6: This is Jody’s Fawn
Standard: 8th Subject: English
Student Name:
Q1. Why did Jody’s heart thump?
1. He was tired.
2. Because of lifting the fawn.
3. He was marvel at its acceptance of him.
4. All of the above.
Q2. “The boy’s eyes were as ______ as the fawn’s”.
1. Bright
2. Tired
3. Sad
4. None of the above
Q3. “A fawn will follow if it had first been carried”. Who told Jody this?
1. Penny
2. Ma Baxter
3. Doc
4. Mill-wheel
Q4. Who offered to give a ride to Jody?
1. Mill-wheel
2. Penny
3. Ma Baxter
4. Doc Wilson
Q5. Which month it was?
1. March
2. May
3. June
4. July
Q6. Who said “Nothing in the world comes quite free”?
1. Mill-wheel
2. Penny
3. Jody
4. Doc Wilson
Q7. "The fawn may be out there yet. It might be _____".
1. Hungry
2. Very scared
3. Hungry and very scared
4. Angry
Q8. What did the fawn smell of?
1. Dirt
2. Grass
3. Rain
4. Lake
Q9. How did Jody know it was a boy?
1. The spots were in a line.
2. The spots were every which way.
3. There were no spots.
4. None of the Above.
Q10. Why did Mill-wheel not want to leave him alone?
1. What if he got lost.
2. What if he got bitten by a snake.
3. Both A and B.
4. None of the Above.
Q11. Did the fawn make any effort to rise or run?
1. Yes
2. No
3. May be
4. May be not
Q12. Who did he talk to about this first?
1. His pa
2. His ma
3. Mill-wheel
4. None of the above
Q13. What was his mother doing when he went to convince her?
1. Sitting
2. Pouring coffee
3. Pouring tea
4. All of the above
Q14. What acted as a compass in the forest?
1. The tall pine
2. Bushes
3. Buzzards
4. Cat footprints
Q15. Did Jody think for a moment that he had mistaken his direction?
1. Yes
2. No
3. May be
4. May be not
Q16. Where did Jody allow his thoughts to drift back to?
1. His father
2. His mother
3. The doe
4. The fawn
Q17. Why is his father proud of Jody?
1. Jody kept his head high and did what was needed.
2. Jody ran for help.
3. Jody avoided the situation.
4. Jody wanted to bring the fawn home.
Q18. Look at these two sentences.
He tumbled backward.
It turned its head.
The first sentence has an intransitive verb, a verb without an object.
The second sentence has a transitive verb. It has a direct object. We can ask: “What did it turn?” You can
answer: “Its head. It turned its head.”
Say whether the verb in each sentence below transitive or intransitive. Ask yourself a ‘what’ question
about the verb, as in the example above. (For some verbs, the object is a person, so ask the question
‘who’ instead of ‘what’).
1. Jody then went to the kitchen.
2. The fawn wobbled after him.
3. You found him.
4. He picked it up.
5. He dipped his fingers in the milk.
6. It bleated frantically and butted him.
7. The fawn sucked his fingers.
8. He lowered his fingers slowly into the milk.
9. It stamped its small hoofs impatiently.
10. He held his fingers below the level of the milk.
11. The fawn followed him.
12. He walked all day.
13. He stroked its sides.
14. The fawn lifted its nose.
15. Its legs hung limply.
Q19.
Here are some words from the lesson. Working in groups, arrange them in the order in which they
would appear in the dictionary. Write down some idioms and phrasal verbs connected to these words.
Use the dictionary for more idioms and phrasal verbs.
close draw make wonder scrawny
parted clearing sweet light pick
Q20. Look at these pairs of sentences.
Penny said to Jody, “Will you be back before dinner?”
Penny asked Jody if he would be back before dinner.
“How are you feeling, Pa?” asked Jody.
Jody asked his father how he was feeling.
Here are some questions in direct speech. Put them into reported speech.
1. Penny said, “Do you really want it son?”
2. Mill-wheel said, “Will he ride back with me?”
3. He said to Mill-wheel, “Do you think the fawn is still there?”
4. He asked Mill-wheel, “Will you help me find him?”
5. He said, “Was it up here that Pa got bitten by the snake?”
Q21. How does Jody’s mother react when she hears that he is going to bring the fawn home? Why does she
react in this way?
Q22. How did the deer drink milk from the gourd?
Q23. How did Jody look after the fawn, after he accepted the responsibility for doing this?
Q24. How did Jody bring the fawn back home?
Q25. Why did Penny Baxter allow Jody to go find the fawn and raise it?
Q26. Jody was filled with emotion after he found the fawn. Can you find at least three words or phrases which
show how he felt?
Q27. Why didn’t the fawn follow Jody up the steps as he had thought it would?
Q28. Why does Jody want to bring the fawn home?
Q29. How does Jody know that the fawn is a male?
Q30. What did Doc Wilson mean when he said, “Nothing in the world ever comes quite free”?
Q31. Jody didn’t want Mill-wheel with him for two reasons. What were they?
Q32. What had happened to Jody’s father?
Q33. How did the doe save Penny’s life?
Q34. Why was Mill-wheel afraid to leave Jody alone?
6: This is Jody’s Fawn
Standard: 8th Subject: English
Student Name:
Q1. Why did Jody’s heart thump?
1. He was tired.
2. Because of lifting the fawn.
3. He was marvel at its acceptance of him.
4. All of the above.
Ans: 3. He was marvel at its acceptance of him.
Q2. “The boy’s eyes were as ______ as the fawn’s”.
1. Bright
2. Tired
3. Sad
4. None of the above
Ans: 1. Bright
Q3. “A fawn will follow if it had first been carried”. Who told Jody this?
1. Penny
2. Ma Baxter
3. Doc
4. Mill-wheel
Ans: 1. Penny
Q4. Who offered to give a ride to Jody?
1. Mill-wheel
2. Penny
3. Ma Baxter
4. Doc Wilson
Ans: 1. Mill-wheel
Q5. Which month it was?
1. March
2. May
3. June
4. July
Ans: 3. June
Q6. Who said “Nothing in the world comes quite free”?
1. Mill-wheel
2. Penny
3. Jody
4. Doc Wilson
Ans: 4. Doc Wilson
Q7. "The fawn may be out there yet. It might be _____".
1. Hungry
2. Very scared
3. Hungry and very scared
4. Angry
Ans: 3. Hungry and very scared
Q8. What did the fawn smell of?
1. Dirt
2. Grass
3. Rain
4. Lake
Ans: 2. Grass
Q9. How did Jody know it was a boy?
1. The spots were in a line.
2. The spots were every which way.
3. There were no spots.
4. None of the Above.
Ans: 1. The spots were in a line.
Q10. Why did Mill-wheel not want to leave him alone?
1. What if he got lost.
2. What if he got bitten by a snake.
3. Both A and B.
4. None of the Above.
Ans: 3. Both A and B.
Q11. Did the fawn make any effort to rise or run?
1. Yes
2. No
3. May be
4. May be not
Ans: 2. No
Q12. Who did he talk to about this first?
1. His pa
2. His ma
3. Mill-wheel
4. None of the above
Ans: 1. His pa
Q13. What was his mother doing when he went to convince her?
1. Sitting
2. Pouring coffee
3. Pouring tea
4. All of the above
Ans: 2. Pouring coffee
Q14. What acted as a compass in the forest?
1. The tall pine
2. Bushes
3. Buzzards
4. Cat footprints
Ans: 1. The tall pine
Q15. Did Jody think for a moment that he had mistaken his direction?
1. Yes
2. No
3. May be
4. May be not
Ans: 1. Yes
Q16. Where did Jody allow his thoughts to drift back to?
1. His father
2. His mother
3. The doe
4. The fawn
Ans: 4. The fawn
Q17. Why is his father proud of Jody?
1. Jody kept his head high and did what was needed.
2. Jody ran for help.
3. Jody avoided the situation.
4. Jody wanted to bring the fawn home.
Ans: 1. Jody kept his head high and did what was needed.
Q18. Look at these two sentences.
He tumbled backward.
It turned its head.
The first sentence has an intransitive verb, a verb without an object.
The second sentence has a transitive verb. It has a direct object. We can ask: “What did it turn?” You can
answer: “Its head. It turned its head.”
Say whether the verb in each sentence below transitive or intransitive. Ask yourself a ‘what’ question
about the verb, as in the example above. (For some verbs, the object is a person, so ask the question
‘who’ instead of ‘what’).
1. Jody then went to the kitchen.
2. The fawn wobbled after him.
3. You found him.
4. He picked it up.
5. He dipped his fingers in the milk.
6. It bleated frantically and butted him.
7. The fawn sucked his fingers.
8. He lowered his fingers slowly into the milk.
9. It stamped its small hoofs impatiently.
10. He held his fingers below the level of the milk.
11. The fawn followed him.
12. He walked all day.
13. He stroked its sides.
14. The fawn lifted its nose.
15. Its legs hung limply.
Ans: 1. Intransitive
2. Intransitive
3. Transitive
4. Transitive
5. Transitive
6. Intransitive, Transitive
7. Transitive
8. Transitive
9. Transitive
10. Transitive
11. Transitive
12. Intransitive
13. Transitive
14. Transitive
15. Intransitive
Q19. Here are some words from the lesson. Working in groups, arrange them in the order in which they
would appear in the dictionary. Write down some idioms and phrasal verbs connected to these words.
Use the dictionary for more idioms and phrasal verbs.
close draw make wonder scrawny
parted clearing sweet light pick
Ans: Idioms:
Clearing: Circled the clearing, abandoned clearing, clearing up.
Close: close shave, close up, close to.
Draw: draw attention, draw over, draw toward.
Light: Light-headed, light up, light with, light upon.
Make: Make a bearing make faces, make hay while the sun shines.
Parted: Parted apart. parted away, parted over.
pick: pick up, pick over, pick through.
Scrawny: Scrawny neck, scrawny figure, scrawny outfit.
Sweet: Sweeten up, sweet smell, sweet taste.
Wonder: wonder about, wonder at.
Q20. Look at these pairs of sentences.
Penny said to Jody, “Will you be back before dinner?”
Penny asked Jody if he would be back before dinner.
“How are you feeling, Pa?” asked Jody.
Jody asked his father how he was feeling.
Here are some questions in direct speech. Put them into reported speech.
1. Penny said, “Do you really want it son?”
2. Mill-wheel said, “Will he ride back with me?”
3. He said to Mill-wheel, “Do you think the fawn is still there?”
4. He asked Mill-wheel, “Will you help me find him?”
5. He said, “Was it up here that Pa got bitten by the snake?”
Ans: 1. Penny asked his son if he really wanted it.
2. Mill-wheel asked if he would ride back with him.
3. He asked Mill-wheel if he thought the fawn was still there.
4. He asked Mill-wheel if he would help him find him.
5. He asked if it was up there that Pa had got bitten by the snake.
Q21. How does Jody’s mother react when she hears that he is going to bring the fawn home? Why does she
react in this way?
Ans: When Jody’s mother heard that he was going to bring the fawn home, she was a little surprised and asked
Jody what fawn he was talking about. He then told her that it was the fawn whose mother they had killed
to save Penny. She gasped and was not to happy with the idea. She helplessly informed him that they had
nothing else to feed it and so he would have to sacrifice the milk they gave him for the fawn. She reacted
this way because she was not present at the site where Penny had been bitten, where they had killed the
doe. She had not seen the fawn and therefore, was not as concerned as Penny and Jody. Besides they did
not have too many things to feed the fawn on in their home and she may have been worried about how
she would feed the fawn.
Q22. How did the deer drink milk from the gourd?
Ans: Jody skimmed the cream into a jug and poured the milk into a small gourd. When Jody gave the milk to
the fawn in the gourd, it butted it suddenly, smelling the milk and not knowing what to do with it. Jody
saved it from spilling precariously over the floor. It was then that Jody dipped his fingers in the milk and
pushed them into the fawn's soft wet mouth so that it would drink the milk. It sucked greedily. When Jody
withdrew his fingers it bleated frantically and butted him. He dipped his fingers again and as the fawn
sucked he lowered them slowly into the milk. As long as he held his fingers below the level of the milk the
fawn was content. The last of the milk soon vanished in a swirl of foam and gurgling.
Q23. How did Jody look after the fawn, after he accepted the responsibility for doing this?
Ans: After Jody accepted the responsibility for looking after the fawn, he cared for it like its own mother would.
When he first found it he reached out one hand and laid it on its soft neck. He then put both his arms
around its body. While taking it home, he shielded its face from the sharp vines. He carried it in his arms
most of the way even though he was tired. On reaching home, he gave it the milk that was meant for him.
When he saw that the fawn did not drink the milk kept in the gourd, he fed it with his own hands.
Hence, one can say that Jody carried out his responsibility quite well.
Q24. How did Jody bring the fawn back home?
Ans: Jody did not want to scare the fawn away. That is why he first stroked its neck slowly, and then put his
arms around it. Then, he picked it up and carried it through the thick bushes. He tried to shield its face
from the sharp vines. He stopped to rest on his way home. On walking a little, he saw the fawn following
him. After this, he would either carry the fawn, or put it down so that it would follow him by itself. When
they reached home, it refused to climb the stairs. He then picked it up and took it inside the house.
Q25. Why did Penny Baxter allow Jody to go find the fawn and raise it?
Ans: Penny allowed Jody to go find the fawn and raise it because it seemed ungrateful to him to leave the fawn
to starve. He agreed with Jody that they had killed the doe for their purpose and the fawn was orphaned
for no fault of its own. They could not let the fawn starve. They felt a responsibility towards it.
Q26. Jody was filled with emotion after he found the fawn. Can you find at least three words or phrases which
show how he felt?
Ans: Jody was filled with emotion after he found the fawn. When he stroked its neck, the touch made him
‘delirious’. When he realised that it was his fawn now, he was ‘lightheaded with his joy’. When he finally
brought the fawn into the house, Penny thought that "the boy’s eyes were as bright as the fawn’s".
Q27. Why didn’t the fawn follow Jody up the steps as he had thought it would?
Ans: The deer is a wild animal. It is used to a life in the forest. When the fawn reached Jody’s home, it did not
follow Jody up the steps because of the strangeness of the house and the steps and everything. This is
similar to its reaction to the milk in the gourd. It simply did not know what to do.
Q28. Why does Jody want to bring the fawn home?
Ans: Jody wanted to bring the fawn home because he felt that they had killed the doe for their purpose and
the fawn had been orphaned for no fault of its own. He kept thinking about the hungry and scared fawn.
He felt that it was their responsibility to take care of the fawn or else it would starve to death.
Q29. How does Jody know that the fawn is a male?
Ans: Jody knew that the fawn was a male because the spots on its body were all in a line. His father had told
him that on the body of a doe-fawn, the spots are in different directions.
Q30. What did Doc Wilson mean when he said, “Nothing in the world ever comes quite free”?
Ans: Penny had killed the doe to save his life. Therefore, in regard for what the doe had done, its fawn needed
to be taken care of and saved from starvation. This was what Doc Wilson meant when he said that nothing
in the world came for free.
Q31. Jody didn’t want Mill-wheel with him for two reasons. What were they?
Ans: Jody did not want Mill-wheel with him for two reasons. First was that if fawn was dead then Jody didn’t
want Mill-wheel to see the disappointment on his face. Second reason if the fawn was alive then Jody did
not want to share his happiness with anybody else.
Q32. What had happened to Jody’s father?
Ans: Jody’s father had been bitten by a rattlesnake.
Q33. How did the doe save Penny’s life?
Ans: Jody’s father killed the doe or she dear. He used her heart and liver to draw out the snake’s poison. In this
way the doe saved Penny’s life.
Q34. Why was Mill-wheel afraid to leave Jody alone?
Ans: Mill-wheel did not want to leave Jody alone as he was afraid that Jody could lose his way or get bitten by a
snake.
