Question

1. Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow:

Grandfather bought Toto, a really pretty, little, red monkey from a tonga-owner,

for the sum of five rupees. Toto’s bright eyes sparkled with mischief beneath

deep-set eyebrows, and his teeth, a pearly-white, were often on display in a

smile that frightened the life out of elderly Anglo-Indian ladies.

When we discovered that Toto’s favourite pastime was catching mice, we were

able to persuade Grandmother to let us keep him. The unsuspecting mice would

emerge from their holes at night to pick up any corn left over by our pony. To

get at it they had to run the gauntlet of Toto’s section of the stable. He knew

this, and would pretend to be asleep, keeping however, one eye open. A mouse

would make a rush but in vain. Toto, as swift as a cat, would have his paws

upon him. Grandmother decided to put Toto’s talents to constructive use by

tying him up one night in the larder, where a band of mice were playing havoc

with our food supplies.

Toto was removed from his comfortable bed of straw in the stable, and chained

up in the larder, beneath shelves of jam-pots and other delicacies. The night was

a long and miserable one for Toto, who must have wondered what he had done

to deserve such treatment. The mice scampered about the place, while Toto lay

curled up, trying to snatch some sleep. At dawn, the mice returned to their

holes. Toto woke up, scratched himself, and looked about for something to eat.

The jam-pots attracted his notice, and it did not take him long to prise open the

covers. Grandmother’s treasured jams—she had made most of them herself—

disappeared in an amazingly short time.

I was present when Grandmother opened the door to see how many mice Toto

had caught. Even the rain-god Indra could not have looked more terrible when

planning a thunderstorm.

A. Answer the following questions in one or two sentences: (1X3=3)

i. What effect did Toto have on the elderly Anglo-Indian ladies?

ii. Provide one instance from the passage to show that Toto was generally

treated well by the narrator’s family.

iii. How did Grandmother’s plan to get rid of the mice fail?​

Answer 1

grandmother's husband grandfather

Answer 2

Sorry mate i don’t know

Toys and grandfather and grandmother