Hi Everyone!! This article will share Three Days To See Questions & Answers.
In my previous posts, I have shared the questions and answers of Rainforest Song, Johnny Appleseed, Vocation and Dreams of the Future so, you can check these posts as well.
Three Days To See Questions & Answers
Question 1: The writer says that it would be a blessing if everyone were struck blind and deaf once in their lifetime. Why does she say this?
Answer: She says this as it would make them appreciate what they otherwise take for granted.
Question 2: Though the writer is blind, she discovers many things of interest. How does she do this? Make a list of the things she refers to.
Answer: She discovers many things through touch. She feels the shape and size of leaves, the smooth skin of a birch or the rough and rugged trunk of pine, the soft and tender buds. She also experiences the vibrations of the sounds the birds make.
Question 3: If Helen could get so much pleasure from mere sight/touch, how much more beauty must be revealed by sight /touch. (Strike out the wrong words.)
Answer: The wrong words are -touch; sight
Question 4: Choose the correct option:
The writer says that she recognizes her friends through
(a) the sound of their laughter.
(b) feeling their faces with her fingers.
(c) their acts of kindness towards her.
(d) their sorrows
Answer: (b) feeling their faces with her fingers.
Question 5: The writer says that if she were given the chance to see the world for three days she would fulfil some of her keenest desires. Complete this table with the things she would like to do.
Answer:
Day 1 – See people who have helped her and made her life worth living.
Day 2 – See the beautiful sunrise, and the world as it was in the past and is in the present.
Day 3 – See the workaday world, the city with its people going about their work.
Question 6: Why do you think the writer divides her ‘three days to see’ in the way she does? Which of the three days do you think she would enjoy the most?
Answer: She divides the days in their order of influence on her life. First, with the people closest to her, next Nature, and finally, the place where she lives which also plays a part in her life.
I think, she may enjoy her day with Nature as she feels very close to Nature, and is very keen to see what she has so far only experienced through her other senses.
Question 7: Explain what the following expressions mean:
(a) Window of the soul
Answer: Eyes have been called ‘window of the soul’ because they reveal the qualities that make a person. They express the inner feelings – good or bad.
(b) New revelations of beauty
Answer: Nature has abundant surprises in store. Each day, a new aspect is revealed, each beautiful in its own way.
(c) Permanent night
Answer: Blindness is like the darkness of night that has no morning.
Question 8: In the last paragraph, the writer asks the readers to experience the five senses as if there were no tomorrow. Why does she say?
Answer: The writer asks us to experience the five senses (sight, hearing, smell, touch, and tasting) that allow us to experience all the joys around us, as if there were no tomorrow because one doesn’t know when one of them might be taken from us.
Question 9: The author feels that out of all senses, the sense of sight is the most delightful. Do you agree with her?
Answer: I agree as the sense of sight enables us to see beauty, become educated, go places, see good and bad things, make judgements, etc.
So, these were Three Days To See Questions & Answers.