Chapter – 7

Packing

In this post, we have given the Important Questions of chapter 7 “Packing”. It is the 7 chapter of the prose of Class 9th English.

Board	CBSE Board, UP Board, JAC Board, HBSE Board, UBSE Board, PSEB Board, RBSE Board
Textbook	NCERT
Class	Class 9
Subject	English Beehive
Chapter no.	Chapter 7
Chapter Name	Packing
Category	Class 9 English Important Questions
Medium	English

Chapter 7 Packing

Answer each question below in a short paragraph.

Question 1. How many characters are there in the narrative? Name them. (Don’t forget the dog!).

Answer: There are four characters in the narrative including the dog. They are the narrator, George, Harris and the fourth is the dog named Montmorency.

Question 2. Why did the narrator (Jerome) volunteer to do the packing?

Answer: The narrator felt that he knew more about packing than any other person living. Moreover, he would get an opportunity to boss the job and George and Harris would do the job under his directions.

Question 3. How did George and Harris react to this? Did Jerome like their reaction?

Answer: George and Harris accepted the narrator’s suggestion readily. But Jerome did not like it.

Question 4. What was Jerome’s real intention when he offered to pack?

Answer: Jerome’s real intention was to boss the job. He wanted that Harris and George should work under his guidance and instructions. But they accepted the proposal and sat idle on the chairs comfortably.

Question 5. What did Harris say after the bag was shut and strapped? Why do you think he waited till then to ask?

Answer: Harris asked the narrator to put the boots in the bag after strapping the bag. He did it with an intention to irritate the narrator.

Question 6. What ‘horrible idea’ occurred to Jerome a little later?

Answer: Jerome was going to close the bag after putting the boots in it. He suddenly thought of his toothbrush. While travelling, he must needed the toothbrush which he packed in the bag. Now he had to search for it in the bag.

Question 7. Where did Jerome finally find the toothbrush?

Answer: Jerome tried his best to find the toothbrush. He unpacked the bag but could not find it. He put the things back one by one, and held everything up and shook it. At last, he found it inside a boot.

Question 8. Why did Jerome have to reopen the packed bag?

Answer: Jerome packed his spectacles in the bag. So he had to reopen the packed bag.

Question 9. What did George and Harris offer to pack and why?

Answer: George and Harris offered to pack hamper because they wanted Jerome to take some rest. They decided to pack the rest of things themselves.

Answer the following questions in two or three paragraphs.

Question 1. Of the three, Jerome, George and Harris, who do you think is the best or worst packer? Support your answer with details from the text.

Answer: Of the three, Harris is the worst packer in this world. But none of them is the perfect packer. All of them are confused and do not know what is to be placed and where. So far as Jerome is concerned he unpacked the bag to find his toothbrush in a boot. He also packs his spectacles in the bag. Harris and George start their work in a light hearted spirit. There are piles of plates, cups, kettles, bottles, jars, pies, stoves, cakes and tomatoes. They break a cup. Harris packs the strawberry jam on top of a tomato and squashes it. They have to pick out the tomato with a teaspoon. George treads on the butter. He gets it off from his slipper and puts it in the kettle. He puts it down on a chair and Harris sits on it. It sticks to him and then they look for it all over the room. In this way they created chaos in the room.

Question 2. How did Montmorency ‘contribute’ to the packing?

Answer: Montmorency’s contribution to the packing cannot be forgotten. His ambition in life was to disturb others and be abused by them. He came and sat on things, just when they were going to be packed and he put his leg into the jam. He disturbed everything. He pretended the lemons to be rats and got into the hamper and killed three of them.

Montmorency wanted to be a perfect nuisance and make people mad. If things are thrown at his head, he feels his day has not been wasted. To get somebody to stumble over him, and curse him steadily for an hour was his highest aim and objective. When he got succeeded in accomplishing it, his conceit became quite unbearable.

Question 3. Do you find this story funny? What are the humorous elements in it? (Pick out at least three, think about what happens, as well as how it is described.)

Answer: The story is really humorous and funny. Jerome’s episode of packing, Harris’s and George’s way of packing and Montmorency’s contribution have made the story funny and interesting. Jerome was confused about his toothbrush and found it in a boot. He also packed his spectacles in the bag. The incident of butter makes the reader laugh. George treads on the butter and it sticks to his slipper. Later he puts it on the chair. Harris sits on the chair and it sticks to his bottom. They squash the tomatoes by putting the strawberry jam on them.

Montmorency’s pretention for the lemons to be rats is also fascinating and funny.

These incidents are described in an orderly and perfect way.

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