1. Who is the author of the chapter "Me and the Ecology Bit"?
Answer: (B) Joan Lexau
Explanation: The introductory page clearly states that "Me and the Ecology Bit" is by Joan Lexau.
2. What central issue does Joan Lexau bring out in "Me and the Ecology Bit"?
Answer: (B) Preserving environment and saving ecology
Explanation: The text states the lesson "brings out how the issue of preserving environment and saving ecology is every body's concern and difficult to solve."
3. According to the author, preaching about ecology is easy, but it is difficult to ______ .
Answer: (B) abide by the rules of ecology preservation
Explanation: "Preaching about ecology is easy but it is difficult to abide by the rules of ecology preservation."
4. What slogans are seen in the placards held in the illustration on page 15?
Answer: (B) Save Earth, Save Tree, Save Water
Explanation: The picture displays three banners/placards: "SAVE EARTH", "SAVE TREE", and "SAVE WATER".
5. What paradox does Jim note regarding people and ecology?
Answer: (B) Everybody is in favour of it but nobody wants to do anything about it
Explanation: The narrator notes: "Everybody is in favour of it but nobody wants to do anything about it."
6. What does Jim say he gets when he goes around telling people what to do about ecology?
Answer: (B) A lot of back talk
Explanation: "At least I’m doing something, going around telling people what they should do. But all I get is a lot of back talk."
7. What job or chore does the narrator (Jim) have?
Answer: (B) A paper route (newspaper delivery)
Explanation: "I have this paper route. My father had one when he was a kid, so he made me get one last year."
8. Who made Jim get a paper route?
Answer: (B) His father
Explanation: "My father had one when he was a kid, so he made me get one last year."
9. Between his paper route and homework, what does Jim hardly have time for?
Answer: (B) Playing ball and stuff
Explanation: "Between it and my homework, I hardly have time for playing ball and stuff, some days I get in only a few innings."
10. On which day of the week does Jim collect money from his newspaper route?
Answer: (B) Saturdays
Explanation: "But anyhow, on Saturdays when I collect, I put in a good work for ecology."
11. Which season had just started on the Saturday morning described by Jim?
Answer: (B) Spring
Explanation: "Like last Saturday morning. It was a good collecting day. It had just turned spring and a lot of people were outside."
12. Whose house did Jim go to first on that Saturday morning?
Answer: (B) Mr. Williams's house
Explanation: "I went to Mr. Williams's house."
13. What does Mr. Williams usually try to do when Jim comes to collect money?
Answer: (B) Pretend he's not home
Explanation: "As usual, he tried to pretend he’s not home."
14. What was Mr. Williams doing in his backyard when Jim caught him?
Answer: (B) Burning leaves
Explanation: "But I see him burning leaves in the backyard, so he’s stuck."
15. What did Jim tell Mr. Williams about burning leaves?
Answer: (B) "You shouldn’t burn those leaves. It’s bad for air, bad ecology."
Explanation: Jim tells him: "‘You shouldn’t burn those leaves. It’s bad for air, bad ecology.’"
16. What alternative does Jim suggest to Mr. Williams instead of burning leaves?
Answer: (B) Making a compost pile
Explanation: "‘You should make a compost pile like we do. Put in the leaves, garbage, and stuff. Good for the garden.’"
17. What did Mr. Williams say about the compost pile at Jim's house?
Answer: (B) "That compost pile is your job at home, Jim, isn't it?"
Explanation: He says, 'That compost pile is your job at home, Jim, isn't it?'"
18. What is Jim's private thought about working with compost?
Answer: (B) He hates working with compost
Explanation: Jim admits: "‘Yes,’ I say proudly, which would shock the idea I hate working with compost. Which I do."
19. What suggestion does Mr. Williams give Jim regarding his compost pile?
Answer: (B) Put enough dirt on top of each layer so they wouldn't have "nose pollution"
Explanation: "‘Well don’t you take a little more trouble with it, put enough dirt on top of each layer? Then we wouldn’t have this nose pollution.’"
20. What did Jim initially think Mr. Williams meant by "nose pollution"?
Answer: (B) Noise pollution
Explanation: "‘Huh?’ I say ‘You mean noise pollution.’"
21. What did Mr. Williams mean by "nose pollution"?
Answer: (B) The compost smells up the whole street
Explanation: "‘No,’ he says. ‘I mean your compost smells up the whole street.’"
22. True or False: People easily get convinced by Jim.
Answer: (B) False
Explanation: False. Jim receives counter-arguments and back talk from everyone (Exercise B.1.1, item 1).
23. True or False: Jim uses his paper route to convince people about ecology.
Answer: (A) True
Explanation: True. He uses his Saturday collection rounds on his paper route to preach ecology (Exercise B.1.1, item 2).
24. True or False: Jim gives suggestions on ecology free of cost.
Answer: (A) True
Explanation: True. His advice on compost, walking, and recycling is given freely while collecting newspaper dues (Exercise B.1.1, item 3).
25. True or False: Mr. Williams was not at his house when Jim visited.
Answer: (B) False
Explanation: False. Mr. Williams was in his backyard burning leaves (Exercise B.1.1, item 4).
26. True or False: People listened to Jim gladly; for he was an eco-friendly boy.
Answer: (B) False
Explanation: False. Nobody listened to him gladly; they pointed out his own ecological faults (Exercise B.1.1, item 5).
27. Whom did Jim go to collect from after leaving Mr. Williams?
Answer: (B) Ms. Greene
Explanation: "I go to collect from Ms. Greene."
28. Why does Jim have to call her "Ms. Greene"?
Answer: (B) Because if he calls her 'Mrs', she says she doesn't have change to pay him
Explanation: "I have to call her Ms. Greene because if I call her 'Mrs', she says she doesn't have change to pay me."
29. When does Ms. Greene put out her garbage bags for the weekly pickup?
Answer: (B) On weekends (Saturdays and Sundays) for Monday pickup
Explanation: "She is putting her garbage out for the weekly pickup on Monday. She goes away on weekends; so on Saturdays and Sundays, we have to look at the big plastic garbage bags on her lawn."
30. What reprimand did Ms. Greene give Jim when he arrived at her lawn?
Answer: (B) "Go pick up that gum wrapper you threw on my lawn."
Explanation: She says: "‘Go pick up that gum wrapper you threw on my lawn. Put it in one of the plastic bags. Didn’t anybody teach you not to litter?’"
31. What municipal law does Ms. Greene remind Jim about?
Answer: (B) A law about keeping dogs on a leash
Explanation: "‘And there’s a law in this town about keeping dogs on a leash.’"
32. What trouble did Jim’s dog cause in Ms. Greene's yard?
Answer: (B) Dug up her garden, messed up her yard, and tore open her garbage bags
Explanation: "‘That dog digs up my garden and messes up my yard, and last weekend Mr. Williams saw it tear open one of my garbage bags.’"
33. What was Ms. Greene doing next to her garbage bags that Jim noticed?
Answer: (B) Piling newspapers
Explanation: "...I see she is piling newspapers next to her garbage bags."
34. What advice did Jim give Ms. Greene about the piled newspapers and aluminum cans?
Answer: (B) Save those papers for the school pickup, and they can be made into new paper, and save aluminium cans too
Explanation: "‘Listen, Ms. Greene,’ I say, ‘save those papers for the school pickup, and they can be made into new paper. Save aluminium cans, too.’"
35. How did Ms. Greene respond to Jim’s suggestion about saving papers for school pickup?
Answer: (B) She reminded him that last time he promised to pick them up, he never showed up
Explanation: "‘Like the last school pickup?’ she asks 'When you said you’d come and pick them up, but you never showed up?'"
36. Whom did Jim visit after leaving Ms. Greene’s house?
Answer: (B) Mr. Johnson’s house
Explanation: "I go to Mr. Johnson’s house."
37. What did Mr. Johnson do when he saw Jim coming?
Answer: (B) Made a run for his car
Explanation: "He makes a run for his car, but I can run faster than he can."
38. Why was Mr. Johnson hurrying to his car?
Answer: (B) Trying to get to the post office before it closes
Explanation: "‘Just trying to get to the post office before it closes,’ he says, huffing and puffing."
39. Why did Jim tell Mr. Johnson not to drive his car to the post office?
Answer: (B) It was only two blocks away, walking would be good exercise, save gas, and not pollute
Explanation: "‘It’s only two blocks. You shouldn’t take your car when you don’t need to. The walk would be good exercise and save on gas. And not pollute. That’s ecology.’"
40. What did Mr. Johnson point out where there was supposed to be a tree?
Answer: (B) A path with no tree and no grass because Jim took shortcuts and killed the sapling
Explanation: "‘There was a little tree just starting to get bigger there until you killed it by trying to jump over it everyday. Remember?’"
41. How did Jim kill the little tree according to Mr. Johnson?
Answer: (B) By trying to jump over it everyday taking shortcuts from Ms. Greene's
Explanation: "...until you killed it by trying to jump over it everyday."
42. How did Mr. Johnson turn the tables on Jim regarding vehicle use and pollution?
Answer: (B) Reminded him that he drives his motorbike in his backyard all summer and snowmobile all winter
Explanation: "‘You drive your motorbike round and round your backyard all summer. And your snowmobile all winter. Isn’t that wasting power and making noise pollution too?’"
43. What was Jim’s simple excuse for riding his motorbike and snowmobile?
Answer: (B) "But it's fun"
Explanation: Jim weakly replies: "‘But it’s fun,’ I say."
44. Did Mr. Johnson pay Jim before going back inside?
Answer: (B) No, he went into the house looking mad and hadn't paid
Explanation: "Then I remember he hasn’t paid me. But I decide to wait until next Saturday."
45. What small ecological victory did Jim claim after his encounter with Mr. Johnson?
Answer: (B) At least he made Mr. Johnson not pollute with his car for once
Explanation: "At least I made him not pollute with his car for once."
46. What appliance was Jim’s mother using when he got home?
Answer: (B) Electric mixer
Explanation: "But when I get home, I see my mother using the electric mixer."
47. What did Jim tell his mother to use instead of the electric mixer to save electricity?
Answer: (B) Her old egg beater
Explanation: "‘You should do that with your old egg beater,’ I point out to her. ‘Save on electricity. Women use too many electric things.’"
48. What generalized comment did Jim make to his mother about electricity?
Answer: (B) "Women use too many electric things."
Explanation: "‘Save on electricity. Women use too many electric things.’"
49. How did Jim’s mother retort to his lecture on saving electricity?
Answer: (B) "So who watches TV twenty-seven hours a day around here? Or is that some other kind of electricity?"
Explanation: "She says in a very cold voice, ‘So who watches TV twenty-seven hours a day around here? Or is that some other kind of electricity?’"
50. How does the chapter conclude regarding Jim's efforts?
Answer: (B) "Nobody’s willing to do anything about ecology, except me. And nobody listens to me."
Explanation: The final lines read: "See what I mean? Nobody’s willing to do anything about ecology, except me. And nobody listens to me."
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