A Bottle of Dew NCERT Class 6 English Chapter 1 Extra Questions and Answers
Question 1.
What was the funny idea that Rama Natha had?
Answer:
The funny idea that Rama Natha had was that there existed a magic potion. This potion had the power to convert anything into gold.
Question 2.
What troubled Rama Natha’s wife about her husband?
Answer:
Madhumati, Rama Natha’s wife, suffered much because of her husband’s funny idea. Her husband spent a lot of money on this idea. She felt that if her husband went on spending money, they would be left with no money.
Question 3.
What did the sage tell Rama Natha about the magic potion?
Answer:
The sage told Rama Natha that he had heard on his Himalayan tours about the magic potion. It was that with a magic potion, one could make much gold.
Question 4.
What did the sage say about the magic potion?
Answer:
The sage told Rama Natha that he should collect dew and store it in a bottle. When he had five litres of dew he should come to him. The sage would chant some magic words. Then the magic potion would convert the thing into gold.
Question 5.
How did Rama Natha collect five liters of dew?
Answer:
Rama Natha started growing bananas on his land. During winter the banana leaves had dew on them. Then Rama Natha collected dew. He grew these bananas every year to call the dew.
Question 6.
What did the sage do to the dew vessel when it was presented to him by Rama Natha?
Answer:
The sage took the vessel of dew and smiled. He chanted some magic words and gave them back to Rama Natha.
Question 7.
What happened when Rama Natha was given the potion by the sage? Why did the sage call for his wife?
Answer:
When Rama Natha did what the sage told him to do, nothing happened. The sage asked Madhumati to open the box. It had stacks of gold inside.
Question 8.
What did the sage tell Rama Natha and his wife?
Answer:
The sage told Rama Natha that no potion could turn things into gold. Rama Natha and his wife worked very hard in their fields. Madhumati also worked hard to sell bananas in the market. Thus they worked hard which earned them a lot of money.
Question 9.
What is the moral of the story?
Answer:
The moral of the story is crystal clear. There is no such potion that could convert things into gold. It is simply the hard work. If one worked hard one could earn lots of money.
A Bottle of Dew Class 6 Extract Based Questions
Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow choosing the best option from among the given ones.
1. This was because he had a funny idea – he believed there was a magic potion that could turn any object into gold. He spent all his time to learn more about this potion. People cheated him often, promising to tell him about it, but he did not give up. His wife, Madhumati, was tired of this and also worried because she saw how much money Rama Natha was spending. She was sure that soon they would be without money. (Page 2)
Question 1.
On what did Rama Natha spend time?
(a) On the magic potion
(b) Planting bananas in the field
(c) In talking to people about the magic potion
(d) He spent time to know more about the magic potion
Answer:
(d) He spent time to know more about the magic potion
Question 2.
Madhumati worried on
(a) Rama Natha’s funny idea
(b) Rama Natha’s not giving up his idea
(c) Rama Natha’s meeting the people
(d) Cheating Rama Natha
Answer:
(b) Rama Natha’s not giving up his idea
Question 3.
Rama Natha’s not giving up caused
(a) Madhumati’s worries
(b) Wastage of time
(c) Financial loss
(d) All of the above
Answer:
(d) All of the above
Question 4.
As per Rama Natha, What could Magic Potion do?
(a) Could make people healthy
(b) Could change water in soil
(c) Could convert any object into Gold
(d) Can change soil into silver
Answer:
(c) Could convert any object into Gold
2. He tended them carefully and during the winter months collected the dew that formed on them with great care. His wife helped him too. Madhumati gathered the banana crop, took it to the market, and got a good price for it. Over the years, Rama Natha planted more and more plants and they had a huge banana plantation. At the end of six years, he finally had his five liters of dew. (Page 4)
Question 1.
He tended them ________ what is ‘them’ here?
(a) apples
(b) bananas
(c) coconuts
(d) pulses
Answer:
(b) bananas
Question 2.
When did Rama Natha collect dew?
(a) In September
(b) January
(c) Winter
(d) Magic potion
Answer:
(c) Winter
Question 3.
Where did Madhumati take the crop and what for?
(a) market for selling
(b) shops to deliver bananas
(c) fields
(d) coconut for selling
Answer:
(a) market for selling
Question 4.
How much did Rama Natha collect the dew?
(a) two litres
(b) ten litres
(c) five litres
(d) seven litres
Answer:
(c) five litres
Question 5.
Where did Rama Natha take the dew bottle?
(a) to the fields
(b) to the market
(c) to the sage
(d) home
Answer:
(c) to the sage
3. Carefully, he took the bottle to the sage. The sage smiled and muttered something over the water. Then he returned the bottle and said, “Try it out.” Rama Natha sprinkled a few drops on a copper vessel and waited for it to turn to gold. To this surprise, nothing happened! “This is cheating”, “he told the sage. “I have wasted six precious years of my life.” (Page 5)
Question 1.
What for did Rama Natha take the bottle to the sage?
(a) to obtain gold
(b) as a mark of respect
(c) to convert it into a magic potion
(d) for converting into the gold
Answer:
(c) to convert it into a magic potion
Question 2.
What did the sage do to the bottle?
(a) throw water on the vessel
(b) broke the bottle
(c) transformed the water into gold
(d) muttered a few words over the water
Answer:
(a) muttered a few words over the water
Question 3.
“Try it out” means here
(a) testing the bottle
(b) sprinkling the water on the vessel
(c) obtaining gold
(d) chanting magic words
Answer:
(b) sprinkling the water on the vessel
Question 4.
What surprise did Rama Natha get?
(a) not finding gold as he expected
(b) that the water had turned into gold
(c) magic would surely act
(d) All of the above
Answer:
(a) not finding gold as he expected
Question 5.
How did Rama Natha react to seeing no gold?
(a) He felt shocked.
(b) He felt cheated.
(c) He got sad and shocked.
(d) All of the above
Answer:
(d) All of the above
4. Now the sage turned to the very surprised Rama Natha and said, “There is no magic potion that can turn things into gold. You worked hard on your land and created this plantation. While you looked after the trees, your wife sold the fruits in the market. That’s how you got this money. It was your hard work that created this wealth, not magic. If I had told you about this earlier, you would have not listened to me, so I have played a trick on you.” (Page 5)
Question 1.
What had made Rama Natha surprised?
(a) not getting gold
(b) nothing happening
(c) not seeing the effect of magic on the vessel
(d) All of the above
Answer:
(d) All of the above
Question 2.
What did Rama Natha do to the fields?
(a) He tended them.
(b) sowed bananas
(c) watered the plantation
(d) All of the above
Answer:
(d) All of the above
Question 3.
What did the hard work benefit Rama Natha?
(a) Lots of bananas
(b) Rama Natha and his wife had plenty of money.
(c) Rama Natha’s fields had gold.
(d) Rama Natha and his wife were sad.
Answer:
(b) Rama Natha and his wife had plenty of money
Question 4.
What created this wealth for Rama Natha?
(a) Rama Natha’s hard work
(b) Madhumati’s hard work
(c) (a) & (b)
(d) None of the above
Answer:
(c) (a) & (b)
Question 5.
How did the sage awaken wisdom in Rama Natha?
(a) by hard work
(b) through a trick
(c) in telling the truth
(d) none of the above
Answer:
(b) through a trick
A Bottle of Dew Class 6 MCQs Multiple Choice Questions
Read the following and answer the questions by choosing the appropriate options:
1. But sage Mahipati only smiled and called Madhumati to come forward. She came with a big box. When she opened it, inside shined stacks of gold coins!
Question 1.
What made Mahipati smile?
(a) his simplicity
(b) his thought about Rama Natha
(c) his victory over Rama Natha
(d) his general estimate about Rama Natha’s outlook.
Answer:
(b) his thought about Rama Natha
Question 2.
What did Madhumati have in the box?
(a) a lot of gold
(b) fruits
(c) gifts for the sage
(d) sweets
Answer:
(a) a lot of gold
Question 3.
Who was behind the story of teaching Rama Natha the truth of life?
(a) The sage
(b) Madhumati
(c) Rama Natha’s father
(d) All of the above
Answer:
(a) The sage
Question 4.
What was the result of this meeting of all?
(a) Rama Natha realizing a new understanding
(b) Rama Natha understood the truth of existence
(c) that day-dreaming is all false
(d) none of the above
Answer:
(c) that day-dreaming is all false
Question 5.
The moral of the story is
(a) only hard work could earn you good money.
(b) hard work makes you more responsible and mature.
(c) hard work helps you earn resources to fulfill your dreams.
(d) All of the above
Answer:
(d) All of the above
2. Rama Natha understood the wisdom behind these words and worked even harder on his plantation from that day on.
Question 1.
The wisdom was Rama Natha’s life?
(a) the truth of life
(b) connected with Rama Natha’s thinking
(c) about the importance of hard work
(d) none of the above
Answer:
(c) about the importance of hard work
Question 2.
What was the awakening that Rama Natha realized?
(a) that one must work hard
(b) that only hard work was the source of happiness
(c) nothing mattered except the hard work
(d) All of the above
Answer:
(d) All of the above
Question 3.
Why was Madhumati sad and worried?
(a) Rama Natha’s funny idea made her so.
(b) Her husband was not caring for her.
(c) Rama Natha didn’t work hard.
(d) None of the above.
Answer:
(c) Rama Natha didn’t work hard.
Question 4.
How did the sage prove a turning point in Rama Natha’s life?
(a) He was so due to his words of wisdom
(b) He was able to influence Rama Natha
(c) His being a man of wisdom
(d) All of the above
Answer:
(d) All of the above
Question 5.
How does the sage present a change in Rama Natha?
(a) He does so by his lectures
(b) He plays a trick to teach Rama Natha
(c) He advises Rama Natha through a story
(d) All of the above
Answer:
(b) He plays a trick to teach Rama Natha
