Chapter-4 Ashes That Made Trees Bloom - PowerPoint Presentation

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Chapter-4

Ashes That Made Trees Bloom

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What will I learn in this lesson?

Moral

People are known by their deeds, just as a tree is known by its leaves and fruit. People and animals will all be kind to us if we are kind to them, but being mean or wicked usually makes us less happy.

Quiz

Answer some questions based on the story you read in the form of a comic.

Characters

Muko

a kind, old couple

wicked

neighbours

Synopsis

This story from Japan is about an honest and hard-working old couple, and their pet dog

Muko

. The

neighbours

of the couple are greedy and cruel. This greedy and cruel nature results in the sad death of the dog. However, the spirit of the dog gives solace and support to his master in unexpected ways with a hint of magical realism.

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Q1.Why

did the

neighbours

kill the dog?

a.The

neighbours

killed the dog because he had attacked their kitten

.

b.They

killed the dog because it reminded them of their dead pet.

c.The

old couple's pet dog made them rich by finding a treasure for them, but it did not find a treasure for the

neighbours

. So they got furious and beat it to death.

d.The

neighbours

killed the dog because it had damaged all their crops

Q2. The

old farmer and his wife loved the dog

Choose the correct

answer

.

a. as

if it was their own baby.

b. because

it helped them in their day-to-day work

.

c. none

of the above

d.as

they were kind to all living beings.

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Q3. When

the old couple became rich, they

Choose the correct

answer

.

a. gave

the dog bad food

.

b. forgot

about their poor friends

.

c. lived

comfortably and were generous towards their poor

neighbours

.

d.hated

their greedy

neighbours

.

Q4. The

greedy couple borrowed the mill and the mortar to make

a. magic

ash to win rewards

.

b. rice

pastry and bean sauce

.

c. all

of the

above

d. a

pile of gold.

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Q5. The old farmer is a kind person. What evidence of his kindness do you find in the first two paragraphs?

a.The

old person is a kind person because he keeps lending money to his poor

neighbours

.

b.The

old farmer loves his pet dog like his own baby. So he feeds it with tidbits of fish from his own chopsticks and also gives it lots of boiled rice. He is patient and kind to all, and often turns up a sod on purpose to give food to the birds

.

c.He

is a kind person because he sells his crops at a very low price

.

d.The

old farmer is a kind person because he gives his old clothes and fresh food to beggars

Q6. What

did the dog do to lead the farmer to the hidden gold?

a.The

dog started digging and the old man saw the pile of gold

.

b. The

dog started barking loudly to signal the old man about the hidden gold

.

c. One

day, the dog came running to the old man, putting its paws against his legs and motioning with its head to some spot behind. The old man ignored it at first, but later he followed it and found a pile of gold under the

tree.

d. It

stood at that spot when the gold was hidden and refused to move. The old man thought that there must be something hidden there and started digging to find gold.

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Q7.How did the spirit of the dog help the farmer first

?

a.The

spirit of the dog appeared in the farmer's dream and asked him to cut the pine tree above its grave to make a mortar for rice pastry and a mill for bean sauce

.

b. The

dog's spirit helped the farmer find his watch that he had lost while working in the field

.

c. The

dog's spirit helped the farmer find out the true intentions of his greedy

neighbours

.

d.The

dog's spirit helped the old farmer see the future.

Q8. How

did the spirit of the dog help him next?

a.The

spirit of the dog came in the daimio's dream and told him the entire story of how the wicked couple had killed the poor dog

.

b.The

dog's spirit scared the wicked couple at night and made them

realise

their mistakes.

c. The

dog's spirit helped the farmer by increasing the fertility of soil in his field.

d. The

dog's spirit appeared in the man's dream again and told him to sprinkle the ashes of the mill on the bare cherry tree to make it bloom. So the old man was rewarded by the daimio for making a tree bloom in winter.

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Q10.Why

did the daimio reward the farmer but punish his

neighbour

for the same act?

Choose the correct

answer.

a. The

daimio rewarded the farmer but punished his

neighbour

for the same act because the wicked couple did not pay their taxes on time.

b. The

daimio rewarded the farmer but punished his

neighbour

for the same act because

he

did not like the way the wicked couple dressed

.

c.The

daimio rewarded the farmer but punished his

neighbour

for the same act because the old farmer was a close relative of the daimio.

d. The

daimio saw how the farmer made a tree bloom and rewarded him for this. But when the

neighbour

tried doing the same thing, the ashes blew in the daimio's and his wife's faces and so they punished him.