KBC Questions and Quiz, Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

Question: From whom did Mowgli get the idea for how to defeat the Dhole, the Red Dogs?

1. Bagheera
   
2. Kaa
   
3. Buldeo
   
4. Akela
   

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Kaa had, many years before, seen a stag leap off the cliffs above the hives of the bees into the river, and live.

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Question: Who guards the treasure chamber where Mowgli finds the King's Ankus?

1. A Hindu god
   
2. The white cobra
   
3. Bees
   
4. Kaa
   

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He had been put into the chamber years before "...that I might teach death to those who came to steal."

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Question: In "Letting in the Jungle", who is Mowgli's chief ally in his destruction of the village?

1. Baloo
   
2. Grey Brother
   
3. Raksha
   
4. Hathi
   

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Hathi had, years before, razed a village in revenge for being caught and wounded in a trap. He only insists that there be no killing. "My tusks were red at the sack of the fields of Bhurtpore and I would not wake that smell again."

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Question: When Mowgli has killed Shere Khan, and returns to the village, what is he greeted by?

1. Cheers
   
2. Stones and curses
   
3. The police
   
4. Buldeo prostrates himself before him
   

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The wolf pack had cast him out because he was a man, and now the village casts him out because he is a wolf. From here on Mowgli hunts with no pack, just Grey Brother and the Three.

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Question: What are the Master Words that Mowgli uses to get help from Chil the Kite and from the Poison-People during his adventure with the monkeys?

1. We be of one blood, ye and I
   
2. Hark O hark, once, twice, and again
   
3. Good hunting
   
4. Brother thy tail hangs down behind
   

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Even Bagheera is driven to call for help in the first rush of the battle with the monkeys. "...in despair (he) gave the Snake's Call for protection - "We be of one blood, ye and I" - for he believed that Kaa had turned tail at the last minute."

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Question: When the Bandar-log (monkey people) steal Mowgli, where do they take him?

1. To the village
   
2. To the Cold Lairs
   
3. To the river
   
4. To the Seeonee hills
   

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Kipling's portrayal of the Bandar-log is pretty clearly a sly poke at what we would now call the "chattering classes", those who comment upon what others have done, rather than doing themselves. "We are the most wonderful people in all the jungle! We all say so, and so it must be true," "What the Bandar-log think now the Jungle will think later".

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Question: Why does Bagheera consider himself something of an expert among the animals on matters pertaining to Man?

1. He has killed so many men
   
2. He was born in captivity
   
3. He often hunts near the village
   
4. He follows men and watches them
   

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Bagheera was born in the King's cages at Oodeypore. Then, one day "...I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away." This is the reason he pays the bull for Mowgli's life, as he has a fellow-feeling for another who was born among men.

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Question: If Mowgli needs to swear, what oath does he use?

1. By the teeth and claws of my fathers
   
2. By the broken lock that freed me
   
3. By the bull that bought me
   
4. By the Council Rock
   

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This is a reference to the bull that Bagheera paid for him.

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Question: Who speaks for Mowgli at the 'looking-over' at the Council Rock, when he is adopted into the wolf-pack?

1. Mother and Father Wolf
   
2. Kaa
   
3. Sher Khan
   
4. Baloo and Bagheera
   

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By the Law of the Jungle, if a cub's rights are disputed, he must be spoken for by two members of the pack who are not his mother and father. Baloo the Bear is allowed at the council, even though he is not a wolf, because he teaches the Law to the young cubs. He speaks for Mowgli, and then Bagheera buys the life of Mowgli with a fat bull, newly killed, because "to kill a naked cub is shame".

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Question: What does the name "Mowgli" mean?

1. One who fights
   
2. Man-cub
   
3. Frog
   
4. Tiger
   

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He is called "frog" because he is naked, with no fur.

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