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Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

Zigzag" interrupted their nine year-old daughter Maya. Isn't that uncle

Somu's prized giant green and gold fighting beetle. The once that spits deadly

poison straight into its opponent 's eye? No, no' corrected her older brother

Arvind, eyes shining in pure delight. "The beetle is called spitfire. Zigzag

must be uncle Somu's pet snake. The African sidewinder! You know, the one

that slithers Zigzag call over his house".

"You re both quite mistaken, their father hastened to explain, seeing his

wife's horrified expression. "Zigzag is a most harmless, unusual and lovable

bird. Apparently, it was bred by a genuine, African witch doctor, who giited

it to Somu when he being a child specialist like me cured the witch doctor's

son while he was touring the deepest jungles of equatorial Africa last month

Somu says the bird is an absolute treasure and a real help. It's his favourite

pet, you know!

a) Who is Maya?

b) What did Maya mistake Zigzag to be?

c) According to Maya's brother who was Zigzag? Why.

d) Why did Ashok hasten to explain to his children the mistaken identify?

e) Who was Zigzag according to Ashok?​

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Answered by nandini9124
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Answer:

a) maya is daugher of zigzag

Answered by Anonymous
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Answer :

(a) Maya is Dr. Krishnan’s nine year old daughter.

(b) Maya mistook Zigzag to be Uncle Somu’s prized giant and gold fighting beetle, Spitfire.

(c) According to Maya’s brother Arvind, Zigzag was Uncle Somu’s pet snake, the African sidewinder that slithers zigzag all over his house.

(d) Ashok observed his wife’s horrified expression and hastened to explain to his children.

(e) Zigzag was a harmless, unusual and lovable bird bred by a genuine African doctor who gifted it to Somu as a gift for treating his son while touring the jungles of equatorial Africa.

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