Question

.When Rikki-tikki asks about Nag, "Darzee and his wife only cowered down in the nest without answering" Based on what you learn about Nag in the next few sentences, why would Darzee and his wife have cowered

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

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• Darzee and his wife; who are tailor-birds
• Nag; was a big, black venomous snake; specifically a cobra
• Rikki-tikki was a mongoose, a type of animal that feeds on the flesh of other animals especially snakes

Darzee and wife who were tailor-birds were greatly afraid of Nag, who was a cobra, a venomous snake. Nag believed that he was the king of the jungle. He went about inflicting fear in other animals that lived in the jungle where he was located.

Furthermore, one of Darzee's babies had mistakenly fallen from the nest the previous day and Nag had eaten him up. This made them very sad and miserable at the death of their baby. And they feared Nag the more.

Hence Darzee and his wife greatly cowered from Nag because they were afraid of what he could do to them. That is Nag could kill and eat them up.