Class 9 English Chapter 9 NCERT Solutions | The Bond Of Love Class 9 English Beehive

The Bond of Love Question And Answer

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 got him for her by accident.”

(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: 

“He stood on his head in delight.”

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

(ii) Bruno was sent to the zoo. He was delighted to see the narrator’s wife after a long time.

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: 

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

(i) ‘We all’ stands for the narrator and his family members- wife and son.

(ii) They missed the bear.

(iii) They felt relieved because it was becoming difficult to keep the bear at home due to his growing size.

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

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

Answer:  The first time when Bruno ate something that should not be eaten was the poison that the narrator had put to kill the rats and mice in his library. Bruno entered the library and ate some of the poison. He was paralyzed to such an extent that he could not stand on his feet. He was taken to the vet’s residence.

The second time he found nearly one gallon of old engine oil which the narrator had drained from the sump of the Studebaker and was keeping as a weapon against the inroads of termites. He promptly drank the lot but there was no ill-effect on him.

Question 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. The bear became very attached to narrator’s two Alsatian dogs and to all the children of the tenants living in the bungalow. He was left quite free in his younger days and spent his time in playing and running into the kitchen.

He had to be sent away because he had grown many times the size he was when he came. It was becoming difficult to keep him in the house.

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

Answer:  Bruno was sent to a zoo because he could not be kept in the house anymore due to his growth. But in the zoo, he was fretting and was not eating food. He was becoming weak. Then the narrator drove his wife to the zoo and she fed Bruno with a lot of food and drink. She understood that Bruno would not be alright in the zoo and requested the zoo authority to give him back to her.

The narrator and his wife got Bruno back and created a special island for him.

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