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Animal Stories Questions and Answers
The Questions and Answers for the chapter “Animal Stories” Class 6 English Chapter 19 are given below.
Answer the following questions in a sentence each
Q1. Who pleaded for the life of the hare?
Ans: The beetle pleaded for the life of the hare.
Q2. What did the beetle do?
Ans: The beetle followed the eagle to find her nest.
Q3. Who can protect the oppressor from the oppressed?
Ans: No one can protect the oppressor from the oppressed.
Q4. What did the dog do in the lion’s cage?
Ans: The dog tucked its tail between its legs and crouched in a corner of the cage.
Q5. What did the lion do with the meat given by the keeper?
Ans: The lion tore off a piece for himself and left it for the dog.
Q6. What happened to the dog?
Ans: The dog felt sick and died at the end of the year.
Q7. What did the lion do after the dog died?
Ans: The lion refused to eat, sniffed, licked and nudged the dead dog with its paws.
Q8. What did the keeper do?
Ans: The keeper lets another dog into the cage.
Answer the following questions in about two sentences
Q1. How did the beetle plead with the eagle to spare the life of the hare?
Ans: The beetle requested the eagle to respect his intercession and the laws of hospitality even though he was nothing but a tiny insect.
Q2. How did Jupiter try to save the race of eagles?
Ans: Jupiter tried to save the race of the eagles by asking the eagle to change the breeding time to another season when there were no beetles seen.
Q3. How did the dog behave in the lion’s cage?
Ans: The dog rolled over on its back and wagged its tail, jumped up and stood on its hind legs. When the lion nudged it and rolled over it, the dog laid down beside the lion rested its head on the lion’s paw and behaved in a friendly way.
Q4. What did the lion do when realising that the dog was dead?
Ans: When the lion realised that the dog was dead, it reached up, bristled, lashed its tail against its side, rushed the walls of the cage and gnawed the lock and the floorboard.
Answer the following questions in about 50-60 words each
Q1. How did the beetle take revenge on the eagle?
Ans: The beetle took revenge on the eagle by following her to find where her nest was. he then broke the eggs every time it lay. The eagle built her nest higher up the clift but the beetle still manages to reach the nest.
Q2. Write the role played by the Jupiter.
Ans: Jupiter tried to make a peaceful settlement between the beetle and the eagle, but the beetle refused. Nevertheless, Jupiter did not want the race of the eagle to be humiliated so he was compelled to change the eagle’s breeding time to another season when there were no beetles.
Q3. Write on the relationship between the dog and the lion.
Ans: The dog and the lion were quite friendly. They played together and lived together in the same cage for a whole year. Whenever the keeper tossed the lion a chunk of meat, the lion would tear off a piece and leave the rest for the dog. The dog would lie down beside the lion and rest his head on the lion’s paw. At the end of the year, the dog felt sick and died. The lion refused to eat and lay near the dog and he too died on the sixth day.
Q4. Write a note on the theme of the oppressed having revenge on the oppressor as shown in the Eagle and the Beetle.
Ans: If someone is oppressed beyond the limit of tolerance, he is bound to retaliate against the oppressor someday somehow. No matter how powerful and high one’s position may be, there is nothing that can protect the oppressor from the vengeance of the oppressed.
The story of the eagle and the beetle clearly proves the point. Angry at the eagle’s refusal to spare the life of the hare, the beetle followed the eagle to find its nests and broke all the eggs every time it laid them.
Q5. Write a note on the friendship based on the story of the lion and the dog.
Ans: Refer Q#3.
Mark T for true and F for false statements.
- The beetle was pursued by the eagle (T)
- The hare escaped from the eagle (F)
- The eagle did not show respect to the tiny beetle (T)
- Jupiter was pleased with the eagle (F)
- Jupiter succeeded in protecting the eagle’s egg (F)
- The lion was angry with the dog (F)
- The lion and the dog lived together for a whole year (T)
- The lion killed the dog after living together (F)
- The keeper killed the lion (F)
- The lion refused to eat when the dog died (T)
Vocabulary
Frame the sentence with the following idioms.
1. ABC of
✒ Before you become a doctor you need to know the ABC of science.
2. Bolt from the blue
✒ The decision to sell the truck came like a bolt from the blue.
3. Cry in the wilderness
✒ He had warned about the economic collapse but at that time his plea was like a voice crying in the wilderness.
4. A hue cry
✒ The workers raised a great hue and cry against the new rule.
5. A fair-weather friend
✒ A fair-weather friend cannot be helpful in an emergency.
6. A shot in the Arm
✒ Once the nurse gives you a shot in the arm, you will get better.
7. Fish out of water
✒ Our new teacher looked like a fish out of water.
8. To be caught red-handed
✒ Tom was caught red-handed by the police while he was trying to steal a car.
9. To call a spade a spade
✒ I am not at all secretive, and I am pretty good at calling a spade a spade.
10. A burning question
✒ One of my students from Korea had a burning question, she wanted to ask.
11. A black sheep
✒ Tomba is the black sheep in our family.
12. Hand in glove
✒ He was found to be hand in glove with the enemy.
13. the lion’s share
✒ My sister grabbed the lion’s share of the pizza.
14. At one’s wit’s end
✒ My sister won’t eat anything but pizza and my mother is at one’s wit’s end.
15. Himalayan blunder
✒ it is difficult to find Himalayan blunder in a sentence.
(b). Put the adverbs in the correct places in the following sentences:
I. I have spoken to the principal (already).
Ans: I have already spoken to the principal.
2. He wanted to reach home early (always)
Ans: He always wanted to reach home early.
3. We lost all hope.(finally)
Ans: We finally lost all hope.
4. She has any money left. (hardly)
Ans: She hardly has any money left.
5. The teacher shouted at him to close the door. (angrily)
Ans: The teacher shouted angrily at him to close the door.
6. He has not finished doing his homework. (yet)
Ans: He has not yet finished doing his homework.
7. The field was dry because of the drought. (completely)
Ans: The field was completely dry because Of the drought.
8. I think that the plan will work. (Definitely)
Ans: I think that the plan will definitely work.
9. He was tall to reach the shelf. (enough)
Ans: He was tall enough to reach the shelf.
10. She has been restored to health (Completely)
Ans: She has been completely restored to health.
About the Author: Aesop’s Fables
Aesop’s Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through several sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media. The fables originally belonged to the oral tradition and were not collected for some three centuries after Aesop’s death.
Initially, the fables were addressed to adults and covered religious, social and political themes. They were also put to use as ethical guides and from the Renaissance onwards were particularly used for the education of children. Their ethical dimension was reinforced in the adult world through depiction in sculpture, painting and other illustrative means, as well as adaptation to drama and song. In addition, there have been reinterpretations of the meaning of fables and changes in emphasis over time.
Summary : The Eagle and the Beetle
An Eagle was chasing a hare, which was running for dear life and was at her wits’ end to know where to turn for help. Presently she espied a Beetle and begged it to aid her. So when the Eagle came up the Beetle warned her not to touch the hare, which was under its protection. But the Eagle never noticed the Beetle because it was so small, seized the hare and ate her up. The Beetle never forgot this and used to keep an eye on the Eagle’s nest, and whenever the Eagle laid an egg it climbed up and rolled it out of the nest and broke it.
At last, the Eagle got so worried over the loss of her eggs that she went up to Jupiter, who is the special protector of Eagles, and begged him to give her a safe place to nest in: so he let her lay her eggs in his lap. But the Beetle noticed this and made a ball of dirt the size of an Eagle’s egg, and flew up and deposited it in Jupiter’s lap.
When Jupiter saw the dirt, he stood up to shake it out of his robe, and, forgetting about the eggs, he shook them out too, and they were broken just as before. Ever since then, they say, Eagles never lay their eggs at the season when Beetles are about.
The weak will sometimes find ways to avenge an insult, even upon the strong.
About the Author
Tolstoy is a Russian author who was born in 1828 into a Russian aristocratic family. He enlisted in the army and served in the Caucasus, experiences he used for several short stories. Tolstoy married Sophia Behrs and devoted his time to writing in his estate at Yasnaya Polyana, Russia.
Summary: THE LION AND THE DOG
Wild animals were on display in London where admission was paid in money or in dogs and cats that would be fed to the wild animals. One man wanted to see the animals, so he snatched up a dog off the street and brought it to the menagerie. They let him in, but the dog was taken and thrown into the lion’s cage to be eaten. The little dog tucked its tail between its legs and nestled up to the corner of the cage. The lion walked up to it and sniffed it. The little dog lay on its back, raised its paws, and started to wag its tail. The lion touched it with its paw and turned it over.
The little dog leapt up and stood before the lion on its hind legs. The lion looked at the little dog, turned its head from side to side, and did not touch it. When the keeper threw in some meat, the lion tore off a piece and left it for the dog. In the evening, when the lion lay down to sleep, the dog lay next to him and placed its head on the lion’s paw. From that day on, the dog lived in the same cage with the lion. The lion did not touch the dog; it ate food, slept alongside it, and sometimes played with it.
One day a nobleman came to the menagerie and recognized his dog. He said that the dog was his and asked the keeper to give it back to him. The keeper wanted to give it back, but as soon as they started to call the dog to take it from the cage, the lion raised its hackles and growled. Thus the lion and the dog lived a whole year in the same cage. In a year the dog grew sick and died.
The lion stopped eating but would sniff and lick the dog, and touch it with its paw. When it understood that the dog had died, it suddenly jumped up, raised its hackles, began to whip its flanks with its tail, flung itself against the wall of the cage, and began to gnaw at the bars and floor.
The whole day he thrashed about and dashed around the cage and roared. Then he lay near the dead dog and grew silent. The keeper wanted to remove the dead dog, but the lion would not let anyone near it. The keeper thought that the lion would forget its grief if it was given another dog, and he let a live dog into the cage, but the lion instantly tore it to pieces. Then he folded the dead dog in his paws and laid that way for five days. On the sixth day, the lion died.
