CBSE Class 7 English — Flashcards for Quick Revision

A: Jahnavi is a bright young girl who lives with her parents and three brothers in a coastal village in India. She dreams of going to school and learning to read and write.

A: Jahnavi wants to go to school, learn to read and write, and discover answers to her questions about the world.

A: The River is important because it speaks to Jahnavi, listens to her worries, gives her advice, and helps her gain courage to go to school.

A: Doctor John Dolittle is a people's doctor who later becomes an animal doctor. He first treats human patients, then learns animal language from Polynesia and gives up being a people's doctor altogether

A: He believes Dolittle knows more about animals than the local veterinarians. He also praises Dolittle's book about cats and says Dolittle understands the way animals think.

A: Theodosia is the wife of the Cat's-food-Man. She is a scholar and reads Dolittle's book about cats to her husband because he cannot read or write.

A: The narrator is Anita. She is fourteen years old and is Anand’s elder sister.

A: Anand is Anita’s younger brother, one year younger than her. He thinks of himself as a scientist and loves tinkering with electrical gadgets, tools, dynamos, and planks of wood.

A: A rush of thefts in the colony made Anand think that a burglar alarm was needed to catch thieves.