Question-Answers
B. Read this line from the text given below and answer
the questions:
1. Hearing
this, sixteen-year-old Rigzin ran towards Tashi’s house.
(a) What had Rigzin heard?
Answer: Rigzin heard that a snow
leopard had been seen in their village.
(b) Why did he run towards
Tashi’s house?
Answer: He ran
towards Tashi’s house to see the snow leopard.
(c) What did he do after reaching Tashi’s house?
Answer: After reaching Tashi’s house, he
climbed up to the roof of the lhas to see the snow leopard.
2. I
won’t keep quiet about it.
(a) Who said these words to
whom?
Answer: Rigzin said these words
to the villagers.
(b) What did ‘it’ refer to?
Answer: ‘It’
refers to the killing of snow leopard by the villagers.
(c) How was the problem finally solved?
Answer: The problem was finally solved
when Rigzin informed the Wildlife Department at Leh and they took the snow
leopard with them.
C. Answer in
detail.
1. How did Rigzin rescue the calf from the lhas?
Ans: Rigzin suggested to make another
hole at the other end of the roof, to draw the attention of the snow leopard on
the other side. Then, he ran down to the front of the lhas. Taking a deep
breath, he opened the door. He tiptoed up to the calf and picked it up. That’s
how he rescued the calf from lhas.
2. What happened when Rigzin tried to convince the villagers to not
kill the snow leopard? Was he successful?
Ans: When Rigzin tried to convince the villagers to not kill the
snow leopard, the villagers got angry as they had to suffer because of the
attacks of snow leopards on their livestock. Later, he was successful in
convincing the villagers as the snow leopard is an endangered species.
3. Why are snow leopards usually killed?
Ans: Snow leopards are usually killed
by angry villagers who have lost their livestock, while many are killed for
their fur and bones.
4. What solutions did the villagers think of to save their livestock
from snow leopards?
Ans: The villagers thought of killing the snow leopard to save their
livestock from snow leopards.
