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NCERT Solutions for Class 2 English chapter 18 – The Magic Porridge Pot


Question Answers

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Question 1:

Where did Tara go one day?

Answer:

One day Tara went to a forest.

Question 2:

What did the old woman give Tara?

Answer:

The old woman gave a magic porridge pot to Tara.

Question 3:

What did the magic pot cook?

Answer:

The magic pot cooked porridge for Tara and her mother.

Question 4:

Who said, “Do not cook Pot”?

Answer:

Tara’s mother said “Do not cook Pot”, but the pot went on cooking.

Question 5:

Why was there so much porridge on the road?

Answer:

There was so much porridge on the road because Tara’s mother wasn’t aware how to stop the magic pot from cooking the extra porridge.


summary

This story is about a poor girl, Tara and her mother. One day one old woman gave Tara a magic pot in a forest. The old woman told her that “the pot will cook porridge when you say ‘Cook-Pot-Cook’and stop making them when you say ‘Stop-Pot-Stop’.” Tara take that pot to her home. One day Tara was not at home. Her mother was hungry. She said ‘Cook-Pot-Cook’and porridge started coming out of the pot. But the mother did not know how to stop the pot. She became scared as her home was filled with porridge all around. Soon there was porridge everywhere. The whole village was filled with porridge. Suddenly, Tara came back she saw porridge everywhere on the roads. She ran quickly towards her home and said ‘Stop-Pot-Stop’. The pot stopped cooking porridge quickly.