Hi Everyone!! This article will share The Giant Roc Questions & Answers.
In my previous posts, I have shared the questions and answers of The Story of Amber Beads, On The Grasshopper and The Cricket and The Cherry Tree so, you can check these posts as well.
The Giant Roc Questions & Answers
Question 1: Why did Sinbad decide to sail the second time?
Answer: Sinbad decided to sail the second time because he soon grew weary of a quiet life in Baghdad. His desire to trade and travel was revived.
Question 2: I was so melancholic that I was ready to die with grief? Why did Sinbad feel so?
Answer: Sinbad felt so because while he was asleep on the island his ship had set sail. When Sinbad woke, he found that the ship was gone and that he was stranded on the island where there was no human population.
Question 3: What was the dome like structure that caught Sindbad’s attention? How does he describe the enormity of this?
Answer: The dome like structure that caught Sindbad’s attention was a Roc’s egg. He describes its enormity by saying that it was a white bowl of a Prodigious height and bigness and that when he walked around it to be at least fifty paces around.
Question 4: Where was the Isle of Roha? What were the two peculiarities of this island?
Answer: The Isle of Roha was near the port from where they took a ship.
Two peculiarities of the Isle of Roha are:
1. The camphor trees are so large with its branches so thick, that a hundred men may easily sit under its shade.
2. The rhinoceros, a creature less than the elephant, but greater than the buffalo which has a horn upon it nose about a cubit long; this horn is sold and cleft in the middle from one end to the other, and there are upon it white lines, representing the figure of a man.
Question 5: “Treat me replied I with more civility for I have diamonds enough for you and myself two”.
(a) Who said this?
Answer: The sailor said this to the other merchant.
(b) What did the sailor have with him?
Answer: Diamonds
Question 6: In which situation do you think Sindbad felt most threatened? Why do you think so?
Answer: I think Sindbad felt most threatened in the valley of serpents because there were enormous and dangerous snakes all around. Sindbad says that he trembled with extreme fear because of the snakes.
Question 7: How do you know that Sindbad was adventurous?
Answer: Sindbad was adventurous because he quickly grew tired of a quiet life, and had the desire to travel.
Question 8: How do you know that Sindbad was resourceful?
Answer: Sindbad found ways of escaping from the places where he was stranded on two occasions.
Question 9: How do you know that Sindbad was intelligent?
Answer: Sindbad knew how to save himself from the dangerous creatures such as the serpents.
Question 10: How do you know that Sindbad was charitable?
Answer: Sindbad gave alms to the poor from the money he had acquired from the diamonds.
Question 11: Do you think Sindbad would ever undertake such adventurous journeys again? Give reasons for your answers?
Answer: Yes, I think he would grow weary of a quiet life again and would undertake such adventurous journeys again.
So, these were The Giant Roc Questions & Answers.