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The Hummingbird That Lived Through Winter Questions & Answers
Question 1: Choose the correct option:
1. Seeing Dikran in the street causes the narrator to
a. watch Dikran to see what he is doing
b. run to his own house to get warm
c. look for birds suffering from the cold
2. The setting in a garden affects the theme of the story by
a. giving the bird a place to escape to.
b. showing the abundance of nature
c. placing the story in Dikran’s homeland
3. Which action helps cause the hummingbird to revive?
a. Opening the window
b. Keeping the bird inside all winter
c. Feeding the bird warm honey
4. Dikran lets the hummingbird go because he knows that
a. it will survive the winter now
b. a wild creature needs to be free
c. he can’t take care of it
Question 2: Read this line and answer the questions:
1. “What is this in my hand?”
(a) Who said this to whom?
Answer: Dikran said this to the narrator.
(b) What was there in the speaker’s hand?
Answer: There was a hummingbird in the speaker’s hand.
(c) Why couldn’t the speaker figure out what the thing was? How did he find out what it was?
Answer: The speaker couldn’t figure out what the thing was because he was visually challenged. With the help of the narrator, he found out that it was a hummingbird.
2. “Each one of them is our bird.”
(a) What had the speaker been asked?
Answer: The narrator asked the speaker that did he remember the little bird that was dying last winter – the one they give warm honey to? Did it live?
(b) What is the speaker talking about in this line?
Answer: In this line, the speaker is talking about the hummingbird which they both helped to revive back to life.
(c) What do you get to know about the speaker from this line?
Answer: Through this line, we get to know that the speaker is a nature-lover and is kind and compassionate towards all the living creatures.
Question 3: What infused life into the hummingbird?
Answer: The warmth of the old man’s room, the vapour of the warm honey and the will and love of the old man had infused life into the hummingbird.
Question 4: The new life of the little bird was magnificent. Why did the narrator call it a new life?
Answer: The narrator called it a new life because the bird was dying due to cold weather. The hummingbird usually comes during summer and they can’t really survive winters. The narrator and the old man helped the bird to revive back to life so, its new life was magnificent. It spun about in the little kitchen, going to the window, coming back to the heat, suspending, circling as if it were summertime and the bird had never felt better in its whole life.
Question 5: What made Dikran’s Garden extraordinary?
Answer: Dikran’s Garden was extraordinary and was the best place of its kind in the world. All plants, bushes and trees were standing strong in sweet black moist earth. Also, all the things from the sky loved Dikran’s Garden.
So, these were The Hummingbird That Lived Through Winter Questions & Answers.