Question

Toto's Mischief are beyond imagination. Support your answer

Answer 1

Toto was a baby monkey full of mischievous activities.

His naughty behaviour created a havoc in the life of the narrator of the story.

His compilation of mischievous deeds included incidents like him ripping off decorative papers off the walls exposing the bricks, tearing the narrator’s school blazer into pieces, frightening other animals etc.

Answer 2

Name of the chapter - 'The Adventure of Toto'

by - Ruskin Bond

Answer -

Toto could not be kept for a long due to three main reasons :

1. He destroyed the family's possessions at home.

2. He annoyed the animals by teasing them.

3. He got into unnecessary trouble himself.

His mischief included -

• He damaged the wall when he wrenched out the peg he was tired to.

• He tore the author's school blazer to shreds.

• He did not allow the other pets to sleep at night.

• He forced the grandfather to pay his railway fare, by popping his head out of his bag he was being carried in, just at the exit gate at Saharanpur station.

• He teased the family donkey by beating her long ears.

• He almost killed himself by climbing into a tea kettle for having a bath while the kettle was being heated on the stove.

• He ate a dish full of pullao by throwing plates at the family and running out onto a tree to escape them, finally breaking the bowl also.

• He tore curtains and other clothes of the family, besides damaging other kind of stuffs belonging to the family.