Solution of Chapter 7. The Invention of Vita-Wonk (NCERT English - Honeycomb Book)

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

Can anyone’s age be a minus number? What does “minus 87” mean?

Mr. Wonka begins by asking himself two questions. What are they?

(i) What is ________________ ?

(ii) What lives _______________ ?

What trees does Mr. Wonka mention? Which tree does he say lives the longest?

How long does this tree live? Where can you find it?

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?

Why does Mr. Wonka collect items from the oldest things? Do you think this is the right way to begin his invention?

What happens to the volunteer who swallows four drops of the new invention? What is the name of the invention?

What do you call these insects in your language?

Add to this list the names of some insects common in your area.

Fill in the blanks in the recipe given below with words from the box.

Ingredients

• One _______

• One cup dal

• Two thin green chillies

• _______ a teaspoon red chilli powder

• Eight small bunches of palak

• Two _______

• Salt to taste

Was and cut the vegetables; _______ the palak. Put everything in a pressure ________. Let the cooker whistle three_______, then switch it off. Fry a few cumin seeds in _______ and add to the palak-daal.

Make a list of the trees Mr. Wonka mentions. Where do these trees grow? Try to find out from an encyclopaedia. Write a short paragraph about two or three of these trees.

Name some large trees commonly found in your area. Find out something about them (How old are they? Who planted them? Do birds eat their fruit?), and write two or three sentences about each of them.

Why was Dad sure he wouldn’t fall?

Which phrase in the poem expresses Dad’s self-confidence best?

Describe Plan A and its consequences.

Plan C was a success. What went wrong then?

The cat was very happy to be on the ground. Pick out the phrase used to express this idea.

Describe the Cat and Dad situation in the beginning and at the end of the poem.

Why and when did Dad say each of the following?

(i) Fall?

(ii) Never mind

(iii) Funny joke

(iv) Rubbish

Do you find the poem humorous? Read around lines which make you laugh.