Answer any four of the following questions in 30 – 40 words each:
(a) In the last line of the poem, ‘My Mother at Sixty-six’, the word ‘smile’ is repeated three times. What is its significance?
(b) Why did the peddler decline the invitation extended to him by the ironmaster?
(c) Why did Gandhiji agree to 25 per cent refund to the peasants?
(d) Why did Derry’s mother not want him to visit Mr. Lamb?
(e) How does Roger Skunk’s mother show her anger over her son’s loss of smell?
(f) Why did the Maharaja decide to get married?
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(b) The peddler refused the iron master's invitation, as he claimed that accepting such an invitation would be like knowingly tossing himself into the den of the lion. He was afraid that the iron master would come to know his reality, that he was not a military captain but a thief and a traitor.
(c) Gandhiji agreed to reimburse the peasants for 25% as it was not the amount of the reimbursement that mattered to him at that time. What mattered more was the fact that the impasse between the merchants and the peasants over the question of refunds was being broken and the peasants got their dutiful rights.
(d) Derry's mother did not see Mr. Lamb as a suitable company for her family, because he was a lonely old man ridiculed by the whole world and had no connections outside his own personal boundaries. He always didn't think the world would see it like he does, and so he didn't want Derry to meet him.
(f) For a long time, the Maharaja wanted to kill a hundred tigers and undo the prophecy that said one of them would kill him, but that the tigers in his own realm had already ended up. Consequently, he wanted to wed a princess whose land had more tigers than his. He would thus obtain the right to hunt as many tigers as he desires while he visits the farm.