Answer the following questions.
1. What did Mani take along when he went to the school clerk's house? Why do you think he
took it?
2. How did Rajam behave when the examinations approached?
3. What did all the students in the school think about the school clerk?
Why would Swaminathan spend hours balancing himself on the edge of the cradle?
5. Why did Swaminathan's father become fussy and difficult two weeks before the examinations
Answers
1. Everybody was agitated by the thought of the examinations. Nobody had seen a smile on Shankar’s face for weeks. Some had become more active and practiced. The Pea seldom cracked jokes and Rajam would enter the school at the stroke of the first bell I and leave the school at the stroke of the last bell hardly uttering a word to anybody.
2. ‘Omniscient’ is the word that describes the clerk as all-knowing.
3. Mani gave the clerk fresh brinjals because he thought that the clerk knew all the question papers of all the classes and he wanted to know them.
4. According to the clerk the eyesore could be traced when the flies buzzed near one’s eyes. The remedy was to put few drops of raw juicy onion in the diseased eye.
5. Mani tried to look pathetic so that the clerk would feel pity for him and give him some Valuable hints’.
6. Because the clerk was beating around the bushes but not trying to listen to what Mani wanted to know.
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Explanation:
5. Why did Swaminathan's father become fussy and difficult two weeks before the examinations