Class 6 English Honeysuckle Chapter 10 Extract Based Question Answers - The Banyan Tree

Q1: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
In a clearing beneath the banyan tree, in bright sunshine, they came face-to-face.The cobra knew only too well that the grey mongoose, 3 ft long, was a superb fighter, clever and aggressive. But the cobra, too, was a skilful and experienced fighter. He could move swiftly and strike with the speed of light; and the sacs behind his long sharp fangs were full of deadly poison. It was too be a battle of champions.

(i) What kind of skills a mongoose possesses?
Ans: Mongooses are superb fighter, clever and aggressive.

(ii) Write one feature of a cobra?
Ans: A cobra is a skilful and experienced fighter. The sacs behind his long fangs are full of deadly poison.

(iii) Which fight was the battle of champions?
Ans: The fight between the cobra and the mongoose was the battle of the champion.

(iv) Write synonym for the word ‘poison’.
(a) Toxin
(b) Gaze
(c) Tonic
(d) Medicine
Ans: (a)

(v) Who came face-to-face beneath the banyan tree?
(a) Myna and crow
(b) Author and squirrel
(c) Crow and cobra
(d) Cobra and mongoose
Ans: (d)

(vi) Find antonym for the word ‘experienced’.
(a) Skill
(b) Clever
(c) Inexperienced
(d) Moment
Ans: (c)

Q2: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
My first friend was a small grey squirrel. Arching his back and sniffing into the air, he seemed at first to resent my invasion of his privacy. But when he found that 1 did not arm himself with catapult or air gun, he became friendly and when 1 started bringing him pieces of cake and biscuit he grew quite bold and was soon taking morsels from hand. Before long, he was delving into my pockets and helping himself to whatever he could find. He was a very young squirrel and his friends and relatives probably thought him foolish and headstrong for trusting a human.

(i) What did the author bring for the squirrel?
Ans: The author brought pieces of cake and biscuit for the squirrel and he grew quite bold.

(ii) What happened when the squirrel became bold?
Ans: The squirrel became bold and started taking morsels from the author’s hand. The squirrel began searching food into the author’s pocket.

(iii) Do you think the squirrel liked the author at first?
Ans: No, the squirrel did not like the author first and resented the author’s invasion of his privacy.

(iv) Give the antonym for the word ‘foolish’.
(a) Wise
(b) Silly
(c) Stupid
(d) Idiot
Ans: (a) Wise

(v) Who was the author’s first friend?
(a) Cobra
(b) Mongoose
(c) Myna
(d) Squirrel
Ans: (d)

(vi) Find synonym for the word ‘privacy’.
(a) Content
(b) Seclusion
(c) Persuade
(d) Battle
Ans: (b)

Q3: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
The third round followed the same course as the first but with one dramatic difference. The crow and the myna, still determined to take part in the proceedings, dived at the cobra; but this time they missed each other as well as their mark. The myna flew on and reached its perch, but the crow tried to pull up in mid-air and turn back. In the second that it took the bird to do this the cobra whipped his head back and struck with great force, his snout thudding against the crow’s body. I saw the bird flung nearly twenty feet across the garden. It fluttered about for a while, then lay still. The myna remained on the cactus plant, and when the snake and the mongoose returned to the fight, very wisely decided not to interfere again! The cobra was weakening, and the mongoose, walking fearlessly up to it, raised himself on his short legs and with a lightning snap had the big snake by the snout. The cobra writhed and lashed about in a frightening manner, and even coiled itself about the mongoose, but to no avail. The little fellow hung grimly on, until the snake had ceased to struggle. He then smelt along its quivering length, gripped it round the hood, and dragged it into the bushes.

(i) Where the mongoose dragged the Cobra?
(a) Bush
(b) Cactus
(c) Banyan Tree
(d) None of the above
Ans: (a)

(ii) Who died during the fight against cobra?
(a) Myna
(b) Crow
(c) Mongoose
(d) All of the above
Ans: (b)

(iii) What did mongoose do after smelling the Cobra?
Ans: After smelling the Cobra, Mongoose gripped it round the hood, and dragged it into the bushes.

(iv) Where from the Myna was watching the battle?
Ans: The Myna was watching the battle from the Cactus.

Q4: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
The warm breezes of approaching summer had sent everyone, including the gardener, into the house. I was feeling drowsy myself, wondering if I should go to the pond and have a swim with Ramu and the buffaloes, when I saw a huge black cobra gliding out of a clump of cactus. At the same time a mongoose emerged from the bushes and went straight for the cobra. In a clearing beneath the banyan tree, in bright sunshine, they came face to face. The cobra knew only too well that the grey mongoose, three feet long, was a superb fighter, clever and aggressive. But the cobra, too, was a skilful and experienced fighter. He could move swiftly and strike with the speed of light; and the sacs behind his long sharp fangs were full of deadly poison. It was to be a battle of champions.

(i) The poet saw a Black Cobra near:
(a) Banyan tree
(b) Bush
(c) Cactus
(d) None of the above
Ans: (c)

(ii) Grey Mongoose was:
(a) 3 ft long
(b) 2 ft long
(c) 4 ft long
(d) All of the above
Ans: (a)

(iii) Which fight was the battle of champions?
Ans: The face-to-face challenge between the Black cobra and the Grey mongoose was the battle of champions.

(iv) What the warm breezes of the summer had done?
Ans: The warm breeze was so hot that everyone including the gardener had to get into the house.

(v) What was the poet’s plan when he was feeling drowsy?
Ans: During the summer, the Poet was feeling drowsy and was planning to go to the pond and have a swim with Ramu and the buffaloes.

Q5: Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
THOUGH the house and grounds belonged to my grandparents, the magnificent old banyan tree was mine — chiefly because Grandfather, at sixty-five, could no longer climb it. Its spreading branches, which hung to the ground and took root again, forming a number of twisting passages, gave me endless pleasure. Among them were squirrels and snails and butterflies. The tree was older than the house, older than Grandfather, as old as Dehra Dun itself. I could hide myself in its branches, behind thick green leaves, and spy on the world below.

(i) The poet’s grandfather was aged:
(a) 66
(b) 76
(c) 65
(d) None of the above
Ans: (c)

(ii) The Banyan tree was the shelter of:
(a) Butterfly
(b) Squirrel
(c) Snail
(d) All of the above
Ans: (d)

(iii) Which city the poet used to stay?
Ans: The poet used to live in Dehradun.

(iv) From which place the poet used to spy on his world?
Ans: Poet used to hide himself behind the branches and leaves of the banyan tree and spy over the world.

(v) Which gave the poet endless pleasure?
Ans: The banyan tree had lots of hanging branches which had been converted into roots and created few twisted passages. Those passages gave the poet enormous pleasure.