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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
                                                         CLASS X
                                                 MIJBIL THE OTTER

                    CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING:
                    Q1. How was Mibil transported to England?
                    Q2. What happened when the box was opened?
                    Q3. Why did Maxwell get his mail after five days and what he did to get it?
                    Q4. What did the otter look like?
                    Q5. What did Mijbil do during the second night?
                    Q6. What according to the writer is the ‘real play’ of the otter?

                    ASSIGNMENT:  QUESTIONS
                    Q1. What ‘experiment’ did Maxwell think Camusfearna would be suitable for?
                    Q2. Why does he go to Basra? How long does he wait there, and why?
                    Q3. How does he get the otter? Does he like it? Pick out the words that tell you

                    this.
                    Q4. Why was the otter named as ‘Maxwell’s Otter’?
                    Q5. What happened when Maxwell took Mijbil to the bathroom? What did it do
                    two days after that?
                    Q6. How was Mij to be transported to England?
                    Q7. What did Mij do to the box?

                    Q8. Why did Maxwell put the otter back in the box? How do you think he felt
                    when he did this?
                    Q9. Why does Maxwell say-‘the air hostess was the very queen of her kind’?
                    Q10. What happened when the box was opened?
                    Q11. What game had Mij invented?

                    Q12. What are ‘Compulsive habits’? What does Maxwell say are the
                    compulsive habits of :
                    i.School children
                    ii.Mij
                    Q13. What group of animals do otters belongs to?
                    Q14. What guesses did the Londoners make about what Mij was?

                    Q15. What things does Mij do which tell you that he is an intelligent, friendly
                    and fun loving animal who needs love?
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