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.
