Class 6 Chapter 10 Solution
Smart Ice Cream
Very Short Question Answer
a. What was special about the green ice cream?
Ans: By eating the green ice cream, the long nose of a kid became just a normal nose.
b. What did Mr. Pippi sell?
Ans: Mr. Pippi sold ice creams, all different types.
Short Question Answer
a. What did the speaker find inside Mr. Pippi’s ice cream van?
Ans: The speaker found many types of ice creams inside Mr. Pippi’s ice cream van.
b. What secret about Darian did the speaker come to know?
Ans: The speaker came to know that Darian got one hundred for Maths by eating smart ice cream.
c. Rewrite the last paragraph in normal English with correct spellings.
Ans: It is the next day now. Something is happening to me. I don’t feel quite as smart. I have been trying to do a really hard sum. It is one and one. What does one and one make? Is it three or is it four?
d. Why do you think there are peculiar spellings in the last paragraph? Give reasons for your answer.
Ans: The peculiar spellings show the change of the narrator from the smartest boy of the school to an ordinary one. Now he commits silly mistakes. He cannot but see others beating him. He tried to be too smart, but ended up as a very ordinary kid.
e. Why did the speaker want to do better than everyone else in the class?
Ans: The speaker wanted to do better than anyone else in the class because he wanted to stay as the smartest kid in school for ever.
f. How did the speaker know that Mr. Peppy was a soft-hearted person?
Ans: The speaker knew that Mr. Peppy was a soft-hearted person as he was always giving free ice creams to kids who had no money.
g. “It had something to do with that ice cream.” Why did the speaker think so?
Ans: The speaker thought so because he had seen Jerome Darian eating ice cream the day he got one hundred for Maths.
Long Question Answer
a. You have all seen an ice cream peddler pushing his cart either in front of your house or school. Write a paragraph in about sixty words on what you think he does after he has finished selling all his ice creams.
Ans: After finishing the selling of all the ice creams, the ice cream peddler will count the money he had altogether earned for the day. Then he will calculate the profit he had made. After that, he will go straight to his home. But, on the way, he will buy some food items and toys for his children. He will also take other necessary items as told by his wife. At last, he will return home thinking the reactions of his children on receiving the toys.
True and False
a. Mr. Pippi sold ice creams of only one flavor. ►False
S.S.: He had every flavor there is.
b. The ice cream man was very unkind. False
S.S.: He was too soft-hearted.
c. The purple ice cream had no effect on the boy. False
S.S.: He gave purple ice cream to a boy and his pimples were cured.
d. The speaker believed that there was no other boy smarter than him in school. >True
S.S.: I was the smartest kid in school.
Grammar
In each of the following sentences supply a verb in agreement with the subject agreement verb
(i) Neither Raja nor Rani was invited to the party.
(ii) Two-thirds of the building has been completed.
(iii) The dancer and the musician are great friends.
(iv) Mother along with her daughters is attending the programmer.