Here we have given NCERT Solutions for Class 7 English Honeycomb Chapter 6 The Invention of Vita-Wonk.
Chapter 6 The Invention of Vita-Wonk
Comprehension Check
1. Choose the right answer.
(i) Mr. Willy Wonka is
(a) a cook
(b) an inventor
(c) a manager.
(ii) Wonka-Vite makes people
(a) older
(b) younger
(iii) Mr. Wonka wants to invent a new thing which will make people
(a) younger
(b) older.
2. Can anyone’s age be a minus number? What does ” minus 87″ mean?
3. Mr. Wonka begins by asking himself two questions. What are they?
(i) What is…………………. ?
(ii) What lives …………… ?
Ans 1.
(i) (b) an inventor
(i) (b) younger
(iii) (b) older
Ans 2. No, I don’t think so. Minus 87 means that the man becomes 87 years back to his age (birth).
Ans 3.
(i) What is the oldest living thing in the world?
(ii) What lives longer than anything else?
Working With The Text
1. (i) What trees does Mr. Wonka mention? Which tree does he say lives the longest?
(ii) How long does this tree live? Where can you find it?
Ans. (i) Mr. Wonka mentions so many kinds of trees-oak, cedar and fir. However, the Bristlecone pine lives the longest.
Ans (ii) This tree lives for 4000 years. We can find it on Wheeler Peak in Nevada, USA.
2. How many of the oldest living things can you remember from Mr. Wonka’s list? (Don’t look back at the story!) Do you think all these things really exist or are some of them purely imaginary?
Ans. Mr. Wonka refers to purely imaginary old things collected from a Russian farmer, a tortoise, a horse, a flea and a rat.
3. Why does Mr. Wonka collect items from the oldest things? Do you think this is the right way to begin his invention?
Ans. Mr. Wonka collects items from very old things because he thinks that a drug prepared from them will make the user old. But it is a foolish dream exactly, not the right way to begin an invention.
4. What happens to the volunteer who swallows four drops of the new invention? What is the name of the invention?
Ans. The person who drinks just four drops of Wonka’s new drug suddenly grows very old. His hair and his teeth start falling. His skin starts drying up and wrinkling. A twenty year old person looks seventy five.
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