CBSE Class 11 English Birth Questions Answers Worksheet

Value Points

People’s sense of responsibility towards work.
A doctor’s sense of duty, dedication, and humanistic approach towards his patients.
The supreme joy of motherhood.
The real sense of fulfillment and peace and joy that a piece of good work done brings to human mind.
The real piece of work in human life lies in bringing joy in other people’s life.
The tremendous sense of expectation and anxiety that is caused in other family member’s heart when a baby is on the way.
The technical aspects of the resuscitation method as regards a new-born.

Short Question Answers:

Question. What was the dilemma that Andrew faced after the baby was born?
Answer: After the baby was born, Andrew was faced with the dilemma whether to attend to the baby which was still-born in order to try to resuscitate it or to turn his attention rather to the mother, Susan Morgan, who was in a desperate state of health because of loss of blood and labour pain.

Question. Why was Joe and Susan Morgan’s case special for Andrew?
Answer: Joe and Susan Morgan’s case was special for Andrew because Joe and Susan were expecting their first child although they had been married for twenty years.

Question. What was Susan Morgan’s suggestion to Andrew which she informed through her mother-inlaw?
Answer: Susan Morgan wished that she was not to be given the chloroform if it would harm the baby.

Question. What did Andrew guess could be cause of the baby being still born?
Answer: Andrew found out that the baby had turned white and it could mean only one thing:
asphyxia which is suffocation or unconscious condition caused by lack of oxygen and excess of carbon dioxide in the blood, accompanied by paleness of the skin, weak pulse, and loss of reflexes.

Question. What is your impression about Dr. Andrew as a doctor and a human being?
Answer: The story ‘Birth’ is a comment on what a doctor should really be as a doctor and a human being. Dr. Andrew is an exceptionally dutiful and kind and passionate human being. Not only he sets aside mental and bodily fatigue to visit Joe Morgan’s house dead at night, but also he almost rebels against nature’s laws to keep trying to bring breath back to the still born baby wherein he succeeds.

Long Question Answers:

Question. Describe the efforts that Andrew made in order to bring the still born baby back to life.
Answer: After pulling the still born baby out from beneath the bed, Andrew could guess why the baby had lost its breath. The cause was asphyxia which is a condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged on a ventilator basis caused by choking or drowning.
Therefore, he realized that there was point in trying to resuscitate the baby with the help of the traditional resuscitation methods applied in such cases. So he first laid the baby upon a blanket and began the special methods of respiration. Thus he poured hot and cold water in two basins and frantically went on pushing the baby into the water of both the basins alternately for almost half an hour. But no breath emerged from the baby and a sense of desperation and defeat set in his mind. Still he wanted to put in another last effort. So this time, he rubbed the baby with a rough towel and then he crushed and released the little chest with both his hands, trying to get breath into that lax body. And after this, the miracle happened and the tiny chest of the baby gave a heave and then another and then another and Andrew was victorious as the baby was finally revived.

Question. Why was Andrew so emotionally attached to his efforts to bring the lifeless baby back to life?
Answer:
-Joe Morgan and Susan Morgan were expecting the birth of their first birth
-They were married for twenty years.
-It was Dr. Andrew who had been handling the case.
-Andrew had assured the couple of no complication and safe delivery of the baby.
-All others in Morgan’s family were anxious
-Susan Morgan feels labour pain before due date
-Susan’s mother-in-law informs Andrew about Susan’s wish to go through labour pain without anesthesia in case the same would hurt the baby.
-Andrew goes on with anesthesia
-A still baby is born
-Andrew has to do something to revive the baby because he had held a promise.

Question. Why does Andrew comment that he had done something ‘real at last’ in Blaenelly?
Answer:
-Andrew Manson is a young doctor just out of medical school.
-The place where he works is a small mining town named Blaenelly.
-He had been handling the case of Joe and Susan Morgan who were expecting their first child after twenty years of marriage.
-Andrew had assured the couple of no complication and safe delivery of the baby.
-He visits Joe Morgan’s house dead at night as Susan Morgan has premature labour pain
-In an atmosphere of anxiety and expectation, he works for the safe delivery of the baby
-A lifeless baby is born and Susan is on the verge of death too -Andrew is crushed
-He first helps Susan’s condition improve
-Then he works massively for resuscitating the breathless baby
-After half an hour’s harsh struggle, the baby breaths
-At last Andrew can be true to the promise he had held.
-Saving the lives of two this way and guaranteeing joy to a whole family is thus ‘ something real’

QI.WHO SPOKE TO WHOM:

A. “I been back and forward here this last hour. The missus wants ye------- before time too.”

a. Joe to Andrew

b. Andrew to Joe

c. Christine to Joe

B. “Let me make a cup of tea Doctor, bach”

a. Mrs. Morgan’s mother to Doctor

b. The midwife to Doctor

c. Doctor to midwife

C. ‘It won’t do any harm, the anesthetic.”

a. Doctor to Susan

b. Doctor to Susan’s mother

c. Midwife to Doctor

D. “Get me hot water and cold water “

a. Doctor to Susan’s mother

b. Doctor to midwife

c. Doctor to Joe Morgan

E. “Dear father in heaven, it’s come—it’s come alive”

a. Mid wife to Doctor

b. Doctor to midwife

c. Midwife to Susan’s mother

Q.2 COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING WORDS BY SUPPLYING THE CORRECT LETTERS IN THE BLANKS: (Follow the hints given)

a. R__SUSCI__AT__(to bring back to life again)

b. D__L__MMA (a difficult position)

c. ID__LL__C(simple and pleasant)

d. PR__MONI__ION(forewarning)

e. CONST__,__NA__ION(alarm)

Q3. COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING TABLE WITH THE HELP OF THE FOLLOWING PHRASES (FOLLOW THE ORDER OF EVENTS) :

A night call, at the patient’s house, A long wait, Andrew’s dilemma, A miracle, Sigh of relief 

A night call

Andrew’s dilemma

A sigh of relief

Q.4 FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH THE WORDS GIVEN IN THE BOX:

Waiting, overflowing, disappointing, expecting, waiting, broodingly

a. Dr. Andrew Manson was returning home after a --------------------------- evening with his girlfriend Christine.

b. Joe and his wife are married for twenty years and they are ------------------ ----- their first baby.

c. Though it was nearly midnight Andrew found Joe --------------------- for him.

d. Mrs. Morgan’s mother was ------------------ Andrew’s expression, as he moved about the room.

e. Dr. Andrew stretched out his legs, stared --------------------------- into the fire.

Q5. Put the jumbled sentences in the correct order.

a. Andrew was offered a cup of tea by Susan’s mother

b. Andrew started his work around three O’ clock

c. Andrew was coming home after meeting Susan

d. Andrew frantically hurried the child between two basins of cold and hot water

e. Jo Morgan was waiting for Dr. Andrew at his clinic cum home

f. The midwife placed the child under the bed

g. Dr. Andrew attended the mother/Diapason/

h. The newborn child was lifeless

i. The child resumed his lost breath

j. Andrew said, Oh God! I have done something real at last

VI. Match the following words with their correct meanings: Word Meaning

Lethargy flabby

Resuscitate difficult position

Muddled drowsiness

Dilemma confused

Flaccid to bring to life again

Across:

1 FOREWARNING

3 ALARM

5 INATTENTIVE

6 FORGETFUL

8 DIFFICULT POSITION

10 DROWSINESS

11 HARD FAT OF ANIMALS

12 CONFUSED

Down:

2 TO BRING BACK TO LIFE AGAIN

4 SIMPLE AND PLEASANT

7 STURDY

9 WILD LOOKING