Question

Read the following extract and answer the questions in 20 to 25 words.
Says the ant to the cricket, “I’m your servant and friend, but we ants never borrow;
we ants never lend.”
1. Why did the cricket approach the Ant?
2. How does the poet compare us to the cricket?

Answer 1

1. The cricket wanted to meet a miserly ant to borrow food or grains from it.
2. The poem is about a careless cricket and a hardworking ant. We all know that ants are hardworking creatures and humans are lazy and careless.