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The Wind Cap | Jane Yolen | Class - VIII

 

The Wind Cap
Jane Yolen

★Solution | All Textual Activities:

Activity — 1

★Tick the correct alternative:
(i) The lad had wanted to be a (a) doctor (b) sportsman (c) sailor.
Ans: (c) sailor

(ii) Mother told the lad that he knew the smell of the  (a) soil (b) food (c) flower.
Ans: (a) soil

(iii) Jon put the turtle on his  (a) back (b) head (hand).
Ans:  (b) head

(iv) 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 correct 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

Why do you think Jon thought that the turtle would be safe on his head ?
Ans: Jon thought that the turtle would be safe on his head because as he was ploughing he might have trampled it underfoot.

Activity — 4

★Complete the following sentences with information from the text:
(a) The cap that sailor most desire is the wind cap.
(b) Seeing a ship anchored near the shore Jon requested the captain to take him along.
(c) By twisting the cap, Jon could summon the east and the west wind.
(d) Jon desire to see the land because he did not set foot on land for a year and a day.

Activity — 5

★Answer the following questions:
(a) Why did the fairy man offer Jon the wind-cap ?
Ans: The fairy man offered Jon wind-cap because he found that Jon wanted to go to the sea by reading his mind.
(b) What was the condition that was associated with the wind cap ?
Ans: The condition was that no human hand could be able to take off the wind-cap from Jon’s head.
(c) Why did Jon become popular with the sailors ?
Ans: Jon became popular with the sailors because he could call up wind from any direction with the help of his cap.

Activity — 6

★Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements in the given boxes. Give supporting statements for each of your answers:
(a) Jon never dreamt about the land. [F]
S.S : Jon could not stop dreaming of the land.
(b) The squall was called up because Jon was sleeping. [T]
S.S : It called up a squall from the clear sky.
(c) The captain was angry with Jon. [T]
S.S : In anger, he grabbed him by tail of his striped cap.
(d) Jon did not return the wind-cap to the fairy man. [F]
S.S : He placed the wind cap under a stone where he knew the fairy man would find it.

Activity — 7

a. Why did the sailors try to rip off cap from Jon’s head ?
Ans: The sailors tried to rip off cap from Jon’s head because they knew that the squall was called up by Jon’s cap.

b. How did Jon divide his time between land and sea ?
Ans: Jon spent half the year on a ship and half on the land.

c. Do you think Jon was rightly called captain Turtle ? Give reason for your answer.
Ans: I think Jon was rightly called captain Turtle because it was a turtle that changed his fate and helped him to become a sailor and like a turtle he was at home both on land and sea.

d. 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 wanted to be a sailor of his own.

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