Cockcrow Questions and Answers on Debbie, Sandy and Pepe

Cockcrow Questions and Answers on Debbie, Sandy and Pepe

These cockcrow questions and answers may be useful in your preparations towards your exams. These are set of questions sourced from one of the short stories in the literature books use at the JHS level.

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BY MERRIL CORNEY

1. Where did Debbie find the bird?

The path beside the house

2. Who referred to the bird as poor little thing?

Debbie

3. What is said to look like a yellow plastic?

The beak of the bird

4. The expression “she wriggled her finger like a worm” is an example of ..

Simile

5. What did the girl use as nest?

Old letterbox

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6. What did the postman put the mail in when he couldn’t reach the old letter box

The new box

7. How is the new box shaped like

Shaped like a house that sat on the gatepost

8. What did the girl use to fill the old letterbox

Dry grass chippings

9. What was the first food Debbie suggested the bird eat?

Worms

10. What was used to dig worms for the bird?

Garden trowel

11. What according to the girls could be used to mush the

Worms?

Mum’s blender

12. Who described the bird as the type that eats flies and

mozzies?

Sandy

14, What name was giving to the bird?

Pepe

13. Who gave the piece of chocolate to the bird?

Pepe

15. Who named the bird Pepe?

Debbie

NUMBER 15 – 25

16. Who whispered Good?

Debbie

17. Who said “birds fell comfortable outside than in cages

Debbie’s mum

18. What did Debbie say she would tie to the leg of Pepe?

Notes to send message to her friend

19. Which bird were said to be sent during war?

Pigeons

20. Where did Debbie and Sandy meet during lunch time at school?

behind the shelter shed

21. How did Debbie and Sandy spend the break at school1?

Ans. searching for fresh worms, insects and seeds

22. What was the name of Debbie’s teacher?

Mrs. Atkins

23. On what was Sandra swinging upside down’?

On the monkey’s bars

24. What according to Sandy might have caused Pepe’s death?

Starvation

25. According to Debbie, what might have been the cause of Pepe’s death?

The chocolate sandy gave it

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26. According to Sandy, what did mum do that Debbie cried?

when mum threw boiling water on the ant

27. Who described Debbie as being too soft-heated?

Debbie’s mum

28. What did Debbie use to wrap Pepe when it died?

tissue

29. Where did Debbie lay Pepe when it died?

under the hedge and covered him with fallen leaves

30. Who asked the mother whether birds go to heaven?2

Debbie

31. What did Debbie’s mother ask her to check on the calendar?

the first day of spring

32. According to the story, five sparrows are sold for.

two pennies

33. How old is Debbie?

17 years

34. The quotation” are not five sparrows sold for two pennies, yet not one of them is forgotten by God” is an example of the literary device?

Biblical Allusion

35. From what point of view is the story narrated from?

Third person point of view

Question 36 – 48 Cockcrow

36. The expression” I have been waiting for ages” brings out the literary device….

Ans: Hyperbole or Exaggeration

37. The main character in the story is…

Ans: Debbie

38. The main theme of the story is…

showing care and concern towards all creature

39. What figure of speech is in the line “indeed, the very hairs of your head are numbered?

Biblical Allusion

40. According to the story, what role did birds play during the war?

notes were tied to their legs and they were used as messengers to deliver messages during war

41. Why did Debbie become happy after reading the Bible quotation?

it gave her hope

42. What was described as a countryside scene?

the photograph on the calendar

43. In the story, who said birds are awfully hard to rear?

Debbie’s mum

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