Jungle Book
Worksheets
As you read the chapters of the Jungle Book story, answer the
following questions:
Chapter 1
1.
What did Mother and Father Wolf name the baby that crawled into their
cave?
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2. Why do you think they called him “Little Frog”?
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3. Why did Sher Khan want to kill Mowgli?
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4. Why don’t the wolves like Sher Khan?
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Chapter 2
1.
Who promised to teach Mowgli the “Law of the Jungle?”
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2. What price did Bagheera pay to allow Mowgli to stay with the pack?
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3. Why do you think Mowgli was not afraid to be with the wolves and
panthers?
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4. What do you think Mowgli’s life was like while he was growing up?
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5. Match each of these characters (a–g) from Chapter 1 with one of the descriptions
(i–vi).
(a) Sher Khan
(i) The Black Panther
(b) Mowgli
(ii) The brown bear
(c) Raksha
(iii) The leader of the wolf pack
(d) Akela
(iv) The man cub
(e) Baloo
(v) The mother wolf
(f) Bagheera
(vi) The tiger
6. Match the beginnings and endings of these parts of the Law of the Jungle.
(a) An animal can’t change
(i) and eat Man.
(b) No animal can kill
(ii) its hunting grounds.
(c) When cubs can stand on
(iii) two other wolves have to speak
their feet,
for it.
(d) When the pack does not
(iv) the father wolf has to bring them
want a cub,
in front of the pack.
Chapter 3
1.
Why did the jungle animals dislike the Monkey People?
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2. Why did Mowgli think that Monkey People were nice?
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3. Why did the Monkey People want Mowgli to live with them?
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4. Do you think Mowgli will go to live with the Monkey People?
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5. Put these events in order.
a. Bagheera and Baloo went to see Kaa because he was the monkeys’
greatest enemy.
b. Bagheera climbed but could not follow the monkeys to the top of
the trees.
c. Baloo taught Mowgli the language of the jungle.
d. Chil told Bagheera, Baloo and Kaa where Mowgli was.
e. Mowgli called to Chil.
f. The monkeys took Mowgli up into the trees.
Chapter 4
1.
How do you think Mowgli felt swinging through the tops of the trees with
the Monkey People, being taken from his friends?
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2. Who told Baloo and Bagheera where Mowgli was?
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3. How Baloo and Bagheera feel did when they discovered what had happened
to Mowgli? Who did Baloo and Bagheera ask to help them find Mowgii? Do
you think they will rescue Mowgli?
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Chapter 5
1.
Where did the Monkey People take Mowgli? What did Mowgli think of the
Monkey People?
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2. Do you think that the Monkey People will be able to keep Mowgli in the lost
city?
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3. Why didn’t the Poison People (the snakes) hurt Mowgli?
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4. Complete these sentences from the beginning of Chapter 5. Use one word
from the box in each sentence.
(Boy, building, city, food, friends houses, moonlight, roads, sky ,trees, walls)
a. In the old city, the monkeys forgot about Mowgli’s ....
b. They had the ... and they were happy.
c. It was Mowgli’s first visit to the ...
d. The tops of the houses were open to the ....
e. Trees pushed through the old ...
f. The monkeys began to play in the old ....
g. They ran up and down the old ...
h. ‘I want ... .’ Mowgli shouted.
i. Twenty or thirty monkeys ran for food from the jungle ... but then
forgot about it.
j. The monkeys took Mowgli to a ... with no doors or windows.
k. It looked beautiful in the ...
Chapter 6
1.
Who frightened the Monkey People away from Baloo and Bagheera?
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2. How do you think Mowgli felt when he saw his friends?
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3. What did Mowgli promise Baloo, Bagheera, and Kaa to thank them for
saving him?
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4. In Chapter 5-6, who...
a. Went to the lost city together?
b. Went round to the back of the lost city?
c. Ran up the mountain fast and started hitting the monkeys?
d. Threw Mowgli into a room?
e. Made a snake call?
f. Fought his way slowly to the water?
g. Began to hit the monkeys with his great arms?
h. Stood and shouted angrily at Bagheera?
i. Came down the mountain fast?
j. Ran to the top of the walls?
k. Told the monkeys to stop?
l. Said ‘take him away. He will hurt our babies.’?
m.
n.
o.
p.
q.
r.
s.
Broke down the wall of the room with Mowgli in?
Thanked Kaa for his life?
Began to do a strange dance?
Went nearer to Kaa?
Stopped Bagheera and Baloo going nearer to Kaa?
Hit Mowgli because he talked to the monkeys?
Took Mowgli home on his back?
Chapter 7
1.
What is the Red Flower?
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2. Why did Mowgli return to the village?
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3. What promise did Mowgli make before he left?
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4. Do you think he will keep this promise?
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5. How did Mowgli feel about leaving the jungle?
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Chapter 8
1.
Why was it difficult for Mowgli to stay inside the man’s huts?
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2. Why did Messua “adopt” Mowgli?
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3. How did Mowgli find out what was happening in the jungle?
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4. How did the other children treat Mowgli?
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5. Why didn’t he get angry with them?
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6. What job was given to Mowgli?
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7. Do you think he will do this job well? Why?
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Chapter 9
1.
Who has come to help Mowgli kill Sher Khan?
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2. How did Mowgli, Grey Brother, and Akela kill Sher Khan?
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3. Who tried to steal the tiger skin from Mowgli?
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4. Why did the villagers chase Mowgli from their village?
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5. Where did Mowgli go to live?
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6. Write
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
k.
l.
whether the following sentences are true or false?
Mowgli ran to the first village. (T/F)
When some small boys saw Mowgli, they said ‘Hello’. (T/F)
Messua had a little boy called Nathoo. (T/F)
Mowgli is really Nathoo. (T/F)
Mowgli talked to Messua. (T/F)
Grey Brother came to Mowgli one day. (T/F)
Mowgli didn’t remember Grey Brother. (T/F)
Grey Brother told Mowgli about Sher Khan. (T/F)
Mowgli had a job looking after the village buffaloes. (T/F)
Mowgli killed Tabaqui. (T/F)
The wolves helped Mowgli make two herds. (T/F)
The cows went to one end of the river and the bulls went to
another. (T/F)
Chapter 10
1.
Why do you think the wolves asked Mowgli to lead them along with Akela?
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2. Why do you think Mowgli did not agree?
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3. Do you like what he did? Why?
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