Practice sheet- The Blind Men and the Elephant

Practice sheet- The Blind Men and the Elephant

·       Match the following similes.

a.     As cute as                                    1. Nails

b.    As black as                                  2. A kitten

c.     As cold as                                    3. coal

d.    As light as                                    4. ice

e.     As busy as                                   5. A feather

f.       As blind as                                   6. A bee

g.     As hard as                                   7. honey

h.    As sweet as                                  8. A bat

·       Answer in a word or a phrase.

a. Where did the six men of Indostan go?

______________________________

b. What was very round, smooth and sharp? ______________________________

c. Who said that the elephant is like a fan? ______________________________

d. What was exceedingly stiff and strong? ______________________________

*Answer the following questions:

1.How did the blind men hope to ‘see’?

2.Pick out the words that tell you that each man was very sure of his opinion.

3.How everyone can be right and all of them wrong too?

4.How could the blind men have known what a spear/a tree/a fan etc might look like?

5.Were the blind men well-learned? support your answer with a line from poem.

6.Why did each blind man have a different opinion about the elephant’s appearance?

7.Why were they quarrelling in the end?