Class 7th English Chapter 7 The Invention of Vita Wonk

Class 7th English Chapter 7 The Invention of Vita Wonk

Very Short Answer Type Questions

Question 1:
According to Charlie, what lives the longest.
Solution:
According to Charlie a tree lives the longest.

Question 2:
Bristlecone pine trees live the longest. Whom did Mr Wonka asked Charlie to confirm his fact with?
Solution:
Mr Wonka asked Charlie to confirm this fact with any dendrochronologist.

Question 3:
What was unique about the Great Glass Elevator?
Solution:
Mr Wonka used to travel across the world in the Great Glass Elevator. ‘

Question 4:
Whose knucklebones were collected by Willy Wonka?
Solution:
Mr Willy Wonka collected the knucklebones of a 700 years old Grimalkin that lived in a cave on Mount Popocatepetl.

Question 5:
Where did the old flea collected by Mr Wonka live?
Solution:
The old flea used to live on Crumpets that was a 36 years old cat.

Question 6:
What was special about the Arabian horse?
Solution:
The Arabian horse lived for 5 years which is quite unusual for any normal horse.

Question 7:
Mr Wonka collected whose toe-nail?
Solution:
Mr Wonka collected the toe-nail clipping of a 168 years old Russian farmer called Petrovitch Gregorovitch.

Question 8:
How did Mr Wonka collected all those ancient items?
Solution:
Mr Wonka went all across the world in his Great Glass Elevator to collect all those ancient things.

Question 9:
Where did Mr Wonka carry on his experiments?
Solution:
Mr Wonka carried on his experiments in his Inventing room.

Question 10:
On whom did Mr Wonka tested the oily black liquid?
Solution:
Mr Wonka tested the oily black liquid over an Oompa-Loompa volunteer.

Short Answer Type Questions

Question 1:
What was the need for Mr Wonka to invent Vita-Wonk?
Solution:
Vita-Wonk had gone wrong. After taking it many people have grown younger to an extent that their ages have gone in minus. All such people have disappeared and will be back only after they spend all those minus years being invisible. To alter these changes Mr Wonka decided to invent a new drug which will help people to grow older.

Question 2:
Name five ancient things collected by Mr Wonka.
Solution:
Mr Wonka collected a pint of sap from a 4000 years old Bristlecone pine tree, whiskers of a 36 years old cat called Crumpets, an egg laid by a 200 years old tortoise that belonged to the King of Tonga.
He also collected tail of 207 years old rat from Tibet and tail of 51 years old horse in Arabia.

Question 3:
What happened to the Oompa-Loompa volunteer after taking the drops of Vita-Wonk?
Solution:
After taking drops of Vita-Wonk, the Oompa-Loompa volunteer began to wrinkle and shrivel. Its hair started falling.
Within no while the changes were visible and he became an old man who looked around 75 years old.

Long Answer Type Questions

Question 1:
Describe Mr Wonka.
Solution:
Mr Willy Wonka was a strange man. He used to make all strange inventions. He had a subordinate called Charlie. There was Oompa- Loompa volunteers on whom he used to carry out the testing of his inventions.
He had an Inventing Room where he carried out all such mysterious works.
He had earlier invented Wonka-Vite that had made people younger to an extent that their ages have gone into minus and they have become invisible.
He then invented Vita-Wonk after collecting ancient items from across the world which could help people grow older.

Question 2:
Describe the process of invention of Vita-Wonk.
Solution:
Mr Willy Wonka travelled across the globe in his Great Glass Elevator to collect items for Vita-Wonk. He collected samples from some of the oldest living creatures in the world. He mixed these items, boiled and bubbled them several times in his inventing room and then invented a one tiny cupful of an oily black liquid. He tested this on a 20 years old Oompa-Loompa volunteer and within minutes it turned into a 75 years old creature. This was how Vita-Wonk was discovered.

Extract Based Questions

Extract 1

Directions (Q. Nos. 1-6) Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
“So once again I rolled up my sleeves and set to
work. Once again I squeezed my brain, searching
for the new recipe I had to create age… to make
people old….old…older, oldest…”Ha-ha!’ I cried for
now the ideas were beginning to come. ‘What is the
oldest living thing in the world? What lives longer
than anything else?”

Question 1:
Name the speaker in the above lines.
Solution:
Mr Willy Wonka is the speaker in the above lines.

Question 2:
Who is he talking to?
Solution:
He is talking to Charlie.

Question 3:
Why he needs to work?
Solution:
He needs to invent a new drug that could help people grow older and alter the changes done by Wonka-Vite.

Question 4:
What is the new recipe he is searching for?
(a) Recipe for Wonka-Vite
(b) Recipe for Vita-Wonk
(c) Recipe for chocolates
(d) None of the above
Solution:
(b) Recipe for Vita Wonk.

Question 5:
What is the oldest living thing in the world?
(a) Cedar                      (b) Oak
(c) Bristlecone Pine    (d) Fir
Solution:
(c) Bristlecone Pine

Question 6:
What lives longer than anything else?
(a) Cattaloo                                (b) Crumpets
(c) Petrovitch Gregorovitch    (d) Trees
Solution:
(d) Trees

Extract 2

Directions (Q. Nos. 7-12) Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
“All over the world, Charlie,” Mr Wonka went on
“I tracked down very old and ancient animals and
took an important little bit of something from each
one of them—a hair or an eyebrow or sometimes it
was no more than an ounce or two of the jam scraped
from between its toes while it was sleeping. I tracked
down the whistle-pig, the Bobolink, the skrock, the
Pollyfrog, the Giant Curlicue, the Stinging Slug and
the Venomous Squerkle who can spit poison right
into your eye from fifty yards away. But there’s no
time to tell you about them all now, Charlie.

Question 1:
What is the quality of venomous squerkle that has been talked about in the passage?
Solution:
A venomous squerkle can spit poison right into on eye from 50 yards away.

Question 2:
What does Mr Wonka say that he has no time to tell about? To whom does he say this?
Solution:
Mr Wonka tells Charlie that he had observed and studied many of very old and ancient animals and collected some parts of their bodies. But he didn’t have time to tell in detail about his expedition.

Question 3:
How did he produce his magic liquid?
Solution:
He took some body parts of all very old animals and boiled them together. This is how he produced the magic liquid.

Question 4:
Where did Mr Wonka take the jam from?
(a) From the stings of venomous curlicue
(b) From the paws of whistle pig
(c) From between the toes of an animal when it was sleeping
(d) From the mouth of the animals when they were awaken.
Solution:
(c) From the between the toes of an animal when it was sleeping

Question 5:
Which parts of the animal body did Mr Wonka collect?
(a) Toes and fingers
(b)Tongue or sting
(c) A hair or an eyebrow
(d) An eye or an ear
Solution:
(b) Tongue or sting

Question 6:
Which of the following animals has not been mentioned by Mr Wonka?
(a) Giant curlicue
(b)A blue whale
(c) The bobolink
(d)The stinging slug
Solution:
(b) A blue whale