Hi Everyone!! This article will share Growing Up Questions & Answers.
In my previous posts, I have shared the questions and answers of Professor Shonku’s Diary, A Real Hero and The Automatic Nagging Machine so, you can check these posts as well.
Growing Up Questions & Answers
Question 1: What did Ruskin Bond finally decide to write about after he had finished writing a poem?
Answer: After Ruskin Bond had finished writing a poem, he finally decided to write about his father who had taught him to write, the trees he and his father had planted and about the people he knew while he was growing up and about what happened on the way to growing up.
Question 2: How did young Ruskin’s father explain the appearance of the insect to him?
Answer: Young Ruskin’s father explained the appearance of the red insect to him by saying that it must have come down from the sky with the rain.
Question 3: How did Ruskin’s father describe Norway?
Answer: Ruskin’s father described Norway as a cold land with mountains and snow, and the sea cutting deep into it. He also said that it was very beautiful, and its people were very good and worked hard.
Question 4: What was the one question that Ruskin’s father didn’t answer?
Answer: Ruskin Bond’s mother had gone away when he was only four. Whenever the little boy used to ask his father why his mother had gone, he would reply that Ruskin would understand when he grew up. This was the one question that Ruskin’s father didn’t answer.
Question 5: Though Ruskin didn’t have his mother staying with him, he was quite happy. How do we know this?
Answer: Ruskin didn’t have his mother staying with him but he was quite happy. We know this as he had not known any other kind of life. He could talk to his father about everything from insects, people, trees, steam engines, comics, crocodiles to King George, the Mahatma, the Viceroy, America. Mozambique and Timbuctoo.
Question 6: How did Ruskin’s father explain to him that the earth was round?
Answer: Ruskin Bond’s father explained to him that the earth was round by giving him the example of a little fly sitting on a large watermelon. He said that since the fly couldn’t see round the watermelon, it must appear flat to the fly. So, we can’t see the earth’s roundness.
Question 7: What do we know about Ruskin’s grandparents?
Answer: Ruskin’s grandfather was born in England and his grandmother came to India from Norway when she was quite small.
Question 8: “Well, what does ‘different’ mean”? How did Ruskin’s father explain different to his son?
Answer: Ruskin Bond’s father explained different to him by telling him that every country has its own distinctive features. For instance, the people, the weather and even trees, birds and insects.
Question 9: Who was Ayah? What did she tell Ruskin about the relation between India and England?
Answer: Ayah was little Ruskin’s nanny. Ayah told him that India belonged to the king of England. She added that the jewels in his crown were taken from India. Then she said that getting the jewels back from the king was very tough. For that, Indians would have to get the crown from the king’s head, and the king always wore the crown on his head, even when he slept.
Question 10: Young Ruskin and his father enjoyed a special relationship. Explain.
Answer: Young Ruskin and his father enjoyed a special and beautiful relationship. One of the reasons for this was that Ruskin’s mother had left when he was barely four years old. So, Ruskin’s father became his only parent. Ruskin was quite happy with father as he had not known any other kind of life. He could talk to his father about everything from insects, people, trees, steam engines, comics, crocodiles to King George, the Mahatma, the Viceroy, America. Mozambique and Timbuctoo.
Question 11: Do you think Ruskin wanted to leave India?
Answer: No, Ruskin did not want to leave India. When his father told him that the British had been in India for two hundred years and he was born here seven years ago, he immediately asked his father if he could stay in India.
So, these were Growing Up Questions & Answers.