CBSE Class 10 English Communicative Chapter 2 Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger Question Answers from previous years question papers (2017-2025)
Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger Previous Year Questions with Answers – Question Answers from Previous years Board Exam Question papers provide valuable insights into how chapters are typically presented in exams. They are essential for preparing for the CBSE Board Exams, serving as a valuable resource.They can reveal the types of questions commonly asked and highlight the key concepts that require more attention. In this post, we have shared Previous Year Questions for Class 10 English Communicative Chapter 2, “Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger”.
Questions from the Chapter in 2025 Board Exams
Q1. Both, the poem ‘The Frog And The Nightingale’ and the story ‘Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger’, reflect themes of exploitation of others in pursuit of personal benefit. How, according to you, do each of these literary works manipulate situations to attain their personal desires and with what consequences? (150 Words) (8 marks)
Ans. Both the stories show exploitation for personal gains. In the poem ‘The Frog And The Nightingale’, the frog exploits the innocent nightingale bird to collect wealth and then get her out of his way. The frog belittles the bird and makes her believe that he sings better than her. The nightingale praises the frog and respects him like the great Mozart. She requests him to train her. The frog forces the bird to sing in rain, for long hours which ultimately strains her. He scolds her for not using trills and frills in her songs. The bird quivers and trembles with fear although the greedy and clever frog earns money by organizing her concerts. As the exploitation reaches its pinnacle, it culminates with the death of the poor bird. Once again the frog becomes the unrivalled king of the bog. In the story Mrs Packletide’s Tiger, we see exploitation at various levels. Mrs Packletide wants to settle her envy for Loona for which she exploits a tiger whom she decides to kill and procure a tiger skin. She even exploits the villagers who are lured with the reward money to arrange a goat as food for the tiger and to guard the forest lest the tiger tries to escape. Miss Mebbin who is a paid companion of Packletide also exploits Packletide. She threatens to give away her secret that the tiger died of senile decay and the gunshot had killed the goat. In return for keeping her mouth shut, she extorts a weekend cottage from Mrs Packletide and prodly names it “Les Fauves” which means For Wild Animals. She even plants Tiger Lilies outside the cottage which seems to be an ode to the tiger because of which she was able to procure the cottage. Thus, we see the theme of exploitation of others for personal gains is proliferant in both the texts.
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Questions which came in 2024 Board Exam
Q1. Humour plays a major role in the chapter, ‘Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger’. Prove this statement with the instances of humour. [30 – 40 words]
Ans. The various instances of humour in the story create laughter. When the old tiger is addressed as “venerable herd-robber”, when the cunning Miss Mebbin is referred to have “adopted a protective elder sister attitude”, the readers are amused. Also, Mrs. Packletide’s gun shot killed the wrong animal and the old tiger died of senile decay creates amusement.
Questions that appeared in 2020 Board Exams
Q1. Show that Miss Mebbin is greedy and Miss Packletide is jealous. [100 – 120 words]
Ans. Miss Mebbin was greddy as she always wanted money. She knew about Miss Packeltide’s secret of how the tiger was killed. She blackmailed her and asked her to buy a cottage for her to stay in or else she would tell the secret to everyone. She asked for a huge amount of money for keeping the secret and this depicts that she was greedy.
Miss Packletide was a jealous woman who wanted to outshine Loona Bimberton and several reasons proved her to be jealous. Firstly, when Loona told about personally procured skin of the tiger, she also wanted the same. She planned to hunt a tiger. She invited Loona for lunch to give her tiger claw brooch. She was so jealous that she did all this just to make her envious of Loona, belittle her achievement, and get popularity.
2019 Exam Question and Answers from the chapter
Q1. Miss Mebbin was a clever opportunist. Substantiate with reference to ‘Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger.’ [30 – 40 words]
Ans. Miss Mebbin was a brilliant opportunist, Mrs. Packletide’s secret of shooting the tiger and how she had arranged for it by paying a large quantity of money was well known to her. Mrs. Packletide had missed her target and the old tiger had died of a heart attack, this was also known to her. Mrs. Packletide was bullied into buying the weekend cottage for Louisa Mebbin, or else she would tell Loona Bimberton that Mrs. Packletide had shot a goat, not a tiger.
Questions from the Chapter in 2018 Board Exams
Q1. Why does the author say that Louisa Mebbin had a “protective elder sister” attitude towards money? [30 – 40 words]
Ans. Miss Mebbin was a paid companion of Mrs. Packletide. She was money-minded and saved each and every penny given to her as tips in the same Moscow hotel. She blackmailed Mrs. Packletide and forced her to buy a cottage for herself. Looking at all these acts of hers, the author says that Miss. Mebbin had a “protective elder sister” attitude towards money.
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