Answer the following questions in 30-40 words each:
(a) How did Valli react when she saw the dead cow by the roadside?
(b) What legends are associated with the origin of tea?
(c) Why does Noodle tell Think-Tank about the books?
(d) Why did Matilda not want to see her rich friends?
Answers
(a) When Valli was sad due to the death of the cow and she found that it was the same cow which ran in front of the bus.
In order to avoid the view of a dead cow, she refused to look out of the window
(b) There are two legends associated with the origin of tea.
The regular drinking of boiled was followed by the Chinese Emperor, first legend.
The better taste and flavor accompanies when the tea leaves are added to boiled water.
The Indian Buddhist monk is the second legend. In order to be awake during his meditation, the monk had cut off his eyelids.
Tea leaves grew from his eyelids.
When those leaves are added in boiling water it reduces the sleep.
(c) The noodle informed his master Think-Tank that the books which he thought as a sandwich are not for eating but used for ear communication.
Later Noodles also suggested that it is used for eye communication.
(d) Matilda was not satisfied with her life.
She was also ashamed of her status.
As she was from the lower middle class, she avoided the meeting with her rich friends.