chapter 2 book name English alive redar literachar class 6 question answer
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Where was the narrator going?
Answer: The narrator was going from Dehra to Lucknow.
Who were the narrator’s travelling companions? What was strange about them?
Answer: The narrator’s travelling companions were Grandmother, Grandfather, Chips (the squirrel),
What pets did Grandfather want to take with him? Why?
Answer: Grandfather wanted to take a parrot, teenaged tiger and a small squirrel with him because they were moving from Dehra to Lucknow for some months.
imothy (the tiger), Popeye (the parrot) and python. The strange thing was that the family was travelling with a few of their exotic and uncommon pets.
Timothy was very well behaved. Comment.
Answer: Timothy behaved perfectly throughout the journey. Even the guard admitted that he could not have asked for a better passenger; no stealing from vendors, no shouting at coolies, no breaking of railway property, no spitting on the platform.
What happened to the family dinner?
Answer: The family’s dinner was eaten by the python because somehow, it had managed to hide itself into the tiffin basket.
The python was an unplanned-for-traveller. How do we know that?
Answer: The python was an unplanned-for-traveller. We know this from the lines – Grandmother had insisted that they should not take python with them. Grandfather had let it loose in the garden. Somehow, it had managed to snuggle itself into the tiffin basket.
What does Grandfather do to the unwelcomed visitor?
Answer: Grandfather hid the unwelcomed visitor (python) in the tiffin basket, shut and pushed it back under the berth so that Grandmother would not be able to see it.
All the same, the journey was not without incident. Why does the narrator feel so? Mention any two incidents.
Answer: The two incidents that were witnessed through the journey were:
Popeye, the parrot had nipped two fingers and tweaked a ticket inspector’s ear.
Chips, his squirrel emerged from his pocket to examine his surroundings.
Q-Chips seemed to enjoy himself the most. Justify.
Answer: Chips discovered that the train was a squirrel’s paradise. Almost all the passengers had brought large quantities of roasted peanuts before the train pulled out. He had no difficulty in making friends with both children and the grown-ups.
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