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Tamil Nadu Board 9th Standard English - Supplementary Unit 4: Book Back Answers and Solutions

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Unit 4: The Cat and the Painkiller

A. Choose the most suitable option.

1. Tom was disturbed because 
    c) his friend Becky Thatcher had stopped coming to school.

2. Aunt was an experimenter in 
    d) trying out new medicines.

3. Tom used the pain-killer to 
    b) mend the crack on the sitting room floor.

4. Peter sprang a couple of yards in the air as 
    a) he had a teaspoon of the pain-killer.

5. Finally Aunt Polly said to Tom that he 
    a) need not take any more medicine.

B. Identify the character or speaker of the following lines.

1. He banged against furniture, upsetting flower-pots and making general havoc. 
    Peter the cat

2. She stood petrified with astonishment peering over her glasses.  
    Aunt Polly

3. ‘That is, I believe they do.’ 
    Tom Sawyer

4. ‘What has that got to do that with it?’ 
    Aunt Polly

5. ‘I done it out of pity for him. 
    Tom Sawyer

C. Based on your reading, rearrange the following sentence in the correct sequence.

1. Tom was dull and depressed
2. So, Aunt Polly tried different types of remedies on him.
3. Since all her methods failed, finally she gave him a pain-killer.
4. But, Tom gave that painkiller to the cat Peter.
5. The pain-killer triggered adverse reactions on Peter.
6. It jumped out of the open window.
7. This incident upset Aunt Polly and she questioned him.
8. He told his aunt that Peter had no aunt, so he gave him the medicine.

D. Based on your understanding of the story, write the answers for the following questions in a sentence or two.

1. Why did Tom lose the charm of his life?
        Tom’s friend Becky Thatcher stopped coming to school. So he lost the charm of his life.

2. Why did Aunt Polly try different remedies on Tom?
        Aunt Polly was an incurable experimenter in these things, so she began to try all manners of remedies on Tom.

3. How did medicine diminish?
        Tom professed to be fond of pain-killer. So he asked for it often. He used to pour it into a crack in the sitting room floor. Thus the medicine diminished.

4. Did Tom compel Peter to have the pain-killer?
        No, Tom did not compel peter to have the pain killer.

5. Why did Peter wish to taste the pain-killer?
        Peter wished to taste the pain-killer because he wanted it.

6. How did Aunt Polly discover the reason for peter’s absurd behaviour?
        Aunt Polly bend down and took the teaspoon and held it out. Thus she discovered the reason for Peter’s absurd behaviour.

7. What was the reason given by Tom for giving the pain-killer to the cat?
        Tom said that the cat had no aunt. So he gave it the medicine.

8. Why did Aunt Polly’s eyes water?
        Aunt Polly felt that she had done cruelty to the boy. she began to soften and felt sorry, so her eyes watered.

E. Answer the following questions in about 80-100 words.

1. Describe the different types of remedies tried by Aunt Polly on Tom?
        Tom’s aunt was the type of person who was infatuated with patent medicines and new ways of producing health or mending it. The first remedy aunt Polly tried on Tom was the water treatment. 

        She stood him up in the woodshed and drowned him with a deluge of cold water; then she scrubbed him down with a towel like a file; then she rolled him up in a wet sheet and put him under blankets till he sweated his soul clean.
        The boy remained as dismal as a hearse. Aunt Polly began to assist the water with a slim oatmeal diet and blister plasters. When she heard of Pain-killer, she ordered a lot at once.

         She tasted it and it was simply fired in a liquid form. She gave Tom a teaspoonful pain-killer and watched with anxiety for the result.

2. Narrate the funny sequence between Tom Sawyer and Peter, the cat?
        One day Tom was dosing the crack to heal it. Aunt’s cat Peter noticed it and begged Tom for it. Tom gave it to peter on his risk. When Tom poured it in his mouth, he sprang in the air and then delivered a war-whoop. He went round and round the room banging against furniture, upsetting flower pots, and making general confusion.
        Next, he danced on his hind feet in a frenzied of excitement. He held his head over his shoulder and voice proclaiming his happiness. He went tearing around the house again spreading chaos. Aunt entered and saw him throw somersaults with a mighty hurrah.

         He sailed through the window carrying the other flower pots with him. The old lady stood petrified with astonishment. Tom lay on the floor expiring with laughter.

F. Complete the summary of the extract using the appropriate words from the box below.

    Tom Sawyer felt (1) _________ as Becky Thatcher had stopped coming to (2) _________ His Aunt Polly was very concerned about his (3) _________ condition. So, she began to try various (4) _________ on him. Tom became fed up with his Aunt’s brand of remedies and (5) _________ to like the pain-killer. He started to ask for it very often. But, Tom used the medicine to mend the (6) _________ on the floor. One day, Tom gave the pain-killer to his Aunt’s cat, (7) _________ The (8) _________ had an adverse effect on the cat and it started to jump around the room. Aunt Polly entered the room in time to see the cat throw a few (9) _________ and sail through the open window. She found the (10) _________ with a little pain-killer sticking to it and knew that Tom had treated the cat with it. She realized that what was (11) _________ to the cat should be the same to the boy too and (12) _________ giving medicines to him.
Answer Key:

1. dejected
2. school
3. health
4. remedies
5. pretended
6. crack
7. Peter
8. pain-killer
9. summer sets
10. teaspoon
11. cruelty
12. stopped

G. In the story we find a lot of American slang usage of English. Complete the tabular column with  standard English. One has been done for you. 

Finally hit ‘pon.
There ain’t anything mean about me.	There isn’t anything about me.
‘Deed I don’t know.
Yes’m. That is, I believe they do.
‘She’d a roasted bowel out of me.
‘Oh, go “long with you, Tom’

Answer Key:

Finally hit ‘pon.	Finally hit upon.
There ain’t anything mean about me.	There isn’t anything about me.
‘Deed I don’t know.	Indeed I don’t know.
Yes’m. That is, I believe they do.	Yes mam. That is, I believe they do.
‘She’d a roasted bowel out of me.	She had a roasted bowel out of me.
‘Oh, go “long with you, Tom’	Oh, go along with you, Tom.