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 dont 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 Mowglis life was like while he was growing up?
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5. Match each of these characters (ag) from Chapter 1 with one of the descriptions
(ivi).
(a) Sher Khan (i) The Black Panther
(b) Mowgli (ii) The brown bear
(c) Raksha (iii) The leader of the
(d) Akela wolf pack
(e) Baloo (iv) The man cub
(f) Bagheera (v) The mother wolf
(vi) The tiger
6. Match the beginnings and endings of these parts of
the Law of the Jungle.
(a) An animal not want a
cant cub,
change (i) and eat Man.
(b) No animal (ii) its hunting grounds.
can kill (iii) two other wolves
(c) When cubs have to speak for it.
can stand (iv) the father wolf has
on their to bring them in
feet, front of the pack.
(d) When the
pack does

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 didnt 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 Mowglis ....
b. They had the ... and they were happy.
c. It was Mowglis 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. Broke down the wall of the room with
Mowgli in?
n. Thanked Kaa for his life?
o. Began to do a strange dance?
 p. Went nearer to Kaa?
q. Stopped Bagheera and Baloo going
nearer to Kaa?
r. Hit Mowgli because he talked to the
monkeys?
s. 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 mans 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 didnt 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 whether the following sentences are

true or false?
a. Mowgli ran to the first village. (T/F)
b. When some small boys saw Mowgli,
they said Hello. (T/F)
c. Messua had a little boy called Nathoo.
(T/F)
d. Mowgli is really Nathoo. (T/F)
e. Mowgli talked to Messua. (T/F)
f. Grey Brother came to Mowgli one day.
(T/F)
g. Mowgli didnt remember Grey Brother.
(T/F)
 h. Grey Brother told Mowgli about Sher
Khan. (T/F)
i. Mowgli had a job looking after the
village buffaloes. (T/F)
j. Mowgli killed Tabaqui. (T/F)
k. The wolves helped Mowgli make two
herds. (T/F)
l. 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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