Hi Everyone!! This article will share Jumbo Jet Questions & Answers.
This poem is written by Spike Milligan. In my previous posts, I have shared the questions and answers of The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Foreign Lands so, you can check these posts as well.
Jumbo Jet Questions & Answers
Word Galaxy
- I beg your pardon – Tell someone to repeat what they have just said
- Saranghetti’s plain – the plains of the Serengeti National Park
- Finchley and Mincing lane – names of places in London
- Embankment – An underground station in London
- Cell – A place where a prisoner is locked up
- Tied – Fastened with string
- Dawn – The time of day when light first appears in the sky
- Jumbo – Very large
Question 1: Who was standing in the poet’s garden?
Answer: A little elephant was standing in the poet’s garden.
Question 2: What two things are strange about the elephant in the poem?
Answer: Two things strange about the elephant in the poem are:
- Elephant was in England.
- It could talk.
Question 3: Why did the little elephant want to catch a train?
Answer: The little elephant wanted to catch a train because he was lost in England and he wanted to go back to Saranghetti Plain in Africa.
Question 4: How does the little elephant want to go home?
Answer: The elephant wants to go home by train.
Question 5: Why do you think the policemen wanted to put the elephant in prison?
Answer: The policemen wanted to put the elephant in prison because a wild elephant should not be roaming in the streets of London.
Question 6: Where did he get lost again?
Answer: He got lost again over the embankment.
Question 7: Where did the police keep the little elephant?
Answer: The police first kept him in a cell but it was too small for him so he tied him to a lamp post.
Question 8: Did the elephant like what the police did? How do you know?
Answer: The elephant did not like what the police did with him. I think it is because the elephant ran away from there when the policemen lay sleeping by the twinkling light of dawn.
Question 9: What could one be sure of on seeing a jumbo jet?
Answer: One can be sure of seeing an elephant in a jumbo jet who is trying to go back to Africa.
Question 10: Read these lines from the poem and answer the questions.
‘I saw a little elephant standing in my garden,
I said, ‘You don’t belong in here’, he said, ‘I beg your pardon?’
(a) Where was the elephant standing?
Answer: The elephant was standing in the poet’s garden in England.
(b) What is ‘here’?
Answer: The word ‘here’ means the place in England.
(c) Where in Africa does the elephant want to go?
Answer: The elephant wants to go home by train.
So, these were the Questions & Answers.