Why did men, women and children shriek and cry with dizzy laughter in the story 'The Lost Child'?
1.Because they were in a roundabout.
2.Because they were watching a circus.
3.Because they were hypnotized.
4.Because they were fainting.
Answers
Answer:
. Where did the child go with his parents? What did he want there?
Answer: The child went to a fair with his parents, which had been organized to celebrate the festival of spring. He wanted them to buy him sweets, garlands, and balloons at the fair. He also wanted to see the snake charmer’s show and ride on a roundabout.
2.Was the fair popular with people in general? Give reasons.
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Was the festival of spring an attraction for the people?
Answer: The fair was certainly very popular with people in general because they had left their daily routine work, dressed up in their best and had come to enjoy the spring festival. They were with their families and crowded the stalls and rides displayed at the fair.
3. Parents were in a hurry to reach the fair but the child was delaying them. How?
Answer: The child was getting tempted by the many distractions on way to the fair. Sometimes he would stop by the toy shops while at other times he would start running after butterflies. The parents had to pause frequently and call him to walk beside them.
4. What are the things that the child sees on his way to the fair? Why does he lag behind?
Answer: The child sees toys, insects, worms, and flowers on his way to the fair. He gets lured by these things and stops frequently to watch them longingly. Thus, he fails to keep pace with his parents and lags behind.
5. How did the child’s father react to hearing the child say, “I want that toy.”?
Answer: The child was used to his parents’, especially his father’s habit of refusing him anything that he desired to have. Yet when he dared to express his desire to have a toy, his father looked at him red-eyed like a tyrant. The very look was an emphatic and rude ‘no’.
6. How can you say that the child was scared of his father?
Answer: The child was tempted by many things but he asked for them only in slow murmurs. This shows that he was scared of his father and could not express his demands as rightfully as some other children do.
7. How did the mother distract the child’s mind from the toy seller?
Answer: The child’s mother drew his attention to the flowering mustard field to distract his mind from the toy seller. Here he saw colourful dragon-flies with gaudy purple wings, black bee and butterflies. He gazed at them as they flew in the air.