Question

1. Why did the narrator’s grandfather decide to buy Toto? 2. Where did narrator and his grandfather live? (mention the place) 3. Why did grandfather keep Toto as a secret from grandmother? 4. Why was Toto shifted with Nana? 5. Where and why was the grandfather going next day? 6. Why was Toto shifted with Nana? 7. Which animals were there in grandfather’s private zoo? 8. "Even Grandfather realised that. We were not well-to-do, and could not afford the frequent loss of dishes, clothes, curtains and wallpaper. So Grandfather found the tonga-driver, and sold Toto back to him — for only three rupees." a)What did the grandfather realise? b)Why they could not afford the frequent loss? c) How did the grandfather dispose Toto? d)Find a word in the passage that means same as ‘rich’.

Answer 1

Since he loved pets and had many at his home in Dehra Dim hence he decided to buy Toto.

Explanation:

• Toto was kept hidden from grandmother because she did not want any more pets than she already had at her house.

• Toto was shifted from compartment to statement to live with a donkey. The name of the donkey was Nana. Toto did everything he could to make the life of Nana miserable.

• Grandfather was going to Saharanpur because he had work there.

• He started losing things hence he gave Toto back to his original owner.

• Grandfather was not from a well-off family.