Important Questions for CBSE Class 6 English Honeysuckle Chapter 8 - A Game of Chance

A. Very Short Answer Questions:     1 Marks

1. Word – Meaning from the given chapter”

i. Wide

Ans: Broad

ii. Crowd

Ans: Group of people

iii. Obliged

Ans: To force

iv. Patted

Ans: To Tap

2. Fill in the Blanks:

i. Every year on the_______ there was a fair in our village.

Ans: occasion of Eid 

ii. Uncle took me to the fair. Bhaiya, who worked for us at home, came with us. There was _____at the fair 

Ans: a big crowd 

iii. Then we came to visit the shop that was called the _____.

Ans: lucky shop.

iv. He was a middle-aged man. He seemed neither______ nor______.

Ans: too smart nor too lazy.

3. True – False:

i. All you had to do was to pay 50 paise, pick up any six discs, add up the numbers on the discs and find the total. The article marked thereupon number was yours.

Ans: True

ii. Then a boy, a little older than I, tried his luck. He got a comb worth 25 paise. The shopkeeper looked neither happy nor sad.

Ans: True

iii. I wanted to try my luck too. I looked at Bhaiya. He encouraged me. I paid 50 paise and took six discs. My luck was very good.

Ans: False

iv. The shopkeeper made fool out of the boy and tricked him into his play.

Ans: True

4. Match the Following:

Ans:

5. Give the Meaning of the Following Phrases:

i. To make a fool out of someone

Ans: To cheat or to trick someone

ii. To try your luck

To do something risky

B. Short Answer Questions:    2 Marks 

1. Why was a fair organised in Rasheed’s village? 

Ans: The fair in Rasheed’s village was organized on the occasion of Eid.

2. Who all went to the fair? 

Ans: Rasheed, his uncle, and a boy who worked at their house went to the fair.

3. What things did Rasheed saw at the fair?

Ans: Rasheed noticed that the fair had a lot of shops, rides, enormous wheels, and traders selling their wares.

4. Where did Rasheed’s uncle go?

Ans: Rasheed’s uncle saw some of his friends. He went to them to have some chit-chat with them.

5. Name the poet of the “Vocation”.

Ans: The poet who wrote of the “Vocation” was Rabindranath Tagore.

C. Short Answer Questions:   3 Marks 

1. Complete the following dialogue:

“But, Uncle,” I said, “I saw an (a) ______ and a boy getting (b) ______.” 

“You don’t know, child,” Uncle said, “They were (c) ______ of the shopkeeper. They were playing (d) ______. They wanted (e) ______ and they got it. Now forget about it, and don’t tell anybody of (f) ______.” 

Ans: 

(a) Old man getting a clock

(b) Two or three costly things

(c) All friends

(d) Tricks to tempt you to try your luck

(e) Your money

(f) Your bad luck or your foolishness.

2. What were the things sold at the fair?

Ans: In the fair at the time of Eid, tradesmen from far and distant areas had gathered to sell things. There were all kinds of good and things. Anything from a small pin to a large buffalo might be purchased. There were also shops for different dishes at the market.

3. What did Rasheed and his Bhaiya do in their uncle’s absence?

Ans: At the time of their uncle’s absence who left to visit his friends, Rasheed and his Bhaiya were roaming here and there at the fair. They were looking at different shops but did not buy anything as their uncle had strictly asked them not to.

4. Why did his uncle ask them not to buy anything alone?

Ans: Rasheed was a small boy, who didn’t know how to buy things. Anyone could trick him or fool him. The shopkeeper may deceive him by selling old goods for an elevated price. So, his uncle told him to not buy anything alone.

5. Who is the speaker of the poem “Vocation”, what is he doing? Whom does he meet every day?

Ans: The speaker within the poem “Vocation” is a young child, who is on his way to school lane at 10 during morning time. Every day he meets a hawker, a gardener, and a watchman.

D. Long Answer Questions:     5 marks 

1. Describe details about the Lucky Shop.

Ans: The Lucky Shop at the fair by a middle-aged shopkeeper, who seemed neither too foolish nor too smart to Rasheed, had some discs arranged from number one to ten that were faced down. Whosoever wanted to play had to pay 50 paise and choose any six discs, then add up the number and find the total number. The total number would decide what gift or an article would be given to the particular buyer. Some won less-priced articles and some won higher-priced articles. It was a matter of luck. Therefore he named it the “lucky shop”.

2. Give a character sketch of Rasheed.

Ans: Rasheed is a young boy of about twelve years old. He is innocent at heart and loves little things in life. He along with his uncle and Bhaiya goes to a fair. He wants to buy things but avoids till uncle arrives. He decided to try his luck when he saw the "lucky shop." His Bhaiya encourages him and he plays the game. After some time, he doesn’t win anything and loses all his money. Rasheed got upset and cries to his uncle. His uncle tells him that he got tricked by the shopkeeper, but what is done is done and he should forget it.

3. How shopkeeper tricked his customers to play the losing game?

Ans: The shopkeeper of the Lucky Shop tricked his customers into the losing game by cheating in the game. He gave expensive and priceless things only to his friends, who pretended to be the customers. Seeing this, many others got tempted, people believed that the game is genuine. Rasheed was also tempted to see this and he eventually plays the game. He didn’t win anything expensive or huge. He thought he is out of luck but actually, he got tricked by the shopkeeper.

4. What is the moral of the story “Game of Chance”?

Ans: The story “Game of Chance” is about an innocent boy, his sensible uncle, and a selfish shopkeeper. It tells us about how uncle takes the boy to the fair and asks him not to buy anything in his absence. How the boy gets tricked by the selfish shopkeeper. The story gives us lessons that we should obey our elders and must listen to what they have to say. We should also not trust everything we see and hear. Sometimes people take advantage of our innocence and we get tricked into their bad games.

5. Write the summary of the poem “Vocation”.

Ans: The poem Vocation is written by a very famous and respected poet Rabindranath Tagore. In the poem, he portrays a boy who is also the speaker of the poem. Every day boy goes to school at ten in the morning and watches a hawker who cries “Bangles, crystal bangles”. The boy wishes to be like him as the hawker is not bound by time or place or anything. When returning from school at 4, he watches a gardener, and the boy wishes to be like him, as he could play with mud and water and no one would scold him. And at night he looks at the watchman through the window, he wishes to be like him as he could also walk on roads at night and play with his shadow with a lantern. 

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