Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
With the opening of that sack began a phase of my life that has not yet ended, and may, for all I know, not end before I do. It is, in effect, a thraldom to otters, an otter fixation, that I have since found to be shared by most other people, who have ever owned one.
1. What did the sack contain?
2. What is the common belief about the people who own an otter?
3. What does the phrase ‘may not end before I do’ indicate?
1. The sack contained an otter.
2. They suffer from an thraldom to otters.
3. It indicates the longer life-span of the otters.
Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow:
I watched, amazed; in less than a minute he had turned the tap far enough to produce a trickle of water, and after a moment or two achieved the full flow. He had been lucky to turn the tap the right way.
1. What surprised the narrator?
2. Who does ‘He’ here refer?
3. Find a word from the passage that means ‘surprised’.
1. Mijbil’s turning the tap on surprised the author.
2. ‘He’ refers to the otter.
3. Amazed.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Early in the New Year of 1956, I travelled to Southern Iraq. By then it had crossed my mind that I should like to keep an otter instead of a dog, and that Camusfearna, ringed by water a stone’s throw from its door, would be an eminently suitable spot for this experiment.
1. When did the narrator decide to keep an otter instead of a dog as a pet?
2. Why is Camusfearna suitable for keeping an otter?
3. What does the expression ‘a stone’s throw’ here mean?
1. The author decided to keep an otter instead of a dog as a pet in 1956.
2. Camusfearna is suitable for keeping an otter because it is surrounded by water.
3. Very near.
Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow:
When I returned, there was an appalling spectacle. There was complete silence from the box, but from its airholes and chinks around the lid, blood had trickled and dried.
1. What incident does the narrator call as ‘an appalling spectacle’?
2. Why was there complete silence from the box?
3. What does the phrase ‘the appalling spectacle’ mean?
1. The complete silence from the box is referred to as appalling incident.
2. There was complete silence because Mij was exhausted and got wounded.
3. It means a shocking scene.
Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow:
My friend left, and I arranged to meet him in a week’s time. Five days later, my mail arrived.
I carried it to my bedroom to read, and there, squatting on the floor, were two Arabs; beside them lay a sack that squirmed from time to time. They handed me a note from my friend: “Here is your otter...”
1. Whom did he find sitting on the floor?
2. What had they brought?
3. Give the meaning of ‘squatting’.
1. He found two Arabs sitting on the floor.
2. They had brought a sack containing an otter.
3. Sitting.
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