MP Board Class 7th Special English Solutions Chapter 14 The Country Faith

October 7, 2021

The Country Faith Text Book Exercise

Listen and Repeat

Comprehension

A. Answer the questions given below:

Question 1.
What does the poet mean by country’s heart?
Answer:
‘By country’s heart the poet means the green grass in the villages of India. (Rural area)

Question 2.
Is life sweet as it has been earlier?
Answer:
The country life is ever sweet.

Question 3.
When does the bell ring?
Answer:
The bell rings in the morning.

Question 4.
Do the villagers trust in God?
Answer:
Yes, the villagers trust in God.

Question 5.
Whom do the villagers give credit for their prosperity?
Answer:
The villagers give credit to God (who sends rain)

Question 6.
Does the rain in villages begin with the mercy of God?
Answer:
Yes, the rain in villages begins with the mercy of God.

Question 7.
What is the best of all the country- people?
Answer:
The country faith is the best of all for the country-people.

B. Read the following and tick true or false:

Life is never the same sweet life. T / F
Trust in God starts with the morning bell. T / F
The villagers believe the growth of crops is due to God’s mercy. T / F
God disappears when the rain starts. T / F

Answer:

False
True
True
False

Word Power

Find the opposites of the words in column (A) from the words given in Column (B) and match them:

Answer:
1. → (h)
2. → (g)
3. → (d)
4. → (i)
5. → (a)
6. → (b)
7. → (c)
8. → (j)
9. → (e)
10. → (f)

Let’s Talk

Sit in a group and ask your friend to answer the questions:

Let’s Write

Read the following table carefully and write answers to the questions given after it:

Example:
Why is Varanasi Famous?
Answer:
Varanasi is famous for the Viswanath Temple.

Question 1.
What is the name of the famous monument at Agra?
Answer:
The famous monument is called Taj Mahal.

Question 2.
Where is the Victoria Memorial situated?
Answer:
The Victoria Memorial is situated in kolkata.

Question 3.
Which famous gurudwara is in Amritsar?
Answer:
The famous Gurudwara is the Golden Temple.

Question 4.
Which famous fort is in Delhi?
Answer:
Delhi’s famous fort is Red fort.

Let’s Do It

Recite the poem in the class and go to school library to find a poem based on God’s importance.
Answer:
Class-room Activity

The Country Faith Word Meaning

Page 86: Country – rural area – ग्रामीण क्षेत्र, Sweet – pleasant – सुहावना, Ever – always – सदा, Trust – faith, belief – विशवास भरोसा, Still – even now, yet – अभी तक, Floats – swims, waves, – बहाना लहराना, Thought – idea – विचार, Rising – growing – उगती हुई, Corn – grain – अनाज, Faith – belief – विशवास

The Country Faith Stanzas for Comprehension

Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow each:

1. Here in the country’s heart
Where the grass is green
Life is the same sweet life
As it e’er hath been.

Question 1.
Where does the country’s heart live?
Answer:
The country’s heart lives in the green grass.

Question 2.
What type of life is there in the country?
Answer:
The life there is sweet.

Question 3.
Use the word ‘some’ and ‘ever’ in your sentences.
Answer:
(i) Rangu is the same man as was beaten yesterday.
(ii) Kamesh has even been a thief.

Question 4.
What is the meaning of the word ‘country’ here?
Answer:
‘Country’ here means the villages or the rural area.

2. Trust in God still lives.
And the bell at mom
Floats with a thought of God
O’er the rising corn.
God comes down in the rain,
And the crop grows tall-
This is the country faith,
And the best of all!

Question 1.
Where does trust in God still live?
Answer:
Trust in God still lives in the rural area.

Question 2.
What is the morning bell full of?
Answer:
The morning bell is full of a thought of God.

Question 3.
What floats over the rising corn?
Answer:
The ringing of the bell floats over the rising corn.

Question 4.
Use the word ‘corn’ in a sentence.
Answer:
The crops produce com.

Question 5.
Who comes down on earth in rain?
Answer:
God comes down on earth in rain.

Question 6.
What causes the growth of com?
Answer:
The rain causes the growth of corn.

Question 7.
Which is the best of all the faiths?
Answer:
The country faith is the best of all.

Question 8.
Use the phrase ‘come down’ in your sentence.
Answer:
Jag Mohan has come down to the position of a beggar.

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