Chapter 7 The Invention Vita Wonk Important Questions Class 7 Honeycomb English
Short Answer Type Questions
Question 1. Where does Bristlecone pine tree grow?
Answer
It grow upon the slopes of wheeler Rock in Nevada, USA.
Question 2. What is fir?
Answer
Fir is tree with needle like leaves, and cones.
Question 3. What are the different kinds of tree mentioned by Mr. Willy Wonka?
Answer
Douglas fir, oak, cedar, Bristlecone pine.
Question 4. Who invented Wonka Vite?
Answer
Mr. Willy Wonka, a scientist.
Question 5. Who was Mr. Willy Wonka?
Answer
Mr. Willy Wonka was a scientist who invented Wonka Vite that makes people much younger.
Question 6. What medicine did Mr. Willy Wonka invent?
Answer
He invented Wonka Vite that makes people look younger.
Question 7. What is Wonka Vite?
Answer
Wonka Vite is a medicine which makes people younger.
Question 8. What changes in the appearance of Oompa – Loompa volunteer after taking the drops of Vita – Wonk?
Answer
The obvious changes of again appeared on Oompa-Loompa. 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 become an old man who looked around 75 years old.
Question 9. Whose knucklebone were collected by Willy Wonka? Where did the old fles collected by Mr. Wonka live?
Answer
Mr. Willy Wonka collected the knucklebones of a 700 years old Grimalkin that lived in a cave on Mount Popocatepetl. The old Flea used to live on Crumpets that was a 36 years old cat.
Question 10. Who did Mr. Wonka asked Charlie to confirm Bristlccone pine trees live the longest?
Answer
Mr. Wonka asked Charlie to confirm the fact with any deridrochronologist.
Question 11. What were the ancient things that Mr. Wonka collected?
Answer
Mr. Wonka had collected five ancient things. 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 12. On whom did Mr. Wonka tested the oily black liquid?
Answer
Mr. Wonka tested the oily black liquid over an Oompa – Loompa volunteer.
Question 13. According to Charlie what lives the longest?
Answer
According to Charlie a tree lives the longest.
Question 14. What was special about the Arabian horse? Mr. Wonka collected whose tow-nail?
Answer
The Arabian horse lived for 5 years which is quite unusual for any normal horse. Mr. Wonka collected the toenail clipping of a 168 years old Russian farmer called Petrovitch Gregorovitch.
Question 15. How did Mr. Wonka travel?
Answer
Mr. Wonka used to travel across the world in the Great Glass Elevator.
Question 16. What was special about the Arabian horse? Mr. Wonka collected whose toe-nail?
Answer
The Arabian horse lived for 5 years which is quite unusual for any normal horse. Mr. Wonka collected the toenail clipping of a 168 years old Russian farmer called Petrovitch Gregorovitch.
Question 17. How long does this tree live? Where can you find it?
Answer
Bristlecone Pine lives for over 4000 years and one can find them upon the slopes of wheeler peak in Nevada, USA.
Question 18. What trees does Mr. Wonka mention? Which trees does he say lives the longest?
Answer
Mr. Wonka mentions fir, Oak, cedar and Bristlecone Pine trees live the longest.
Long Answer Questions
Question 1. How has the invention of Vita-Wonk progressed?
Answer
Willy Wonka took much pain. He 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 he turned into a 75 years old creature. This was how Vita-Wonk was discovered.
Question 2. Write any three collections of oldest living things mentioned by Mr. Wonka?
Answer
(i) Firstly, The Toe nail clipping of a Russian farmer named Petrovitch Gregorovitch. The Toe all is almost 168 years old.
(ii) The tail of a giant rat that was found from Tibet the Tail is 207 years old.
(iii) The black teeth of Grimalkin, who lived in a cave on Mount Popocatepetl that was 97 years old.
Question 3. What changes in the appearance of Oompa – Loompa volunteer after taking the drops of Vita – Wonk?
Answer
The obvious changes of again appeared on Oompa-Loompa. 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 become an old man who looked around 75 years old.
Question 4. Why the impact of inventions and discoveries need to be regulated?
Answer
Life is an ongoing process with development and growth. Various invention and discoveries benefitted humanity and nature: Yet a few were disastrous. Human mind is highly creative but its energy should be used in doing general good for everybody. The medicine for making young did no good to Mr. Wonka, so he prepared antidote named. Wonka – Vite. Nature needs to be balanced. Service to nature should be aimed at with every research/invention.
Question 5. What happens to the volunteer who swallows four drops of the new invention? What is the name of the invention?
Answer
The moment the brave twenty years old Oompa-Loompa volunteer swallowed four drops of the new invention, he began wrinkling and shriveling up all over. His hair started dropping off and his teeth started falling out. Before Mr Wonka knew it, the volunteer had suddenly become an old man of seventy five. The name of the invention was Vita-work.
Question 6. What was the need for Mr. Wonka to invent Vita – Wonk?
Answer
It Vita – Wonk after taking 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 counter these changes Mr. Wonka decided to invent a new drug to help people to grow older.
Question 7. What happened when Oompa –Loompa Swallowed the oily black liquid?
Answer
The medicine produced by Mr. Wonka was like oily black liquid torture. As he poured four drops of it to Oompa-Loompa, he started wrinkling and shriveling up and his hair started falling off, also his teeth. Thus, he was turned to an old fellow of seventy five years who was twenty years before experimenting. However, Mr. Wonka was successful in his new invention called Vita-Wonk.
Question 8. How does the Roald Dahl story to infuse the creativity increase the power of imagination in the children?
Answer
The children are a powerhouse of imagination and creativity. The story boosts the spirit and it gives wings to the imagination of the children. Roald Dahe has a humorous and creative writing style that suits to the delicate mind of children. The language, description of characters is simple. Yet bombastic words used in the lesson helps cognitive development of child.
Question 9. (i) What trees does Mr Wonka mention? Which trees does he say lives the longest?
(ii) How long does this tree live? Where can you find it?
Answer
(i) Mr Wonka mentions fir, Oak, cedar and Bristlecone Pine trees lives the longest.
(ii) Bristlecone Pine lives for over 4000 years and one can find them upon the slopes of wheeler peak in Nevada, USA.
Question 10. What were the ancient things that Mr. Wonka collected?
Answer
Mr. Wonka had collected five ancient things. 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 11. What was special about the Arabian horse? Mr. Wonka collected whose tow-nail?
Answer
The Arabian horse lived for 5 years which is quite unusual for any normal horse. Mr. Wonka collected the toenail clipping of a 168 years old Russian farmer called Petrovitch Gregorovitch.
Extract Based Questions
Extract 1.
Mr. Wonka said, “ So once again I rolled 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 .then everything else?’
(i) Who is I in the above line?
(ii) Whom is he talking to?
(iii) Why did he roll up his sleeves?
(iv) What was he looking out for?
(v) Write three degree of adjective’s (old) from the passage.
Answer
(i) T is Mr. Wonka in the above lines.
(ii) He was talking to Charlie.
(iii) Mr. Wonka rolled up his sleeves in search for new recipe.
(iv) He was looking out for the oldest living things in the world.
(v) old-older-oldest.
Extract 2
Let me just say quickly that in the end, after lots of boiling and bubbling and mixing and testing in my inventing Room, I produced one tiny cupful of oily black liquid and gave four drops of it to a brave twenty-year-old Oompa-Loompa volunteer to see what happened.” “What did happen?” Charlie asked. “It was fantastic!” Cried Mr Wonka. “The moment he swallowed it, he began wrinkling and shrivelling up all over and his hair started dropping off and his teeth started falling out and, before I knew it, he had suddenly become an old fellow of seventy-five! And thus, my dear Charlie, was Vita-Wonk invented!”
(i) What did Mr. Wonka tell Charlie in the end?
(ii) Who had volunteered to take the medicine?
(iii) What did happen to the volunteer?
(iv) What signs of ageing appeared on him?
(v) Give the meaning of ‘shriveling up’.
Answer
(i) Mr. Wonka told Charlie that he boiled, mixed and tested black liquid.
(ii) A twenty years old Oompa – Loompa volunteered to take the medicine.
(iii) The volunteer grew older to the age of seventy five. Wrinkles appeared on his face.
(iv) The volunteer began wrinkling; shrivelling up his hair and his teeth began to fall.
(v) To contract.