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

Q1: Who is the enemy of the cobra?
Ans: Mongoose.

Q2: What is the Mongoose not immune to?
Ans: To the venomous bite.

Q3: Where does the mongoose bury its teeth?
Ans: In the snake's neck.

Q4: Where was the author sitting?
Ans: In an old banyan tree.

Q5: Where was the banyan tree?
Ans: In the author's grandfather's house.

Q6: What belonged to his grandparents?
Ans: The house and the grounds.

Q7: What did the author consider as his?
Ans: The Magnificent old Banyan tree.

Q8: How old was his grandfather?
Ans: Sixty-five years old.

Q9: Who could no longer climb the banyan tree?
Ans: His grandfather.

Q10: Why did the old banyan tree belong to the author?
Ans: Because his grandfather was too old to climb the tree.

Q11: How does the mongoose attack the snake?
Ans: The mongoose jumps swiftly and comes at the snake from other direction, before the snake could get into a striking position.

Q12: Why the banyan tree was the noisiest place during the fig season?
Ans: In the spring, the banyan tree was full of small red figs and the birds of all kinds would flock into the branches. The red bottomed bulbul, parrots, Myna and crows squabbling with one another. Thus, the banyan tree was the noisiest place in the garden during the fig season.

Q13: What did he see on one afternoon?
Ans: He saw a huge black cobra moving out of a clump of cactus plant and at the same time the gray mongoose appeared from the bushes and moved forward for the cobra.

Q14: What happened to the cobra at the end?
Ans: The Cobra was weakening and the mongoose took the chance and raised himself on his short legs and with a lightning snap had the cobra by the snout. He writhed and lashed about in a frightening way but eventually gave up and was put to death.

Q15: How do the cobra attacks the animal?
Ans: Firstly, the cobra assumes a posture of defence and attempts to reach the animal by a sweeping strike and then attacks them.

Q16: What gave the author an endless pleasure?
Ans: The spreading branches of the banyan tree which hung to the ground and look root again that formed a number of twisting passages gave him endless pleasure.

Q17: What did the Myna do after the battle was over?
Ans: The Myna dropped carefully to the ground and hopped about by walking towards the bushes from a safe distance. And later he congratulate the Mongoose with a shrill cry and flew away.

Q18: How does mongoose kill snake?
Ans: The Mongoose was not immune to the poisonous bite of the snake, but they are faster in motion than the snake. However, the cobra assumes the posture of his opponent and attempts to reach the animal by a sweeping manner. Unfortunately, the mongoose jumps out of reach and comes near to the snake from another direction than the snake can get into its striking position. In this constant moving tires the snake and the mongoose is able to leap in close and burry its teeth in the snake’s neck.

Q19: How did the cobra try to mesmerise the mongoose and what was his reaction?
Ans: The cobra stool on the defensive side and swaying slowly from side to side and was trying to mesmerise the mongoose by making some false move. But the mongoose was clever enough to know the power of his opponent’s glassy and unwinking eyes. He instead fixed his gaze at a point just below the cobra’s hood and was ready to attack him.

Q20: How did the author describe the banyan tree?
Ans: The Banyan tree was older than Dehra Dun itself. The spreading branches of the tree that hung to the ground and took root again by forming a number of twisting passages. There remains squirrels, snails, butterflies, etc. The author represents himself as he could hide in its branches, behind the thick green leaves and would spy on the world below. During the fig season, the banyan tree converts to be the noisiest place in the garden, because it was full of small red gigs, all kinds of birds flocking into its branches, bulbul, parrots, Myna, and crows squabbling with one another.