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Question 1 :. Mention the details in the story which show that the narrator family was quite poor? …Click for Answer >>
Question 2 : Why was it so important for the narrator to possess a car …? …Click for Answer >>
Question 3 : How did the narrator Joy turn out to be short lived.? …Click for Answer >>
Question 4 : Explain what the narrator means when he says ‘I know now we were never richer than we ever at the moment when dad made that telephone call .? ….Click for Answer >>
Question 5 : Do you think the narrator’s father did the right thing or was he foolish ? …Click for Answer >>

Question 6 :Do you like the ending of the story ? why / why not ? …Click for Answer >>

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The Night We Won the Buick Question Answer for Class 7

Answer 1: —-

the narrator’s family was poor as they are only family in the whole New York town which did not own a car . They possessed a small two wheeler basket cat cart drawn by an incident ancient pony full stop their house was also mortgage and the father salary as a clerk was not enough because he had to give half office salary to support his ill and poor relatives

Answer 2:—

The narrator’s family was the only family in the whole New York town that didn’t own a car . As a teenager , it was a matter of shame and disgrace for the narrator not to purchase one when all other in the towne had a car . That is why it was so important for narrator to possess a car .

Answer 3: —

The narrator’s joy of winning the Buick was short- lived because his father who had been declared as the owner of the Buick had decided to inform his boss Jim Kendrick that it was actually he who had won the Buick roadmaster .

Answer 4: —

. According to the narrator his mother often consoled him by telling if we had a character coma he had a better part of wealth he used to get irritated and told that it would never buy anything for them . But the moment, when his father did not compromise with honesty for the possession of a mere car though how much expensive it might be, he realises that they could be not more richer than that. Although they were poor by means , they where the richest in character .

Answer 5: —

Yes the narrator’s father did the right thing, by informing his boss Jim Kendrick about the Buick Road Master . if he would be lived and kept the car with himself then he would have sent a bad example for his son . Although they would have no richer by means they would have lost their character .

Answer 6: –

Yes, I like the ending of the story because the narrator’s father made a good example for narrator by not cheating Jim Kendrick , his Boss . He taught his son a good lesson by informing his boss, Jim Kendrick about the Buick Road Master . He taught that character comes first and then wealth . if would kept the car then he would have sent a bad example for his son. –.

Question 1: Describe in your own words the poet’s feelings when he sees the host of golden?

Answer 1: The poet thrilled to see a host of golden daffodils by the side of the lake under the trees moving their head in a joyful dance . They seemed to be dancing like a human being expressing their energy and joy. When the poet saw the flowers, his imagination traveled to another world to find a comparison. He was reminded of the stars twinkling in the milky way at night . The long line of the daffodils flowers bore comparison with the bright stars seen across the night sky

Question 2: Why does the poet say I gazed and gazed but a little thought / what wealth that show to me had brought?

Answer 2: the poet was alone full stop he was moving about aimlessly over the high valleys and hills watching the beautiful scenes of nature full stop suddenly he saw a great number of golden coloured flowers by the side of the lake under the trees moving their heads in joyful dance . Waves in the lake by the side of the flowers were also dancing but the daffodils flowers had outdone the waves in their expression of joy . A poet is found to be happy in such a joyful company of the dancing flowers and the waves. In sheer delight and surprise he could not decide what neath of joy this si sight has brought for him. He could perhaps gazed the pleasure of the present moment but he could not imagine how again and again in future he would recall and re-live this experience.
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Reference to The Context 1 :

1:” I wandered lonely vales and hills. “

Question a: Who did wander like a lonely cloud and wear?
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Question b: Who does he come across while wandering?
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Question c: where were the daffodils and what were they doing?
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Reference to The Context 2 :

2:” Continuous as the stars……. milkyway. “

Question a: What is been compared to the stars and why?
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Question b: Whom did the daffodils outdo and how?
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Question c: About which jocund company is the poet referring to?
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Question d: What happened to the narrator after the change got ever in his life?
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Reference to The Context 3 :

3:” I gazed and gazed …….. me had brought . “

Question a: Which wealth is referred to by the poet?
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Question b: what happens to the poet when he is sometimes in a pensive mood?
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Question c: What is the bliss of solitude referred to here?
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Answer of Reference context 1:

Answer a: The poet William Woodsworth wanders like a lonely cloud over the valleys and hills.

Answer b: While wandering among the valleys and hills the poet comes across the host of the golden daffodils flowers.

Answer c: The daffodils flowers were by the side of the lake under the trees. They were fluttering under in the breeze as if they were dancing like humans bein expressing their joy and energy.

Answer of Reference context 2:

Answer a: The host of golden daffodils by the side of the lake under the tree has been compared to the stars. A milky way is a cluster of stars which sign brightly across a huge stretch of space. similarly like the stars in a milky way the poet feels that the daffodils are not only uncountable but also they are dancing with full energy and joy in never-ending lines along the margin of the lake.

Answer b: The daffodils outdid the wares in the lake. The daffodils seem to be dancing like human being expressing their joy and energy when the breeze blew over them. Both the flowers and waves seem to have a competition to show their feelings and expressions.

Answer c: The poet is referring to the jocund company of the host of golden daffodils dancing in joy by the side of the lake under the trees. Along with them the waves in the lake too were dancing by the side of the daffodils. A poet was bound to be happy in such a joyful company of the daffodils and the waves.

Answer of Reference context 3:

Answer a: The wealth which is referred to here by the poet means a wealth of joy and happiness; which actually comes from happy and fond memories when the poet saw a host of golden daffodils by the side of the lake beneath the trees.

Answer b: Whenever the poet lived on his couch in an unoccupied and sad mood the fond and happy memory of the daffodil flowers flushed upon his eye of imagination which is a source of joy and inspiration to the poet in such his lonely mood.

Answer c: By the term bliss of solitude ” The poet wants to mean that he felt really happy in the joyful company of the daffodil flowers and the waves. Both the flowers and waves bear in a joyful mood. But they seemed to compete with each other in such a mood. The poet caught the joyful mood and thus become a part of nature itself. He only kept on watching the scene, unable to decide what wealth of joy, he had received from it. The greatest benefit of this experience was that whenever the poet lied on his couch in an unoccupied and sad mood, the fond and the sweet memory of the daffodils crushed upon his eye of imagination; which a source of joy and inspiration to the poet in his lonely and pensive mood.

Keywords: daffodil flowers, best flowers
By William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

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