Important Questions for CBSE Class 7 English Honeycomb Chapter 6 - Expert Detectives

Very Short Answer Questions: 1 Mark

1. Word – Meaning from the given chapter:

(i) Stashed

Ans: Store

(ii) Thrust

Ans: Push

(iii) Gaunt

Ans: Lean or dreary

(iv) Crook

Ans: Criminal

2. Fill in the blanks:

(i) “He can’t be poor if he’s a crook on the run,” I told him. “He’s probably got _______ stashed away somewhere in that room.”

Ans: millions of rupees

(ii) “Perhaps the police had to set his house on fire to ______,” I suggested.

Ans: force him out 

(iii) “______ can look quite ordinary, smarty,” I retorted. 

Ans: Criminals 

(iv) “I’ve listed all the facts we know about Mr. Nath which might help us ______,” I said.

Ans: to trap him

3. True - False:

(i) Maya called Nishad seven because she wanted to mock him. 

Ans: False

(ii) Maya and Nishad work on the case of Mr Nath.

Ans: True

(iii) Every Sunday a lady visited Mr Nath to have lunch with him.

Ans: False

(iv) As per Maya’s theory, Mr Nath was a crook.

Ans: True

4. How does Nishad’s mother know Mr Nath?

Ans: Nishad’s mother was a doctor so she knew Mr Nath as a patient.

5. What object did Nishad lose in Mr Nath’s room?

Ans: Nishad lost a marble into Mr Nath’s room.

Short Answer Questions: 2 Marks

1. Why was Nishad called seven? 

 Ans: The seventh musical note is Nishad That is why Maya called him seven.

2. Who is the expert detective in the lesson?

Ans: The expert detective in the lesson is Maya. She is Nishad’s sister. 

3. How did Mr Nath get scars according to Maya?

Ans:  Maya thought that Mr Nath’s scar was because of the shoot-out with the police. 

4. What thought came to Mr Nath’s mind when Nishad visited him the second time? 

Ans: When Nishad visited him for the second time, Mr Nath thought that he had come in search of his marbles.

5. How did Nishad spend his unexpected holidays? 

Ans: Nishad spent his unexpected holiday lying in bed all day and reading a comic book.

Short Answer Questions: 3 Marks

1. When did Nishad agree to cooperate with Maya?

Ans: Nishad agreed to cooperate with Maya when she agreed that she will stop calling Mr Nath an escaped crook.

2. Why was Nishad so sympathetic towards Mr Nath? 

Ans:  Nishad was all of a sudden so sympathetic towards Mr Nath because of his gaunt appearance. When he came to know that Mr Nath used to give Ramesh tips on how to bring his food, Nishad changed his attitude but then he remembered that what his mother had told him was that Mr Nath was a polite man.

3. Who was Mr Nath’s visitor?

Ans: Someone visited Mr Nath every Sunday. The man was unknown to all. He was a tall, fair, and stout man. Ramesh figured out that he talked a lot. The man visited Mr Nath during his lunchtime to accompany him.

4. What perception did Maya have about Mr Nath’s visitor? 

Ans:  Maya made a perception about Mr Nath’s visitor that he could be the man who helped him in his crimes. She thought that he kept all the loot with him. The man visited him often so that he could give Mr Nath’s share so that he would be able to manage his expenses.

5. What did Maya do on her unexpected holiday? 

Ans:  Maya on her unexpected holiday assigned a task to herself. She decided to solve the story of Mr Nath. She noted down all the things she knew or heard about Mr Nath and shared the details with his brother to know his opinion on her task. 

Long Answer Questions: 5 Marks

1. Describe Nishad’s character.

Ans: Nishad is a considerate and kind child. He did not forget all the things his mother and Ramesh had told him about Mr Nath and believed them. His perception of Mr Nath relied on the perception his mother had about him. He did not like how Mr Nath was so thin and lean and thought that he might be starving so Nishad goes and gives Mr Nath a bar of chocolate. Nishad refused to call Mr Nath a crook only on the opinion his sister had made about him even after being insisted by her. Nishad befriends Mr Nath.

2. What were the points that Maya collected about Mr Nath? 

Ans: Maya collected the following points about Mr Nath-

They only knew him as Mr Nath so they must find out his first name. He lives in Room no. 10 in Shankar’s house. Other tenants that lived in Shankar’s house called him mad and unfriendly and were scared of him. Mr Nath lacked manners and didn’t speak with anyone. He never went to work and stayed home all day. Mr Nath doesn’t receive letters either. Only one visitor came to meet him every Sunday. He asked Ramesh to bring his food from the restaurant downstairs on Sunday and Mr Nath didn’t seem to be bothered about it much. He also paid Ramesh and tipped him too.

3. Describe Maya’s character from the story “Expert Detective.”

Ans:  Maya is a ten-year-old girl. She is the elder sister of Nishad whom she calls seven. Maya and Nishad both are very curious children and want to learn things. In the story, they are more curious about Mr Nath, who is their neighbour. However, Maya has a detective ideology about him. According to her Mr Nath could be a detective and is hiding from the police. She thinks of Mr Nath as a poor, friendless person. And that there is someone who helped Mr Nath in his crimes and the person visits him every Sunday to give him his share. She didn’t want to think about him. As per her, Mr Nath was hiding something and behaved strangely.

4. Write down the character of Mr Nath.

Ans: Mr Nath is a neighbour of Nishad and Maya. He lives at Shankar’s house and lives in room no. 10. In the story, his neighbours are afraid of him and think of him as an unfriendly person. He doesn’t go out and meet people. He only has one visitor only on Sundays. Some people were suspicious of him. Maya thought of him as a crook, while her brother Nishad thought of him as a nice person, and their mother thought of him as a polite man. Ramesh thought of him as a strange man but good as Mr Nath always paid him and tipped him for doing his work. Each person in the story has a different perception of Mr Nath.

5. What is the moral of the story “Expert Detectives”?

Ans: The moral of the story “Expert Detectives” is that we should always be kind to people and should not make perceptions merely based on the things people say about someone. In the story, Nishad And his mother also do the same. He doesn’t make any perception based on what people said about Mr Nath until he went to meet him. He realized that he is a nice man and not some kind of crook. They trust him and believe in him.