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Read these lines: "I have taught thee all the Law of the Jungle for all the peoples of the jungle, except the Monkey-Folk who live in the trees. They have no law. They are outcasts. They have no speech of their own, but use the stolen words which they overhear when they listen, and peep, and wait up above in the branches." What is said about the monkeys here?

AThey keep a law stricter than the others
BThey teach their own tongue to the young
CThey live by borrowing what others have made
DThey rule the branches by open force
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. They live by borrowing what others have made
1. 1. Three lacks are listed in turn: no law, no standing among the peoples, and no speech of their own. 2. 2. What they use instead is stolen words picked up by listening from above. 3. 3. Taking what others have made and passing it off as theirs is what the first option describes. 4. 4. Having no law is the opposite of a stricter law, and a tongue they did not make cannot be taught as their own. _Source: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894)_
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