The Tale of Custard the Dragon- Extract Based comprehension test Questions

The Tale of Custard the Dragon

ByOgden Nash

Extract Based / comprehension test  Questions and Answers of  The Tale of Custard the Dragon

 Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow.

1.’Belinda still lives in her little white house,

With a little black kitten and her little grey mouse,

And a little yellow dog and her little wagon,

And her regalia, truly little pet dragon.

(a) To whom do the pets belong?

 (b) Identify the poetic device used in the above lines.

 (c) How many pets did Belinda have?

 (d) What is the rhyme scheme in the stanza?

Ans. (a) Belinda

(b) Alliteration

(c) Four.

(d) a; a; b, b.

2. ‘Belinda giggled till she shook the house,

 And Blink said Week! Which is giggling for a mouse?

 Ink and Mustard rudely asked his age

When Custard cried for a nice safe cage’.

(a) Name the poem and its poet.

 (b) Why were Belinda and Blink giggling?

 (c) What was the reaction of Belinda and other animals when they heard Custard crying for a nice cage?

(d) What does the growing of Mustard show?

Ans. (a) The Tale of Custard the Dragon.By OgdenNash.

 (b) They were giggling at the Dragon because he always cried for a safety cage.

(c) They laughed at him. Mustard and Ink were rude and impolite as they asked Cuss what his age was.

 (d) The growing of Mustard shows that he was angry by the interruption in their fun.

3. “Belinda was as brave as a barrel full of bears, and Ink and Blink chased lions down the stairs, Mustard was as brave as a tiger in a rage, But Custard cried for a nice safe cage.”

 (a) Who is ‘Mustard’ in the above lines?

 (b) What did Custard generally cry for?

 (c) Who are the characters in the above lines? List them with their pet names.

(d) What is the rhyme scheme of the above stanza?

Ans. (a) the yellow dog.

(b) Custard cried for a nice, safe cage.

 (c) 1. Belinda — Girl

2.Ink — Kitten

3.Blink — Mouse

4.Mustard — Dog

5.Custard — Dragon.

(d)a  a bb.

4. Belinda tickled him, she tickled him unmerciful,

Ink, Blink and Mustard, they rudely called him Percival,

They all sat laughing in the little red wagon

At the regalia, truly, cowardly dragon.

 (a) Who was Belinda?

 (b) Why did Belinda and the other pets laugh at the dragon?

(c) Who are Ink and Blink?

(d) Why did they make fun of the dragon?

Ans. (a) Belinda was a small girl who lived in a small white house.

(b) Belinda and the other pets laughed at the dragon because he appeared to be a coward.

(c) Ink is the kitten and Blink is the mouse.

(d) Because it amused them, as he appeared to be a coward.

5. Belinda embraced him, Mustard licked him,

No one mourned for his pirate victim.

 Ink and Blink in glee did gyrate around

the dragon that ate the pirate.

(a) Holkham’ refers to ———-

 (b) Notch mourned the death of pirate because he had ———–

 (c) In the extract, humour lies in the fact that Ink and Blink are————–

(d) Whom did Belinda embrace?

Or

(a) What did the dragon do?

 (b) Why were Ink and Blink happy?

 (c) Who is the victim?

 (d) The rhyme scheme of the stanza is————–

Ans. (a) Custard

(b) come to kill Belinda.

 (c) celebrating the victory of the dragon.

 (d) Custard, the dragon.

Or

(a) He ate the pirate.

(b) Because the pirate was killed.

(c) The pirate.

 (d) aabb

6. Belinda paled, and she cried Help! Help!

 But Mustard fled with a terrified yelp,

 Ink trickled down to the bottom of the household,

 And little mouse Blink strategically mousehole.

 (a) Why did Belinda cry for help?

(b) What did Mustard do?

 (c) How did Ink react?

(d) Mustard yelped because he was scared of at———

Ans. (a) Because she was afraid of the pirate.

(b) He fled with a terrified yelp. `

(c) He trickled down to the bottom of the household.

(d) the pirate

7. Custard the dragon had big sharp teeth,

And spikes on top of him and scales underneath

, Mouth like a fireplace, chimney for a nose

, And really, truly daggers on his toes.

 (a) Custard was the

 (b) Its nose looked like a 

(c) Who was Custard?

 (d) What was beneath his body?

Ans. (a) dragon

 (b) chimney

(c) The custard was a dragon.

(d) Scales

8.Pistol in his left hand,

pistol in his right,

 And he held in his teeth a cutlass bright,

His beard was black,

one leg was wood;

It was clear that the pirate meant no good.

(a) Who is ‘he’ in the second line?

 (b) What was wrong with his one leg?

(c) Who held the pistols?

 (d) What did the dragon do to him?

Ans. (a) The pirate.

 (b) It was made of wood.

(c) The pirate.

 (d) Ate him.

9. The pirate gaped at Belinda’s dragon,

 And gulped some grog from his pocket flagon,

 He fired two bullets, but they didn’t hit,

 And Custard gobbled him, every bit.

(a) What is the rhyme scheme of the stanza?

(b) Who is projected as the hero in the above lines?

 (c) How did Custard deal with the pirate?

(d) What were the bullets fired for?

Ans. (a) a, a, b, b.

 (b) The dragon, Custard.

 (c) He ate him.

 (d) for killing Custard.

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