How does he treat the dog?
The doctor did not give food and medicines but plenty of water for two days to the dog. Slowly, Tricki started showing interest in his surroundings and started mixing with the other dogs at the hospital. One day the doctor saw tricki was licking the empty shining bowl of the dogs and on the very next day doctor was amazed to note that Tricki had a fast run to eat his food with enthusiasm. From that day onwards, his progress was very rapid which shows he did not require any kind of medicinal treatment and recovered quite well at the end.
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?
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?
Why is Mrs Pumphrey worried about Tricki?
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 does he say about Lutkins?
How is the problem solved?
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?
Why do Bholi’s parents accept Bishamber’s marriage proposal?
What was the cause of Matilda’s ruin? How could she have avoided it?
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?
For what unusual reasons is Bholi sent to school?
Who befriends him? Where does he take him?
Looking back at the story, when do you think Ausable thought up his plan for getting rid of Max? Do you think he had worked out his plan in detail right from the beginning? Or did he make up a plan taking advantage of events as they happened?
Who tried to invade the earth in the twenty-first century?