Lesson 17 | The tiger the brahmin and the jackal questions answers | Reader 3

 Lesson 17 | The tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal | All questions and answers | Reader 3

 

The tiger the brahmin and the jackal questions answers

COMPREHENSION

A. Answer the following questions briefly.

1. What did the tiger ask the brahmin to do?

Answer: The tiger asked the brahmin to help him out of the trap.

2. What did the Brahmin say in reply?

Answer: Brahmin replied  "i cannot trust you, if i let you out of this trap you will kill and eat me".

3. Who let the tiger out of the trap?

Answers: Brahmin helped the tiger to get out of the trap.

4. What did the tiger promise before he was let out?

Answer: The tiger promised that he will not injured his saviour.

5.  Did he keep his promise?

Answer: No, he did not kept his promise. As soon he came out he seized the Brahmin.

6.Why did the tiger call the brahmin a fool?

Answer: The tiger called brahmin a fool because the brahmin helped the tiger to get out of the trap.

7.What three creatures did they meet?

Answer: They met tree, dog and jackal.

8. Do you think the jackal was really as confused as he sounded?

Answer: No, the jackal was not really as confused as he sounded.

9. Why did the tiger get into the trap again?

Answer: The tiger and brahmin were narrating the whole story to the jackal to make him understand. The clever jackal pretends to be foolish and not able to understand anything. At this the tiger lost his tempered and and jumps into the trap again to make jackal understand.

10.What did the jackal do?

Answer: The clever jackal pretends to be foolish and mad. This was his masterplan to put the tiger into the trap again. At the end of the story the jackal saved the brahmin life by putting the tiger back into the trap. 

B. Answer the following questions in detail.

1. What does the pipal tree have to say about the 'way of the world'?

Answer: The pipal tree said that he give shade and shelter to everyone. In return, people tear down his branches to feed cattle. It is the way of the world, the world is so cruel.

2.Describe the dog that they met?

Answer: The dog was old and weak, toothless and half-blind.

3. On what condition did the tiger promise to let the brahmin off?

Answer: The tiger promised to let the brahmin off, on fulfilling one condition. The condition was that the brahmin may ask question to the first three creatures he meet on the way. If any one of them justify that tiger is ungrateful, then the tiger will let him off.

4. Who do you think was the cleverest of the three? Give reasons.

Answer: The jackal was the cleverest of the three creatures they met. The jackal understood the whole story but he was pretending to be foolish and mad because he wanted to help the poor brahmin from the ungrateful tiger. Pretending mad was his masterplan to put the tiger into the trap again. 

C. Tick the correct option to complete each sentence.

1. I could never be so ungrateful as

a. people think.

b. to injure my saviour.

Answer: (b) to injure my saviour.

2. If any of them says that i am ungrateful

a. I will let you off.

b. I will serve you as a slave for my whole life.

Answer: (a) I will let you off. 

3. The trap is far too small

a. to hold a big tiger like you.

b. for me to enter.

Answer: (a) To hold a big tiger like you.

D. Fill in the blanks with the correct words. Choose from the list.

1. The tiger was ungrateful to the brahmin.

2. I will serve you as a slave for my whole life.

3. You must be a fool to expect gratitude from any man or beast.

4. This is the usual treatment we get from our masters.

5. Is this the way to repay kindness?

 

VOCABULARY

Form new words by adding dis, mis or un to the following.

1. Dis-obey

2. Un-kind

3. Dis-agree

4. Un-grateful

5. Mis-use

6. Dis-like

7. Mis-understand

8. Dis-courage

9. Un-just

 

 LANGUAGE

Fill in the blanks with who, what, where or which to frame the correct questions to the answers given.

1. Who told you?

Jaya told me.

2. Where did you go then?

I went home.

3. Which one of them did this?

Mary did this

4. Who will come with you?

Nasreen said that she would.

5. What did you see?

I saw a beautiful lake.

6. Which dress do you want to buy?

That blue one in the window.