Question

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below.

My name is Shadananda Chakraborty. Actually, I am only thirteen. I get fun out of things which most people don‟t even notice. Even when I am lying in bed I notice things which make me happy. Sometimes a cotton seed comes floating in through the window. What a happy sight that is! If they come floating down towards you, you blow on them and send them shooting up into the air again.
If a crow should come and settle on the window, watching it is like watching a circus clown. I always go absolutely still when a crow comes and sits nearby, and watch its antics out of the corner of my eye.
But if you ask me what gives me more fun, I would say – watching ants. Once, about a year ago, I had fever. As always, the first couple of days in bed was fun! A nice, chilly feeling mixed with a feeling of drowsiness. Added to this was the fun of not having to go to school. I lay in bed and was watching a squirrel climbing up the tree outside the window when mother came and gave me a bitter mixture to drink. I wrapped the blanket around me and was about to close my eyes when I noticed something.
A few drops of water had fallen on the window sill, and in one of these drops a small black ant was trying desperately to save itself from drowning.
I found it so strange that I propped myself up on my elbows and leaned forward to bring my eyes up close to the ant. Suddenly, I had a wish to save the ant. Although I had fever, I jumped out of bed, ran out of the room, rushed into my father‟s study and tore off a piece of blotting paper from his writing pad. Then I ran back into my room, and held the blotting paper so that its edge touched the drop of water. The water was sucked up in no time. The suddenly-rescued ant seemed not to know which way to go. It rushed about here and there for a while and then suddenly disappeared down the drainpipe on the far side of the sill.
In the afternoon, when the sun was behind the tree, I saw an ant poking its head out of the mouth of the drainpipe. Although, all black ants look alike, somehow I had the feeling that this was the same ant which I had rescued yesterday. I had acted as his friend, so he had come to pay me a visit.


answer these questions........
a. The three things the writer finds amusing are: _______________________.
b. Why did the writer enjoy having fever? (Give one reason only)
c. What was the ant trying to do when the writer spotted it?
d. How did the writer rescue the ant with the blotting paper?
e. What reason does the writer give for the ant‟s re-visit the next day?

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