A Bond of Love Questions and Answers Class 9 English Beehive NCERT Solutions

 

A Bond of Love Class 9 English NCERT Solutions
A Bond of Love Class 9 Questions and Answers

Thinking about the Text

I.  Given in the box are some headings. Find the relevant paragraphs in the text to match the headings 

An Orphaned Cub; Bruno’s Food-chart; An Accidental Case of Poisoning; Playful Baba; Pain of

Separation; Joy of Reunion; A Request to the Zoo; An Island in the courtyard

Answer: -

An Orphaned Cub – Paragraph 3

Bruno’s Food-chart – Paragraph 6

An Accidental Case of Poisoning – Paragraph 8

Playful Baba – Paragraph 12

Pain of Separation – Paragraph 14

Joy of Reunion – Paragraph 16

A Request to the Zoo – Paragraph 18

An Island in the Courtyard – Paragraph 21

II. Answer the following questions-

1.“I got him for her by accident.”

(i) Who says this?

Answer -The author said this.

(ii) Who do ‘him’ and ‘her’ refer to?

Answer - Here, ‘him’ refers to the bear and ‘her’ refers to the author’s wife.

(iii) What is the incident referred to here?

Answer - The incident referred to here is the author's encounter with the baby bear and gifting it to his wife. About two years ago the narrator and his companions were passing through the sugarcane fields near Mysore. Suddenly, they saw a black sloth bear.

3. “We all missed him greatly: but in a sense we were relieved.”

(i) Who does ‘we all’ stand for?

(ii) Who did they miss?

(iii) Why did they nevertheless feel relieved?

Answer - 

(i) 'We all’ stands for the narrator, his wife and his son.

(ii) They missed Bruno, the baby bear.

(iii) They felt nevertheless relieved because it was getting too big to be kept at home.

2. “He stood on his head in delight.”

(i) Who does ‘he’ refer to?

(ii) Why was he delighted?

Answer -

(i) 'He’ refers to the bear, Bruno.

(ii) Bruno was delighted to see the author’s wife after three months of separation.

3. “We all missed him greatly: but in a sense we were relieved.”

(i) Who does ‘we all’ stand for?

Answer -

(i) 'We all’ stands for the narrator, his wife and his son.

III. Answer the following questions in 30 to 40 words each.

1. On two occasions Bruno ate/drank something that should not be eaten/drunk. What happened to him on these occasions?

Answer - Once, he ate some poison-barium carbonate which paralysed and weakened him. He also vomited and breathed heavily. He was rushed to the vet's residence, where he was finally cured. In another incident, he drank nearly a gallon of old engine oil. Fortunately, he remained unaffected.

2. Was Bruno a loving and playful pet? Why, then, did he have to be sent away?

Answer:- Yes, Bruno was a loving and playful pet. Everybody in the family loved him,

3. How was the problem of what to do with Bruno finally solved?

Answer: - When Bruno was grown up, it was getting difficult to keep him at home. Therefore, he was sent to a zoo. But he was not happy there. When writer’s wife requested, Bruno was allowed to go back to Bangalore and the problem was ultimately resolved by making an island for him, keeping all his needs in mind.

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