Important Questions for CBSE Class 11 English Woven Stories Chapter 5 - Pappachi's Moth

1 Mark Questions

Very Short Answer Questions                                                                                        

1. Word-Meaning

(i) Ignominy

Ans:  A public embarrassment.

(ii) Splintered

Ans: Break into small sharp segments or force it to break into small sharp parts.

(iii) Bout

Ans: A brief burst of high-intensity action

(iv) Pernicious

Ans: Possessing a significant negative impact.

2.  Fill in the Blanks

(i) He _______ Around the Compound in His _______ Tailored Suits.

Ans: Slouched, immaculately

(ii) Human Beings Were the ________ of Habit and it Was ________ the Kind of Things They Could Get Used To. 

Ans: Creatures, amazing 

3. True – False. 

(i) One Night, Pappachi Broke the String of Mammachi’s Guitar and Threw it in the River. 

Ans:  False

(ii) Pappachi Wore a Well-Pressed Two-Piece Suit and a Diamond Ring on His Finger.

Ans: False

(iii) You only had to look around you to see those beatings with brass vases.

Ans: True

(iv) It Fell Into His Drink One Evening While He Was Sitting in His House.

Ans: True

4. What Did Pappachi Do Every Night? 

Ans: Pappachi would beat his wife Mammachi with a brass flower vase every night, and the frequencies were increasing.

5. What Was the Greatest Setback for Pappachi?

Ans: Pappachi's greatest regret was that the moth he discovered was not named after him.

2 Marks Question

Short Answer Questions                                                                                                  

1. Who Was Mammachi and What Did She Decide?

Ans:  Mammachi was nearly blind due to his conical corneas. Pappachi made mango pickles and banana jams, and she was his wife. She decided to keep making pickles and jams because she was so happy with her achievement.

2. Who was Chacko?

Ans: Pappachi and Mammachi's son was Chacko. He was a huge man who was studying at Oxford. He'd rowed for Balliol and was in good shape.

3. Pappachi’s Moth Was Responsible for What?

Ans: Pappachi's moth was blamed for his depressed moods and erratic behaviour. He and his children were both tortured by it.

4. What Was the Reason for Pappachi’s Death?

Ans: Pappachi was taken to the hospital after experiencing chest issues. He died in the Kottayam General Hospital after suffering a major heart attack.

5. Why Mammachi Was Crying Even More at Pappachi’s Funeral?

Ans: Mammachi sobbed even harder at his death because she was more used to him than she was in love with him; she was used to his slouching around the pickle factory.

3 Marks Question

Short Answer Questions                                                                                                  

1. What Happened at the Fair?

Ans: In the fair held by the Kottayam Bible Society, Mammachi was asked to make her famed mango pickles and banana jams. She received more orders than she could handle because they sold so quickly.

2. What Chacko Did With His Father Pappachi?

Ans: Chacko returned home from Oxford for the summer. He spotted Pappachi in the study, beating Mammachi, a week after his arrival. Pappachi's vase-hand was trapped and coiled around Chacko's back as he walked into the room.

3. What Pappachi Did Before His Retirement?

Ans: At the Pusa Institute, Pappachi worked as an Imperial Entomologist. His title was changed from Imperial Entomologist to Joint Director, Entomology after the British left after the American Revolution. He had climbed to the equivalent of Director status the year before he retired.

4. What Was Pappachi’s Revenge?

Ans: Pappachi's retaliation was the Plymouth. In Munnar, he purchased a sky blue Plymouth from a retired Englishman. In Ayemenem, he became a common sight, cruising down the narrow road in his large automobile, appearing elegant on the outside but sweating profusely inside his woollen clothing. He wouldn't even let Mammachi or anybody else in the family sit in it.

5. Why the Lessons of Mammachi Were Discontinued?

Ans: Mammachi had her first violin lessons while residing in Vienna for a few months. When Mammachi's teacher, Launsky-Tieffenthal, made the error of telling Pappachi that his wife was highly brilliant and, in his judgement, potentially concert class material, the lessons were abruptly ended.

5 Marks Question

Long Answer Questions                                                                                                

1. Why Pappachi Did Not Help His Wife? Was He Jealous of Her and Why?

Ans: Pappachi was seventeen years older than his wife Mammachi, and he realised, to his surprise, that he was old while his wife was still young. Pappachi refused to assist her with the pickling because he did not believe it was a fitting profession for a high-ranking ex-government official. He was envious of the sudden attention that his wife was receiving from everyone. He sat about the compound, watching Mammachi supervise the purchasing, weighing, salting, and drying of limes and tender mangoes.

2. What Were the Changes in the Behaviour of Pappachi After What Chacko Did With Him?

Ans: Pappachi's behaviour altered when Chacko requested him not to beat Mammachi again. Pappachi sat on the verandah, staring stonily out at the lovely garden and oblivious to the food dishes. He walked into his study at night and sat in his favourite mahogany rocking chair. He broke it into a million pieces in the middle of the driveway. He left it there, a mess of lacquered wicker and splintered wood, in the moonlight. He didn't touch Mammachi after that. But he never spoke to her for the rest of his life. Kochu Marta or Baby Kochamma were his go-to people when he needed something.

3. What Did Pappachi Notice One Evening Unknowingly?

Ans: Pappachi was sitting on the balcony of a rest home one evening after a long day in the field when the moth landed into his drink. Its particularly dense dorsal tufts caught his eye as he picked it out. He examined it more carefully. He installed it and measured it as the excitement grew. Place it in the sun for a few hours the next morning to evaporate the alcohol. He returned to Delhi on the earliest train available. He was finally told that his moth was an odd race of well-known species belonging to the tropical family Lymantriidae, after an excruciating six months of tension.

4. What Came After Twelve Years? 

Ans: After twelve years, the real bow arrived. Lepidopterists determined that Pappachi's moth was a new species and genus, previously unknown to science, as a result of a drastic taxonomic rearrangement. Pappachi had already retired and relocated to Ayemenem by that time. He couldn't claim that finding because it was too late. Pappachi had always despised the Acting Director of the Department of Entomology, a junior official.

5. What Was the Routine of Pappachi Till He Died?

Ans: Pappachi wore a well-pressed three-piece suit and his gold pocket watch every day until the day he died, even in the scorching Ayemenem heat. He kept a photograph of himself as a young man, with his hair slicked back, on his dressing table, next to his cologne and silver hairbrush, taken in a photographer's studio in Vienna, where he had completed the six-month diploma course that qualified him to apply for the position of Imperial Entomologist. This was their daily routine for the few months they were in Vienna.