NCERT Solutions for Class 9 English Beehive Chapter 9 The Bond of Love

NCERT Solutions for Class 9 English Beehive Chapter 9 The Bond of Love are given below. This chapter contains many questions that are essential for exams. Our expert teachers answered all the questions with a detailed explanation that help students to complete their assignments and homework. We have also provided NCERT Solutions for Class 9 English Chapter 9 The Bond of Love in PDF format so that you can download them for offline use.

The Bond of Love NCERT Questions and Answers

Thinking about the Text 

I. Given in the box are some headings. Find the relevant paragraphs in the text to match the headings. 

Answer: An Orphaned Cub – para 3 
Bruno’s Food-chart – para 6 
An Accidental Case of Poisoning – para 8 
Playful Baba – para 12 
Pain of Separation – para 14 
Joy of Reunion – para 16 
A Request to the Zoo – para 18 
An Island in the Courtyard – para 21 

II. Answer the following questions. 

Question 1. “I got him for her by accident.”
(i) Who says this?
(ii) Who do ‘him’ and ‘her’ refer to?
(iii) What is the incident referred to here?

Answer: (i) The narrator says the statement.

(ii) ‘Him’ refers to the baby sloth bear and ‘her’ refers to the narrator’s wife.

(iii) The incident is about how the narrator got the baby sloth bear to his house.

Question 2. “He stood on his head in delight.”
(i) Who does ‘he’ refer to?
(ii) Why was he delighted?

Answer: (i) ‘He’ refers to the bear, Bruno. 

(ii) Bruno was delighted to see the narrator’s wife after three months of separation. 

 Question 3. “We all missed him greatly: but in a sense we were relieved.”

(i) Who does ‘we all’ stand for?
(ii) Who did they miss?
(iii) Why did they nevertheless feel relieved?

Answer: (i) ‘We all’ stands for the narrator, his wife and his son.

(ii) They missed Bruno (Baba). 

(iii) They felt relieved because Baba was getting too big to be kept at home. That is why they had sent him off to a zoo. 

III. Answer the following questions in 30 to 40 words each. 

1. On two occasions Bruno ate/drank something that should not be eaten /drunk. What happened to him on these occasions?  

Answer: Bruno ate some poison-barium carbonate He also vomited and breathed heavily, but was later cured. In another incident, he drank nearly a gallon of old engine oil. Fortunately, he remained unaffected meant for the rats, which paralysed and weakened him. 

2. Was Bruno a loving and playful pet? Why, then, did he have to be sent away? 

Answer: Yes, Bruno was a loving and playful pet. Everybody in the family was attached to it, especially the narrator’s wife. It had to be sent away to a zoo because it was getting too big to be kept at home. 

3. How was the problem of what to do with Bruno finally solved? 

Answer: Bruno was not happy at the zoo. Seeing its condition and its happiness at seeing the narrator’s wife, Bruno was allowed to go back to Bangalore. There, an island was made for the bear, keeping all its needs in mind.