Knock out the false claims
Exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- Question
- The jungle rule forbids every beast to eat Man. Three of the claims below about that rule are false.
- Choices
- Explanation
- That rule is said never to order anything without a reason.
- Item
- The rule is given with no reason at all
- Explanation
- The one exception sends the hunter outside its own grounds.
- Item
- A beast may hunt Man in its own grounds
- Item
- The beasts call Man weak and defenceless
- Correct
- Yes
- Explanation
- They are said to become mangy and to lose their teeth.
- Item
- Man-eaters grow sleek and strong
- Instructions
- Tap the three false claims about the jungle rule on hunting Man, leaving the true one standing.
Explanation
_Source: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894)_
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