The Happy Prince Extra Questions and Answers English Supplementary Chapter 5

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The Happy Prince Extra Questions and Answers English Supplementary Chapter 5

The Happy Prince Extra Questions and Answers Very Short Type

Question 1.

Where was the statue of the Happy Prince made?

Answer:

The statue of the Happy Prince was made on a tall column in the centre of the city.

Question 2.

Why the Prince was called Happy Prince?

Answer:

When the Prince was alive he always remained happy, so he was named a Happy Prince.

Question 3.

What was used to make the eyes of the statue of the Happy Prince?

Answer:

Two bright, shining sapphire stones were used to make the eyes of the statue of the Happy Prince.

Question 4.

Where was the swallow going?

Answer:

The little swallow was going to Egypt.

Question 5.

Where did the bird take shelter for a night on the way to Egypt?

Answer:

The bird took shelter in between the feet of the statue of the Happy Prince.

Question 6.

Where did the bird think to change his shelter from the feet of the statue?

Answer:

The bird decided to take a new shelter in the chimney of a house.

Question 7.

What did the swallow see after the third drop fell on it?

Answer:

The swallow saw tears in the eyes of the Happy Prince.

Question 8.

The heart of the Happy Prince was made with what?

Answer:

The heart of the Happy Prince was made with lead.

Question 9.

What did the statue suggest the swallow to offer to the poor woman?

Answer:

The statue suggested swallow to offer the ruby from his sword to the poor woman.

Question 10.

Why the hands of the woman were red?

Answer:

The hands of the woman became red as they were all pricked by the needle.

Question 11.

What was the poor woman doing?

Answer:

The poor woman was embroidering flowers on the gown of the Queen’s maid, who would wear it at the next court ball with the Queen.

Question 12.

What were the things seen by the Swallow on the way to the poor woman’s house?

Answer:

The Swallow saw the cathedral, the palace of the city a beautiful girl with her lover in the balcony and lanterns hanging on the masts of the ships.

Question 13.

What kind of warmth felt by the little swallow?

Answer:

The little swallow felt the warmth of humanity, warmth of positivity, which one can get after helping other.

Question 14.

Whose story was told next by the statue to the swallow?

Answer:

A story of a young writer was told next to the swallow by the statue.

Question 15.

What was offered to the young writer to heal his problem?

Answer:

The Happy Prince offered one of his sapphires from his eyes to the young writer.

Question 16.

Where did the writer find the beautiful sapphire?

Answer:

The writer found the beautiful sapphire lying on the withered violets.

Question 17.

What was the reason given by the swallow third time to go to Egypt?

Answer:

The swallow said that the weather of Egypt was warmer than that place and the place was soon going to face snowfall. So it was better to leave the place now according to the swallow.

Question 18.

Whose pain was explained next by the statue to the swallow?

Answer:

The statue next explained the pain of a match girl to the swallow.

Question 19.

What happened to the match sticks of the match girl?

Answer:

All the matches had fallen in the gutter and spoiled.

Question 20.

Why did the swallow decide to stay with the Happy Prince?

Answer:

As the Happy Prince had become blind after giving the two stones from his eyes the swallow decided to stay with the Happy Prince.

Question 21.

Where were the two boys lying?

Answer:

The two boys were lying under the archway of a bridge.

Question 22.

What did the bird do to keep itself warm?

Answer:

The bird used to go to the bakery to eat the bread crumbs, baked by the baker and used to flapped his wings to keep itself warm.

Question 23.)

Why does the Happy Prince send a ruby for the seamstress?

Ans- Happy Prince sent the ruby to the seamstress so that she can live better, buy food and treat her son who is suffering from fever. Because prince saw her face was worn, pale. Her hands were pricked allover. She was so weak to do her embroidery work.

Question 24.)

What does the swallow do in the seamstress’ house?

Ans- The swallow got into the seamstress’ house, kept the ruby on a table. Then he flew gently around the bed to blow cool air to her son to make him feel good and deep sleep.

Question 25.)

What does the swallow see when it flies over the city?

Ans- When the swallow flew over the city he saw the rich peoples are living happily at their beautiful houses, while the beggars were sitting at the gates. He flew and saw the hunger and crisis in the poor people, homeless, starving children are being humiliated.

Question 26.)

For whom does the prince send the sapphires?

Ans- The prince sent the 1st sapphire for the solitary playwright who was leaning on papers at his attic and was trying to finish the play for his director. But he didn’t have money to buy fire-wood.

He sent the 2 nd sapphire to the poor little matchgirl, bare-foot and shivering, couldn’t sold her matches. She couldn’t even go home as her father would beat her if she didn’t bring some money to home.

Question 27.)

What were the drops of the rain actually?

Ans- Raindrops were actually the tears of the Happy Prince which was flowing down through his golden cheeks and fell over the swallow.

Question 28.)

Why did the swallow not leave the prince and go to Egypt?

Ans- When the swallow decided not to leave prince, by that time the prince have been blind. So swallow decided to look after the city being the vision of the happy prince, would inform the prince accordingly.

Question 29.)

To whom did the prince send his ruby and why?

Ans- Happy Prince sent the ruby to the seamstress so that she can live better, buy food and treat her son who is suffering from fever. Because prince saw her face was worn, pale. Her hands were pricked allover. She was so weak to do her embroidery work.

Question 30.)

What were two little boys doing under the archway of a bridge?

Ans- Those two boys were hungry and cold. They were keeping themselves warm by lying in each other’s hand.When the watchman shouted at them, they were wandering into the rain.

Question 31.)

What did the Happy Prince ask the swallow to do with the gold on his body?

Ans- Happy Prince asked the swallow to take out the golden cover leaf by leaf and to distribute those to the poor people so that they can live happily.

Question 32.)

What did the statue of the Happy Prince have for its eyes?

Ans- Happy Prince had his eyes of rare sapphires which were brought out of India long years ago.

Question 33.)

What did the Happy Prince have on his sword-hilt?

Ans- Happy Prince had a great Ruby on his sword-hilt.

The Happy Prince Extra Questions and Answers Short Type

Question 1.

A large red ______ was placed on the sword hilt of the Happy Prince.

(A) Sapphire

(B) Diamond

(C) Ruby

(D) Coral

Answer: (C) Ruby

Question 2.

Little Swallow’s friends went to Egypt weeks before –

(A) Six

(B) Three

(C) Five

(D) Two

Answer: (A) Six

Question 3.

Tears of Happy Prince were running down from his ______ cheeks.

(A) Metallic

(B) Diamond

(C) Silver

(D) Golden

Answer: (D) Golden

Question 4.

The son of the poor woman was asking for –

(A) Oranges

(B) Bananas

(C) Apples

(D) Lemons

Answer: (A) Oranges

Question 5.

Friends of swallow were moving around the _______ river

(A) Ganges

(B) Themes

(C) Nile

(D) Drone

Answer: (C) Nile

Question 6.

The swallow put the ruby stone on the –

(A) Table

(B) Bed

(C) Chair

(D) Pen of the window

Answer: (A) Table

Question 7.

The lips of the young man were red like a –

(A) Apple

(B) Rose

(C) Cherry

(D) Pomegranate

Answer: (D) Pomegranate

Question 8.

Sapphire were bought out from –

(A) India

(B) German

(C) France

(D) England

Answer:  (A) India

Question 9.

The Happy Prince gave ______ to help all the poor people of his country?

(A) Gold

(B) Gems

(C) Silver

(D) Sapphire

Answer:  (A) Gold

The Happy Prince Extra Questions and Answers Long Type (03 Marks)

Question 1.

Why did the bird decide to change his shelter from the feet of the statue to the chimney of the house?

Answer:

A little bird swallow took shelter in between the feet of the statue of the Happy Prince. Firstly, he considers the place very comfortable and a bedroom made of gold. But suddenly when it was about to sleep a drop of water fell on it. The swallow was confused as the sky was clean and there was no sign of clouds as well as rain. When another drop of water fell on it the swallow decided to change his shelter to the chimney of the house as according to it the statue was useless to protect it from the rain.

Question 2.

What was the reason behind the sadness of the Happy Prince?

Answer:

The Happy Prince was truly happy when he was alive as there was no sign of tears or pain in his country. He did not have any idea of sorrow and was really happy by heart. But after his death, when he was made a statue by the countrymen and set up at the high place of the city, he saw the actual face of the reality. He felt the misery and pain of the country men. So that the Happy Prince had become sad.

Question 3.

What was the first story narrated by the Happy Prince to the swallow?

Answer:

The Happy Prince said that there was a poor house in the little street of the country. There stayed a woman and her ill son. The Happy Prince was too sad to see the condition of the house and the people stayed over there. In that house one can see the poor woman, busy in doing embroidery in the gown of queen’s maid. Her face had become thin and worn because of poverty and hands were red, pricking by the needle continuously. Again there was her son, suffering from high fever and asking for oranges from his mother. But his mother was so over burdened with poverty and her work that she was unable to look after her ill son. She could only give him water from the river. The Happy Prince was too touched to see the whole thing and requested the swallow to be the messenger of him and give the ruby from his sword to help them.

Question 4.

What was the problem of the poor young writer and how was it solved?

Answer:

The Happy Prince explained the story of a poor young writer and his misery to the swallow. That boy was trying to finish his play for the director of the theatre but unable to do that as it was too cold to bear and he was too poor to effort a fireplace in his house. Again, he had not eaten proper food for a long time because of his poverty and was going to be faint.

Seeing his pain the Happy Prince requested the swallow to take one of his Sapphires from his eyes and give it to that boy to solve all of his problems. After getting that the young writer got another source of living.

Question 5.)

How did the prince and the swallow enable the playwright to finish his work?

Ans- The playwright was very poor and couldn’t afford food as well as firewood. Due to this, it was very difficult for him to complete his play. The prince pitied him and decided to help him by sending one of the sapphires through the swallow.

Question 6.)

Describe the statue of the Happy Prince.

Ans- The Happy Prince statue was placed on the top of a tall pillar. The statue of the prince was completely covered with gold. There were two sapphires in the place of his eyeballs, instead of eyes. A ruby was present at his sword hilt. He was placed in such a manner that he could see everything that was happening around the city.

Question 7.)

How did the prince and the swallow help the poor?

Ans- Since the Prince was fixed to pedestal, he requested the swallow to take his treasures one by one to the poor. The swallow carried red ruby from his sword hilt to the poor seamstress, the swallow plucked an expensive sapphire from one of his eyes and carried it to the struggling playwright to help him financially, swallow plucked his second sapphire eye and took it to the match-girl to help her get some money. Lastly, on Happy Prince’s request, the swallow took off his gold layer in pieces and give them to the poor and needy people in the city.

Question 8.)

To whom did the prince send his ruby and why?

Ans- The Happy Prince sends a ruby for the seamstress because she was poor and her son was ill with fever. She could not buy oranges and medicine for her son.

Question 9.)

Why did the swallow not leave the Prince and go to Egypt?

Ans- The swallow did not leave the prince and go to Egypt. The prince had become blind after giving away his sapphires to the needy people. The swallow decided to stay with the prince being his vision. Swallow used to fly over the city and used to describe to the prince.

Question 10.)

What is the most pathetic event in the story, The Happy Prince’?

Ans- After giving away the sapphires, the prince became blind, so the swallow decide to stay back with the prince even in the severe cold weather. When the swallow was about to die, he kissed the prince and died. The statue of prince was also broken into halves. Next day, both were thrown into dust heap.

Question 11.)

What did the swallow see when it was flying over the city?

Ans- While flying over the great city the swallow saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, the beggars sitting at the gates, the white faces of starving children looking out listlessly at the black streets in dark lanes, two little boys lying in each other’s arms trying to keep warm under the archway in hunger.

Question 12.)

For whom does the prince send his sapphires and why?

Ans- The prince sends one of the sapphires for a young playwright in a garret. He ran out of firewood and it was too cold for him to write his play for the Director of the Theatre. Hunger has even made the young man faint. If he sells the sapphire to the jeweller, he will be able to buy firewood and finish his play.

Question 13.)

Describe the young man in the garret. Why could he not able to complete his play?

Ans- The young playwright was sitting in a garret. He ran out of firewood and it was too cold for him to write his play for the Director of the Theatre. Hunger has even made the young man faint.    

Question 14.)

Why do the courtiers call the prince ‘the Happy Prince’? Is he really happy? What does he see all around him?

Ans- The courtiers called the prince ‘the Happy Prince’ because he was always happy when he was alive. He lived in a palace where sorrow was not allowed to enter. However, after his death things have changed. A great statue of ‘Happy Prince’ was made and it was placed in a way from where the entire city was visible. He could now see the misery and poverty of the city around him. This caused tears to flow down his eyes. He was sad on seeing the state of his city.

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