The Raven and the Fox Extract-Based
Questions
A.
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.
1. Who was Mr Raven?
Ans. Mr Raven was a raven/ crow whose name was also Raven.
2. What does ‘limb’ mean here?
Ans. Limb means a branch.
3. What was the name of the fox?
Ans. Reynard.
4. What was Mr Raven holding in its beak?
Ans. It was holding a morsel of food.
5. What does ‘the Fox would go far to seek’
mean?
Ans. It means that the fox could do anything and do any mean act to
get that morsel of food.
B. 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.”
1. Whom did the fox admire?
Ans. It admired the raven.
2. What adjective/s did the fox use for the
raven?
Ans. Handsome
3. According to the fox, Mr Raven had
attractive _______
Ans. Feathers
4. Who would call the raven a king?
Ans. The birds who lived in the woods would call the raven as king.
5. What does ‘woods’ here mean?
Ans. It means the forest area.
C. 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
1. What does ‘The Raven, who did not see the
joke’ mean?
Ans. It means that the raven failed to recognize that the fox was
merely flattering him.
2. How does the raven prove his foolishness?
Ans. The raven opens its beak to sing and forgets that he can merely
croak. This proved his foolishness.
3. Why was the fox flattering the Raven?
Ans. The fox wanted the morsel of food and so, by flattering the
raven, it would make it open its beak and drop the morsel.
4. Was the fox successful?
Ans. Yes, it was successful in
getting the morsel of food from the raven’s beak.
5. Which character in the poem is cunning?
Ans. Reynard, the fox is cunning.
D. “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.”
1. Why did the fox laugh?
Ans. The fox had fooled the raven and looted his food. Thus, it
laughed.
2. Who is teaching the raven?
Ans. The fox who had cheated the raven also teaches him to be wise
instead of being proud.
3. Why was this teaching a surprise?
Ans. It was a surprise because it was coming from the same being
who had cheated.
4. Which of these words rhymes with ‘glow’?
A. Duet
B. Blow
C. Got
D, Hot
Ans. B. Blow
5. Who is the teacher?
Ans. The fox