The Raven and the Fox Class 6 English Poorvi Question Answer
Chapter 2 The Raven and the Fox Questions Answers Class 6 English
Short Question Answer
Question 1. What did the Fox see Raven doing on the tree?
Answer
The Fox saw a Raven perching on the tree with a morsel of food in his beak.
Question 2. 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.
Question 3. 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 4. Who was perching on the tree?
Answer
A Raven was perching on the tree.
Question 5. What happened when the Raven sang?
Answer
When the Raven opened his mouth to sing a song the morsel fell from his mouth. This was the Fox’s clever craftiness that snatched his food.
Question 6. 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 7. How did the Fox snatch a morsel of food?
Answer
The Fox started admiring the Raven with sweet words. He called him with praise of his personality. He said that the Raven looked great with beautiful feathers.
Question 8. 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 9. How did the Fox make the Raven to open his mouth?
Answer
The Fox started praising the Raven. He said that the Raven had beautiful feathers. He sang sweetly. If he sang a song the birds and animals would call him ‘King’.
Question 10. What made the Raven open his mouth?
Answer
Precisely, the Raven fell into Fox’s net of cheating. Reynard said that he had beautiful feathers. He had a sweet voice. If he sang a song, all the birds and animals would call him ‘King’.
Question 11. What attracted the Fox toward Raven?
Answer
The Fox was hungry. He saw the Raven. He had a morsel of food in his mouth. The fox decided to cheat him to get the morsel.
Question 12. What is the lesson that we get from the poem?
Answer
The poem strongly gives out a moral teaching. It is that pride has always fallen. It causes mental pain. Pride is always a great force. This is shown in the poem.
Question 13. What was Raven carrying in his beak?
Answer
Raven was carrying a morsel of food in his beak.
Question 14. What admiring words did the Fox tell Raven?
Answer
The Fox told Raven that he was very handsome with growing feathers.
Question 15. What did the Fox suggest Raven do?
Answer
The Fox suggested Raven sing and that he could become the king of birds in the woods because of his song.
Question 16. What did the Fox do to fool the Raven?
Answer
He called Raven handsome with growing feathers. It would be great if he could sing to become the King of birds in the woods.
Question 17. What did the Fox suggest?
Answer
One must not get flattered by sweet words, and fall into false pride which is unwise to do so.
Question 18. What teachings did the Fox convey?
Answer
We must not get flattered but must judge ourselves according to our capability.
Question 19. 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 20. 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 car easily 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.
Extract Based Questions
Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:
Extract 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.
Question 1. Where did Mr. Raven sit?
(a) on a table
(b) in the branch
(c) near the forest
(d) on a branch
Answer
(d) on a branch
Question 2. What was in Raven’s mouth?
(a) a piece of cake
(b) a morsel
(c) biscuit
(d) bread
Answer
(b) a morsel
Question 3. What for did the Fox look at the Raven?
(a) for food
(b) for leaves
(c) to pay respect to him
(d) none of the above
Answer
(a) for food
Question 4. How did the beak look?
(a) big
(b) great
(c) great beak
(d) black beak
Answer
(d) black beak
Extract 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.
(b) What did the fox tell the Raven?
(c) Which figure of speech is used in the above last line of the stanza?
(d) Why did the fox use the phrase ‘my word!’ in the stanza?
Answer
(a) The rhyming words in the given stanza are word – a bird – a sing – b king – b Hence, the rhyme scheme is aa bb.
(b) 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) Alliteration-woods, would.
(d) The fox used the phrase ‘my word!’ in the stanza to express surprise or to emphasize his praising for crow.
Extract 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.
Question 1. The purpose of the joke was to
(a) get Raven’s morsel of food
(b) to praise the Raven’s beauty
(c) to surrender the morsel
(d) Insult the Raven
Answer
(a) get Raven’s morsel of food
Question 2. What did the Raven forget?
(a) his beauty
(b) his sweet method of singing
(c) he forgot that his song was simply not sweet
(d) none of the above
Answer
(c) he forgot that his song was simply not sweet
Question 3. ‘Croak’ is:
(a) harsh noise
(b) baritonic
(c) rough
(d) pleasing
Answer
(a) harsh noise
Question 4. When did the morsel fall?
(a) when the Raven flew
(b) when the Raven opened his mouth to sing
(c) when Reynard spoke in praise
(d) none of the above
Answer
(b) when the Raven opened his mouth to sing
Extract 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?
(b) What is unwise?
(c) Which word in the above stanza means the same as ‘shine’?
(d) Which words we must ignore?
Answer
(a) 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) Pride is unwise.
(c) The word glow’ means same as ‘shine’.
(d) We must ignore the words that are only sweet with no truth, that only flatter you and make you vain.