Important Questions for CBSE Class 8 English It So Happened Chapter 8 - Jalebis

Very Short Answer Questions                                                                1 Mark

1. Word – Meaning from the given chapter.

i. Wretched 

Ans: i. Miserable

ii. Contrary 

Ans: ii. Opposite 

iii. Devour 

Ans: iii. Eat 

iv. Wriggle 

Ans: iv. Avoid 

2. Where was the boy heading to in the start of the story? 

Ans: The boy was heading to his school at the start of the story. 

3. What is the boy carrying in his while going to the school? 

Ans: The youngster has money in his pocket for school fees.

4. In which standard and school does the boy studied? 

Ans: The boy is in fifth grade at a government school in Kambelpur. 

5. What was the school named later? 

Ans: The school was named later Atak.

Short Answer Questions                                                                    2 Marks

1. Did the boy pay the fee the first time? If not, why? 

Ans: The boy had four rupees to pay the school fee, but he did not do so because the teacher in charge of collecting the fee, Master Ghulam Mohammed, was absent. 

2. Why did the author say that the coins spoke to him? 

Ans: The boy initially ignored the coins because he was a good and honest boy. He responded to coins in order to mislead him.

3. How does the boy react to the efforts made by the coin to persuade him? 

Ans: The boy initially ignored the coins because he was a good and honest boy. He responded to coins in order to mislead him. 

4. Why the boy took the coins took the coins out of his pocket and held them tight in his fist? 

Ans: The four coins began to speak to the boy about eating jalebis, so he clutched the coins tightly in his pocket. 

5. What was the reason that the boy did not want to spend his school fee on jalebis?

Ans: The boy did not want to spend his school fee on jalebis because he knew that if he did, his Master Ghulam Mohammed would punish him by making him stand on the bench.

Short Answer Questions                                                                         3 Marks

1. Why did the passers-by start looking at the boy and his pocket? 

Ans: When the boy scolded the coins, they began to speak all at once, creating a lot of noise, which drew the attention of passers-by to the boy and his pocket.

2. What offer do the coins put in front of the boy? 

Ans: As the coins realized that the boy was not easily swayed, they enticed him with the offer that spending money on jalebis today would not cost him much because he had received a scholarship of four rupees a month ago, which he could use to pay his school fees. 

3. How do the coins react when a boy comes home without buying jalebis? 

Ans: The boy ignored the coins and returned home, but as soon as he sat down, he heard them speaking again. When he went out to eat, the coins began to shriek. The coins were yelling at the top of their lungs. 

4. What does the boy do after he hears the coins shouting at his home?

Ans: The boy could no longer ignore all the noise made by the coins, so he ran out of the house barefoot and straight to the halwai. He requested that he quickly weigh a whole rupee's worth of jalebis. 

5. What does the boy spot? Why does he run into a gali? 

Ans: The boy noticed his tonga, a two-wheeler in which his chacha jaan was riding home from work. As a result, the boy clutched the jalebis to his chest and dashed into a gali to hide and gorge himself on the jalebis alone.

Long Answer Questions                                                                              5 Marks

1. How does the boy feel when the children gather around him to take jalebis?

Ans: When the boy dashed into a gali to hide himself from his uncle, he noticed that children from the gali's neighborhood had gathered around him, seeing the jalebis in his hand. Because the boy was overflowing with jalebis, he decided to have some fun by distributing them to the children. Many other children and beggars had gathered around him, giving him the impression that he was a governor distributing rice on Independence Day. He believed that if the children were in assembly and he was elected, he would undoubtedly receive their votes.

2. “– the fear was killing me.” What fear was killing the boy? 

Ans: The boy had quietly eaten the jalebis from his school fee quietly. He was concerned about how he would digest so many jalebis, and if he did not digest, he would burp, which would cause him to puke out the jalebis. He would be chastised because his family had no idea he had spent the money on jalebis. He was worried about how he would eat dinner now. He couldn't lie about being sick because they'd call a doctor, who'd conclude that he'd eaten a lot of jalebis and would eventually kill him. 

3. When did the boy first get absent and why? 

Ans: The boy became absent for the first time when he ran away from school because he did not have enough money to pay his school fees. The boy assumed he would pay the fee with scholarship funds, but when he learned that the scholarship would be paid next month, he fainted and had no idea what to do. So the boy ran away from school during recess so that his master would not punish him for eating jalebis with his school fees. 

4. What does the boy pray for to Allah? Where is he in between school? 

Ans: The youngster begs Allah for four rupees. He reasoned that if he acts good and becomes a good boy like him, Allah will see the goodness in him. He skipped school two days in a row and prayed to Allah under a tree at the railway station. He would leave the house in uniform, show up at the school gate, and then proceed to the railway station. He would keep pleading, "Allah miyan! At the very least, give it to me today. The second day has arrived.”

5. What game does the boy play with Allah? What does he get in return? 

Ans: The boy played a game with Allah, claiming that if he placed a large rock in a specific location after praying to Allah, Allah would place four rupees beneath the rock. So he decided to place the rock, go and touch the signal, and return to find the four rupees he had requested from Allah. However, when the boy looks beneath the stone, he discovers that there are no four rupees, but rather a worm curled up beneath the rock.