Hues and Views എന്ന Unit ലെ കൂടുതല്‍ ചോദ്യങ്ങളും ഉത്തരങ്ങളും (More Questions and Answers) Class 8

 

 ⏹ The Mysterious Picture

 1.    Read the excerpt from the story ‘The Mysterious Picture’ and answer the questions that follow.     
    The Captain knew Flemish painters and their pictures were in great demand all over Europe. Tyl was presented to the Archduke. He saluted the Archduke three times and stood before him with his head bowed. ‘May your Highness pardon me for my rashness in thinking that one of my paintings will please your Highness. I have brought a picture of Our Lady, the Virgin, in her royal robes. I have painted it specially so that I might lay it at your noble feet’. Tyl paused a few moments for his words to sink in. Then he continued, ‘You must forgive me, Your Highness, if I’ve dared to hope that this picture will please you. Perhaps Your Highness might wish to offer me the chair of your court painter who died recently. I can see the empty velvet chair waiting to be filled’.
a.     What is the speciality of Flemish paintings?
b.     Pick out a line which shows Tyl’s smartness in presenting things.
c.     What is the intention of Tyl?
d.     Find out from the passage a word which means to ‘forgive someone’.
e.     According to Tyl what is it that may please the Archduke?   
Answers:  
a.     Flemish paintings have great demand all over Europe.
b.    ‘You must forgive me, Your Highness, if I’ve dared to hope that this picture will please you. Perhaps Your Highness might wish to offer me the chair of your court painter who died recently’.
c.    Tyl’s intention is to become the court painter.
d.    Pardon
e.    Tyl believed that his painting of Our Lady, the Virgin, in her royal robes will please the Archduke.
2.    After showing the mysterious picture, Tyl fled from the palace. The Archduke assigns his senior guard to make an announcement to the public to find Tyl. Prepare the text for the announcement.

 3.  Read the excerpt given below from the story ‘The Mysterious Picture’ and answer the questions that follow.
    ‘Your Highness, may it please you to remember me  and my donkey, Jeff, for just one more minute,’   Tyl replied. ‘My donkey has been feeding himself fairly well all along the way on the thorns in the hedges and the grass on the roadside.  But I have had nothing to  eat for the past three days. My stomach has been  complaining very
loudly. Perhaps Your Highness can  even hear it now. I have been feeding myself with  dreams of good food and drink at your royal table’.  The Archduke smiled and said, ‘Well, my dear fellow, you will certainly have something more solid than  dreams to feed on. But where is your donkey?’ ‘I left him outside, opposite the palace. I shall be most  grateful if Jeff is looked after. He needs a little fodder  and lodging at night,’ said Tyl. The Archduke immediately ordered the donkey to be taken care of  and he added. ‘ Treat it like one of my own animals.’
a.      Why is Jeff, the donkey not hungry?    
b.     Pick out the word from the passage that means ‘food for animals’.    
c.     ‘I have been feeding myself with dreams.’ What did Tyl dream of?    
d.     What expression does ‘Tyl use to show that he is  extremely hungry?    
e.     What does Archduke mean by saying, ‘something more solid than dreams’?   
Answer:
a.    Because it has eaten on the way.
b.  Fodder.
c.  Tyl was dreaming of good food and drink at the royal table.
d. The expression was that his stomach had been complaining very loudly.
e.     A nice meal.

The Boy Who Drew Cats
4.    You are the secretary of the Arts Club in your school. The club decides to honour the boy in the story ‘The Boy Who Drew Cats’, in your school assembly. Prepare a speech of appreciation.
    (Hints: The boy always drew cats-sent away from temple by the priest as he always drew cats-went to next village-drew cats in the haunted temple-goblin rat was killed-blood on the mouth of the cats drawn by the boy-became a famous artist)        
Answer:
    Respected principal, teachers and dear friends,
    Today, I am so happy to stand before you to say something about the boy, who saved a village from a monstrous animal, with his work of art. First of all, let me convey my gratitude to the boy for his drawings. It is a fact that his happiness lay in drawing cats. But because of this, he was sent away from the temple. So he reached the nearby village and found the haunted temple. While waiting for the priests, he drew cats all over the white screens there. When he was tired, he found a small room to sleep in, remembering the words of his old priest. At night he heard loud noises outside, and in the morning he found a big goblin rat lying dead. He understood that it was the goblin rat that had frightened the priests away and taken possession of the temple. He found that it was the cats he had drawn, which had killed the goblin.
    Thus, his work of art and its perfection saved a village. Once again let me appreciate his ability and I wish him to become a famous artist in future.
Thank you
5.    Edit the following passage.     
    Whenever he found himself alone, he draw (a) cats. He drew them on the margins of the priests (b) books, and on all the screans (c) on the temple, and on the walls, and on the pillars.
Answer:
a)     drew
b)    priest’s
c)    screens

1. Prepare a character sketch of Tyl Ulenspiegel, the protagonist of the story ‘The Mysterious Picture’.
(Hints: Flemish painter- slim- looks like a skeleton- attracts attention- clever and cunning- sense of humour- values freedom of creativity)
Answer: Tyl was a painter. He wandered from court to court  on his donkey-Jeff. He was a Flemish painter who was slim and he looked like a skeleton. He always wore a cap with feathers. He was cunning and tricky. He had a good sense of humour and he valued his own freedom and
creativity.

2. Edit the following.
      Tyl reach (a) the palace of the Archduke of Battenburg. He had to wait there for 
sometime. the (b) Captain of the gaurds (c) was play (d) chess with his friends. He stopped Tyl on (e) the gate and asked why he came over there.
Answers:
a) reached b) The c) Guards d) playing e) at