Chapter 2

What instrument does Aryanath play to make snakes dance?

Which community is Aryanath's family part of?

How did Aryanath's grandfather help people after snakebites?

What law affected Aryanath's family's ability to catch and keep snakes?

Why do snake-charmers gift snakes to their daughters at marriage?

Which four snakes are identified as poisonous in the chapter?

What role do snakes play for farmers, according to the narrative?

Which word from the text is a past tense verb?

Identify the sentence that uses modal verbs in the chapter.

What activity involves children creating a snake puppet?

In the ‘Think and tell' section, which sense organ is discussed?

Which instrument is NOT part of a traditional been party?

Why did people stay after the snake-charmers' show, according to Dadaji?

Which phrase shows the use of the continuous tense in the chapter?

In which region of India are Kalbeliyas traditionally found?

Which activity prompts students to survey people who keep animals?

Which suffix in the word ‘poisonous' changes the meaning to ‘full of poison'?

What do Kalbeliyas use to decorate their walls, as mentioned in the introduction?

Which pronoun replaces ‘Aryanath and his cousins' in the sentence about forming a been party?

What is the main theme of the narrative told by Dadaji?

Which structure in the text shows reported speech?

What metaphorical gift do farmers receive from snakes?

Which question in the ‘Write' section asks students to imagine themselves as caged animals?

Which conjunction joins clauses in ‘We could help people even if doctors were far off'?

What does the chapter use to teach onomatopoeia?

Which word describes the tube carrying poison in a snake's mouth?

What did Aryanath's father teach him besides playing the been?

Which phrase in the text expresses nostalgia for the past?

Which section asks students to write reasons for their opinions on the snake law?

Which question from the ‘Write' section begins with ‘I am afraid when'?

Which verb tense is used in ‘We used to move from village to village'?

Which sentence shows conditional mood in the chapter?

Which activity encourages students to talk about animal shows they have seen?

Which word in the text is an example of a compound word?

Which section provides factual information about different snakes?

Which phrase indicates livelihood dependency in the chapter?

Which instruction involves cutting a ‘V' shape?

Which sentence shows the use of the perfect aspect?

Which topic could students discuss under ‘What can we do'?

Which exercise asks students to collect data from their neighbourhood?

Which part of speech is the word ‘special' in ‘I can do something special'?

Which rhetorical question is posed in the chapter?

Which word in the chapter is a collective noun for a group of snakes?