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Chapter 10 The Banyan Tree
MCQ Questions
Halfway up the tree I had built a crude platform where I would spe nd the afternoons when it was not too hot. I could read there propping myself up against the tree” with a cushion from the living room. Treasure Island, Huckleberry Finn and The Story of Dr Dolittle were some of the books that made up my banyan tree library. When I did not feel like reading, I could look down through the leaves at the world below. And on one particular afternoon I had a grandstand view of that classic of the Indian wilds, a fight between a mongoose and a cobra.
Question 1.
Where did the narrator build a platform for himself?
(a) On banyan tree
(b) On mango tree
(c) On guava tree
(d) One coconut tree
Answer
Answer: (a) On banyan tree
Question 2.
What did he do there?
(a) Play ludo
(b) Read books
(c) Watched birds
(d) Talked to birds
Answer
Answer: (b) Read books
Question 3.
How did he pass his time when not reading a book?
(a) Playing ludo
(b) Talking to birds
(c) Watching birds
(d) Watched the world below
Answer
Answer: (d) Watched the world below
Question 4.
What did he see one afternoon?
(a) Battle between mongoose and cobra
(b) Battle between snake and crow
(c) Battle between snake and myna
(d) Battle between ciow and myna
Answer
Answer: (d) Battle between ciow and myna
Question 5.
Give the meaning of ‘propping’.
(a) hopping
(b) doing
(c) sitting against
(d) running
Answer
Answer: (c) sitting against
(2)
My first friend was a small grey’squirrel. Arching his back and sniffing into the air, he seemed at first to resent my invasion of his privacy. But when he found that I did not arm myself with catapult or air gun, he became friendly, and when I started bringing him pieces of cake and biscuit he grew quite bold and was soon taking morsels from hand.
Question 1.
Name the lesson.
(a) Who I am
(b) Fair Play
(c) Taro’s Reward
(d) The Banyan Tree
Answer
Answer: (d) The Banyan Tree
Question 2.
Whom did he (the narrator) make his first friend?
(a) Squirrel
(b) Cat
(c) Rabbit
(d) Puppy
Answer
Answer: (a) Squirrel
Question 3.
Where was his first friend?
(a) In the mango groove
(b) In the banyan tree
(c) In the bushes
(d) In the house
Answer
Answer: (b) In the banyan tree
Question 4.
What did the narrator give to the squirrel to eat?
(a) Cakes
(b) Biscuits
(c) Cakes and biscuits
(d) Toffees .
Answer
Answer: (c) Cakes and biscuits
Question 5.
Which word in the passage means ‘stopped’?
(a) ceased
(b) shut
(c) placed
(d) finished
Answer
Answer: (a) ceased
(3)
Moving forward quickly until he was just within the cobra’s reach, the mongoose made a pretended move to one side. Immediately the cobra struck. His great hood came down so swiftly that I thought nothing could save the mongoose. But the little fellow jumped neatly to one side, and darted in as swiftly as the cobra, biting the snake on the back and darting away again out of reach.
Question 1.
Who moved forward?
(a) Mongoose
(b) Crow
(c) Snake
(d) Myna
Answer
Answer: (a) Mongoose
Question 2.
What did the mongoose pretend?
(a) To be asleep
(b) To be lazy
(c) To move to one side
(d) To be hurt
Answer
Answer: (c) To move to one side
Question 3.
How did the cobra react?
(a) He went away
(b) Attacked the mongoose
(c) He was tired
(d) Also moved to that side
Answer
Answer: (b) Attacked the mongoose
Question 4.
Where did the mongoose bite the snake?
(a) On its hood
(b) On its skin
(c) On its middle
(d) On the back
Answer
Answer: (d) On the back
Question 5.
Pick the word from the passage which means ‘at once’.
(a) immediately
(b) neatly
(c) moving
(d) darting
Answer
Answer: (a) immediately
(4)
The cobra knew only too well that the grey mongoose, three feet long, was a superb fighter, clever and aggressive. But the cobra, too, was a skilful and experienced fighter. He could move swiftly and strike with the speed of light; and the sacs behind his long sharp fangs were full of deadly poison. It was to be a battle of champions.
Question 1.
How long was the mongoose?
(a) One foot long
(b) Two feet long
(c) Three feet long
(d) Four feet long.
Answer
Answer: (c) Three feet long
Question 2.
Who was termed a superb fighter, clever and aggressive?
(a) Mongoose
(b) Crow
(c) Snake
(d) Myna
Answer
Answer: (a) Mongoose
Question 3.
Who was a skilful and experienced fighter?
(a) Mongoose
(b) Snake
(c) Crow
(d) Myna
Answer
Answer: (b) Snake
Question 4.
Where did the cobra carry poison?
(a) In its mouth
(b) In its teeth
(c) In its skin
(d) In bag behind its long pointed teeth
Answer
Answer: (d) In bag behind its long pointed teeth
Question 5.
Which word in the passage means ‘excellent’?
(a) superb
(b) clever
(c) grey
(d) aggressive
Answer
Answer: (a) superb
(5)
The cobra was weakening, and the mongoose, walking fearlessly up to it, raised himself on his short legs and with a lightning snap had the big snake by the snout. The cobra writhed and lashed about in a frightening manner, and even coiled itself about the mongoose, but to no avail. The little fellow hung grimly on, until the snake had ceased to struggle. He then smelt along its quivering length gripped it round the hood, and dragged it into the bushes.
Question 1.
Name the lesson.
(a) The Banyan Tree
(b) Who I am
(c) Desert Animals
(d) Fair Play
Answer
Answer: (a) The Banyan Tree
Question 2.
Who was growing weak?
(a) Mongoose
(b) Snake
(c) Crow
(d) Myna
Answer
Answer: (b) Snake
Question 3.
What did the mongoose do then?
(a) He was also growing weak
(b) He left the cobra there
(c) He grabbed the cobra by its neck
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (c) He grabbed the cobra by its neck
Question 4.
What did the mongoose do with the dead snake?
(a) Left it there
(b) Eaten it
(c) Left it fqr crow and myna
(d) Dragged it in the bushes
Answer
Answer: (d) Dragged it in the bushes
Question 5.
Which word in the passage means ‘pulled’.
(a) dragged
(b) coiled
(c) raised
(d) gripped
Answer
Answer: (a) dragged
(6)
The third round followed the same course as the first but with one dramatic difference. The crow and the myna, still determined to take part in the proceedings, dived at the cobra; but this time they missed each other as well as their mark. The myna flew on and reached its perch, but the crow tried to pull up in mid-air and turn back. In the second that it took the bird to do this the cobra whipped his head back and struck with great force, his snout thudding against the crow’s body.
Question 1.
Name the lesson.
(a) The Banyan Tree
(b) Fair Play
(c) Who I am
(d) Desert Animals
Answer
Answer: (a) The Banyan Tree
Question 2.
Which two birds were there to see the fight?
(a) Crow and sparrow
(b) Sparrow and myna
(c) Crow and myna
(d) Parrot and myna
Answer
Answer: (c) Crow and myna
Question 3.
Who reached its perch?
(a) Myna
(b) Crow
(c) Mongoose
(d) Snake
Answer
Answer: (a) Myna
Question 4.
What happened when the cobra strike the crow?
(a) It threw it aside
(b) He killed the crow
(c) The crow hit back
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (b) He killed the crow
Question 5.
Give the meaning of ‘whipped’.
(a) whistled
(b) tired
(c) turned fast
(d) killed
Answer
Answer: (c) turned fast
Important Questions
Question 1.
Why did the speaker claim that the old banyan tree was his?
Answer:
The old banyan tree became the narrator’s own property because his grandfather was too old to climb it.
Question 2.
What did the speaker do on his crude platform?
Answer:
The author used to read story books and watch the world below from his crude platform.
Question 3.
What change did the fig season bring in?
Answer:
The banyan tree became the noisiest place in the garden during the fig season.
Question 4.
What exciting scene did the author narrate?
Answer:
The author enjoyed the fight between a mongoose and a cobra, a battle of two champions.
Question 5.
Who won the fight between the mongoose and the snake?
Answer:
The mongoose first bit the snake twice on the back. When the cobra was tired, the mongoose caught it by the snout. He finally dragged the dead snake into the bushes.
Question 6.
Who were the other two spectators? What did they do? (Did they watch, or did they join in the fight)?
Answer:
The other two spectators were a myna and a jungle crow. They settled on a cactus to watch the outcome joined in the fight off and on.
The Banyan Tree Extra Questions and Answers Long Answer Type
Question 1.
What do you learn from the fight of swift mongoose and venomous snake?
Answer:
One can easily learn that the one with energy and swiftness in action can succeed in life. The snake was a great threat to one as it is filled with deadly venom. The patience and strategic fight plan along with understanding of weakness and strength of the opponent make one a winner. One more thing to be understood here is that various opportunist viable to make use of opportunities.
Question 2.
How does sense of belongingness develop faith?
Answer:
The author describes that the house belongs to his grandfather yet the tree belongs to him. He found a comfort place in the branches and made it a resting place to read various books of his interest. He got a over view of every activity that took place around him. His faith helped him in befriending a squirrel. The child brought food for squirrel. So with time faith was developed and the squirrel could delve into his pockets.
Question 3.
What is the significance of the banyan tree in the story of Ruskin Bond’s?
Answer:
The whole story revolves around the tree. The tree was a second home to the author and gave a panoramic view of the world around it. The banyan tree served as a platform for the writer to sit and watch the thrilling fight between a cobra and a wild mongoose. The tree was almost the speaker’s property. The fight started under that tree in sunshine. The other spectators, a myna and a crow also arrived to feed on the dead cobra. But they sat on a cactus plant not the tree.
Question 4.
(i) What happened to the crow in the end?
(ii) What did the myna do finally?
Answer:
(i) In the end the crow flung nearly twenty feet across the garden by a blow from the cobra’s snout. It fluttered about for a while, then lay still.
(ii) Myna finally dropped cautiously to the ground, hopped about, the peered into the bushes from a safe distance and then with a shrill cry of congratulations flew away.
The Banyan Tree Extra Questions and Answers Reference to Context
Question 1.
My first friend was a small grey squirrel. Arching his back and sniffing into the air, he seemed at first to resent my invasion of his privacy. But when he found that I did not arm myself with catapult or air gun, he became friendly, and when I started bringing him pieces of cake and biscuit he grew quite bold and was soon taking morsels from hand. Before long, he was delving into my pockets and helping himself to whatever he could find. He was a very young squirrel, and his friends and relatives probably thought him foolish and headstrong for trusting a human.
(i) Who is the first friend of the writer?
(ii) How did the squirrel become friendly with the child?
(iii) What did the writer bring for the squirrel?
(iv) What could be the opinion of squirrel’s family and friends about human being?
(v) Write antonym of ‘Probably’.
Answer:
(i) A small grey squirrel is the first friend of the writer.
(ii) The squirrel did not see the child with any catapult or gun. So it become friendly with the child.
(iii) The writer brought pieces of cake and biscuits for the squirrel.
(iv) The opinion of squirrel’s family and friends could be that human beings are not trustworthy.
(v) Sure.
Question 2.
Halfway up the tree I had built a crude platform where I would spend the afternoons when it was not too
hot. I could read there ropping myself up against the tree with a cushion from the living room. Treasure Island, Huckleberry Finn and The Story of Dr Dolittle were some of the books that made up my banyan tree library. When I did not feel like reading, I could look down through the leaves at the world below. And on one particular afternoon I had a grandstand view of that classic of the Indian wilds, a fight between a mongoose, and a cobra.
(i) What did the child build on the tree?
(ii) What did the child do on the platform?
(iii) What did the child see one day?
(iv) From where did the narrator arranged a cushion?
(v) Find ‘present participle’ of‘prop’ from the above passage.
Answer:
(i) The child built a crude platform on the tree.
(ii) The child read books on the platform.
(iii) The child saw a grandstand view of wild fights between a mongoose and a cobra.
(iv) The narrator arranged a cushion from his living room.
(v) Propping.
Question 3.
The warm breezes of approaching summer had sent everyone, including the gardener, into the house. I was feeling drowsy myself, wondering if I should go to the pond and have a swim with Ramu and the buffaloes, when I saw a huge black cobra gliding out of a clump of cactus. At the same time a mongoose emerged from the bushes and went straight for the cobra.
(i) What does the ‘warm breezes’ suggest?
(ii) What was he thinking of doing?
(iii) From where did the snake emerge?
(iv) Who went straight to attack cobra?
(v) Find a word from the passage, which means ‘a small group’?
Answer:
(i) The “Warm breezes’ suggest about the approaching summer.
(ii) He was thinking of going for swimming.
(iii) The snake emerged from the clump of cactus.
(iv) A Mongoose went straight to attack cobra.
(v) Clump.
Question 4.
At the same moment that the cobra struck, the crow and the myna hurled themselves at him, only to collide heavily in mid-air. Shrieking insults at each other they returned to the cactus plant. A few drops of blood glistened on the cobra’s back. The cobra struck and missed. Again in the mongoose sprang aside, jumped in and bit. Again the birds dived at the snake, bumped into each other instead, and returned shrieking to the safety of the cactus.
(i) Where did the crow and myna collide each other?
(ii) Where did they myna and the crow land?
(iii) Whose attack was more fierce?
(iv) On whom were the eyes of the birds were focused?
(v) Choose the past participle of strike.
Answer:
(i) The crow and the myna collided with each other in mid-air.
(ii) They landed onto the cactus plant.
(iii) Mongoose attack was more fierce.
(iv) The eyes of the bird were focused on snake.
(v) Struck.
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