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I. Read the extract given below and answer the question that follows:

(i) What were sleepers? What made the timber float down the river?

Ans. Sleepers are rectangular pieces of timber, stone, or steel on or near the ground to support a superstructure, or keep railroad rails in place.

Timber is less dense than water, and the strong flow of water in the river made the timber float down the rivers.

(ii) What is meant by dislodge? How can the sleepers be dislodged?
Ans. Dislodge is an act of forcefully removing something or someone from its place or position.

Sleepers that are lying stuck in the stones can be dislodged by delivering sufficient force, manually or mechanically, to the sleepers using a lever like a contrivance. Also, floods can lift them and jostle them along.

(iii) From where did the crocodile come? Why did he come? What was he doing in the shallow waters?

Ans. The crocodile came from the deep black water of the river where the flowing streams produced whirlpools.
He came to rest in the glassy shallows, among logs and balanced there on tiptoe on the rippled sand, so that only his eyes and nostrils out of the water to breathe in the fresh sunny air.

(iv)  Why did the crocodile raise his eyes and nostrils out of water? The author says, "Now nothing could pierce the inch-thick armoured hide". What does she mean by the sentence given above? Why does she say so?

Ans. The crocodile raised his eyes to get a clear sight of the area around the stepping stones and raised his nostrils to breathe in the fresh sunny air.

The author means to say that the skin of the crocodile was an inch-thick and very strong. The author is suggesting that even the bullets could not tears it if anybody would shot it, it would bounce off.

(v) Who encountered the crocodile later in the story? What did she do to the crocodile and why?
Ans. Later in the story, a little girl named Sibia encountered the crocodile. She killed the crocodile with her hay-fork. She did so in order to save the life of a Gujan woman, whom the crocodile attacked on her leg and wanted to drag her deep into the river.
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II. Read the extract given below and answer the question that follows:

(i) What is a mugger crocodile? Give its three characteristics features.
Ans. The mugger crocodile is a species of the freshwater crocodile of the Indian subcontinent.

The crocodile was twice the length of a tall man. It had a tail with unimaginable and irresistible power which could propel the strongest flow of water. His mouth, running almost the whole length of his head, was closed and fixed in that evil bony smile, and where the yellow underside came up to it, it was tinged green

(ii) Give Meaning of –
a) antediluvian saurian
Ans. It means a large reptile which is very old as if it belonged to the times before the biblical flood.

b) Prehistoric juggernaut:

Ans. A very ancient animal which is very strong and powerful.

(iii) Describe the appearance of the crocodile. What made him move?

Ans. 

• The crocodile with a huge tail was twice the length of a tall man.
• It was blackish-brown on above and yellowish-white on the under.
• He was having a throbbing throat.
• His armoured hide was one inch thick and nothing could pierce it.
• He lay motionless and able to wait forever till food came.

The crocodile used the unimaginable and irresistible power of his huge tail to move in the water.

(iv) How can you conclude from the extract that the crocodile was a strong and dangerous animal?

Ans. The crocodile is described as "an antediluvian saurian, a prehistoric juggernaut, ferocious and formidable, a vast force in the water, propelled by the unimaginable and irresistible power of the huge tail", suggests that he was a strong and dangerous animal.

(v)  How does the crocodile form an important component in the development of the plot? Give reasons to support your answer.

Ans. The mugger crocodile lived in the river where the villagers used to work and take water. One day while Sibia was taking a short break along with two other Gujjar women, she saw a lady struggling and screaming having been caught by a crocodile.
She immediately rushed to her help and stabbed the crocodile. The crocodile immediately released its grip on the lady who was saved by Sibia. The crocodile is important in the building of the plot because Sibia later finds a blue bead that she always wanted. The story thus entails that Where There is a Will, There is a Way.

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III. Read the extract given below and answer the question that follows:

(i) What is said about the birth of the crocodile? How can you say that the crocodile was very active even before he was fully hatched?
Ans. The author says that it may be possible that the crocodile was born a hundred years ago, since when it was hatched. The crocodile was very active because as soon as he managed to get his head out of his shell he was looking around ready to snap at anything even before he was fully hatched.

(ii) What is meant by brainless craft and ferocity?
Ans. It means making use of one's craft and ferocity guided purely by natural instinct. The young crocodile could escape from predators by instinctively using his skills and fierceness.

Brainless Craft: brainless, guided by instinct.

Ferocity: the quality or state of being ferocious

(iii) What were the dangers facing the young crocodile?

Ans.  The young crocodile faced the dangers of getting eaten by birds of prey and great carnivorous fishes who fed on baby crocodiles.

(iv) How did the young crocodile get the food? How did they store it? What did the big crocodile feed on?

Ans. The young crocodile caught all the food he needed and stored it in holes in the river bank till putrid. The big crocodile fed mostly on fish but had also caught deer, monkeys, ducks, pi-dogs full of parasites, or a skeleton cow. He also went down to the burning ghats and fed on half-burned bodies of Indians caste into the stream.

(v) How is the body of the crocodile strong enough to protect him? How was he vulnerable to an attack?
Ans. The body of the crocodile is protected with an inch thick layer of armoured hide on the above, and nothing can pierce it, even rifle bullets would bounce off.
His eyes and the soft underarms made him vulnerable to an attack.

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IV. Read the extract given below and answer the question that follows:

(i) From where did the little girl come? What did she wear? What was she eating?

Ans. The little girl came from a shrill noisy village above the ford. She was wearing an earthen color rag which she had divided into two, one for a skirt and one for a sari. She was eating chapattis on which she had spread green chili and rancid butter.

(ii) Describe the physical appearance of the little girl.

Ans. The girl was about twelve years old. Her complexion was oily brown. She was thin and dark-colored. Her eyes were big and her hair was black. As she was eating her food her straight white teeth were visible. 

(iii) Give evidence to prove that girl was from a poor household.

Ans. The girl belonged to a poor household as she lived in a mud house and wore an earthen color rag, which she divided into two, one for a skirt and another for a sari. Her family could not afford the meal of the day properly. She had never owned even one anna- not a pice, not a pi, to buy anything from the bazaar.

(iv)

 Why was the little girl known as a child-woman and born to toil?
Ans. The little girl was known as a child-woman and born to toil because the circumstances had made the girl to sacrifice all her wishes and to tolerate the conditions like a mature woman. She had to do very much hard work, she used to pull off the corn, gathering the sticks, making the cow dung dry, cooking, fetching water, and cutting the fodder for animals.

(v) Describe the strange object found near the crocodile. Justify why the story is named after the object.

Ans. A glimmering blue bead was found near the crocodile. It was a sand-worn blue glass that was perforated right through the middle and was perhaps the neck of the bottle. When Sibia found this, her happiness in killing the crocodile was subsided. So, the title of the story was appropriate.

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V. Read the extract given below and answer the question that follows:

(i) Where was the bazaar? How did the girl know about it?
Ans. The bazaar was near the railhead in the little town. Very often Sibia had gone to the bazaar with her parents and brother walking all the way through the forests, and hence she came to know about it.

(ii) What had she seen and heard while passing through the bazaar?
Ans. She saw the milling people, and dogs and monkeys full of fleas, the idling gossiping bargaining humanity spitting betel juice. She had heard the bell of a sacred bull clonking as he lumped along through the dust and hubbub.

(iii) What was her experience at the sweetmeat stall? What did she sometimes taste at home?
Ans. She had paused, amazed, before the sweetmeat stall, to gaze at the brilliant honey confection, abuzz with dust and flies. They smelled wonderful, above the smell of drains and humanity and cheap cigarettes

(iv) Describe what Sibia saw at the cloth stall. Did she like the stall? Why?
Ans. She saw a cloth stall stacked with great rolls of new cotton cloth stamped at the edge with the maker’s sign of a tiger’s head. Yes, she liked the stall as it was smelling very wonderful of dressing, straight front from the mills. The smell was so nice that she could have stood there all day.

(v) Was there any significance in Sibia's life of the things sold in the bazaar? What was she marked for from her birth?
Ans. The significance in Sibia’s life of the things that they collect and sell in the bazaar is that it shows the hard way of living their lives. Her family works very hard day today to make a living.
Sibia was marked for work from the time she was born. Since she was ac child, she was put to work. Her work as a child started from picking up sticks, cooking, and other household chores.

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VI. Read the extract given below and answer the question that follows:

(i) Mention any three of the wonders Sibia had seen in the bazaar.
Ans. Sibia had seen many wonderful things in the bazaar. She had seen the satin sewn with real silver thread, tin trays from Birmingham. A sari which had got chips of looking-glass embroidered into the border. She had also seen a Kashmiri traveling merchant showing dawn-colored silks that poured like cream, and he'd got a little locked chest with turquoises and opals in it.

(ii) What did the Kashmiri merchant sell?
Ans. The Kashmiri merchant sold dawn-colored silks that poured like cream, a little locked chest with turquoises and opals in it, and a box which when been pressed, a bell tinkles and a yellow woolen chicken jumps out from the box.

(iii) Describe the box having the best of merchant’s goods.
Ans. The best of all was a box which, when pressed, tinkles a bell, and a yellow woolen chicken jumps out of it.

(iv) How did Sibia used to spend her time since her childhood?
Ans. Sibia had spent her time doing the household work. Sibia worked to earn for her livelihood since her childhood. She had husked corn, and gathered sticks, and put dunk to dry, and cooked and weeded, and carried, and fetched water, and cut grass from the fodder.

(v) What does Sibia's life show about the life of the people living in the vicinity of forests? How was Sibia's life different from the Gujar women's?
Ans. For the people residing in the vicinity of forests, life is full of hardship. The mud house lacks even the basic amenities. Sibia's life is more difficult than the Gujar women as she not only had to do the household work but also had to go up the mountains to cut the paper grass to make a living.

She appears out a hard-working and adventurous girl in the Gujar community. She is the specimen of intractable will power, in sharp contrast to the Gujar woman.

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VII. Read the extract given below and answer the question that follows:

(i) What thoughts did not trouble Sibia?
Ans. Sibia and other women were working very hard throughout the day but the maximum profit was women by the agent who sat all day long on the silk cushions enjoying his hookah, but such thoughts dud bit trouble Sibia's mind.

(ii) Where was the Sibia going? Why?
Ans. Sibia was going up the hills on the other side of the riverbank. She was going with her mother and the other women in order to get the paper grass. They used to sell these grass to the agent to get the money as their earning.

(iii) Who were with Sibia during her journey? Why couldn’t Sibia skip during her return journey?
Ans. Sibia was going up the cliffs with her mother and the other women of the village. While going up she was full of energy and was skipping along but at the time of returning she could not do so because she was tired and was having a big load to carry.

(iv) Describe the necklaces worn by women. Why did they want to wear new necklaces every year?
Ans. Some of the women were wearing necklaces. These necklaces were made out of lal-lal-beeges, the shiny scarlet seeds, black one end, that grew everywhere in the jungle. Every year when old necklaces were faded they wanted to wear new necklaces.

(v) What type of necklace did Sibia wish to wear? What was the difficulty in getting such a necklace?

Ans. Sibia also wished to wear one necklace made of the shiny scarlet seed. She was making one but each seed was as hard as stone and could be drilled only with a red hot needle. Sibia broke her family needle so she had to wait unless the new needle could be bought.

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VIII. Read the extract given below and answer the question that follows:

(i) Why were the women going to the river? What were the dangers they encounter on the way?
Ans. The women were going towards the river in order to collect the paper grass from the cliffs on the other bank of the river, which they would sell to the agent who arranges and dispatch it for paper mills.

On the way, they might encounter wild animals and big crocodiles which could kill them.

(ii) What is meant by ‘nomadic graziers’? How long do these people stay in one place?
Ans. 'Nomadic graziers' are the people who roam around from place to place, frequently, or without a fixed pattern of movement, until they will get the greenery around to graze their animals. Their occupation is cattling (here). They stay in one place until their animals had perhaps finished all the easy grazing within reach, or they were not able to sell enough of their butter and white milk in the district, or there was no one to buy the young male buffaloes for tiger bait.

(iii) Describe the appearance of Gujar women as seen by Sibia?
Ans. Sibia saw the appearance of Gujar women. They wore trousers tight and wrinkled near the ankles. They were wearing large silver rings in the ears. These rings were made out of pure silver by melting the rupees.

(iv) Where were the men and boys from the camp? Explain why Gujars are called the "men in the wandering Pastoral Age."
Ans. The men and boys were mostly out of the camp, either to graze their animals or to sell their produce in the market. The Gujars are referred to as "men in the wandering Pastoral Age" because they did not have a permanent house. They were neither the hunters nor the cultivators, they earned their living from the animals, grass, and trees in the forest.

(v) Explain how was Sibia like the Gujars, a jungli. Give two points of difference between Sibia and Gujars?
Ans. The Gujars were junglis, as Sibia was too, born and bred in the forest. For countless centuries, their forebears had lived like this, getting their living from animals, from grass and trees. 

Sibia was having a permanent house whereas the Gujars were nomadic. The Gujars were well-off people while Sibia belongs to a poor household, her family could not afford even two meals of the day. 

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IX. Read the extract given below and answer the question that follows:

(i) How was Sibia compared to the bird in the passage?
Ans. When the cool wind touched the sweating body of Sibia and she could look down over the river as if she were a bird. Her imagination took her in swooping flight over the bright water and golden air to the banks where she had played as a child.

(ii) What did she keep in the cave? Why?
Ans.  In the cavelets on the mountains, Sibia had kept the small bowls made up of clay so that these bowls becomes hard. She wanted to paint them with marigolds and elephants.

(iii) Why was the mother angry with her? How did Sibia react to the situation?
Ans. When Sibia's mother found her lost in the world of imagination she called her. On hearing the strict tone of her mother, Sibia got alert. She came back to the world of reality and started to coil again.

(iv) Why did the women carrying the load go? Why?
Ans. The women carrying the load were going back to their homes as it was the evening time. They had to look after their animals and had to cook the evening meal.

(v) At the end of the day, how did Sibia feel? What does it reveal about her character?
Ans. Even after being the heroine of such an adventurous and life-threatening battle with the crocodile, the only detail that she considered important to tell her mother was that she had found a blue bead for her necklace. This incident reveals that though Sibia had accepted her poor condition, deep in her heart, she wished to have the "wonders of the world."

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X. Read the extract given below and answer the question that follows:

(i) What happened when the Gujar woman walked on to the stepping-stones?
Ans. When the Gujar woman walked on to the stepping stones, she was within one yard of the reach of the crocodile. The crocodile lunged at her. The woman screamed with fear and dropped the pots.

(ii) When the crocodile attacked the woman, how did she react?
Ans. When the crocodile attacked the woman, she recoiled from the crocodile, but his jaws closed on her leg at the same moment as she slipped and fell on the bone-breaking stone, and clutched one of the timber logs to save herself.

(iii) Describe the struggle between the woman and the crocodile?
Ans. When the crocodile attacked the woman, she recoiled from the crocodile, but his jaws closed on her leg at the same moment as she slipped and fell on the bone-breaking stone, and clutched one of the timber logs to save herself. The crocodile was pulling the woman on her legs and was beating her with his powerful tail. He was doing it so that the woman might lose her grip on the timber logs and he could drag her deep into the river.

(iv) Briefly state the theme of the conflict between human beings and wild nature as shown in the story.
Ans. While nature is beneficial to human beings, it can also be wild; it has something of the savage and awful. The Blue Bead presents both these aspects. The people of the village live in the lap of nature and enjoy its benefits. But, as the village is on the edge of a forest, they are also vulnerable to dangers from wild animals. They fall prey to fatal diseases and are often threatened by wild animals. The dense forest cut them off from the benefits of urbanization.

(v) On seeing the woman being attacked by a crocodile what was Sibia's first thought? Show how Sibia came to help the woman immediately?

Ans.  As soon as Sibia saw the woman attacked by a crocodile she sprang to help her, without thinking about the danger in the river. From boulder to boulder she came leaping like a rock goat in order to help the woman. She came on wings choosing her footing in midair without even thinking about it, and in one moment she was beside the shrieking woman.

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XI. Read the extract given below and answer the question that follows:

(i) Why did crocodile go into convulsion? What happened during his convulsion?
Ans. As Sibia hit the crocodile in his eyes, he reared up in pain and moved in convulsion. It was groaning with pain this much that his nose and tail were meeting at his stony back.

(ii) How did Sibia attend to the Gujar woman?
Ans. Sibia got her arms around the fainting woman and somehow dragged her from the water. She stopped her wounds with sand, and bound them with a rag, and helped her home to the Gujar encampment where the men made a litter carry her to someone for treatment.

(iii) Where was Sibia’s sickle and fork? What strange object did she see in the water?
Ans. Sibia's sickle and fork were still in the water. She bent down to pick up her fork but she noticed a strange object in the water. Due to the dim light, the object was looking in no-color white-blue. It was ready for use as it had a hole in the center of it.

(iv) How did she take possession of the strange object? Describe the object.
Ans. Sibia reached her arm down into a yard of the cold silk water to get it, but she missed it at first because of refraction. In her second attempt, Sibia was able to get the blue bead in her hands. The object was perfect, white-blue, and even pierced ready for use, with the sunset shuffled about inside it like gold dust.

(v) State why was Sibia more thrilled at finding the blue bead than saving the Gujar woman from the crocodile. What does this reveal about Sibia?
Ans. A blue bead was one of the "unattainable wonders" for her that she managed to attain at the end. Thus, it was only natural for her to rejoice at having discovered the glittering bead. Hence, Sibia says to her mother in ecstasy, "I found a blue bead for my necklace." 

Even after being the heroine of such an adventurous and life-threatening battle with the crocodile, the only detail that she considered important to tell her mother was that she had found a blue bead for her necklace. This incident reveals that though Sibia had accepted her poor condition, deep in her heart, she wished to have the "wonders of the world."