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Read these lines: "Lie still, little frog. O thou Mowgli, for Mowgli the Frog I will call thee, the time will come when thou wilt hunt Shere Khan as he has hunted thee." What does the wolf mother predict?
AThat the hunted child will one day hunt the tiger
BThat the child will be given up to the tiger
CThat the tiger will grow tired of the hunt
DThat the child will never learn to hunt at all
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. That the hunted child will one day hunt the tiger
1. 1. She is speaking over a helpless child while a tiger demands him, so at this moment the child is the prey.
2. 2. Her words put the child in the hunter's place and the tiger in the hunted place.
3. 3. The phrase as he has hunted thee marks it as an exact reversal of the present situation.
4. 4. Option A has her surrendering the child, which contradicts a promise about his future.
5. 5. Option B leaves the child passive, but the prediction gives him the action.
6. 6. Option D denies the hunting the prediction is built on.
_Source: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894)_
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