Should Wizard hit Mommy? Important Questions Class 12 English

Should Wizard hit Mommy Important Questions CBSE Class 12 English

Should Wizard hit Mommy Important Questions Short Answer Type Questions (3-4 Marks)

Question 1.
How did the wizard help Roger Skunk? (All India 2009)
Answer:
The wizard asked Roger Skunk what he wanted to smell like. Roger said he wanted to smell like roses. The wizard took his magic wand and chanted a spell and his whole house was full of the smell of roses. Roger also smelt of roses and in this way the wizard helped him by making him get rid of his bad smell.

Question 2.
How did Jo want the story of Roger Skunk to end? (All India 2009)
Answer:
In the original story Roger’s mommy hits the wizard on the head with an umbrella. So the wizard makes Roger smell bad again. Jo wants the story to end the other way round. She wants the wizard to hit on the head of ‘stupid’ mommy. She holds Roger’s ‘stupid’ mother responsible for making Roger smell bad again and so she wants her to be punished.

Question 3.
Why did Jo think Roger Skunk was better off with the new smell? (Delhi 2010)
Answer:
Jo thought Roger Skunk was much better off with the new smell because of which he had been able to find so many friends and played with them happily. For her Roger Skunk’s story should have ended on a happy note with his pleasant smell because of which he was accepted by the other creatures as their friend.

Question 4.
Why was Roger Skunk’s mummy angry with him? What did she finally tell him? (Delhi 2010)
Answer:
Roger Skunk’s mummy was angry with him because she did not like her son smelling of roses. Roger was a skunk and so he must smell like one. She did not care for the fact that all the other animals kept away from him because he smelled badly. She decided to take him back to that ‘awful’ wizard so that he could get back his old smell.

Question 5.
How did Jo want the wizard to behave when mommy Skunk approached him? (Delhi 2010)
Answer:
Jo does not approve of the idea that Skunk’s mother should hit the wizard on his head. She wants infact the wizard to spank stupid mommy when she approaches him as she does not let her son have a new and pleasant smell so that he could befriend the other creatures.

Question 6.
Why did Roger Skunk visit the owl? What did the owl advise him? (Comptt. Delhi 2010)
Answer:
Roger Skunk visited the owl who was a wise creature to tell him about his pathetic problem and seek his advise on how he could solve it. The wise owl ruminates and advises the Skunk to consult the wizard who was sure to help him overcome his problem.

Question 7.
How did Roger Skunk pay the wizard? (Comptt. All India 2010)
Answer:
The wizard demands seven pennies as fee to make Roger Skunk smell like roses. Skunk has only four pennies. The wizard tells him how and where to find the rest of the three pennies. Roger follows the wizards instructions and finds the three pennies in the magic well and pays the wizard the full amount.

Question 8.
What part of the story did Jack himself enjoy the most and why? (Delhi 2011)
Answer:
Jack enjoyed narrating the part of the story where Roger goes to the Wizard’s house. He imitated the Wizard’s voice by scrunching up his face and somehow whining through his eyes. He felt being an old man suited him. He enjoyed the part where he mixed his own childhood humiliations and experiences with the narration of the story.

Question 9.
How does Jo want the story to end and why? (Comptt. Delhi 2011)
Answer:
Jo is a child and her perspective is rather different from that of her father. She lives in an idealised world where beauty and love are the supreme rulers. So, she wants her father to change the end of the story. She wants that the wizard must take his magic wand and hit Roger’s mummy. Roger’s mother is evil for Jo as she made the wizard make Roger smell bad again. So, she feels the “stupid mommy” must be punished.

Question 10.
How did the Wizard help Roger Skunk? (Delhi 2012)
Answer:
The wizard asked Roger Skunk what he wanted to smell like. Roger said he wanted to smell like roses. The wizard took his magic wand and chanted a spell and his whole house was full of the smell of roses. Now, Roger smelt of roses and in this way the wizard helped him by making him get rid of his bad smell.

Question 11.
How does Jo want the story to end? (All India 2012)
Answer:
A child’s perspective is different from an adult’s perspective. For Jo, Roger Skunk’s mother is wicked and stupid and she feels rather annoyed with her for making Roger smell bad again. She wanted a happy ending to the story and so she insists that her father should tell her the story where the wizard should hit mommy in the end.

Question 12.
Why did Roger Skunk go in search of the wizard? (Comptt. Delhi 2012)
Answer:
Everybody made fun of Roger Skunk because he gave out a bad smell. He was upset about this so he met the old owl who advised him to go to the wizard, who would help him and give him a good smell.

Question 13.
What did Jo want the wizard to do when Mommy Skunk approached him? (Delhi 2013)
Answer:
Jo wanted that when Mommy Skunk approached the wizard he should take the magic wand and hit mommy over her head, instead of the mommy taking the umbrella and hitting the wizard over his head.

Question 14.
Why does Jo insist that her father should tell her the story with a different ending? (All India 2013)
Answer:
A child’s perspective is different from an adult’s perspective. For Jo, Roger Skunk’s mother is wicked and stupid and she feels rather annoyed with her for making Roger smell bad again. She wanted a happy ending to the story and so she insists that her father should tell her the story where the wizard i should hit mommy in the end.

Question 15.
The same situation can be viewed through two different perspectives. How does “Should Wizard Hit Mommy?” Establish this point through the views of Jack and Jo? (Comptt. Delhi 2013)
Answer:
Adults are mature, experienced and have a practical approach. Their responses are tutored and their actions reflect their thoughts. But children are spontaneous with natural, untutored responses. Jo, a four-year old child, prefers to live in her world of dreams and fantasies. She would like to wreak vengeance on Skunk’s mother and is annoyed because her father refuses to accept her suggestion. The father has a mature perspective and so he views things beyond the ‘face-value’ and delves into the philosophical and moralistic aspect of the entire situation. The wizard, according to him, had interfered with nature and so deserved to be punished. Jo completely disagrees with her father. For her the baby Skunk was right and it made perfect sense if the wizard hit the ‘stupid’ mommy.

Question 16.
Why did Roger Skunk want to change? (Comptt. All India 2013)
Answer:
Roger Skunk smelled so bad that none of the other creatures in woodland would play with him. Whenever he went out to play all the other tiny animals would cry and run away and Roger would stand there all alone and cry. So he wanted to change.

Question 17.
How was the Skunk’s story different from the other stories narrated by Jack? (Delhi 2014)
Answer:
Jo had never opposed the ending of any other story narrated by Jack. She had never challenged her father’s authority and never interrupted his narration earlier. Through this story, Jack wanted to prove that parents always know what is right, but Jo entirely disapproved of the ending of the Skunk’s story.

Question 18.
Why did Roger Skunk go to see the old owl? (All India 2014)
Answer:
Roger Skunk was ignored by his friends because he smelled awful. None of the other little woodland creatures would play with him. So he went to the wise old owl to seek a solution for his problem so that he would be accepted by his friends.

Question 19.
How does Jo want the story to end? (Comptt. Delhi 2014)
Answer:
A child’s perspective is different from an adult’s perspective. For Jo, Roger Skunk’s mother is wicked and stupid and she feels rather annoyed with her for making Roger smell bad again. She wanted a happy ending to the story and so she insists that her father should tell her the story where the wizard should hit mommy in the end.

Question 20.
Why does Jack insist that it was the wizard that was hit and not the mother? (Comptt. Delhi 2014)
Answer:
Jack insisted that it was the wizard that was hit and not the mother because he wanted to prove a point to Jo that the little Skunk loved his mother more than he loved all the other little animals and his mother knew what was right for him.

Question 21.
Why did Roger Skunk go to visit the owl? (Comptt. All India 2014)
Answer:
Roger Skunk visited the owl who was a wise creature to tell him about his pathetic problem and seek his advice on how he could solve it. The wise owl ruminates and advises Skunk to consult with the wizard who was sure to help him overcome his problem.

Question 22.
Why was Roger Skunk’s mother angry? On whom did she pour her anger? (Comptt. All India 2014)
Answer:
Roger Skunk’s mother was angry because the wizard had made her son smell like roses which was not the way a little Skunk should smell. She poured her anger on the wizard and hit him with an umbrella on his head.

Question 23.
Which do you think is a better ending of Roger Skunk’s story, Jo’s or her father’s? Why? (Delhi 2015)
Answer:
Jo’s father did not want the Wizard to hit the mother and wanted the skunk to have its original smell. Her father’s ending of the story is better as it is more practical and realistic. Jo is a child and her perspective about the ending of the story is childish and immature. But her father views things on a philosophical level and thus makes his judgement from an adult’s perspective.

Question 24.
Why did Roger Skunk go to the owl? What advice did he get? (Delhi 2015)
Answer:
Roger Skunk was ignored by his friends because he smelled awful. None of the other little woodland creatures would play with him. So he went to the wise old owl to seek a solution for his problem so that he would be accepted by his friends. The owl advised him to go and see the wizard.

Question 25.
Why does Jo call the skunk’s mommy stupid? (Comptt. Delhi 2015)
Answer:
Jo calls the skunk’s mommy stupid because the mommy hit the wizard and forced him to make skunk smell bad again. Jo knew now again Roger skunk would have no friends. Moreover the wizard was the hero according to Jo and Roger’s ‘stupid’ mommy could not understand why Roger wanted to change his smell.

Question 26.
How did Jo want the skunk story to end and why? (Comptt. Delhi, Comptt. All India 2015)
Answer:
In the original story Roger’s mommy hits the wizard on the head with an umbrella. So the wizard makes Roger smell bad again. Jo wants the story to end the other way round. She wants the wizard to hit on the head of ‘stupid’ mommy. She holds Roger’s ‘stupid’ mother responsible for making Roger smell bad again and so she wants her to be punished.

For Jo, Roger’s mother is wicked and she is very annoyed with her for making Roger smell bad again. Jo is a child who lives in an idealised world which is reigned by beauty and love. So she wants her father to change the story’s ending wherein the wizard should hit mommy with her magic wand and punish her for being stupid.

Question 27.
How does Jo react to the skunk’s story? Why? (Comptt. All India 2015)
Answer:
Jo reacts rather strongly to skunk’s story. She totally disagrees with the story’s ending and wants the wizard to hit skunk’s mommy who Jo thinks is stupid.

Question 28.
Why did Jo want the wizard to hit ‘mommy’? (Comptt. Delhi 2016)
Answer:
Jo wanted the wizard to hit ‘mommy’ because she had hit the wizard and made him change Roger Skunk’s smell back to a foul one. Jo wanted Roger Skunk to smell like roses so that he got the liberty to choose his own way and befriend other creatures.

Question 29.
How did Jack try to convince his daughter that his ending of the story was the best? (Comptt. All India 2016)
Answer:
To convince Jo that his ending of the story was the best, Jack told her that a mother’s decision should be honoured. Roger Skunk became happy later as he loved his mother more than he loved the other animals. The mother wanted his son to be what he actually is and later the other animals too got adjusted to his smell and befriended him.

Question 30.
What was the basic plot of each story told by Jack? (Delhi 2017)
Answer:
The basic plot of each story told by Jack was about a small creature, usually named Roger who had some problem and went with it to the wise old owl. The owl would tell him to go to the wizard and the wizard performed a magic spell that solved the problem and then demanded payment in pennies.

Question 31.
Having got rid of his stink, what problem did Roger Skunk face? (Delhi 2017)
Answer:
After having got rid of his stink, Roger Skunk did not have the required seven pennies to pay the wizard who had helped to solve his problem. He had only four pennies and so when the wizard demanded seven pennies Roger Skunk began to cry.

Question 32.
What problem did Roger Skunk face when he went to play with his friends. How did he solve it? (Delhi 2017)
Answer:
Roger Skunk smelled so bad that none of the other creatures of woodland would play with him. Whenever he would go out to play all the other tiny animals would cry and run away. He solved his problem by going to the owl, who sent him to the wizard who with his magic spell made Roger Skunk smell of roses.

Question 33.
What is mother Skunk’s role in the story? (All India 2017)
Answer:
Mother Skunk’s role in the story is to make her son understand that it was important for him to retain his identity. She was absolutely against the idea that Roger Skunk should have changed his smell to please and befriend other creatures. She wanted the other creatures to accept her son as he was.

Question 34.
How did Jo want the story to end? Why? (Comp. Delhi 2017)
Answer:
A child’s perspective is different from an adult’s perspective. For Jo, Roger Skunk’s mother is wicked and stupid and she feels rather annoyed with her for making Roger smell bad again. She wanted a happy ending to the story and so she insists that her father should tell her the story where the wizard should hit mommy in the end.

Question 35.
How are Jack’s views on life different from those of Jo? (Comput. Delhi 2017)
Answer:
Jo is a child and her views on life are rather different from those of her father. She lives in a make-believe world where beauty and friendship are the supreme rulers, unlike Jack, who is an adult, and has a mature perspective and can see beyond the superficial aspect of a situation.

Question 36.
Why does Jo want Wizard to hit Mommy? (Comptt. All India 2017)
Answer:
Jo wanted the Wizard to hit the umbrella on the head of ‘stupid’ mommy because she felt Roger’s mother had not done the right thing by forcing the Wizard to make him smell bad again and so she should be punished.

Question 37.
What was Roger Skunk’s problem? What did he do to solve it? (Comp. All India 2017)
Answer:
Everybody made fun of Roger Skunk because he gave out a bad smell. He was upset about this so he met the old owl who advised him to go to the wizard, who would help him and give him a good smell.

Should Wizard hit Mommy Important Questions Long Answer Type Questions (5-6 Marks)

Question 38.
Why did Jo disapprove of Jack’s ending of the story of Roger Skunk? How did she want it to end? (Delhi )
Answer:
Jo was Jack’s four-year-old daughter who loved to listen to the stories which Jack himself created. Each story that Jack narrated to her was a slight variation of a basic tale. She would enjoy such stories and reveal her keen interest by asking many questions related to them. One day’s story was about Roger Skunk, a new animal who smelt so bad that the other little creatures never played with him due to this. When Roger Skunk told his tale to the wise owl, he advised him to go to the wizard. The wizard made Roger smell like roses but when Roger returned home his mother was so annoyed that she went to the wizard and hit him on the head. The wizard made Roger Skunk smell bad again. Jo did not like the end of the story. She wanted her father to change the story’s end. She wanted the wizard to hit on the head of the stupid mommy and punish her for making Roger Skunk smell bad again.

Question 39.
What impression do you form of Jack as a father? (Delhi 2009)
Answer:
Jack was four years old Jo’s father. He was a caring and affectionate father who made sincere efforts to satisfy his daughter’s creative intellect. He used to narrate a story to her each day. He had been doing this as a ritual for the past two years. He himself had a very creative mind and nearly all the stories he told were a product of his own mind, each new story being a slight variation of a basic tale. Jack had mastered the art of story-telling and could create new stories to suit the mood and occasion. He could create the desired effect to keep his daughter, Jo’s interest intact as he understood her every pulse. Jack is always full of creative enthusiasm, so many times he even imitates the voices of the characters in his stories.

Question 40.
A child’s standpoint invariably is different from that of an adult. Justify the statement with reference to the story, Should Wizard Hit Mommy. (Comp. All India 2012)
Answer:
Adults are mature, experienced, and have a practical approach. Their responses are tutored and their actions reflect their thoughts. But children are spontaneous with natural, untutored responses. Jo, a four-year-old child, prefers to live in her world of dreams and fantasies. She would like to wreak vengeance on Skunk’s mother and is annoyed because her father refuses to accept her suggestion. The father has a mature perspective and so he views things beyond the ‘face-value’ and delves into the philosophical and moralistic aspect of the entire situation. The wizard, according to him, had interfered with nature and so deserved to be punished. Jo completely disagrees with her father. For her the baby Skunk was right and it made perfect sense if the wizard hit the ‘stupid’ mommy.

Question 41.
How did Jo want the Roger Skunk story to end? Why? (Delhi 2016)
Answer:
Jo was Jack’s four-year-old daughter who loved to listen to the stories which Jack himself created. Each story that Jack narrated to her was a slight variation of a basic tale. One day’s story was about Roger Skunk, a new animal who smelt so bad that the other little creatures never played with him due to this. When Roger Skunk told his tale to the wise owl, he advised him to go to the wizard. The wizard made Roger smell like roses but when Roger returned home his mother was so annoyed that she went to the wizard and hit him on the head. The wizard made Roger Skunk smell bad again. Jo did not like the end of the story.

For Jo, Roger’s mother is wicked and she is very annoyed with her for making Roger smell bad again. Jo is a child who lives in an idealized world that is reigned by beauty and love. So she wants her father to change the story’s ending wherein the wizard should hit mommy with her magic wand and punish her for being stupid.

Question 42.
How did Jack end the Roger Skunk story? How and why did Jo want to change it? (All India 2016)
Answer:
In the original story, Roger’s mommy hits the wizard on the head with an umbrella. So the wizard makes Roger smell bad again. Jo wants the story to end the other way round. She wants the wizard to hit on the head of ‘stupid’ mommy. She holds Roger’s ‘stupid’ mother responsible for making Roger smell bad again and so she wants her to be punished.

Jo is a child and so her perspective is different from that of an adult. She does not understand the practicabilities and complexities of the adult world. She was happy to learn that Roger Skunk had got a new pleasant smell and had found so many friends and feels that the story should have happily ended at that point.

Question 43.
Different generations can have different views. Such differences should be respected. What is the difference between Jo’s and Jack’s views on Roger Skunk’s story? (Comp. Delhi 2016)
Answer:
The difference in view and opinion is due to age, environment, and situations and one cannot be blamed for having a particular opinion. Jo wanted Roger Skunk to retain his sweet smell of roses in place of his original foul smell. Jo is a small child for whom everything in life is beautiful and happy. Also for a child, his friends are an integral part of his life and Roger Skunk not having any friends could not be tolerated by Jo. Jack, the father, on the other hand, was an experienced and mature adult who wished to teach life’s harsh realities to his daughter. So he insisted that Roger Skunk gets his foul smell back. Both were right in their own point of view and both were reacting according to their age.