Class 7th English Chapter-12 Tail-Piece : Branding Babies By Hot Iron Roads- A Bad Practice

Comprehension Questions :
Q1.What is the topic about?
Ans:The topic is about the blind belief or bad practice of branding babies by hot iron rods for cure in and around our village and locality.

Q2.What happens to two to three babies in our state every month?
Ans:In our state, every month two or three babies die due to branding.

Q3.When do illiterate people or grandparents call a village quack?
Ans:The illiterate people and grandparents call a village quack when a baby has fever or any diseases.

Q4.Do you think it is a good practice?
Ans:No, we think branding babies is not a good practice.

Q5.What does the village quack do?
Ans:The village quack puts hot iron rods on the stomach of the babies as a cure.

Q6.Why does he put the hot iron rods on the stomach of the babies?
Ans:He puts hot iron rods on the stomach of the babies to cure them from the disease.

Q7.Do the babies get well? What happens to them?
Ans:No, the babies do not get well. Instead of getting well they die.

Q8.Where should we go to if we suffer from a -disease?
Ans:If we suffer from a disease we should go to a qualified doctor.

Q9.Who shouldn’t we go to?
Ans:We should not go to a village quack, the disari.

Q10.What have you got to do? Why?
Ans:We have to work to check such blind practices because these practices do harm to our society.

Q11.What should you tell the people?
Ans:We should tell the people to go to a qualified doctor not to a village quack or disari, if anybody suffers from illness.

Q12.What do you think is a better place to go – a village quack or a doctor ?
Ans:We think it is better to go to a qualified doctor not to an illiterate village quack or disari.

Q13.What should you do?
Ans:We should talk to our classmates and form a group to fight against the blind or bad practice of branding babies in and around our village and locality.

Notes And Glossary: :
battle – fight
beat – no one can do better in arrow shooting, defeat
beaten – punished with heavy thrashing
branding – giving marks with hot iron
captured – caught (him)
cowboy – someone who looks after cows
defeated – were beaten
documentary – a film giving facts
evil – bad spirit
gathered – came in large number to one place
innocent – good and harmless people
mercilessly – cruelly
money lender – a person who gives money to people in their need and collects it afterwards with interest
movement – mass fight to achieve something
pattas – land ownership papers
poisoned – (He was) given poison
poverty – a condition of having no money, no wealth or basic needs of life
property – wealth
quack – a person who does treatment of people without proper knowledge, especially in villages
religious – one who shows strong faith in religion and obey its rules
reward – wealth or money given to somebody for good work
sacrificed – gave life for the cause of his country
sacrifice – to give a gift of animal (goat) to god or goddess to win their favour
Santal – a class of tribal
superstition – belief without based on facts, blind belief
suspected – doubted
tearful – sorrowful way
weapons – instruments used for fight like sword, gun etc.
worship – pray
wounded – injured, cut (his leg)

Class 7th English Chapter-12 Tail-Piece : Branding Babies By Hot Iron Roads- A Bad Practice Question Answer

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