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MOMENTS
ADVENTURES OF TOTO
Questions based on an extract
A. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
His bright eyes sparkled with mischief beneath deep-set eyebrows, and
his teeth, which were a pearly white, were very often displayed in a
smile that frightened the life out of elderly Anglo-Indian ladies. But his
hands looked dried-up as though they had been pickled in the sun for
many years. Yet his fingers were quick and wicked; and his tail, while
adding to his good looks (Grandfather believed a tail would add to
anyone’s good looks), also served as a third hand. He could use it to
hang from a branch; and it was capable of scooping up any delicacy
that might be out of reach of his hands.
Q1. Name the chapter from which this extract has been taken.
Q2. Who is the author of this chapter?
Q3. Which animal is Toto?
Q4. What do you understand by “Anglo-Indian”?
B. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
Grandmother always fussed when Grandfather brought home some
new bird or animal. So it was decided that Toto’s presence should be
kept a secret from her until she was in a particularly good mood.
Grandfather and I put him away in a little closet opening into my
bedroom wall, where he was tied securely — or so we thought — to a
peg fastened into the wall.
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