The Clever Shepherd All textual Questions and Answers 

The Clever Shepherd All textual Questions and Answers: The Clever Shepherd is the lesson 2 from class 7 Sankardev Shishu Niketan English Text-book. Here you will get The Clever Shepherd All textual Questions and Answers.

The Clever Shepherd Questions Answers Class 7 English Lesson 2

Exercises

Working with the text

1. Answer the following questions: 

a) Why did King John dislike the Abbot ? 

Ans: King John disliked everyone who was rich and powerful. King John Disliked the Abbot because he was richer than the King.

b) How many servants did the Abbot have ?

Ans: The Abbot had hundreds of Servants.

c) What three questions did the King ask the Abbot ? 

Ans: The three questions that King asked the abbot are as follows:  

(i) What is the king's worth

(ii) How long will it take the king to ride around the world

(iii) What the king was thinking.

d) What did the shepherd ask for the Abbot to help him ? 

Ans: Shepherd asked the Abbot to exchange his clothes and lend him Abbot's rope for a few days in order to help him.

e) Why could not the shepherd work for the King as his Abbot ? 

Ans:  The shepherd could not work for the King, because he can only think and speak but cannot either read or write.

2 Complete the following sentences

(i) King John ruled over

(ii) One of the priests in the court was

(iii) The Abbot was helped by a 

(iv) According to the shepherd, the worth of the King was

(v) The punishment decided for the Abbot for not giving answer to King's questions        

Ans:

(i) King John ruled over England.

(ii) One of the priests in the court was the Abbot of Canterbury.

(iii) The Abbot was helped by a Shepherd.

(iv) According to the shepherd, the worth of the King was Twenty-Five shillings.

(v) The punishment decided for the Abbot for not giving an answer to King's questions was death.

Sankardev Shishu Niketan Class 7 English Lesson 2 Solutions 

3. Match items in list A with their meaning in list B. 

       A                       B

(i) knight            ability to say things which are both clever and amusing

(ii) shillings       dress 

(iii) wit               an unit of money

(iv) robe            look like  

(v) resemble     a man of noble rank

Ans:  A                         B

     (i) Knight             a man of noble rank.

    (ii) shillings         a unit of money.

    (iii) wit                 ability to say things that are both clever and amusing.

    (iv) ro                  dress

    (v) resemble       look like.

Working with language 

The adverb form of 'serious' is 'seriously' and 'immediate' is 'immediately. Now write the adverb form of the following adjectives: 

   Adjective                    Adverb

    humble                          ________

    close                              ________

    able                                ________

    wise                                ________

    kind                                ________

    proud                              ________

    angry                              ________

Ans:   Adjective            Adverb

           humble                     humbly

          close                         closely

          able                           ably

          wise                          wisely

          kind                          kindly

          proud                       proudly

         angry                        angrily

The Clever Shepherd class 7 English All Questions Answers

2. Study the following questions and their answers: 

Q. Have you finished your homework ? 

A: Yes, I have. 

A: No, I haven't. 

The first one of the two answers is called short affirmative answer and the second one is called short negative answer. 

Now give short affirmative answers (SAA) and short negative answers (SNA) to the following questions. 

(a) Q: Do you have a car ? 

SAA: Yes, I have.

SNA: No, I haven't

(b) Q: Are you reading now ? 

SAA: Yes, I am

SNA: No, I'm not

(c) Q: Will they come early ?

SAA: Yes, They will.

SNA: No, they will not.

(d) Q: Must he write the answers in ink ? 

SAA: Yes, He must.

SNA: No, He must not.

(e) Q: Can she speak Hindi ? 

SAA: Yes, She can

SNA: No, she can't

3. Turn the following sentences into reported speech:

(i) The King said, "What do you mean by this ?" 

Ans: The king asked what did he meant by that.

(ii) The shepherd said to the King, "Your Majesty, it is only a simple arithmetic." 

Ans: The shepherd told King that it was only a simple arithmetic.

(ii) The King said to the shepherd, "Aren't you the Abbot of Canterbury ?" 

Ans: The King asked the shepherd, whether he was not the Abbot of Canterbury.

(iv) The shepherd said to the King, "l am in fact only a humble shepherd of his." 

Ans: The shepherd told the king that in fact, he was only a humble shepherd of him.

(v) The King said, "Don't carry your jokes too far."

Ans: The king ordered not to carry his jokes too far. 

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