Hi Everyone!! This article will share Kipling Country Questions & Answers.
In my previous posts, I have shared the questions and answers of Mrs Packletide’s Tiger, Mowgli Returns to the Worlds of Men and William Goes to the Pictures so, you can check these posts as well.
Kipling Country Questions & Answers
Question 1: ‘The friendly Bagheera of The Jungle Book morphs panther.’ When and why does the author feel this way?
Answer: The author felt this way when it started raining heavily, and she was stranded in the dark jungle, unable to reach the Karmajhiri forest guest house. In the odd flashes of lightning, her fear produced unwanted images. Dark shapes seemed like a hungry panther rather than Bagheera.
Question 2: ‘He thinks it wise to make good use of time’. How was the time put to good use?
Answer: The park director picked up the author and turned back from the overflowing nullah. He had spotted a herd of gaur while on his way to the nullah and takes the author there, especially when the entire scene was lit up by a bright flash of lightning. It was indeed good use of their time.
Question 3: Why does the author say that being in the rest house was ‘akin’ to travelling back in time?
Answer: The author said that being in the rest house was ‘akin’ to travelling back in time because there were no newspapers. The Ione television did not work, nor was there a cellphone connection.
Question 4: Why does the author go to Kanhiwada?
Answer: The author was on an assignment to discover the forests through ‘The Jungle Book’. She went to Kanhiwada because Mowgli was born in a potter’s family in that village. True to the classic, Kanhiwada is a potter’s village.
Question 5: ‘The name Mowgli rings a bell, but no thanks to author’. How did the people at the potter’s village know about Mowgli?
Answer: The people at the potter’s village came to know about Mowgli from an animated Hindi TV serial based on ‘The Jungle Book’, and mainly from the very popular light-hearted song that opened every episode of the animated serial.
Question 6: ‘They were almost wipe out in Kanha as well, though the reserve now sports viable numbers.’ Who are ‘they’? The word ‘sport’ means display/ play.
Answer: ‘They’ refers to the barasingha or swamp deer stag. The word ‘sport’ means ‘display’.
Kipling Country Questions & Answers
Question 7: Read the extract and answer the questions.
1. The Jungle Book became my bible and I clung to it as I traced the path Mowgli and his assorted animal friends had hunted.
a. The author means that ‘The Jungle Book’ was like a religious text/ the best and most useful book about the subject.
Answer: The author means that ‘The Jungle Book’ was the best and most useful book about the subject.
b. Why did the author regard ‘The Jungle Book’ as her Bible?
Answer: The author was on an assignment to discover the forests through ‘The Jungle Book’. She regarded it as her bible because it had very accurate descriptions of the places and jungles in the Central Provinces of India now claiming to be Mowgli’s jungles.
c. The word ‘assorted’ means a group of similar things with different qualities/ many.
Answer: The word ‘assorted’ means ‘a group of similar things with different qualities.
d. Who were Mowgli’s assorted friends?
Answer: Mowgli’s assorted friends were Bagheera the Panther, Kaa the Python and Baloo the friendly bear.
e. The word ‘hunted’ here means they saw ghost there/ they often went there.
Answer: The word ‘hunted’ here means ‘they often went there’.
2. Jay Kumar the driver does not help either. He thinks it wise to keep amused by telling me tall tales of a certain unfriendly leopard who had once frequented these paths. Just as I am about to give myself to despair the radio in jeep come to life…..
a. When and where were these tales being told?
Answer: The author was caught in a heavy downpour in Pench Tiger Reserve. She was in the jeep with the driver Jay Kumar, This is when Jay Kumar began telling tales of a ferocious leopard that used to frequent the place.
b. Tall tales are stories that are difficult to believe and unlikely to be true/true stories.
Answer: ‘Tall tales’ are stories that are difficult to believe and unlikely to be true.
c. To frequent a place is to go there often / seldom go there.
Answer: ‘To frequent a place’ is to go there often.
d. ‘The radio coming to life’ means songs started playing on it/ it started receiving messages.
Answer: ‘The radio coming to life’ means it started receiving messages.
e. What message did they receive on the radio?
Answer: They received the message that the director of the park was worried that they had been stranded and couldn’t reach the Karmajhiri forest guest house. So, he was on his way to meet them.
Question 8: Why does the author say, “I would be lying if I said I was following Kipling’s footsteps?”
Answer: The author said that she would be lying if she said that he had been following Kipling’s footsteps because Rudyard Kipling had never set foot in the Central Provinces of India, the region he described so accurately in his book.
Question 9: How does the author show that nature is temperamental and whimsical?
Answer: The author described the sudden changes in the weather. It was very bright and sunny when she entered the reserve. Then, within minutes, the heavens opened and there was a heavy downpour accompanied by lightning and thunder. Soon, darkness enveloped the forest. That is how the author showed that nature is temperamental and whimsical.
Question 10: What makes author wonder if it was possible to successfully marry tourism with wildlife?
Answer: At the break of dawn, the author was somewhat pained to experience the peace of the forest being shattered by the noise made by tourist cars and the tourists themselves. This made her wonder if tourism could successfully go hand-in-hand with wildlife.
Question 11: In the end, the author says “why does she trust us, me after what man had done to her kind?” in what way does the majestic tigress appears to truest the author? Why does the author feel that the tigress should not have trusted any member of the human species?
Answer: The majestic tigress appeared to trust the author, a tourist, as she stopped while crossing the road and stood looking at her within ten feet of her vehicle. The author wondered how the tigress could trust any member of the human species because many people kill tigers to earn huge amounts of money by selling their skin and bones.
So, these were Kipling Country Questions & Answers.