The Blue Bead

Question 1

Who is the author of The Blue Bead?

Answer 1

Norah Burke

Question 2

What is the nationality of the author?

Answer 2

English

Question 3

How long was the crocodile?

Answer 3

twice the length of a tall man

Question 4

What rolled inside him among the stones that he had swallowed to aid digestion?

Answer 4

a silver bracelet

Question 5

Where would the sleepers be stuck?

Answer 5

around the stones

Question 6

What type of crocodile was the corcodile?

Answer 6

a mugger crocodile

Question 7

Antediluvian meaning?

Answer 7

very old

Question 8

What was the colour of the crocodile?

Answer 8

Blackish brown above and yellowy white under

Question 9

Where did the crocodile store his food?

Answer 9

In holes in the bank

Question 10

How thick was the crocodile’s skin?

Answer 10

an inch-thick

Question 11

What were the weak spots of the crocodile?

Answer 11

The eyes and the underarms

Question 12

What did the crocodile mostly feed on?

Answer 12

fish, deer, monkeys, and ducks

Question 13

What did the crocodile sometimes feed on?

Answer 13

pi-dogs and skeleton cows and sometimes half burned bodies of Indians cast into the stream

Question 14

What was Sibia’s meal?

Answer 14

Chupatti wrapped round a smear of green chillies and rancid butter

Question 15

What was the colour of Sibia’s hair?

Answer 15

ebony or dark coloured hair

Question 16

How old was Sibia?

Answer 16

about 12

Question 17

Where was the bazar located?

Answer 17

in the little town at the railhead

Question 18

What colour were the sweets in the market?

Answer 18

green and magenta

Question 19

What was the cloth stall stacked with?

Answer 19

great rolls of new cotton cloth

Question 20

Where was the Kashmiri merchant travelling?

Answer 20

the bungalows

Question 21

What was the Kashmiri merchant showing?

Answer 21

dawn-coloured silks

Question 22

What did the Kashmiri merchant have in his little locked chest?

Answer 22

turquoises and opals

Question 23

Where was Sibia going with her mother and some other women?

Answer 23

to the cliffs above the river

Question 24

Why was Sibia going to the cliffs above the river with her mother and some other women?

Answer 24

to get paper grass

Question 25

Who were gujars?

Answer 25

nomadic graziers

Question 26

What were the gujars like?

Answer 26

They were like early man in the wandering pastoral age

Question 27

What frightens the crocodile?

Answer 27

noise

Question 28

What lived in and near the great broad river?

Answer 28

kingfishers, great turtles, and masheer weighing more than a hundred pounds

Question 29

What used the track at night?

Answer 29

A morose old tuskless makna elephant

Question 30

Where was the fork?

Answer 30

in the river