Village by the Sea - Chapter 1 (Part 2)
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1
Read through Sections 4 to 8
in Chapter 1 and answer the following questions
2
Open Ended
Describe Hari using three words
3
After the chat Hari has with Lila, where he promises to get work to help the family, Hari begins to wonder if he promised too much
Read the section and answer the following questions
4
Multiple Choice
What do these lines tell you about Hari?
"Hari could not work any more. Although he had felt hopeful when talking to Lila of the future, he now wondered if he could really do anything about it."
He is hopeful about the future
He doubts his abilities
He believes in himself
He wants Lila to work harder
5
Multiple Select
Hari met Ramu and two other boys at the beach because they didn't go to school too.
Tick TWO reasons why they gave up going to school
They could not afford to pay the fees
They had grown bored
Their fathers had also sold their fishing boats
They were waiting for a chance to earn money and have a good time
6
Multiple Select
Give two reasons why Hari doubts that they can get work in the factory?
‘We don’t know anything about machines,’ Hari protested. ‘We only know how to fish and how to grow
coconuts.’
‘We will learn!’ they shouted.
‘How can we? We haven’t even finished school, we know nothing,’ Hari said, with disgust and despair
lining his young face and darkening his black eyes. ‘You have to go to college to learn – learn engineering.’
They will only hire people who have finished school
You need to learn engineering at college to handle the machines
He can learn the skills to work in the factory
7
Multiple Select
According to these lines find two ways Hari is different to the other boys?
‘What factories are they? What will they make?’ Hari asked, trying hard to be optimistic like them and stop feeling so worried and afraid.
He is not optimistic
He does not worry
He is worried and fearful about the future
He is friendly
8
Soon Bela and Kamal come down to the beach with other women from the village to start chipping molloscs from the rocks.
They all begin to start gossiping about someone
Read the section and answer the following questions
9
Multiple Select
Hari didn't join his sisters to pick at the barnacles on the rock?
Find TWO reasons why
There was a large crowd of people already near the rocks
He wanted to be alone
He didn't want to be seen
It was a woman's occupation
10
Multiple Select
How was Biju different to the others in the village?
Find TWO differences
His family had to find molluscs
He earned a huge profit from selling his fish in the town
He was wealthy enough to build a boat with engines
He didn't go fishing
11
Multiple Select
According to the following line:
What TWO problems do the ordinary fishermen in Thul have?
"They will go far out to fish – far, far out where there is still plenty to catch. Over here there is not enough left.’
‘No,’ they agreed, ‘not enough left, so little left.’
They catch plenty of fish
They cannot go out far too fish
They have to go far out into the sea to get a good catch
There isn't enough fish in th sea near Thul
12
Multiple Select
As they listened to the women, Bela and Kamal thought that
CHOOSE two
Our
father does not even go fishing.
Hari is doing a great job taking care of us
Hari catches hardly anything at all with his net
Why does Lila get us to work so hard?
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As Hari tries to catch fish in his net the fishing fleet come in with their catch
Read the section and answer the following questions
14
Multiple Select
Hari was ashamed that ...
Find TWO Answers
his father was a drunkard
he did not have a job
he didn't work on the fishing boats
his sisters were collecting molluscs on the beach
15
Multiple Select
After watching the way baskets of fish are auctioned off at the beach Hari wishes for TWO things
He wished
he could have bought one of those fish for his family.
that he was working one a boat
he could have
caught a fish in his net
Lila was there to see the whole scene
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As Hari returns home the sight of Pinto reminds him of his father's mistakes
Read the section and answer the following questions
17
Multiple Choice
Hari remembers an incident when his father and other villagers were promised work
with Biju
in Goa
with the De Silvas
in the factory
18
Multiple Choice
The dog Pinto was named after
the man who tricked their mother
their grandfather
a cartoon character
The man who tricked their father
19
Multiple Choice
Hari never touched Pinto and always looked at
him accusingly because the dog
ate their food
reminded him of his mother's illness
reminded him of his father's foolishness
20
Multiple Choice
Hari and Lila both felt relieved that their father was out of the house and disgusted because
he had not told them where he was going
he had gone to the toddy shop to drink all night
their meal wasn't great
they had to do all the work
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Hari's father returns home from the toddy shop late at night
Read the section and answer the following questions
22
Multiple Choice
Hari's father went out drinking with
Hari
Mr. Pinto
Two brothers from a neighbouring farm
Three brothers from a neighbouring farm
23
Multiple Choice
Whose thoughts are these about whom?
"Maybe a poisonous snake will bite him. He may step on one and be
bitten, there are so many of them and it is dark. Then he would die.’Who
Hari think this about Biju
Lila thinks this about Biju
Hari think this about his father
Lila thinks this about her father
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Multiple Choice
He thought this with
worry
fear
anx
hope
25
Poll
What is the biggest challenge the children have to face
poverty
sickness
uncertainty about the future
lack of unity among the siblings
26
Read through Sections 4 to 8
in Chapter 1 and answer the following questions
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