Comprehension
1. Answer these questions.
1. What is the speaker's relationship with Mini?
2. At first, what did Mini think was there in the Cabuliwallah's bag?
3. Why did the policemen arrest the Cabuliwallah?
4. How did the Cabuliwallah look when he got released after eight years
imprisonment?
5. Why was Mini's father reluctant to let the Cabuliwallah meet his daughter?
What changed his mind later on?
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Answers
Explanation:
Kabuliwala used to come to sold things from house to house whereas Mini was a small girl at that who regularly watches Kabuliwala doing his job.
Answer:
Answer1 : The narrator is Mini's father who was a novelist.
Answer 2: Mini called out to the Kabuliwala after abruptly stopping her game of knick-knack while still in her father's room. There was no particular reason for her to call him. Mini's father however, thought of him as a nuisance who would come in and interrupt his writing like his daughter.
Answer3: Kabuliwala was arrested because he stabs a debtor who refuses to pay him for the shawl which he had bought from the Kabuliwala
Answer4:he had changed a lot. Explanation:When Mini's father first saw him he couldn't remember him as his hair was cut short and he was much clean. He came all the way to meet Mini but she had forgot him.
Answer 5 : The speaker initially was hesitant to let the Kabuliwala meet his daughter on her wedding day. This could be because he was concerned about the reputation of his family with Mini's in-laws.