hope and hard work guaranteed the old man health. He kept on doing hard work and this made him healthy and strong.
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