The Happy Prince
Textual Questions & Answers
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Activity 1
Rearrange the following sentences in the correct
order and put the numbers in the given boxes:
1. All the friends of the Swallow had left for warm
Egypt. [ 3 ]
2. The Happy Prince asked the Swallow to take the ruby out
of his sword hilt. [ 6 ]
3. The Swallow took shelter beneath the statue of the Happy
Prince. [ 4 ]
4. The woman’s son was suffering from fever. [ 5
]
5. The Happy Prince lived in the wonderful palace of Sans-Souci. [
1 ]
6. The town built the statue of the Happy Prince. [
2 ]
Activity 2
Complete the following sentences with information
from the text:
1. The young
mother told her child not to cry because the Happy Prince never
cries for new things.
2. The Swallow
took shelter beneath the statue of Happy Prince because it wanted
to protect itself from the cold.
3. The Swallow
mistook the drops of tear of the Happy Prince for
rain.
4. The statue of
the Happy Prince could see the poor people and all the ugly
things in his land.
Activity 3
Answer
the following question:
Ans: The Swallow realized that the Happy Prince had a golden heart for the poor people because on seeing the miserable condition of his people, he was crying.
Activity 4
Write “T” for true and “F” for false statements in
the given boxes. Give supporting statements for each of your answers:
1. The Swallow
didn’t want to help the Happy Prince.
Ans: False , Supporting Statement: “Swallow : I will
help you.”
2. The Happy
Prince wanted to leave for Egypt.
Ans: False , Supporting Statement: “Swallow: I will
leave for Egypt tonight.”
3. The Happy
Prince asked the Swallow to take a sapphire from one of his eyes to the
playwright.
Ans: True , Supporting Statement: “Statue: Little
Swallow take one of my sapphire eyes and give it to him.”
4. The girl in the
Town Square had no shoes.
Ans: True , Supporting Statement: “Statue: She has no shoes.”
Activity 5
Answer the following questions:
1. Why did the
Swallow agree to help the Happy Prince?
Ans: The swallow agreed
to help the Happy Prince because he felt sorry for the Prince and he couldn’t
say no to people.
2. Why did the
Swallow feel warm?
Ans: The Swallow
felt warm because he did something good to help someone.
3. What made the
playwright say, ‘Now I can finish my play’?
Ans: The young
playwright could not continue his writing anymore because he was hungry. After
getting the sapphire from the Swallow he could manage to have some money to
support himself by selling it. So the playwright said the given words.
Activity 6
Fill in the following chart with information from the text:
|
Cause |
Effect |
|
(i) The Swallow dropped the sapphire into the
girl’s hand. |
The little girl was happy. |
|
(ii) The Happy Prince was then completely
blind. |
Though it was cold, the Swallow stayed on with the Happy
Prince |
|
(iii) The Swallow told the Happy Prince that it saw many
unhappy and unfed people. |
The
Happy Prince told the Swallow to take all the gold from his body and give it
away to those poor people. |
|
(iv) The Mayor didn’t find the statue beautiful anymore. |
He
gave an order to take the statue away and melt it in the furnace. |
Activity 7
Answer the following questions:
1. What new law did the Mayor propose?
Ans: The Mayor proposed that no bird would die in town square, or near the Happy Prince.
2. Why did the Mayor and the Town Councilors think the statue of the Happy Prince was not beautiful anymore?
Ans: The Mayor and the Town Councillors thought the statue of the Happy Prince was not beautiful anymore because the statue didn’t have the Ruby on his sword, the sapphire in his eyes and the golden dress which he had.
3. Where was the Happy Prince taken?
Ans: The shabby statue
of the Happy Prince was taken to the furnace for melting.
4. Why did the
Mayor and the councilors want statues of themselves?
Ans: The Mayor and the Councilors
wanted to be respected by the people in the same manner as the Happy Prince was
respected by the common people.
Activity 8 (a)
Read the following pairs of sentences and write
down the changes that have taken place under the appropriate heads in the
tables given below. The first one is done for you.
(i) The child said, “I am going home.”
Ans: The child said that he was going home.
|
Subject |
Verbs |
Words |
Punctuation
Marks |
|
|
Direct
Speech |
I |
am |
going
home |
Inverted
commas |
|
Indirect
Speech |
He |
was |
No
change |
No
inverted commas |
(ii) He said to
me, “Yesterday was a holiday.”
Ans: He told me
that the previous day had been a holiday.
|
Subject |
Verbs |
Words |
Punctuation
Marks |
|
|
Direct
Speech |
Yesterday |
was |
a
holiday |
inverted
commas |
|
Indirect
Speech |
the
previous day |
had been |
a
holiday |
no
inverted commas |
(iii) The teacher said to the students, “Tomorrow we
will go to the museum.”
Ans: The teacher told her students that they would go
to the museum the next day.
|
Subject |
Verbs |
Words |
Punctuation
Marks |
|
|
Direct
Speech |
We |
will
go |
to
the museum tomorrow |
inverted
commas |
|
Indirect
Speech |
They |
would
go |
to
the museum the next day |
no
inverted commas |
Activity 8 (b)
Change
the following sentences from Direct to Indirect Speech:
1. The Swallow said to the statue, “I am staying with
you.”
Ans: The Swallow told the statue that
he was staying with him.
2. My mother said to me, “Please wait for me here.”
Ans: My mother requested me to wait
for her there.
3. Raja said, “Oh! How cold the wind is.
Ans: Raja exclaimed that the wind was
very cold.
4. The old man said to the little girl, “May God bless
you.”
Ans: The old man prayed that God might
bless the little girl. / The old man wished the little girl that God might
bless her.
5. The man said to him, “Go away.”
Ans: The man ordered him to go away.
Activity 9
Write down the antonyms of the underlined words:
1. The Swallow will sing forever.
Ans: The Swallow will never sing.
2. The actor enters the
stage.
Ans: The actor exits the
stage.
3. The student laughed aloud.
Ans: The student cried aloud.
4. I can see all the beautiful things in my land.
Ans: I can see all the ugly things in my land.