Extract Based Questions: Mrs. Packletide`s Tiger - Class 10 PDF Download

Q1: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
“Mrs Packletide had already arranged in her mind the lunch she would give at her house in Curzon Street, ostensibly in Loona Bimberton’s honour, with the tiger-skin rug occupying most of the foreground and all of the conversation. ”

(a) What was the real intention of Mrs Packletide in hosting the lunch?
Ans: Mrs Packletide wanted to show off her exploits at the tiger hunt and make Loona Bimberton jealous of her achievements.

(b) Why was Loona Bimberton being honoured by the press?
Ans: Loona Bimberton had travelled 11 miles in an airplane flown by an Algerian pilot.

(c) What did she intend to gift Loona on her birthday?
Ans: Mrs Packletide intended to gift a tiger claw brooch to Loona.

Q2: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
“The prospect of earning thousand rupees had stimulated the sporting and commercial instinct of the villagers. ”

(a) What had stimulated the sporting and commercial instinct of the villagers?
Ans: The thought of getting thousand rupees if they helped Mrs Packletide in hunting a tiger, had stimulated the sporting and commercial instinct of the villagers.

(b) What were the two fears that the villagers Jiad regarding the hunt?
Ans: Firstly, the villagers were afraid that the tiger may wander off to another village and secondly, that he may die before the hunt.

(c) Why did Mrs Packletide want to hunt a tiger?
Ans: Mrs Packletide wanted to outdo the achievements of her rival, Loona Bimberton.

Q3: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
“Mother’s carrying their babies home through the jungle after the day’s work in the fields hushed their singing lest they might curtail the restful sleep of the venerable herd-robber. ”
(a) Who does the phrase ‘venerable herd robber’ refer to? What is the literary device used in the phrase?
Ans: The phrase refers to the tiger. It is an oxymoron.

(b) What is the tone of the writer in the line?
Ans: The tone of the writer is humorous.

(c) What does the writer want to highlight in these lines?
Ans: The writer wants to highlight the ridiculous lengths to which the villagers were ready fo go to ensure that the tiger stayed in the village till the hunt.

Q4: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
“With an accurately sighted rifle and a thumbnail pack ofpatience cards the sportswoman awaited the coming of the quarry. ”

(a) Who is the sportswoman and what is her quarry?
Ans: The sportswoman is Mrs Packletide and her quarry is the tiger

(b) What arrangements were made for the person?
Ans: A safe platform was made on a tree, a goat was tethered to a tree, a rifle was sighted for her and she had a pack of cards to pass the time.

(c) What does the mention of the cards tell us about the nature of the activity being undertaken by the woman?
Ans: Mrs Packletide is taking the hunt in a very light hearted manner after ensuring that it was free from any kind of risk.

Q5: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
“ …the villagers anxious for their thousand rupees, gladly connived at the fiction that she had shot the beast. ”

(a) What is the ‘fiction’ being referred to in these lilies?
Ans: It refers to the fact that the truth was something else altogether.

(b) What was the truth?
Ans: The truth was that the tiger had actually died of a heart attack and had not been shot by Mrs Packletide.

(c) Who discovered the truth?
Ans: Louisa Mebbin, the paid companion of Mrs Packletide discovered the truth.

Q6: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
“As for Loona Bimberton she refused to look at an illustrated paper for weeks. ”

(a) Why did Loona refuse to look at a paper?
Ans: Loona refused to do so because it carried the news of Mrs Packletide’s tiger hunt.

(b) How did the news in the paper affect her?
Ans: Loona Bimberton was consumed with jealousy and did not attend the luncheon party thrown by Mrs Packletide.

(c) Why did it affect her in this way?
Ans: It affected Loona Bimberton badly because Mrs Packletide had managed to outshine her achievement.

Q7: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
“How amused everyone would be if they knew what really happened. ”

(a) Who said this to whom?
Ans: Louisa Mebbin said these lines to Mrs Packletide.

(b) What is the speaker trying to say?
Ans: The speaker Louisa Mebbin means to convey that she would reveal the truth about the hunt.

(c) What was the tone of the speaker?
Ans: The tone was threatening. Louisa Mebbin was trying to blackmail Mrs Packletide.

Q8: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
“Mrs Packletide indulges in no more big-game shooting. ‘The incidental expenses ’ are so heavy. ”

(a) Why had Mrs Packletide tried to hunt a tiger?
Ans: Mrs Packletide had wanted to outshine her rival Loona Bimberton’s achievement of having flown in an airplane, by hunting a tiger.

(b) Why was she no longer interested in shooting?
Ans: Mrs Packletide was no longer interested in shooting as the hunt had proved to be very expensive. Not only did she have to pay the villagers, but her companion too.

(c) What does she mean by ‘incidental expenses’?
Ans: Mrs Packletide means the expenses that she had to undergo, to buy the silence of her companion Louisa Mebbin who had threatened to reveal the truth about the hunt to her rival Loona Bimberton.