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Extract based Questions for
A Tiger in the Zoo Class 10 English First Flight
Very Short Answer Questions
1. How does the tiger feel in the cage?
Answer: In the cage, he is in an angry mood.
2.How does the tiger walk in the cage?
Answer: In the cage, he walks with pride.
3. How should the tiger walk through the grass?
Answer: He should walk with ease through the grass.
4. Where should the tiger hide to himself?
Answer: The tiger should hide in the shadow.
5. Who passes near the water hole?
Answer: The fat deer pass near the water hole.
6. Where is the tiger’s strength locked?
Answer: His strength is locked behind the bars
7. How does the caged tiger react to the visitors?
Answer: He ignores the visitors.
8. What sound does the tiger near at night?
Answer: The tiger hears the sound of the patrolling cars at night.
9. How do the eyes of the tiger look?
Answer: His eyes look brilliant.
10. At what does the tiger look at?
Answer: At night the tiger looks at the stars.
Extract Based Questions Part 01
Extract Based Questions part 02
Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow:
1. He stalks in his vivid stripes
The few steps of his cage,
On pads of velvet quiet,
In his quiet rage.
a. Who is ‘he’ in the above lines?
b. Where is he?
c. Where and how is he walking?
d. In which mood is he? Why?
Answer:
a. ‘He’ in the above lines is the tiger.
b. He is in a small cage.
c. He is walking in his cage slowly and quietly with firm strides in a proud manner.
d. He is angry because instead of moving freely in the forest, he is confined to a small cage.
2. He should be lurking in shadow,
Sliding through long grass
Near the water hole
Where plump deer pass.
a. Where is the tiger hiding?
b. Who is going to be his prey?
c. Why should he be lurking in shadow?
d. What is the rhyme scheme of these lines?
Answer:
a. He is hiding in a shadowy dark place in the long grass.
b. A fat deer who will come that way to drink water is going to be his prey.
c. He should be lurking in shadow to attack the deer who comes to drink water at the water hole.
d. The rhyme scheme of these lines is: a b c b.
3. He should be snarling around houses
At the jungle’s edge,
Baring his white fangs, his claws,
Terrorising the village!
a. The poet says ‘He should be ….’, which means that he is not doing it at present, so where is he and what is he doing?
b. Where should ‘he’ be?
c. Where is he snarling around houses?
d. How does he terrorise the villagers?
Answer:
a. He is in a village showing his white teeth and claws. He is terrorising villagers.
b. ‘He’ should be in the forest.
c. He is snarling around houses at the jungle’s edge.
d. He terrorises the villagers by showing his sharp teeth and claws, and by growling.
4. But he’s locked in a concrete cell,
His strength behind bars,
Stalking the length of his cage,
Ignoring visitors.
a. What does the expression— ‘stalking the length of his cage’ imply?
b. Was he interested in the visitors?
c. What is his attitude towards visitors?
d. What kind of enclosure was the tiger kept in?
Answer:
a. It means the tiger was walking from one end of the cage to another as if trying to measure the length of the cage.
b. No, he was not interested in the visitors.
c. He is ignoring the visitors.
d. He was kept in a cell made of concrete walls and long, strong bars, so that the tiger could not escape.
5. He hears the last voice at night,
The patrolling cars,
And stares with his brilliant eyes
At the brilliant stars.
a. What does he hear at night in the zoo?
b. What do you think he might be hearing when he was in the forest?
c. How do the eyes of a tiger look at night?
d. Why do they look so?
Answer:
a. He hears the sounds of the cars of guard, making rounds to check if everything is right.
b. He must be hearing the sound of other wild animals.
c. At night, the eyes of a tiger look bright and shining.
d. They look so because of the characteristic of cat family to which they belong.