Question

Read the following extract given below and attempt the questions that follow. [4]

And I put him away in a little closet opening into my bedroom wall, where he was tied securely – or so we

thought – to a peg fastened into the wall.

1. Who is ‘him’ in this extract?

2. Where was ‘he’ put away and why?

3. How was he tied? Did it prove to be ‘secure’?

4. What is suggested by the phrase ‘or so we thought’?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Grandfather and I put him away in a little closet opening into my bedroom wall, where he was tied securely – or so we thought – to a peg fastened into the wall. (a) Who is 'him' in this extract? Ans:'Him' in this extract is Toto, the baby monkey who was bought from a tonga-driver for five rupees by Grandfather.