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SAI International School
Class IX- English
Chapter -The Bond of Love
Home assignment

1. Read the Extracts given below and answer the following
questions (2x4=8)
A. The little creature ran around its prostrate parent making a

pitiable noise.
a) Who is the ‘pitiable creature’?
b) Which of its parents lay prostrate and why?

c) What did the little creature do?
d) Why was the creature making a pitiable noise?

B. But was just as mischievous, just as playful. And he was very
fond of us all. Above all, he loved my wife, and she loved him
too! She had changed his name from Bruno to Baba, a
Hindustani word signifying ‘small boy’.

a) Who is being compared with here?
b) For which trait is he being compared to them?
c) What kind of relation was there between the narrator’s wife and

Bruno?
d) Why did the narrator’s wife change the name from Bruno to
‘Baba’?

2. Answer the following questions in 30-40 words: (2x4=8)

a) Bruno once got paralyzed. Why and how?
b) Why was a squad of coolie engaged?
c) What special arrangements were made for Bruno back at home?
d) What request did the author’s wife make to the Superintendent of

the zoo?