IV, Read this passage and answer the questions that follow,
1. When Koki was twelve, she and her mother went to spend part of the year with Koki's
maternal grandmother who lived in a lonely old house near the river bed. Her mother was
busy all day, cooking and washing clothes, while her grandmother, a round, bouncy little
woman, would sit in the sun recounting stories from her own childhood,
2. Koki would spend the mornings helping her mother, and the afternoons talking to her
grandmother. Towards evening the old lady would go indoors, and then Koki would be on
her own in the large garden,
3. The garden had not been looked after too well. It was overrun with semi-wild marigolds,
nasturtiums and roses, Koki liked it this way because she could wander about discovering
Bowers emerging from tall grass and thistles. A wall went sloping down to the river bed,
A shallow stream ran along the middle of this otherwise dry water course. During the
monsoons it was a rushing torrent, but these days it was a murmuring brook, with little
silver fish darting about in the water,
4. Koki seldom went beyond the garden wall, because across the river bed was the jungle,
and animals frequently came down to the water to drink. The wild boar, who were often
seen, frightened her. But once she saw a deer, quite close, moving about with supple
grace and dignity. It was a chital, a spotted deer. Koki stared at the animal in fascination,
The deer must have become conscious of her gaze, for it looked up and stared back at
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