Question

Read the passage given below and then answer the questions.
When Alexis and Peter were but half a mile from home a great gaunt wolf sprang out of the trees bordering the road, and with great strides came leaping after the sledge. "Drive on fast," shouted Alexis, seizing his gun and taking aim at the wolf who was now no more than a few yards from the back of the sledge. Alexis pulled the trigger. There was a click but no report: the powder was damp. Dropping the useless gun Alexis fumbled for his knife, for the wolf was almost upon him. But it was too late to draw the knife. With a fierce snarling how the wolf sprang into the air and hurled himself
upon Alexis. As the great gaunt body shot through the air, Alexis flung his thick sheepskin up over his head, and catching the wolf in its clinging folds hugged the astonished beast to his breast with his mighty arms. The wolf struggled and bit into the sheepskin. The frightened horses sped onward like the wind. "Drive on, drive like fury!" roared Alexis, tightening the grip of his iron arms about the heaving, twisting body of the wolf. Swaying and rocking from side to side the sledge burst into the village with the horses smothered with foam and Peter shouting and cracking his whip, while Alexis, not tiring from his efforts, roared, "A wolf! Help! A wolf ! Help! Stop the horses!"

Give the meanings of the following:
(i) report (ii) clinging (iii) smothered.

Answer the following questions: (i) How far were Alexis and Peter from the village? (ii) What did they see? (iii) What surprised the wolf ? (iv) Why did Alexis want Peter to drive fast? (v) Describe what the villagers saw. (vi) How did the horses run?

Describe the fight between Alexis and the wolf within 60 words.​

Answer 1

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