NCERT Solutions for Class 6 English Honeysuckle Chapter 10

Answers of all the questions and Fill in the blanks, working with the language, comprehensions, reading and writing, etc. of Chapter 10 The Banyan Tree are given below. Download NCERT Books and Offline apps based on new CBSE Syllabus. Ask your doubts and share your knowledge with your friends and other users.

I – Passage for comprehension
Read the following passages carefully and answers the questions given below:
Its spreading branches, which hung to the ground and took root again, forming a number of twisting passages, gave me endless pleasure. Among them were squirrels and snails and butterflies. The tree was older than the house, older than Grandfather, as old as Dehra Dun itself. I could hide myself in its branches, behind thick green leaves, and spy on the world below.
Questions:
1. Name the lesson.
2. What did the author do there?
3. Find a word from the above passage that means opposite to ‘ordinary’.
II – Passage for comprehension
Read the following passages carefully and answers the questions given below:
Halfway up the tree I had built a crude platform where I would spend the afternoons when it was not too hot. I could read there propping myself up against the tree with a cushion from the living room. Treasure Island, Huckleberry Finn and The Story of Dr Dolittle were some of the books that made up my banyan tree library.
Questions:
1. How did the author make himself comfortable in the tree?
2. What did he do there?
3. Find out a word from the above passage that is opposite to ‘refined’.
III – Passage for comprehension
Read the following passages carefully and answers the questions given below:
At the same moment that the cobra struck, the crow and the myna hurled themselves at him, only to collide heavily in mid-air. Shrieking insults at each other they returned to the cactus plant. A few drops of blood glistened on the cobra’s back.
Questions:
1. Name the lesson.
2. For what purpose were the myna and the crow there?
3. Find out a word from the above passage that is same as ‘brighten’.

Answers: Passage I
1. The name of the lesson is ‘Banyan Tree’.
2. The author used to hide himself in the tree’s branches and observed the activities going on out there.
3. Magnificent.
Answers: Passage II
1. The author made himself comfortable on the platform built up in the branches.
2. He used to read story books there.
3. Crude.
Answers: Passage III
1. The name of the lesson is ‘Banyan Tree’.
2. The myna and the crow were waiting to prey on the cobra.
3. Glistened.