Comprehension Passage
Richard Parker was so named because of a clerical error. A panther was
terrorising the Khulna district of Bangladesh, just outside the Sundarbans. It
has recently carried off a little girl. She was the seventh person killed in two
months by the animal. And it was growing bolder. The previous victim was a
man who had been attacked in broad daylight in his field. The beast
dragged him off into the forest and his corpse was later found hanging from
a tree. The villagers kept a watch nearby that night, hoping to surprise the
panther and kill it, but it never appeared.
The Forest Department hired a professional hunter. He set up a small,
hidden platform in a tree near a river where two of the attacks had taken
place. A goat was tied to a stake on the river’s bank. He hunter waited
several nights. He assumed the panther would be an old, wasted male with
worn teeth, incapable of catching anything more difficult than a human. But
it was a sleek tiger that stepped into the open one night: a female with a
single cub. The goat bleated. Oddly, the club, who looked to be about three
months old, paid little attention to the goat. It raced to the water’s edge,
where it drank eagerly. Its mother followed it. Of hunger and thirst, thirst is
the greater urge. Only once the tiger had quenched her thirst did she turn
to the goat to satisfy her hunger.
The hunter had two rifles with him: one with real bullets, the other with
immobilising darts. This animal was not a man-eater, but was so close to
human habitation that she might pose a threat to the villagers, especially as
she was with cub. He picked up the gun with the darts. He fired as the tiger
was about to attack the goat. The tiger reared up and snarled and raced
away. But immobilising darts don’t bring on sleep gently, they knock the
creature out without warning. A burst of activity on the animals’ part makes
it act all the faster.
The hunter, whose name was Richard Parker, picked it up and with his bare
hands and remembering how it has rushed to drink in river, named it
Thirsty. But the shipping clerk at the Howrah train station was evidently a
man both confused and diligent. All the papers received with the cub clearly
stated that its name was None Given. Richard Parker’s name stuck. I don’t
know if the hunter was ever called Thirsty None Given!
Question 1: Give the meaning of each of the following words as used
in the passage. One word answers or short phrases will be accepted.
i) Corpse (line 6)
ii) Quenched (line 18)
iii) Reared (line 23)
Question 2) Answer the following questions briefly in your own
words.
i) Why does the author say that the panther ‘was getting bolder’?
ii) Why did the Forest Department hire a professional hunter?
iii) What did the hunter expect to encounter? What did he actually
encounter?
iv) What did the tiger do before turning to attack the goat? Why did it do
that?
v) Why did the hunter decide to shoot the tiger though he knew it was not
the man-eater?
vi) What name did the hunter give the cub? Why?
Question 3:
i) In not more than 60 words narrate how the hunter and his assistants
captured the tiger and her cub?
ii) Give a suitable title to your summary in question 3 (i). Give a reason to
justify your choice.
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what is this please give a questions in perfectly can't understand anything.
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Explanation:
(i) Corpse: A dead body.
Quenched: Satisfy one's thirst.
Reared: Look after
(ii) The author said this because none of the villagers was able to face and catch the panther.
(iii) The forest department hired a professional hunter because he was trained and skilled to encounter dangerous animals. He thought it would be a man but it was a female tiger.
(iv) The tiger quenched her thirst before turning to the goat as she was thirsty.
(v) He decided to shoot the tiger to calm the villagers from frightening.
(vi) The hunter named the cub "Thirsty None Given".
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