NCERT Solutions for Class 8 English Honeydew Chapter 9 The Great Stone Face -I

NCERT Solutions for Class 8 English Honeydew Chapter 9 The Great Stone Face -I are provided below. These solutions contain answers to all the textbook questions. All the questions are solved by experts with a detailed explanation that help students to complete their assignments and homework. NCERT Solutions for Class 8 English Honeydew Chapter 9 The Great Stone Face Part 1 are prepared as per the latest CBSE syllabus and curriculum. Students of Class 8th can study the answers provided here to score well in their school exams.

The Great Stone Face -I Class 8 NCERT Questions and Answers

Textbooks Questions
Comprehension Check (Page 125)

Write ‘True’ or ‘False’ against each of the following statements.

1. The Great Stone Face stood near where Ernest and his mother lived. – False

2. One would clearly distinguish the features of the Stone Face only from a distance. – True

3. Ernest loved his mother and helped her in her work. – True

4. Though not very rich, Gathergold was a skillful merchant. – False

5. Gathergold died in poverty and neglect. – True

6. The Great Stone Face seemed to suggest that Ernest should not fear the general. – False

Working with The Text

Answer the following questions.

Question 1: (i) What was the Great Stone Face?

Answer: The Great Stone Face was a work of nature. It was formed on the perpendicular side of a mountain by some immense rocks that had been thrown together so that when viewed at a proper distance, they resembled the features of a human face.

(ii) What did Young Ernest wish when he gazed at it?

Answer: Young Ernest gazed at the Great Stone Face. It smiled on him. Ernest wished that it could speak because it looked very kindly. Its voice must be pleasant. He would love the man whoever bore such a face dearly.

Question 2: What was the story attributed to the Stone Face?

Answer: The story attributed to the Stone Face was that some day a child with the likeness of that face would be born. He would become the greatest and noblest person of his age.

Question 3: What gave the people of the valley the idea that the prophecy was about to come true for the first time?

Answer: There was a rumour in the valley that the great man resembling the Great Stone Face had appeared. A young man, named Gathergold had left the valley. He had grown a rich merchant by the time he became old. He had decided to return to his native valley. The rumour went that he had the living likeness of the Great Stone Face. It made the people of the valley think that the prophecy was about to come true.

Question 4: (i) Did Ernest see in Gathergold the likeness of the Stone Face?
(ii) Who did he confide in and how was he proved right

Answer: (i) No, Ernest did not see the likeness of the Stone Face in Gathergold. He could not see the kindness or truthfulness in Gathergold’s face as it was missing in his unpleasant face due to his wrinkled shrewdness.

(ii) Ernest confided in the valley, where the Stone Face was formed. He was proved right because Gathergold died after sometime. He was then a poor man. All the people, then, said that he had no likeness with the stone face.

Question 5: (i) What made people believe General Blood-and-Thunder was their man?
(ii) Ernest compared the man’s face with the Stone Face. What did he conclude?

Answer: (i) General Blood-and-thunder had risen to high position from a soldier. When he returned to the valley, his childhood friends said that the General had always looked like the Stone Face.

(ii) Ernest compared the face of Blood-and-Thunder with the Stone Face. He could not recognise any likeness between them. He concluded that the man, bearing likeness to the Stone Face had yet to come.