The Laughing Hippopotamus
Answer in one word or phrase:
1. Who lived on the upper branches of the Congo river?
Answer: A family of hippopotamuses
2. What was the name of the child hippopotamus?
Answer: Keo
3. In what did Keo get trapped?
Answer: A pit
4. Which way did Keo laugh?
Answer: Guk-uk-uk- uk
5. In how much time was Keo to return to Gouie?
Answer: One year and one day
6. Whose advice did the hippopotamuses seek?
Answer: Glinkomok
7. Did Gouie ever return to be Keo's prisoner?
Answer: No
Answer briefly:
1. How long had the hippopotamuses lived on the banks of the Congo river?
Answer: The hippopotamuses had lived on the banks of the Congo river beyond the existence of mankind when the world was new.
2. Why was Keo considered the jolly one?
Answer: Keo laughed all the time, so he was considered happy, the jolly one.
3. Who was Gouie? What did he do to take a hippopotamus captive?
Answer: Gouie was the chief's brother's son whose grandfather was a sorcerer without bones.
4. How did Keo secure his release from the pit?
Answer: Keo secured his release from the pit by promising that he would return to Gouie one year and one day later.
5. How did Keo become powerful, swift and witty?
Answer: In one year, Keo grew to become powerful, swift and witty.
6. How was Gouie made to promise to return to Keo as a captive?
Answer: Keo took Gouie on the bank of the river and dived into the water leaving Gouie floating on the water, and thus he was forced to return to Keo as a captive.
7. How did Gouie never keep his promise?
Answer: Gouie never kept his promise because he had promised in the name his grandfather's bones, who in fact had no bones.
Write TRUE or FALSE :
1. Keo was a jolly hippopotamus.
Answer: TRUE
2. The blacks reduced the hippopotamuses to slavery.
Answer: FALSE
3. Gouie released Keo because it was not useful to him.
Answer: FALSE
4. Keo did not keep his promise to Gouie.
Answer: FALSE
5. Glinkomok prepared Keo to overcome the black man.
Answer: TRUE
6. Keo delivered all black men to be Glinkomok's food.
Answer: TRUE
7. Gouie did not keep his word because his grandfather was a boneless man.
Answer: TRUE
Tick the right option:
1. An ancient and __________ family of hippopotamuses lived on the Congo river.
- aristocratic
- slave
- wealthy
Answer: aristocratic
2. Keo was the _______ hippopotamus that the ancient family had ever known.
- saddest
- jolliest
- earnest
Answer: jolliest
3. Gouie's grandfather was called the wonder.
- headless
- handless
- boneless
Answer: boneless
4. It was a solemn thing for Keo to swear by the
- tusks
- bones
- nails
Answer: tusks
5. Keo grew to be _______ hippopotamus.
- little
- enormous
- ordinary
Answer: ordinary
6. Glinkomok was a __________ part beast, part man, part fowl and part fish.
- lovely
- polite
- fearful
Answer: fearful
7. Gouie decided to use Keo as a _________
- beast of burden
- source of meat
- source of many tusks
Answer: beast of burden
8. Gouie had promised in the name of his grandfather;s bones who had ________.
- some bones
- no bones
- more bones than anyone else
Answer: no bones
Give your views:
1. Keo kept his word but Gouie did not. How does this tell about the wiliness of humans over animals?
Answer: Keo was a loyal animal who kept his word, but Gouie was as wile as a human is. He promised in the names of his grandfather's bones who had none of them, and this shows his wiliness. With this attitude, humans have overcome the animals since the beginning.
2. Keo prepared himself to face Gouie though he was supposed to return to Gouie as a captive. Did he do it right?
Answer: Yes, it is in our right to face all challenges boldly.
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