Please answer the questions from Mijbil the otter.....Class 10th
○ How does the author describe the otter when the author sees otter for the first time? How does Max find Mij in the beginning ?
○How does Mij behave when Max took Mij to the bathroom? How did Mij start passing his time there after?
○What happened with Mij just before the flight to Paris? What did Mij do in the aeroplane?
○What questions about Mij did Max face when Max took Mij for a walk in the London streets? To which question did Max award the highest score?
Answers
How does the author describe the otter when the author sees otter for the first time? How does Max find Mij in the beginning?
When the author saw the otter for the first time he found it to be similar to a very small, medievally-conceived, dragon. From the head to the tip of the tail his coat was covered with symmetrical pointed scales of mud; among the tips of the scales was a chocolate-brown soft velvet fur like that of a mole.
How does Mij behave when Max took Mij to the bathroom? How did Mij start passing his time there after?
When Maxwell took Mijbil to the bathroom, he went mad with joy in the water, plunging and diving in it, swimming up and down the length of the bathtub underwater, and making enough sloshing and splashing like a hippo.
Mij started passing his time there after by going to the bathroom by itself. He would turn the taps, fill the tub and enjoy bathing in the tub.
What happened with Mij just before the flight to Paris? What did Mij do in the aeroplane?
The airline that the author had to travel by insisted that Mij should be packed into a box not more than eighteen inches square, to be carried on the floor at his feet. He had a box made, and an hour before he started, he put Mij into the box so that he would become accustomed to it.
After an hour or so when the author saw the box, he was shocked. Mij had torn the lining of the box to shreds; he had also injured himself by biting at the sharp edges in the box. The author removed all the cutting edges; this made him late for the flight
In the aeroplane, Mij escaped from the box and ran here and there, scaring people.
What questions about Mij did Max face when Max took Mij for a walk in the London streets? To which question did Max award the highest score?
People in London asked him many questions about Mij whenever he took it for a walk. They asked him whether Mij was ‘a baby seal’ and ‘a squirrel, a walrus, ‘a hippo’. A beaver, a bear cub, a leopard, etc.
However the question that amazed him the most was when a labourer asked him, “Here, Mister — what is that supposed to be?”