The Owls in the Family - by Ruskin Bond | Questions with Answers
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1. Based on what you have just read, say whether the following sentences are true or false.
a. The spotted owlet is the largest owl species. — False
b. Spotted owlets and mynahs are friends. — False
c. Spotted owlets live in holes on trees. — True
d. Spotted owlets are completely nocturnal birds — they come out only at night. — False
e. Spotted owlets eat others small animals. — True
f. Spotted owlets have sharp eyes. — True
g. Spotted owlets have weak beaks. — False
h. Spotted owlets enjoy getting water. — True
2. The word character is used for a person who appears in a story, book, play or a movie. There are four characters mentioned in the text. Can you identify them?
Ans: The four characters are the narrator, his grandfather, his grandmother and Aunt Mabel.
Reference to contex
3. I had placed one on a branch of the mango tree, and was stopping to pick up the other, when I was received quite a heavy blow on the back of my head.
a. Where was the narrator?
Ans- The narrator was in the garden.
b. What had he placed on the mango tree? What was he ‘stooping to pick up’?
Ans: He placed one of the owlet on the mango tree.
He was ‘stooping to pick up’ the other owlet.
c. Who gave him the ‘heavy blow’?
Ans: The mother of the baby owls gave him the ‘heavy blow’.
4. I got the feeling that she was sorry for her behaviour the previous day, because she greeted us with a soft ‘whoo-whoo’.
a. Who, according to the narrator, was feeling sorry?
Ans: According to the narrator, the mother of the owlets was feeling sorry.
b. How did she show she was feeling sorry?
Ans: The mother owl was sitting on the birdbath ten yards away and she greeted the narrator and his grandfather with a soft ‘whoo-whoo’.
c. Why had she come there?
Ans: She had come there because she wanted a good home for her babies and her two babies were probably getting a bit too big for her to manage.
5. So the two owlets became regular members of our household, and strangely enough, were among the few pets that Grandmother took a liking to.
(a) Do these lines suggest that Grandmother liked most pets or that she did not like most pets?
Ans: These lines do not suggest that Grandmother liked most pets. But those two owlets were so adorable that she became fond of them. She had already few pets with her.
(b) Who were the members of the household besides Grandmother?
Ans: Besides Grandmother, Aunt Mabel and Grandfather and the narrator were the members of the household.
(c) Which member of the household did not like the owlets? How do you know?
Ans: Aunt Mabel did not like the owlets. Because she was terrified of them and she would run shrieking from the room every time when one of the birds approached to her in a friendly manner.
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