The Raven and the Fox Extra Question Answer Class 6 English Chapter 2
The Raven and the Fox Short Questions and Answers
Question 1.
Where was the Raven perched? Who looked up at him?
Answer:
The Raven was perched on the branch of a tree. A fox named Reynard looked up at him.
Question 2.
Which two words are used to describe the beak of the Raven?
Answer:
The two words used to describe the beak of the Raven are ‘great’ and ‘big’.
Question 3.
What would the fox go far to search?
Answer:
The fox was eyeing the morsel that the Raven he had in his beak. He wanted to get that morsel, if he did not, he would have to go far to find food.
Question 4.
What did the fox tell the Raven in admiring tones.
Answer:
The sly fox flattered the bird. He called him a handsome bird. He praised his black shiny feathers. He in a convincing tone told him that if he would sing, the birds of the woods would declare him king.
The Raven and the Fox Long Questions and Answers
Question 1.
Imagine you are the Raven. Narrate the incident to your friends. Tell them how you were trapped by the sweet words of the fox. Share with them the lesson that ypu have learnt by losing the morsel.
Answer:
Praise for selfish motives is flattery. It has nothing to do with compliment. Compliments are sincere and genuine. We must be alert and should not fall a prey to the flatterers. In the poem, The spider an the fly’ by Mary Howell the fly listens to the flattery, becomes vain and is trapped in the web by the spider.
The flatterers try to deceive and destroy the listener. We must not pay heed to such people. Flattery and flatterers have devastating effects. A flatterers uses sweet words to manipulate the innocent for selfish gains and takes advantage of the gullible and naive.
We must keep away from flattery and flatterer.
Question 2.
Imagine you are the cunning fox. You are remorseful about cheating the innocent Raven. Write a page in your diary expressing your feelings.
Answer:
20 July 20××
8:30 pm
Sunday
Dear Diary
Today again, I flid the same thing I am good at. I tricked an innocent Raven who had found a morsel and about to eat it. When I saw him eating it, I tricked him to get that morsel. I flattered him by convincing him that he had the best voice in the woods. I tried to make him sing for me. Though he looked at me in suspicion but I asked him that his melodious voice would make everyone happy.
The birds in the woods would praise him and declare him their king. He was trapped in my trick and opened his mouth to sing. But as we all know that the crows only croak and make the harsh sound. When he tried to sing, the morsel in his beak fell down. I jumped at it and caught it. I laughed at Raven and told him that he was such a foolish creature.
But soon I realized that I had done wrong to him as he showed faith in my flattering voice.
Though I got the morseLbut I was not happy. I was feeling guilty that I made fun of him and cheated on him. Everyone tries hard to get the food and they have their right on that food. Cheating someone is not a good idea for the food. I think I should try not to do it again and will give something in return to Raven, so that he will not lose his faith in others.
Bye for now
Reynard
Question 3.
The Raven and the fox named Reynard were different from each other. In your own words in form of a paragraph, describe the difference between the two. What would you advise the two so that they become better living beings.
Answer:
The fox was sly and crafty. He tricked the gullible and naive Raven. The sly fox said untrue good things to the Raven because he wanted the morsel that he was holding in his beak.
The Raven felt very proud and pleased, and became vain. He believed what the fox had told him. He was easily manipulated by the fox. The fox praised the Raven excessively and grabbed his food.
The fox and Raven, both of them should change their habits to become better living beings. The Raven should understand that flattery is a form of manipulation and one carweasily be deceived. Under confident people fall to flattery.
Flattery distracts us. The Raven gets distracted and forgets that he just croaks. The fox should stop being cunning and stop deceiving others. He should look for food himself and must stop eyeing food of others.
The Raven and the Fox Extract Based Questions
Passages For Comprehension
Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:
1. Mr Raven was perched upon a limb,
And Reynard the Fox looked up at him;
For the Raven held in his great big beak,
A morsel the Fox would go far to seek.
Questions:
(a) Who was Mr Raven and where was he?
Answer:
Mr Raven was a crow and he was sitting on a branch of a tree.
(b) What does a ‘limb’ stand for?
Answer:
The word ‘limb’ here means a branch.
(c) In the phrase “big beak’, the letter b’ is repeated, which figure of speech is it?
Answer:
It is called ‘alliteration’.
(d) Which word in the above stanza means ‘search’?
Answer:
The word ‘seek’ means search.
(e) Why did the fox look up?
Answer:
The fox looked up at the Raven because he was holding a morsel in his great big beak. The fox wanted to have his morsel.
2. Said the Fox, in admiring tones: “My word!
Sir Raven, you are a handsome bird.
Such feathers! If you would only sing,
The birds of these woods would call you King.”
Questions:
(a) Give the rhyme scheme of the above stanza.
Answer:
The rhyming words in the given stanza are word – a bird – a sing – b king – b Hence, the rhyme scheme is aa bb.
(b) What did the fox tell the Raven?
Answer:
He spoke to him in admiring tones, called him handsome and praised his feathers. He told him the birds would call him king if he would sing.
(c) Which figure of speech is used in the above last line of the stanza?
Answer:
Alliteration-woods, would.
(d) Why did the fox use the phrase ‘my word!’ in the stanza?
Answer:
The fox used the phrase ‘my word!’ in the stanza to express surprise or to emphasize his praising for crow.
(e) Choose the word opposite in meaning of ‘admiring’ as used in the stanza.
(i) praiseworthy
(ii) warm
(iii) flattering
(iv) uncomplimentary
Answer:
(iv) uncomplimentaiy
3. The Raven, who did not see the joke,
Forgot that his voice was just a croak.
He opened his beak, in his foolish pride-
And down fell the morsel the Fox had eyed.
Questions:
(a) Why did he open his beak?
Answer:
He opened his beak in foolish pride. He decided to sing for the fox, so that the birds of the woods would call him king.
(b) What had the fox eyed? Was he successful in getting it?
Answer:
The fox had eyed the morsel that the Raven was holding in his big beak. He was successful in grabbing the morsel by his deceitful ways.
(c) Could the Raven understand that he was just being fooled by the cunning fox?
Answer:
The Raven could not see the joke and in spite of knowing that he could not sing, falls into the trap and is fooled by the cunning fox.
(d) Why did the Raven open his beak?
Answer:
The fox told the Raven that only if he would sing, all the birds of the woods would call him a King.
(e) Which of the following word is the best replacement of “foolish’ in the stanza?
(i) stupid
(ii) prudent
(iii) bizarre
(iv) mad
Answers:
(i) stupid
4. “Ha-ha!” laughed the Fox. “And now you know,
Ignore sweet words that make you glow.
Pride, my friend, is rather unwise;
I’m sure this teaching is quite a surprise.”
Questions:
(a) Why did the fox laugh?
Answer:
As soon as the Raven opened his beak, the morsel he was holding fell down. Thus, the fox laughed at the foolishness of the Raven.
(b) What is unwise?
Answer:
Pride is unwise.
(c) Which word in the above stanza means the same as ‘shine’.
Answer:
The word glow’ means same as ‘shine’.
(d) Which words we must ignore?
Answer:
We must ignore the words that are only sweet with no truth, that only flatter you and make you vain.
(e) The fox taught a …….. to the crow in the end.
Answer:
lesson