Important Questions for CBSE Class 7 English An Alien Hand Chapter 5 - Golu Grows A Nose

A. Very Short Answer Questions: 1 Mark

1. Word – Meaning from the given chapter.

A. Bulgy 

Ans: Swollen.

B. Wiggle 

Ans: Movement of a thing from up to down or side to side.

C. Haunches

Ans: Thighs

D. Scooped

Ans: Pick up and move

2. Which wild animal has a trunk? 

Ans: Elephants are wild animals that have a trunk. 

3. Who is Golu in the story? 

Ans: Golu is a baby elephant in the story.

4. Does Golu have a trunk? 

Ans: No, Golu doesn’t have a trunk, he has a swollen nose. 

5. How big was Golu’s nose? 

Ans: Golu’s nose was as small as a boot.

B. Short Answer Questions: 2 Marks

1. What did Golu ask the ostrich? 

Ans: Golu, a baby elephant, always had questions in his mind. He asked his aunt ostrich why she did not fly as other birds do.

2. What did Golu ask the giraffe? 

Ans: Golu, a baby elephant, always had questions in his mind. He asked his tall uncle giraffe why his skin was so full of spots.

3. What did Golu ask the hippopotamus? 

Ans: Golu, a baby elephant, always had questions in his mind. He asked his uncle hippopotamus the reason behind his red eyes. 

4. What did Golu ask the baboon? 

Ans: Golu had a very weird question for his uncle baboon. He asked him the reason behind melons tasting like melons. 

5. What do all the animals have to say about Golu’s questions? 

Ans: Golu always had questions in his mind and used to ask those to the other animals. The animals have the following things to say about Golu’s questions:

• They thought of Golu as a naughty kid.

• They considered his questions to be very difficult to answer. 

C. Short Answer Questions: 3 Marks

1. Who does Golu meet one day? 

Ans: Golu met a bird named mynah one day. Golu saw her sitting amidst a bush. He questioned her about the dinner of the crocodile. The mynah bird asked her to go to the Limpopo River to get his answer.

2. Where did Golu go first after Mynah asked him to visit the Limpopo River? 

Ans: Golu first went back to his home and collected dozens of sugar canes, bananas, and melons. Then he waved goodbye to his family as he was going to start his journey to the great, grassy Limpopo river to meet the crocodile and find out what it eats for dinner.

3. Who did Golu find on his way to the Limpopo River? 

Ans: When he was going to the Limpopo River, Golu found a python that was coiled on a tree. Golu asked him whether he had ever seen a crocodile. He did not stop here and continued with his questions like what the crocodile looks like and what eats at dinner. 

4. How did python react to Golu’s questions? 

Ans: When Golu asked the python his questions about the crocodile, the python reacted in the following manner:

• Firstly, he uncoiled himself from the tree.

• After that, he maintained silence and spoke nothing. 

So, Golu simply helped the python in re-coiling around the branch and waved him goodbye.

5. How did Golu reach the Limpopo River? 

Ans: The Limpopo river was quite far from Golu’s home. So, he reached there by walking a long way and eating the following things:

• Sugar canes

• Bananas 

• Melons.

This way Golu somehow reached the edge of the great, grassy Limpopo River and on its banks saw a log of wood which was actually a crocodile. 

D. Long Answer Questions: 5 Marks

1. Who winked at Golu? What does Golu ask him? What does the other person reply?

Ans: After Golu reached the banks of the Limpopo river, he saw that a crocodile winked at him.

However, Golu wasn’t aware of the fact that he was a crocodile and so asked if he had ever seen one.

To Golu’s absurd question, the crocodile replied the following:

• Firstly, the crocodile winked once more. 

• Then lifting a portion of his tail out of the mud, he asked Golu to go nearer to him. 

• He also asked Golu why he was asking such questions. 

2. How did the crocodile convince Golu that he is the crocodile? 

Ans: When Golu questioned the crocodile if had seen the creature named crocodile, he asked Golu to come closer and informed him that he was the crocodile. To convince Golu, he did the following things:

• He shed some tears that are named “crocodile tears” 

• He tried to display his false emotions. 

Golu was scared of him but still sat on the bank and told the crocodile that he was just the person Golu was looking for as he wished to know about his dinner.

3. How did the crocodile trap Golu? 

Ans: When the crocodile got to know that Golu was curious about knowing his dinner plans, he planned to trap Golu. He trapped Golu in the following manner:

• Firstly, he asked Golu to go closer to him.

• The crocodile then said that he would like to whisper the answer in Golu’s ears. But in his cunning mind, he planned to get hold of Golu once he would come near and then enjoy the baby elephant as his dinner. 

• Innocent Golu didn’t understand this and put his head down close to the crocodile’s snout. At that very moment, the crocodile got the chance and trapped him by the nose. And he told Golu that on that particular day, a baby elephant (Golu) would be his dinner.

4. Who followed Golu and how did he save him from the Crocodile? 

Ans: The python who Golu met on his way to the Limpopo River had followed Golu. 

When the python saw that the crocodile was dragging Golu into the river, he saved Golu in the following manner:

• Firstly, the python encouraged Golu by telling him to pull harder or else the crocodile would drag him into the stream. Golu listened to him and tried his best. 

• When the python saw Golu losing his strength and still was not able to free himself from the crocodile, he coiled himself around Golu’s stomach to increase his strength and pull harder.

Finally, it was with his help that Golu got rid of the crocodile’s sudden attack and got saved.

5. What happened to Golu’s nose when he was being dragged by the crocodile into the river? How does it help Golu later? 

Ans: When Golu was struggling to save himself from the crocodile that had caught him from his nose, he realized that his nose was stretching and getting bigger and bigger. His nose grew into a five feet long trunk until Golu was free from the crocodile. Golu kept his nose in water for days to cool it down and make it return to its original size. But it didn’t shrink.

Later, the nose which grew into a trunk helped him in the following manner:

• The trunk helped Golu kill the fly that disturbed him.

• It helped him pluck a large bundle of grass and eat it easily.

• The trunk also let him scoop some mud from the bank of the Limpopo River and slap it on his head. 

Golu was happy with these. He thanked the python and went back to his family.

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