Question

Read the following excerpt from The Jungle Book "Mowgli's

Brothers" by Rudyard Kipling.
He loved better than anything else to go with Bagheera into the dark warm heart of the forest,
to sleep all through the drowsy day, and at night see how Bagheera did his killing. Bagheera
killed right and left as he felt hungry, and so did Mowgli—with one exception.

7. The pace and mood of this excerpt is best described as (1 point)

O slow and thoughtful.

O slow and satisfied.

O fast and exciting.

O fast and suspenseful.

Answer 1

“Oh, thou art a man’s cub,” said the Black Panther, very tenderly; “and even as I returned to my jungle, so thou must go back to men at last—to the men who are thy brothers—if thou art not killed in the Council.”

“But why—but why should any wish to kill me?” said Mowgli.

“Look at me,” said Bagheera; and Mowgli looked at him steadily between the eyes. The big panther turned his head away in half a minute.

“That is why,” he said, shifting his paw on the leaves. “Not even I can look thee between the eyes, and I was born among men, and I love thee, Little Brother. The others they hate thee because their eyes cannot meet thine; because thou art wise; because thou hast pulled out thorns from their feet—because thou art a man.”

Explanation: the answer is c

Answer 2

D but see below.

Step-by-step explanation:

If all you knew about the Jungle Book was what Disney told you, you might never guess that this was part of Kipling's book.

It is certainly fast. So one of C or D is the answer. I might have picked C had the author of the question not left us hanging by not telling us what the one exception was.

Since we are not told (and we have to look it up), I think the answer is D. But don't bet against C.

By the way, the thing that Mowgli must never kill is cattle (which is shameful anyway). He must never kill cattle because that is how Bagheera bought his freedom -- by telling the wolf council about the cattle kill that they were welcome to if they left Mowgli alone.