Hi Everyone!! This article will share Sour Grapes Questions & Answers.
In my previous posts, I have shared the questions and answers of This Morning is Our History Test, Does He Remember and Robinson Crusoe so, you can check these posts as well.
Sour Grapes Questions & Answers
Word Galaxy
- Mean – miserable and poor
- Pow’r – power
- Reynard – name for a fox (in French fables)
- Thro’ – through
- ‘tis – it is
- Vine – a grape plant
Question 1: Did the fox really want the grapes?
Answer: Yes, the fox really did want the grapes. He was eager, and he tried to snatch them.
Question 2: What was so attractive about the grapes?
Answer: The grapes were rich, ripe, and purple-red.
Question 3: Which words are used to describe the grapes in the first verse?
Answer: The words used to describe the grapes in the first verse are: lovely, rich, ripe, and purple-red grapes.
Question 4: Which words are used in the third verse?
Answer: The words used to describe the grapes in the third verse are: mean and common fruit, sour.
Question 5: What is the moral that the poem teaches us?
Answer: The moral (lesson) the poem teaches us is that people who cannot get what they have been trying for quite often say they did not really want it anyway.
Question 6: Why do you think the fox curled his nose?
Answer: The fox curled his nose because he could not reach the grapes and he now wanted to show that he no longer cared for them.
Question 7: Read the lines and answer the questions:
Eager he tried to snatch the fruit….
(a) Why was the fox eager?
Answer: The grapes were rich, ripe, and purple-red, so the fox was eager to reach them.
(b) Why was he not able to reach the fruit?
Answer: The bunch of grapes was just above his head, but too high for him to reach.
(c) In what way did his opinion of the fruit change?
Answer: When he failed to get them, he said they were mean and common fruit and sure to be sour.
So, these were the Questions & Answers.