The Wind Cap
Jane Yolen
Textual Questions & Answers
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Activity - 1
Tick the
correct alternative:
1. The lad had wanted to be a –
(a) doctor
(b) sportsman
(c) sailor
Ans: (c) sailor
2. Mother told the lad that he knew the smell of the –
(a) soil
(b) food
(c) flower
Ans: (a) soil
3. John put the title on his -
(a) back
(b) head
(c) hand
Ans: (b) head
4. The fairy man wanted to know Jon’s -
(a) age
(b) name
(c) heart’s desire
Ans: (c) heart’s desire
Activity - 2
Rearrange the following sentences in the current
order and put the numbers in the given boxes:
1. Jon met the tiny green turtle. ( 2 )
2. Mother said Jon was a farmer’s son. ( 1 )
3. The turtle changed to the tiny green fairy man. ( 4
)
4. Jon plucked the turtle from his head. ( 3 )
5. Jon did not express his wish. ( 6 )
6. Jon bowed back. ( 5 )
Activity - 3
Answer the following questions:
1. Why do you think Jon thought that the turtle would be safe on his head?
Ans: John saw the
turtle while ploughing, the turtle might have been run over if he put it on
some other places. Thus Jon thought that the turtle would be safe on his head.
Activity - 4
Complete the following sentences with information
from the text:
(A) The cap that sailors
most desire is a cap full of wind.
(B) Seeing a ship
anchored near the shore, John requested the captain to take him
along.
(C) By twisting the cap,
John could summon the east wind and the west wind.
(D) John desired to see
the land because he had not set foot on land for one year and a day.
Activity - 5
Answer
the following questions:
1. Why did the fairy man offer Jon the wind-cap?
Ans: Once Jon saved the life
of a turtle keeping it on his head like a hat. Thus in return, the fairy man
offered Jon the wind-cap to fulfill his desire of being a sailor.
2. What was the condition that was associated with the wind-cap?
Ans: The condition that
was associated with the wind-cap was that no human hand would ever take it off
from John’s head.
3. Why did Jon become popular with the sailors?
Ans: Jon became popular
with the sailor because he could summon the wind from all the sides with the
help of his wind-cap.
Activity - 6
Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statement in
given boxes .Give supporting statement for each of your answers:
(a) John never dreamt about the land.
Ans: False , Supporting Statement: “He could not
stop dreaming of the land.”
(b) The squall was called up because John was sleeping.
Ans: False , Supporting Statement: “ It called up
a squall from the clear sky that hit the ship without warning.”
(C) The captain was angry with John.
Ans: True , Supporting Statement: “In anger, he
(the captain) grabbed him (Jon) by the tail of his stripped cap, twisted him
thrice and flung him out of the sea.”
(D) John did not return the wind cap to the fairy man.
Ans: False , Supporting Statement: “Jon placed the
wind cap under a stone where he knew the fairy man would find it.”
Activity - 7
Answer
the following questions:
1. Why did the sailors try to rip off the cap from Jon’s head?
Ans: The sailors tried
to rip off the cap from Jon’s head because the wind that had been whirling
about the boat tearing the sails and snapping the spars was called up by the
cap.
2. How did Jon divide his time between land and sea?
Ans: The way he spent
half the year on a ship and half year on the shore, the same Jon divided his
time between land and sea.
3. Do you think John was rightly called ‘captain turtle’? Give reasons for
your answer.
Ans: Yes , I think John
was rightly called ‘Captain Turtle’ because like a turtle, he was as much at
home on the water as he was on the land.
4. Why did Jon want to return the wind cap to the fairy man?
Ans: Jon wanted to
return the wind cap to the fairy man because he did not want any trouble caused
unknowingly due to the cap.
Activity 8 (a)
Underline the verbs in the following sentences
that suggest actions that began in the past and are still continuing:
(i) They have been travelling for
ten hours.
(ii) He thanked me for what I have been doing.
(iii) The baby has been sleeping all
day.
Activity 8 (b)
Underline the verbs in the following sentences
that suggest actions that began before a certain point in the past and
continued up to that time:
1. They had been playing in
the field for an hour before mother called them.
2. When I visited my
uncle, he had been teaching in a school there
for five years.
3. Rita had been studying in
our school for the last eight years since I met her.
Activity 8 (c)
Fill in the blanks with either the Present Perfect
Continuous or Past Perfect Continuous Tense:
1. The rain had
been pouring when I left home. (pour)
2. The engineers have been
building the bridge for the past few months. (build)
3. The performers have been singing since
evening. (sing)
4. At that time, Mr.
Roy had been writing poems for one month.
(write)
Activity 9
Replace
the underlined words with their antonyms:
1. Jon had always obeyed his mother.
Ans: Jon had
always disobeyed his mother.
2. Jon began his first ever sea
voyage.
Ans: Jon finished his
first ever sea voyage.
3. He became very popular with the
sailors.
Ans: He became
very unpopular with the sailors.
4. In Jon’s dream the seasons turned rapidly.
Ans: In Jon’s dream the
seasons turned slowly.