A Short Monsoon Diary-II

How did he describe the hill station and valley in one sentence?

• “A Heaven that might have been”

• “A Paradise that might have been”

• “A Paradise on Earth”

• “The Land of Beauty”

Who was attacked by the leopard?

• A Cat

• A Cow

• A Hamster

• A Dog

What is "falling noisily" be called in the poem?

• drumming

• drummling

• darkling

• drawning

Which plant is being shown in the image?

• Venus Flytrap

• Paradise

• Cobra Lily

• Dahlias

When Ruskin Bond saw the crow, what was he doing?

• He was sitting idle and cawing.

• He was drinking water as he was thirsty.

• He was fighting with another crow.

• He was shaking the raindrops from his feather.

What helps author to lie awake?

• The beautiful plants like- dahlias.

• The heavy thunderstorm.

• The steady swish of a tropical downpour.

• The whistling thrush emerging.

Where was the crow?

• Peepal Tree

• Oak Tree

• Seesham Tree

• The Nearby Electricity Pole

"And suddenly, clean and pure, the song of the whistling thrush emerges like a dark sweet secret from the depths of the ravine."

What is the meaning of word ravine here?

• Plateus

• Hillside

• Valleys

• Roads

What are shrew called in Hindi as written in the book? (Write singular form)

Which of them came out while the rain?

• Rodents

• Snakes

• Leeches

• Rabbits