Hi Everyone!! This article will share The Crystal Cave Questions & Answers.
In my previous posts, I have shared the questions and answers of Raoul The Owl, The Little Boy Who Saved Holland and Sir Lawley’s Ghost so, you can check these posts as well.
The Crystal Cave Questions & Answers
Question 1: At the opening of the story, Grandma playfully makes the children realize the importance of salt. How does she do that?
Answer: Grandma does that by making the children taste the broth two times first without salt then by adding salt to it.
Question 2: Why does Grandma think that their village was ‘rich’?
Answer: Grandma thought that their village was rich because they had salt and they bartered the salt for clothes, beads and other necessities.
Question 3: The Nocte knew how to make salt in the past. How did they make salt?
Answer: The Nocte made salt in the past by building shallow troughs and filled them with salt-water. Then, the sun dried away the water, leaving grains of salt in the troughs.
Question 4: What does ‘a ribbon of light green against the darker green of dense jungles’ refer to?
Answer: ‘A ribbon of light green against the darker green dense of jungles’ refers to the furrow through which the salt-spring had flowed.
Question 5: Read the line and answer the questions:
‘Then, carrying the treasure upon their backs, they began the descent home.’
(a) What is the ‘treasure’?
Answer: The ‘treasure’ is salt.
(b) Why is it called a ‘treasure’?
Answer: It is called a treasure because after so many years they found a salt cave and their village will be self-sufficient and prosperous again.
Question 6: Do you agree with Grandma Kamlong that the Nocte village was rich in the past? Why?
Answer: Yes, I agree with Grandma Kamlong that the Nocte village was rich in the past because they had a salt-spring flowed by their village from which they got salt which was much more than what their village required. Then their men stuffed the surplus into hollow bamboo tubes and took it to the plains each winter and they bartered the salt for clothes, beads and other necessities.
So, these were the Questions & Answers.