Class 10 English - Footprints Without Feet - Chapter A Triumph of Surgery NCERT Solutions | Why is Mrs Pumphrey worried about Tricki

Do you think this is a real-life episode, or mere fiction? Or is it a mixture of both?

What kind of a person do you think the narrator, a veterinary surgeon, is? Would you say he is tactful as well as full of commonsense?

How does he treat the dog?

Is the narrator as rich as Tricki’s mistress?

Do you think Tricki was happy to go home? What do you think will happen now?

What does she do to help him? Is she wise in this?

Who does ‘I’ refer to in this story?

Why does Mrs Pumphrey think the dog’s recovery is “a triumph of surgery”?

Why is he tempted to keep Tricki on as a permanent guest?

How is Ausable different from other secret agents?

What does Horace Danby like to collect?

How did the invisible man first become visible?

How did a book become a turning point in Richard Ebright’s life?

What kind of a person is Mme Loisel — why is she always unhappy?

Why is the lawyer sent to New Mullion? What does he first think about the place?

Why is Bholi’s father worried about her?

Why was the twentieth century called the ‘Era of the Book’?

Who does ‘I’ refer to in this story?

Who is Fowler and what is his first authentic thrill of the day?

What is he “a fairly successful hand” at?

How is the problem solved?

After his first day’s experience with the hack driver the lawyer thinks of returning to New Mullion to practise law. Do you think he would have reconsidered this idea after his second visit?

Did you begin to suspect, before the end of the story, that the lady was not the person Horace Danby took her to be? If so, at what point did you realise this, and how?

You must have read about cells and DNA in your science books. Discuss Richard Ebright’s work in the light of what you have studied. If you get an opportunity to work like Richard Ebright on projects and experiments, which field would you like to work on and why?

Bholi’s real name is Sulekha. We are told this right at the beginning. But only in the last but one paragraph of the story is Bholi called Sulekha again. Why do you think she is called Sulekha at that point in the story?

Noodle avoids offending Think-Tank but at the same time he corrects his mistakes. How does he manage to do that?

Who is Fowler and what is his first authentic thrill of the day?

What does Horace Danby like to collect?

What are Hari Singh’s reactions to the prospect of receiving an education? Do they change over time? (Hint: Compare, for example, the thought: “I knew that once I could write like an educated man there would be no limit to what I could achieve” with these later thoughts: “Whole sentences, I knew, could one day bring me more than a few hundred rupees. It was a simple matter to steal — and sometimes just as simple to be caught. But to be a really big man, a clever and respected man, was something else.”) What makes him return to Anil?