The Lost World: Extra Ques And Ans (Ch.3, Ch.4, Ch.5)

RECAP Questions (only for reference)

Who is Ned Malone?

A journalist with a newspaper and a spurned lover.

Who is his lover?

Gladys

Why has Gladys spurned his proposal?

Ned was not an ideal man of her dreams. She wanted Ned to achieve something

great.

Who is Mc. Ardle?

The editor of the newspaper that Ned works at.

With what purpose does Ned approach Mc. Ardle?

To send him on a challenging assignment.

What is the challenging assignment given to Ned?

To interview Professor Challenger.

Extra questions of Chapter-4 and 5

1.What did Ned find when he went to his friend’s office on Wednesday?

He found a letter.

2.What does Professor Challenger find offensive in Ned’s letter?

The use of the word speculation with regards to the professor’s statement upon the

subject of Darwinism.

3.Who is Austin?

Probably an assistant or Professor Challenger’s servant.

4.What work is assigned to Austin?

To shield Professor Challenger from the journalists.

5.According to Professor Challenger what kind of people are journalists?

They are intrusive rascals.

6.Why did Ned gasp as he saw Professor Challenger?

Professor Challenger’s appearance made him gasp. His head was enormous. He

had the face and beard of an Assyrian bull. The eyes were blue-grey, very critical

and very masterful. A huge chest and two massive hands covered with long black

hair.

7.Why did Professor Challenger attack Ned?

He recognized that Ned was a journalist

8.Why didn’t Ned give in Professor Challenger to the policeman?

Ned was to blame himself. He had intruded upon Professor Challenger inspite of

the fair warning given to him.

9.Why did Ned return to Professor Challenger’s room?

Because he felt that the fault of the incident lay with him.

10.What were the contents in the dead man’s knapsack/backpack?

Scraps of verse, pictures of sceneries, a paint box, a box of coloured chalk, a few

paint brushes and a cheap revolver.

11.From the above contents what was evident?

That  the man was an artist or a poet.

12.Who were the Indians with whom Professor Challenger spent the night in an Indian village

in South America?

Cucama Indians.

13.Describe the strange creature sketched by the artist?

It’s head was like that of a fowl, the body of a bloated lizard, the trailing tail was

furnished with upward-turned spikes and the curved back was edged with a high

serrated fringe.

14.How does Professor Challenger’s convince Ned of the existence of the creature?

The professor shows Ned a monograph by his friend Ray Lancaster. In the

 reconstructed animal of a dead world there was a great resemblance to the

sketch of the unknown artist.

15.What did Professor Challenger finally hand over to Ned?

The upper portion of the wing of a large bat.

16.Why did the picture that Professor Challenger showed Ned have an unsatisfactory

appearance?

Because when the Professor and the Indian guide descended into the river, the

boat was upset and the case which contained the undeveloped films was broken

and ruined beyond repair.

17.To which creature did it actually belong?

The dimorphodon or pterodactyl, a flying reptile of the Jurassic period.