Question

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1) Read the passage carefully & Answer the following questions :-
For the next three hours she would not leave the cage. She gave him tea,
- cream , cakes, and what not. Then 'closing time came and we had to lea
cried bitterly; even the hardened curator and the keepers felt depressed. As for me,
had reconciled myself to what I knew was going to happen next.
"Oh please , sir " she asked the curator," may I have my Baba back"? Hesitantly,
he answered." Madam , he belongs to the zoo and is Government property now. I
cannot give away Government property. But if my boss, the superintendent at Banglore
agrees, certainly you may have him back."
Questions
1) What is meant by 'closing time' here? What was supposed to be done then
2) Why did Baba and the narrator's wife cry bitterly?
3) Why couldn't the curator give Baba back to the narrator's wife?
4) Find a word from the passage that mean' compromised'
5) Describe the meeting of the author's wife with Baba in the zoo.
Specify the name of author.
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Answer 1

Answer:

1) this mean now this time for closing the shop.

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