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A Triumph of Surgery Question and

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Q1. What kind of a person do you think the

narrator, a veterinary surgeon, is? Would you say he

is tactful as well as full of commonsense?

Ans. The narrator, a veterinary doctor is a very

compassionate and an honest man as he does not

unnecessarily operate upon Tricki. He goes out of

the way to guide Mrs. Pumphrey that she should

start keeping a strict check on Tricki‟s diet and his

exercise schedule. He is tactful because he knows

how to get Tricki to the hospital and his common

sense can be seen by the simple fact that he just

changed the eating and exercise schedule of Tricki

which helped him recover from his problems. He did

not unnecessarily put him on medicines.

Q2. Do you think Tricki was happy to go home?

What do you think will happen now?

Ans. Yes, Tricki was as happy to go home as

much as he was staying in the surgery. He was

happy staying in the surgery because he got many

friends which he did not have at home and was

happy to go back home because he did not have his