Littera Public School
English class – 3
Chapter – 5
A Real Santa Claus
B. Answer these questions :-
1. What does Santa Claus do?
Answer: Santa Claus brings gifts for children.
2. What does the boy hang by the chimney?
Answer: The boy hangs two stockings by the chimney.
3. Describe the other boy’s house.
Answer: The other boy’s house is empty and bare. It has no stocking and has only a broken bed.
4. What does the poor boy dream around Christmas time?
Answer: The poor boy dreams of a merry Christmas where his stockings will be full of pretty toys.
5. Who wants to be Santa Claus to the poor boy and why?
Answer :- The poet wants to be Santa Claus to the poor boy he will enable him to celebrate Christmas
by giving him pretty gifts.
C. Read and answer the questions:
There’s a chimney in the town,
You have never travelled down.
(a) Who has been referred to as ‘you’ in these lines?
Answer: Santa Claus has been referred to as ‘you’ in these lines.
(b) What kind of a house does that chimney belong to?
Answer: The chimney belongs to an empty and bare house.
(c) How does the speaker know that the listener has never climbed down that chimney?
Answer: The speaker knows this because the boy that lives in the house has never received a gift from
Santa Claus.
Dreaming of the pretty toys,
Which you bring to other boys.
(a) Who is dreaming of pretty toys?
Answer: The little boy on the broken bed is dreaming of pretty toys.
(b) What is the occasion for bringing these toys?
Answer: Christmas is the occasion for bringing these toys.
(c) Why do ‘other boys’ get the toys? What is stopping this boy from getting them?
Answer: The other boys get the toys because they have a rich family. Lack of money/poverty is
stopping this boy from getting them.