A Bottle of Dew Extra Question Answer Class 6 English Chapter 1
A Bottle of Dew Short Questions and Answers
Question 1.
What funny idea did Rama Natha have?
Answer:
Rama Natha had a funny idea that there was some magic potion that could turn any object into gold. He spent all his time to learn about this potion. People often cheated him promising to tell him about it, but he did not give up.
Question 2.
How and why did the people cheat Rama Natha?
Answer:
The people knew that Rama Natha was desperate to get the magic potion. They cheated him promising to tell him about it. However, after charging him for the same, they would disappear.
Question 3.
Why was Madhumati worried?
Answer:
Rama Natha was frantic to know about the magic potion because he believed that it could change any object into gold. People cheated him promising to tell him about the magic potion. Madhumati was worried because Rama Natha was spending too much money and time on finding the potion.
Question 4.
Who was Mahipati? Why was Rama Natha surprised?
Answer:
Mahipati was a famous sage. When Rama Natha asked him about the magic potion, -he replied that he had heard about how it could be made, Rama Natha was surprised to know that the sage knew about it.
Question 5.
What did the sage tell Rama Natha to do with five litres of morning dew?
Answer:
The sage told Rama Natha to collect five litres of dew and bring it to him, he would chant some magic words which will turn it into the magic potion. A drop of it will turn any object into gold.
Question 6.
What special instructions did the sage give to Rama Natha?
Answer:
The sage told Rama Natha to plant a banana plant and water it regularly with his own hands. He told him he could plant as many banana plants but he should look after them himself. He should collect five litres of dew from the leaves.
Question 7.
What happened to the fields that were lying empty for years?
Answer:
The fields that were lying empty for years were first cleaned, then according to the instruction of the sage, Rama Natha planted rows and rows of banana plants and the large tracts of land turned into a huge plantation.
Question 8.
What did the sage do on receiving the bottle of dew? How did Rama Natha react?
Answer:
On receiving the bottle of dew, the sage smiled and muttered something over the water. Then he returned the bottle to Rama and asked him to sprinkle a faw drops on a copper vessel.
Question 9.
Why did Mahipati ask Madhumati to come forward?
Answer:
Mahipati, the sage asked Madhumati to come forward and show Rama Natha the stacks of gold coins. The sage wanted Madhumati to show Rama Natha how his hard work had yielded gold.
Question 10.
Why did the sage play a trick on Rama Natha.
Answer:
The sage was a wise person, he knew that the persons who look for magic potion to get gold are not hard working. If the sage would have told Rama that there was no magic potion, he would have not listened to him. He played a trick on him so that he could understand that only hard work can make a person wealthy.
A Bottle of Dew Long Questions and Answers
Writing Character sketch
Read the given adjectives. Adjectives are helpful in writing the character sketch of a person.
How to write a character sketch
- Read the lesson carefully and note down the personality traits of the person whose character sketch you intend to write.
- Use adjective to describe a particular trait. Give an example from the text to justify the choice of your adjective.
- Points to remember
- Introduction
- Name of the character and their role in the story.
- Physical appearance in a sentence or two
- Use adjectives to describe their personal traits.
- Provide evidence from the text.
Question 1.
Rama Natha wanted the magic potion to turn things into gold. The personality of Rama Natha is totally transformed toward the end of the story, ‘A Bottle of Dew’. Describe the transformation of his character in your own words.
Answer:
Rama Natha was not hardworking. He was lazy. He wanted to become wealthy without putting in any effort. He believed in magic potion that would easily turn any object into gold. When his father died he did no work on the large tracts of his land. He was not wise. He spent all his time to learn more about the potion. People cheated him, took away his money. His wife was worried because he was not working, not earning but was wasting the money.
When Rama Natha asked the sage named Mahipati about the magic potion, the sage smiled and said he had heard about it. The sage at once came to know that Rama was lethargic, so he decided to trick him and make him work hard. Rama followed the instructions diligently. He worked laboriously and was focused in tending the plants and collecting dew. Finally he under stood the importance of working hard and that hard work is the only mage.
Question 2.
Madhumati did not believe in the magic potion but still she had a big box with stacks of gold coins in it. How was she different from her husband? Give her character sketch in about 80 words.
Answer:
Madhumati was a practical woman who believed in hard work. Slie was helpful and meticulous. She did not believe in magic potion. She was worried about Rama’s illogical way of spending money.
She was wise. When Rama told her about his meeting with the sage she helped him in the fields. While Rama was busy collecting the dew, his wife gathered the banana crop, took it to the market and got a good price for it. She collected the gold coins in a big box. She had stacks of gold coins. She knew that there was nothing like the magic potion from the beginning but it took many years for Rama Natha to understand that only hard work can create wealth. Rama Natha worked harder on his plantation and gained wisdom.
Question 3.
Imagine you are the sage Mahipati. Write a letter to your friend justifying your action of playing a trick on Rama Natha.
Answer:
33 Mandir Lane
Village Kina
30 January 20××
Dear Kabir
I had recently been to nearby town where I met a rich Land Lord, Rama Nath. He had huge tracts of land but was least interested in his fields. He only wanted me to tell him about the magic potion that would turn any object into gold. I could at once make out that he was lazy. I lied to him about the magic potion. I know it is wrong to lie, but if I hadn’t he would have wasted his entire wealth looking for it.
You will be surprised to know what I told him. I asked him to plant as many banana plants as he could and collect the morning dew from the leaves. I asked him to tend the plants and collect the dew himself. I know he will work hard now. Good idea, isn’t it?
Yours sincerely
Mahipati
Question 4.
You are Rama Natha. Write a page in your diary expressing your joy of giving up the funny idea of the magic potion. Express your feelings of gratitude towards your wife and the sage.
Answer:
1 February 20××
9 pm
Friday
Dear Diary
Today, I am very happy. The sage has really transformed me. His instructions have borne fruit. I am gold I planted so many banana plants and looked after each plant so laboriously.
I now understand how irrational I had been, I was looking for the magic potion for turning things into gold. Now, my hands have turned the fields into churning gold.
I am grateful to the sage who guided me and I am indebted to my wife who gathered the crop and took it to the market to collect the gold.
I now understand the wisdom behind the words of the sage. I will work harder on my land now. By for now
Rama
Question 5.
Imagine you are Madhumati. Prepare a speech to be delivered at a meeting in your village on how you and your turned the empty fields into a huge banana plantation.
Answer:
Our Banana Plantation
Good Morning,
Dear friends today I am here to tell you how my husband and I have changed our empty fields into a huge banana plantation. Most of us know that Rama, was always interested in the magic potion. He believed that the magic liquid could turn any object into gold. He wasted a lot of time and money searching for it.
When he met the famous sage Mahipati, he asked him about the magic potion. I am glad that sage gave him right advice. He advised him to grow banana plant and look after them himself. He asked him to collect the morning dew from each leaf of the plant. This task made Rama Natha hardworking and strong. He needed five litres of the morning dew, so he planted rows and rows of banana tree plants and now we have a huge plantation. The real magic is in hard work. I am happy we collected gold coins from it. Hard work is the real magic that makes us happy.
Question 6.
In about 100 words write a paragraph on the given topic.
“Hard work is the only magic that can make you successful.”
Answer:
Hard work is the key to success “Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice (Henry Ford)”.
Hard work is essential for becoming a happy and successful person. There is ,no magic potion or short-cut to success. We must remain determined to work hard regularly. A disciplined life helps us to put in more efforts and enables us to succeed without any stress.
Hard work is indispensable if you want to succeed. Without hard work no one can achieve anything. Sincerity and patience help us realise our dreams. So, let us make the best use of time and work hard. Abdul Kalam, our late President has rightly said,
“Confidence and hard work, is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you a successful person.
A Bottle of Dew Extract Based Questions
Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:
1. Rama Natha was the son of a rich landlord. His father left him large tracts of land when he died. But Rama Natha did not spend a day looking after his land.
Questions:
(a) What was Rama Natha’s father?
Answer:
Rama Natha’s father was a landlord.
(b) What does ‘large tracts of land’ mean?
Answer:
‘Large tracts of land’ means large areas of land.
(c) Who is the author of the story from which the extract has been taken?
Answer:
Sudha Murty is the author of the story.
(d) Give the present form of the word left’.
Answer:
The present form of word left’ is ‘leave’.
(e) What does ‘did not spend a day’ signify? Answers:
Answer:
‘did not spend a day’ here means that Rama Natha did not look after the land at all.
2. To his surprise the sage answered, “Yes, in my travels in the Himalayas, I heard how you could make such a potion. But it is difficult.”
Questions:
(a) Whom does the word ‘his’ refer to?
Answer:
The word ‘his’ refers to Rama Natha.
(b) What was the name of the sage?
Answer:
The name of the sage was ‘Mahipati’.
(c) What does the word ‘potion’ mean?
Answer:
The word potion means ‘a liquid with magical powers’.
(d) Had the sage really heard about the potion?
Answer:
The sage had not heard about the potion. He said so only to trick Rama Natha and make him work hard on his land.
(e) What is the meaning of the last line of the above passage?
Answer:
The sage said that though he had heard about the potion but it was not easy to make.
3. “I will chant some magic words, which will turn it into the magic potion. A drop of the potion will change any object into gold.”
Rama Natha was worried, “But winter is only for a few months.”
Questions:
(a) What does the word ‘it’ stand for?
Answer:
The word ‘it’ stands for -the dew collected by Rama Natha.
(b) What does the word ‘chant’ mearr?
Answer:
The word ‘chant’ means to repeat or sing a word or a phrase.
(c) Which part of speech is the word ‘object’?
Answer:
The word ‘object’ is a common noun.
(d) Why was Rama Natha worried?
Answer:
Rama Natha was worried because winter is only for a few months.
(e) Name the lesson from which the above extract been taken.
Answer:
The extract has been taken from the lesson, ‘A Bottle of Dew’ by Sudha Murty.
4. Rama Natha went home and after talking to his wife started cleaning his large fields, which had been lying empty all these years. There he planted rows and rows of banana plants. He tended them carefully and during the winter months collected the dew that formed on them with great care. His wife helped him too. Madhumati collected the banana crop, took it to the market and got a good price for it.
Questions:
(a) Which of the following is NOT a reason for cleaning the large fields?
(i) He had to grow banana plants to collect dew drops.
(ii) He wanted to plant banana plants.
(iii) Rama was fond of farming.
(iv) Both (i) and (ii)
Answer:
(iii) Rama was fond of farming.
(b) Why did Rama Natha collect the dew with great care? (Answer in about ten words)
Answer:
Rama Natha collected the dew with great care because he had to collect five litres of it.
(c) Which phrase would correctly substitute “tended’ in the given sentence from the extract. He tended them carefully
(i) looked into
(ii) looked after
(iii) looked for
(iv) looked back
Answer:
(ii) looked after
(d) How did Madhufnati help Rama Natha?
Answer:
Madhumati collected the banana crop, took it to the market and got a good price for it.
(e) There he planted rows and rows of banana plants,’ what do you infer from this line?
Answers:
There he planted rows and rows of banana plants’ means that he planted plenty of banana plants.
5. “There is no magic potion that can turn things into gold you worked hard on your land and created this plantation. While you looked after the trees, your wife sold the fruits in the market. That’s how you got this money. It was your hard work that created this wealth, not magic. If I had told you this earlier, so I have played a trick on you”.
Questions:
(a) In the above excerpt whom does “you’ stand for?
Answer:
The word “you’ in the above excerpt stands for Rama Natha.
(b) How did Rama Natha get money? (Write the answer in twenty words.)
Answer:
Rama Natha got the money not by magic but by hard work. His wife helped him. She sold the fruit in the market and got gold coins.
(c) What does the word ‘plantation’ stand for?
Answer:
Plantation is a group of plants, in this story group of banana plants.
(d) Which part of speech is used after the word listened’ ?
Answer:
In the passage, the word listened is followed by ‘to’ which is a preposition.
(e) Was the sage successful in tricking Rama Natha? Give reason for your answer.
Answers:
The sage Mahipati was successful in tricking Rama Natha. He made him work hard and made him understand that there is no magic potion. Hard work itself is a magic that can make a person successful.