CBSE Class 10 - English - Footprints without Feet – Chapter 6 - The Making of a Scientist (Questions and Answers) (#class10English)(#eduvictors)

Chapter 6 - The Making of a Scientist 

(Questions and Answers)

Class 10 - English - Footprints without Feet

Q1: How did Ebright’s mother help him?

Answer: Ebright’s mother was a great help to him. She always encouraged his interest in learning and exploring more. She took him out on trips. In fact, she also bought him a telescope, a microscope, cameras, mounting materials and other equipment that helped him in many ways.

Q2: How did a book become a turning point in Richard Ebright’s life?

Answer: Richard Ebright had a great interest in collecting butterflies. By the time he was in the second grade, he had collected all the twenty-five species of butterflies around his home town. He might stop collecting butterflies, at that age his mom gave him a book known as “The Travels of Monarch X’. This book told him about the migration of monarch butterflies to Central America. This book aroused his interest in Monarch butterflies and opened the world of science to him. This proved to be turning point young Richard Ebright life. He started to raise Monarch butterflies in the basement of his home, and study them in different life phases of their development.

Q3: What lesson does Ebright learn when he does not win anything at a science fair?

Answer: Edbright realizes that a mere display of something does not mean science. To win at a science

fair he will have to do real experiments.

Q4: What experiments and projects did Ebright undertake? 

Answer: Richard Ebright decided to conduct real experiments after he did not win anything in the science exhibition. He tried to find the cause of a viral disease that kills nearly all Monarch caterpillars every few years. After that, he also pursued his research into the discovery of an unknown insect Monarch.

Q5: Why did Richard Ebright raise a flock of butterflies?

Answer: Richard Ebright as a child had developed a keen interest in collecting things like rocks, fossils, coins and butterflies. By the time he reached his second grade, he had collected all the twenty-five species of butterflies found around his hometown. When his mother bought him the book, ‘The Travel of Monarch X’, it revamped his curiosity in the insects. He also started tagging the Monarchs at the behest of the author Dr Tredrick A. Urgu Hart. Later he researched the significance of the hormone in the yellow spots of its pupa which won him great recognition in the world of science.

Q6: What are the qualities that go into the making of a scientist?

Answer: The author mentions three qualities that go into the making of a scientist—a first-rate mind, curiosity, and the will to win for the right reasons. Richard Ebright was a very intelligent

student. He was also an excellent debater, a public speaker, a good canoeist and an expert

photographer. He always gave that extra effort. He was competitive, but for the right reasons. From the first he had a driving curiosity along with a bright mind, and it was this curiosity that ultimately led him to his theory about cell life.

Q7: Why did Ebright lose interest in tagging butterflies? 

Answer: Ebright used to tag butterflies wings and let them go. In fact, the basement of his house was home to thousands of monarch butterflies. He started losing interest in it because it was a hectic job and there wasn’t much feedback and appreciation.

Q8: Who was Richard A. Welherer? How did he help Richard Ebright? 

Answer: Richard A. Weiherer was Richard Ebright’s social studies teacher and adviser to the debating and Model United Nations Club. He mentored Ebright a lot because he opened his mind to new ideas.

Q9: Write a brief sketch about Richard Ebright.

Answer: Richard H. Ebright changed into born in Reading, Pennsylvania. Since a tender age, his interest becomes boundless and his mother endorsed this in him. He became inquisitive about Monarch butterflies after his mother gifted him a book called 'The Travels of the Monarch X'. He started doing experiments and won several science know-how fairs and competitions. His experiments and research on Monarch butterflies enabled him to understand genetic systems and the protein-DNA interactions, which made him pretty well-known in the scientific circles. At the young age of twenty-four, he discovered many things in various fields of biology.

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