CLEARING IN THE SKY (Answer Questions) 1st Year

CLEARING IN THE SKY

Questions and answers.

1. Why didn’t old man follow the advice of the doctors?
Ans: he did not follow the advice of the doctors because he felt that he would remain healthy and strong by keeping himself active. Moreover he had to support a family of five children.

2. What had the doctor told the old man?
Ans: The doctors had told the old man to avoid hard work and to spend an easy life with his family, otherwise he would die.

3. Where did the old man take his own?
Ans: the old man tool his son to the highest point of his land. He wanted to show him the small clearing there which he had cultivated himself.

4. Had the son ever been there before?
Ans: he had been there many times before with the exception of last three years. But he had not seen anything extraordinary there.

5. What where the names of the vegetables the old man grew on his farm?
Ans: the old man grew potatoes, yams and tomatoes on his farm.

6. Why did the old man take the steep path?
Ans: the old man took the steep path because it was one way of knowing that he was getting better all the time. He wanted to test his medical fitness.

7. Why did the son at the age of six cry?
Ans: The son lost the wooden plough that his father had made him, so he began to cry.

8. What where the feeling of the old man at the age of seventy?
Ans: He felt that he had lived his natural life and was now spending the bonus period of his life. Therefore he wanted to go to the places he knew and loved.

9. Why had the old man planted his secret garden?
Ans: He planted the garden to have a unique kind of vegetable with better flavor. He believed that only such new ground had the ability to produce this. It was also one way of refreshing the golden memories of his youth.