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Sai International School

                                                   Class IX- English


                                        Chapter-14, Snake and the Mirror

                                                  Home Assignment




               Answer the following questions in 30 - 40 words:

               1. Why did the doctor have to light the kerosene lamp on reaching his
               room?

               2. What kind of room did the doctor live in? Why?


               3. What were the doctor’s possessions when he set up his medical
               practice?


               4. What thoughts crossed the doctor’s mind when he saw the snake
               looking into the mirror?


               5. What did the doctor do when the snake was absorbed in looking at
               the mirror?

               6. What did the doctor do as soon as he reached his friend’s house?

               Why?

               7. What did the doctor and his friends find when they went to remove

               things from the room?

               8. Why does the doctor remark that the snake was “taken with its own

               beauty”?

               9. How was the author able to save himself from being bitten by
               snake? What does it reflect about him?
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