Hi Everyone!! This article will share Mina and the Dinosaurs Questions & Answers.
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Mina and the Dinosaurs Questions & Answers
Question 1: Why did Mina want to learn more about dinosaurs?
Answer: Mina wanted to learn more about dinosaurs because she wanted to make a chart about dinosaurs for the science exhibition at school.
Question 2: Which film had Mina gone to watch?
Answer: Mina had gone to watch Jurassic World.
Question 3: Read the line and answer the questions:
‘Mina had been listening wide-eyed to Grandma.’
(a) Why was Mina ‘wide-eyed’?
Answer: Hearing the adventures of the dinosaurs, Mina was so thrilled and excited to learn about them. So, she was ‘wide-eyed’.
(b) How do we know that she believed the story?
Answer: After listening the story, Mina asked her Grandmother and mother to go to South America. Hence, we came to know that she believed the story.
Question 4: What are Jurassic animals?
Answer: The animals, like dinosaurs, that lived on the earth millions of years ago, are called Jurassic animals.
Mina and the Dinosaurs Questions & Answers
Question 5: Which book was Mina’s Grandma reading? Who had written it?
Answer: Mina’s Grandmother was reading a book titled ‘The Lost World’. It was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Question 6: Name the dinosaurs and other Jurassic animals mentioned in the text.
Answer: Stegosaurus and pterodactyl are name of the dinosaurs mentioned in book.
Question 7: Read the line and answer the questions:
(a) Who said this to whom?
Answer: Mother said to Mina.
(b) Where did she want to go?
Answer: She wanted to go to Jurassic Park but Mina suggested to go to South America.
Question 8: What were the dinosaurs in the book doing?
Answer: They balanced themselves on their broad, powerful tails and their huge hind-feet. With their small front-feet they pulled down the branches.
Question 9: Which other animals are the dinosaurs in the book compared to? How are they compared?
Answer: Indominus rex, tyrannosaurus and velociraptor are compared to stegosaurus and pterodactyl. They were compared in terms of size and look.
Mina and the Dinosaurs Questions & Answers
Question 10: How do you know if Mina liked the film she had watched?
Answer: Mina was so engrossed watching the movie that she could not take her eyes off the screen. She had even forgotten to ask for popcorn.
Question 11: Read the line and answer the questions:
‘A strong wind blew towards us and we were well hidden, so the animals could not see us’.
(a) How did the wind help the men to hide?
Answer: They were hidden as a strong wind blew to them and the animals could not see them.
(b) Why was it necessary to hide?
Answer: It was necessary to hide because they might be killed if they were seen by the animals.
Question 12: How do we know that the iguanodons were really strong?
Answer: Iguanodons’ babies were as big as elephants and the two large ones were far bigger than any creatures. With their small front-feet, they pulled down the branches of trees. They looked like monstrous kangaroos twenty feet long with skins like black crocodiles.
So, these were Mina and the Dinosaurs Questions & Answers.