Question

"Question 1 Discuss in pairs and answer each question below in a short paragraph (30 − 40 words). 1. “The sound was familiar one.” What sound did the doctor hear? What did he think it was? How many times did he hear it? (Find the places in the text.) When and why did the sounds stop? 2. What two “important” and “earth-shaking” decisions did the doctor take while he was looking into the mirror? 3. “I looked into the mirror and smiled,” says the doctor. A little later he says, “I forgot my danger and smiled feebly at myself.” What is the doctor’s opinion about himself when: (i) he first smiles, and (ii) he smiles again? In what way do his thoughts change in between, and why?

Class 9 - English - The Snake and the Mirror Page -60"

Answer 1

1.The doctor heard the sound of a snake. The doctor thought it was the sound of rats. He heard it three times. The sound stopped when the snake fell on the back of the chair.

2. He decided that he would shave daily and grow a thin moustache to look more handsome. He also decided that he would always keep an attractive smile on his face.

3. i) He thinks himself to be handsome. He thinks he had an attractive smile.

ii) The doctor has in his room no medicine for Snake bite. He calls himself a foolish and stupid doctor.

All his thoughts about his beauty vanish now. He finds himself very close to death. Now he can think of nothing but God.


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Answer 2

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first answer the doctor hear the sounds of Red Sea at the sound three times the sound stop because the snake came and sat on the shoulder of the doctor second answer the doctor took two important and Earth shaking decision while he was looking into the mirror first he he decided to save daily and growth and mustard second he always to keep attractive smile on his face