Q. 19. What is there at the jungle’s edge ?
Answer: There are houses and villages at the edge of the jungle.
Q.20. What is the last voice heard by the tiger ?
Answer: The last voice heard by the tiger is the noise of patrolling cars.
Q.21. How does the tiger feel inside the cage ?
Answer: The tiger inside the cage is angry and displeased.
Q.22. What do you mean by the edge of the jungle ?
Answer: By edge of the jungle we mean the border of the jungle.
Q.23. Give the rhyming words of the followings.
Answer: Cage – Village
Grass- Pass
Edge- Village
Cars- Stars
Night – Fight
Q.24. Why do the tiger move near the water hole ?
Answer: Because the deer came there to drink water which would provide the tiger with the change to prey on.
Q.25.Choose the correct meaning of words of followings.
a) In his quiet rage ……………… (Calm / clear / high)
Answer: Calm
b) He Stalks in his ……………. ( to crawl /to walk / lying)
Answer: to crawl
c) …………… steps his cage . ( shelter / room /enclosure of bars)
Answer: enclosure of bars.
d) …………. be snarling around houses. ( walking /an angry sound /sniffing)
Answer: an angry sound.
Q.26. Write true or false.
a) Leslie Norris wrote the poem ” A tiger in the zoo”
Answer: True
b) The tiger after being captured released again.
Answer: False
c) The tiger stalks in the jungle.
Answer: False
d) The tiger lurks in the grass to escape from the sight of the hunters.
Answer: False
e) The strength of the tiger after being captures lies behind bars.
Answer: True
f) The tiger hears the last voice at noon.
Answer: False.
Q.27. Choose the correct alternative.
a) The poem ” A Tiger in the Zoo” was written by – Leslie Norris / William Blake / Peter Niblett.
Answer: Leslie Norris
b) The captured tiger is stalking in __________ .( the zoo / the cage / the house)
Answer: The cage
c) The tiger should be lurking in the grass___________ (for his prey / for taking rest / for leisure)
Answer: For the prey
d) The tiger snarls around ___________ (the jungle / the cage / the houses in the village)
Answer: The houses in the village
e) The strength of the tiger after being captured is now ______________ (in his paws / in his room/ at night)
Answer: In his room
f) The tiger the last voice __________ (at noon / in the morning /at night)
Answer: At night
Q.28. Where does the tiger stalk ? How is the behaviour ?
Answer: The tiger stalks the few steps of his cage.
The tiger ignores visitors while hiding rage quietly. He shows impartialness ans silent rage.
Q.29. How does the tiger feel in the cage ?
Answer: The tiger feels uneasy in the cage. It roars growls and snarls. It always remains in anger and goes on moving the few steps on the pads of velvet quiet.
Q.30. How does a tiger create terror for the villages?
Answer: The villagers become fearful on seeing the tiger moving around the villages. They are afraid lest it should attack and kill them. Its bare fangs and cruel paws can pierce the body in no time.
Q.31. What does the poet think where should the tiger be ?
Answer: The poet thinks that the tiger should be in the jungle. It is his natural habitat. He should be moving in the long grass near a water hole. He should lurk in shadow to hunt the plump deer for the food.
Q.32. Why is the tiger ignoring the visitors ?
Answer: The tiger is ignoring visitors because he is locked in a concrete cell. His strength lies behind the bars of his cage. He is helpless now. He can do nothing to the visitors.
Q.33. After a deep contemplation the tiger does not want to remain in wild- why ?
Answer: The tiger has thought about the consequences of remaining in a wild. It has arrived at a conclusion that the hunters might shoot him. He has the fear of being drowned by water and or it may be served with poisoned food.
Q.34. Why do you think the tiger ignores the visitors ?
Answer: The cage is not the natural habitat of the cage. Confinement has turned it angry and probably that is why he ignores the visitors.
Q.35. What does the tiger do at night ?
Answer: The tiger does not rest even at night. It hears the last voice of the patrolling car. It keeps stares at the brilliant stars.
Q.36. How does the tiger make his presence being felt in the village ?
Answer: The tiger makes his presence being felt by snarling houses at the jungle’s edge and by baring his white fangs and claws.
Q.37. What should the tiger be doing near the water hole ?
Answer: The tiger should be lurking in should sliding through long grass near the water hole .
Q.38. What does the poet think where the tiger should be ?
Answer: The poet thinks that the tiger should be in the jungle, lurking in the shadow of long grass to prey deer near the water holes. He should also be on the outskirts of the jungle snarling houses and terrifying villagers.
Q.39. How does the cage affect the tiger ?
Answer: The cage limits the strength and movement of the tiger. It stalks within the limited space of the cage.
Q.40. “He stalks in his vivid stripes
The few steps of his cage
On pads of velvet quiet
In his quiet rage”
a) Name the poet and the poem.
Answer: The name of the poet is Leslie Norris and the poem is ” A Tiger in the Zoo”
b) Who is “he” referred to here?
Answer: “He” refers to the tiger in the cage.
c) Where does ‘he’ stalk ?
Answer: “He” stalks the few steps of his cage.
d) How does he terrify the villagers ?
Answer: The tiger terrifies the villagers by snarling around their houses and baring his white fangs and claws.
Q.41. How does the tiger walk in the cage ? How is he ?
Answer: The tiger at present is in the cage. He walks in the cage stalking. He is quite angry due to his imprisonment in the cage. He can’t do anything for his freedom. He is helpless due to the iron bars of the cage. So he walks in quiet.
Q.42. How would you explain the line- “Baring his white fangs, his claws” ?
Answer: The line gives a description of the tiger’s behaviour, while it wanders near the villages at the edge of the forest. It goes on showing its sharp teeth and hook lie nails used to prey on animals.
Q.43.Cite the reason of the tiger’s sliding through long grass.
Answer: The reason behind the tiger’s sliding through long grass is to catch plump deer that generally pass near the water holes.
Q.44. What message does the poem give?
Answer: The poem gives out the message that the animals in the zoo do not live happily. They lead miserable life in the cage. They want to be in their habitats. They can do so only in their natural habitats. They should be taken care in zoo also.
Q.45. Give a description of the tiger in its cage.
Answer: The tiger moves quietly inside the cage. The floor of the cage is covered with velvet. Inside the cage could be seen its body with clear stripe. Locked in the concrete cell his strength and movement have been reduced to the length of the cell. It is guarded by patrolling cars. He stares with bright eyes at the bright stars.
Q.46. What is the central idea of the poem ” A Tiger in the Zoo” ?
Answer: In this poem, the poet is trying to contrast in the zoo with the tiger in its real natural habitat. In order to show the contradiction the poet shifts the scene from the jungle to zoo. The poet wants to show the difference between the two environments.
Q.47. Describe the movement and action of the tiger in the cage.
Answer: The tiger paces up and down the length of his cage restlessly. He ignores the visitors as his strength is confined to the cage. At night, he hears the sound of patrolling cars. He stares at the brilliant stars with his brilliant eyes.
Q.48.Describe the movement and actions of the tiger in the jungle.
Answer: In the jungle, the tiger lies in the shade for his prey. He moves quietly through long grass near the water hole where flesh deer come to drink water. Sometimes he growls around the houses at the edge of the jungble and terrorises the villagers.
Q.49. “On pads of velvet quiet
in his quiet rage: – what does the tiger do in his cage ?
Answer: It is very small cage. The tiger can hardly take a few steps along the length of the cage. He doesn’t take any notice of the visitors who come there. With his shining eyes, he keeps looking at the bright stars.
Q.50. How is the tiger in the cell ? How does he react to the visitors ?
Answers: The tiger is now in the cell of the zoo. The cell has a concrete floor. His strength now is behind bars to cage. These can not be broken. He walks this way or that in rage in his cage. He ignores the visitors.
Q.51.”He should be lurking in the shadows
sliding through long grass”- what should the tiger be doing if he were in the jungle ?
Answer: The tiger would be lurking in the shadows of trees. He would be sliding slowly through the long grass. He would be sitting by some water hole and waiting for some plump deer to pass that way.
Q.52. “He should be snarling around houses
At the jungle’s edge”- What should the tiger be doing if he were at the edge of the jungle ?
Answer: The tiger would be moving around the houses in a nearby village. He would be growling while moving around the sight of his white fangs and his terrible claws would fill the villagers with terror.
Q.53. What is the common between the eyes of the tiger and the stars ?
Answer: The common thing between the eyes of the tiger and the stars is that both are brilliant.
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