Solved exercise question answers of Lesson 9 The Foolish Quack,1st Year English Book-1
The
Foolish Quack
QNo 1: What is a clump of trees?
Ans: A group of trees growing very
close to one another is called a clump of trees.
QNo 2: What was struck in the camel’s
throat?
Ans: A melon
was struck in the camel’s throat.
QNo 3: What
did the quack pretend to cure?
Ans: The quack
pretended to cure goitre.
QNo 4: what
did the quack do with the old woman? OR How did the quack try to cure the old man?
Ans: He tied
up the woman’s throat with a blanket and struck it with full force that the old
woman died.
QNo 5: what
was the result of the cure?
Ans: It was
a horrible result. The woman died instantly.
QNo 6: What
was the punishment inflected upon the quack by the villagers?
Ans: First
they asked him to dig the grave of the woman and after that they beat him
badly.
QNo 7: For
whom did the quack dig the grave?
Ans: He dug
the grave for the old woman.
QNo 8: what
did the quack do in the next village?
Ans: When the
quack reached in the next village, he again pretended to be a doctor.
Before treating an old man he asked the people not to force him to dig his
grave if the old man died.
QNo 9: Why did
the villagers not let the old man to be cured?
Ans: It was
because the quack had started to talk about digging up the old man’s grave
before starting his treatment.
QNo 10: Why
did the quack come back to the camel man?
Ans: The quack
wanted to tell them that they had not shown him the right way to cure the goiter.
Moreover, he wanted to learn the right way to cure goiter.
QNo 11: How
did the camel-men cure their camel?
Ans: They tied
a blanket around camel’s throat and struck it with so much force that
melon broke into pieces instantly. The camel easily swallowed the pieces.
QNo 12: How
did the quack came to realize his error?
Ans: The camel
man realized him of his stupid ideas. They made him understand the difference
between a camel and a human. Upon this he realized his error.
QNo 13: How
did camel-men prove the stupidity of quack?
Ans: They showed him a demonstration. One of the camel-men
struck a camel with a heave stick. The camel hardly felt the blow.
Then he struck the quack that could not bear the
blow and lost his senses. The
difference between a camel and a man got him realized his error.
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