Rama to the Rescue Textbook Questions (NCERT Solutions)
Let us do these activities before we read.
Q 1. Identify the following people.
How do they help us when we are in trouble?
Ans. The Police help to keep the people and their property safe.
The Doctor helps to keep our health in check.
The fire brigade extinguishes the fires that catch our property.
Q 2. Choose the correct option to complete the sentence.
The word ‘rescue’ means to ______________________.
(a) make fun of someone
(b) save someone
(c) ask someone for help
Ans. (b) save someone
Q 3. Work in pairs.
Put a tick mark at the end of the phrases describing those who need to be rescued. Share your answers with your teacher and classmates.
(a) A man stuck in a building on fire.
(b) A woman buying vegetables in the market.
(c) A dog who has hurt its leg.
(d) A tree being cut down in a forest.
Ans. (a) A man stuck in a building on fire. ((b) A woman buying vegetables in the market. (X)
(c) A dog who has hurt its leg.(d) A tree being cut down in a forest.
Q 4. The policeman in the story you are about to read is called the Kotwal. Some people call him Thaanedar. What do you call a policeman in your language? Share it with your classmates and teacher.
Ans. In English, we call policemen as cops, constables, or police.
Q 5. Imagine you are alone at home and you face a problem. Answer the following questions and share your answers with your teacher and classmates.
(a) Will you solve the problem yourself or wait for someone to help you?
Ans. I will try to solve the problem myself before calling someone to help me.
(b) How will you deal with the problem? Give a reason.
(i) Be worried about the problem and give up.
(ii) Feel angry that only you have the problem.
(iii) Think quickly about ways to solve the problem.
Ans. (iii) Think quickly about ways to solve the problem.
Let us discuss
Circle the odd one–
Q 1. The characters are: husband, wife, children
Ans. 1. Children
Q 2. Who entered the house?: guest, robber, Kotwal
Ans. 2. Guest
Write whether True or False.
Q 3. The man tells his plan to his wife.
Ans. 1. True
Q 4. The thief wants to know where they kept their jewels.
Ans. 2. True
Q 5. Along with your classmates, call out the name ‘Rama’– softly, loudly and very loudly.
Ans. Softly – Rama!
Loudly – Rama, RAMA!
Very Loudly – RAMA! RAMA!
Q6. What do you think will happen next in the story?
Ans. I think Rama, the Kotwal, will arrest the thief.
Q7. Work in pairs to match the words in Column A with the meanings in Column B. Check your answers by sharing them with your teacher and classmates.
| Column A | Column B |
| 1. wonder | (a) in place of someone or something |
| 2. yard | (b) carefully |
| 3. chatter | (c) an area outside a building |
| 4. instead | (d) talk for a long time about unimportant things |
| 5. closely | (e) maybe |
| 6. perhaps | (f) a feeling of surprise |
Ans.
| Column A | Column B |
| 1. wonder | (f) a feeling of surprise |
| 2. yard | (c) an area outside a building |
| 3. chatter | (d) talk for a long time about unimportant things |
| 4. instead | (a) in place of someone or something |
| 5. closely | (b) carefully |
| 6. perhaps | (e) maybe |
Q 8. Fill in the boxes with suitable words as you read the story.
Ans. Main characters – Man, wife, and Rama
Setting – in a village
Other characters – thief
Problem – There was a thief in their home.
Solution – The wife began calling out Rama, the village Kotwal, who came and caught the thief.
Let us think and reflect.
Q 1. Read the following lines and then answer the questions that follow.
(a) Man: What’s the matter? What are you looking at?
Wife: Ssssh! Listen!
Man: Somebody is trying to get in.
Wife: I … I think he has got in … the noise has stopped.
(i) What makes the man say the first line?
(i) The husband noticed his wife’s changed behaviour when she was looking outside. She told him to be quiet and listen to the noise outside.
(ii) Choose the correct option.
The wife says ‘Ssssh! Listen!’. What does the word ‘Ssssh’ mean here?
1. sleep
2. help
3. rest
4. be silent
Ans. d. be silent
(iii) How can you tell that the wife was listening carefully?
Ans. His wife noticed the sound first and told her husband to be quiet and listen to the sound outside. She said, ‘Ssssh! Listen!’
(b) Rama, the village Kotwal, ran to the house from where he heard his name being called.
Rama: Oh, Oh! Some thief has dug his way into this house.
(i) Fill in the blank with the correct word from the given lines.
The villagers caught the thief and took him to the _____________________.
Ans. Police Station
(ii) Choose the correct option.
What do the words “Oh, Oh!” show here?
1. surprise
2. anger
3. pain
4. happiness
Ans. (a) surprise
(iii) How can you tell Kotwal was good at his job?
Ans. When the wife calls out Kotwal’s name, he runs towards her home, only to find that a thief has dug his way into their home. The Kotwal then caught the thief and was quick to take action against the thief.
Q 2. Give one reason why the man and his wife didn’t sleep.
Ans. The man and his wife didn’t sleep because they knew that a thief had dug out a way into their home.
Q 3. What did the thief wish would happen? Did it happen?
Ans. The thief wished they would talk about where they had kept their money. After their silly conversation about their child’s name, he wished the couple would at least fall asleep but none of the things he wished for happened.
Q 4. How did the man and his wife get help from the Kotwal?
Ans. Rama, the Kotwal ran towards their home, only to find that a thief had dug out his way into their home. He caught the thief and took him to the police station.
Q 5. Do you think cleverness can help us solve our problems? Why do you say so?
Ans. Yes, it was her husband’s cleverness that the thief didn’t doubt their conversation, and they saved themselves.