The Jungle Walk
The number of blind men walking together in the story.
What is four?
The first blind man thought the object felt like this animal because it wrapped around his arm.
What is a snake?
The fourth blind man thinks the object was that.
What is a house?
What the blind men started to do after each shared their own idea?
What is argue?
What do the men say when they recognize the elephant sound?
What is "Aha!"?
Though they couldn't see them, the men could hear these rustling in the wind.
What are (beautiful) trees?
The two words he used to describe how the object felt ("long and ___").
What is strong?
The two words ("____ and ___") he used to describe how the object feels.
What is hard and rough?
The question all four men finally ask together, showing their collective confusion.
What is "What is it?"
The animal whose sound they finally recognize.
What is an elephant?
The sense the blind men used to enjoy the wonderful flowers.
What is smell?
The action the first man took to begin his investigation.
What is touching something?
He compared the object he felt to this specific part of a house.
What is a wall?
The man who declared his "tree" theory immediately after the rope was suggested.
Who is the third blind man?
The sense that finally provided the correct answer, after touch failed them.
What is hearing?
The two specific beautiful things in the jungle the text says they could not see.
What are trees and flowers?
The triumphant exclamation ("___!") made by the second man when he declared his discovery.
What is "Aha!"?
Unlike the first man's "snake," the fourth man felt something that was this (not flexible).
What is hard?
The moment in the book that finally ends their argument.
What is hearing a loud sound (the elephant's sound)?
The part of the elephant each blind man likely touched: tail, trunk, leg, and ____.
What is its side? (Acceptable: What is its body?)
The sense all four men must rely on to investigate the mysterious thing.
What is touch?
The shape shared by the objects identified by the second man (rope) and third man (tree).
What is long and cylindrical? (Acceptable: What is a long, thin shape?)
In order, the four objects the men believed they had found: Snake, Rope, Tree, and ____.
What is a House?
The belief they all shared that led to the argument: that their feeling was that.
The broader theme of the story: the danger of making a conclusion based on limited or subjective ____.
What is evidence / experience / perspective?