Question

There was a strong breeze, which is unusual during a winter night in Gujarat. The sugarcane swayed wildly under a moonless sky. I pulled my jacked around me and adjusted my binoculars.
“You won’t need them. It will come right down there, next to the cow,” village leader Hitesh Patel whispered in my ears. I felt like asking him if it was safe on the roof where we were perched, but then Vitthal Vasava signaled from the cow shed below. “It seems to be coming from the riverside,” he said. “You will see it any moment. Stay still and don’t make any noise or you’ll invite trouble,” Hitesh reminded me. Another couple of minutes passed, and then a leopard leaped out from behind the shed and made its way towards a cow that was chained to a tree nearby. As the leopard closed to within ten metres, it seemed there would be no escape for the cow. However, what I saw was something else – totally baffling. As if enacting a character from Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book, the cat ducked under the cow’s neck, stretched out lazily and began to purr. At first the cow ignored its companion but eventually gave in to the feline’s playful nudges and started licking its fur as if it was one of its calves. It started pushing the cow’s belly and after a while, crept under her neck and lay there as if resting. Then it stood up and slowly walked back to the riverside.
What could have caused this extraordinary behaviour? It turned out that, about three years ago, a female leopard had given birth to two cubs in a sugarcane field. The villagers had spotted the family and had brought it to the Noticeof the forest officials. A few months later, a female leopard was captured in the area and taken to the zoo. There was no report of the cubs. The people believed the leopard that has been frequenting the village every night and playing with the cow might be one of the two cubs. “It’s possible that this leopard cub would have seen the cow, and became imprinted on it,” Hitesh Patel suggested.

1.What were the men doing on the roof?
(1 Point)
They were enjoying the winter night in Gujarat
They wanted to have a good view of Vitthal Vasava
They wanted to keep a safe distance from the leopard
They wanted to look at the leopard from a safe distance.
2.What kind of “trouble” was Hitesh referring to?
(1 Point)
The men falling from the roof
The leopard attacking the cow
The men being attacked by the leopard
The leopard ducking under the cow’s neck.
3.Why was the writer puzzled?
(1 Point)
The leopard purred like a cat
The leopard did not kill the cow
The cow licked the leopard’s fur
The leopard pushed the cow’s belly
4.What was the cow’s reaction to the leopard’s “playful nudges”
(1 Point)
The cow was loving
The cow was pleased
The cow was irritated
The cow was terrified
5.What do you think caused the leopard to behave in such an “extraordinary behavior”?Immersive Reader
(1 Point)
The leopard had seen the cow before.
The leopard enjoyed playing with the cow
The leopard treated the cow like its own kind Boere:
The leopard had been frequenting the village every night.

Answer 1

Answer:

1(d),2(c),3(b),4(a),5c)

Explanation:

This is your answer..

Answer 2

The correct answer to the following questions are:-

1. (d)They wanted to look at the leopard from a safe distance.

2. (c)The men being attacked by the leopard

3. (b)The leopard did not kill the cow

4. (a)The cow was loving

5. (c)The leopard treated the cow, like its own kind Boere:

• In this extract, we can know that the Leopard had no intention of killing the cow.
• The people had set a bit for the Leopard to come and kill the cow but they were puzzled that the Leopard did not make any harmful action towards the cow.
• Later they came to know that the Leopard had no harmful intentions for the cow and he is to come and play with the cow actually.
• He was actually the baby of the female Leopard who had been arrested before.

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