Class 10 English - Footprints Without Feet - Chapter The Necklace NCERT Solutions | How do they replace the necklace?

What was the cause of Matilda’s ruin? How could she have avoided it?

The course of the Loisels’ life changed due to the necklace. Comment.

If you were caught in a situation like this, how would you have dealt with it?

What would have happened to Matilda if she had confessed to her friend that she had lost her necklace?

What do M. and Mme Loisel do next?

What kind of a person is her husband?

What fresh problem now disturbs Mme Loisel?

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

How is the problem solved?

Why is Mrs Pumphrey worried about Tricki?

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?

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?

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

What other extraordinary things happen at the inn?

What experiments and projects does he then undertake?

Lutkins openly takes the lawyer all over the village. How is it that no one lets out the secret? (Hint: Notice that the hack driver asks the lawyer to keep out of sight behind him when they go into Fritz’s.) Can you find other such subtle ways in which Lutkins manipulates the tour?

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?

Horace Danby was a meticulous planner but still he faltered. Where did he go wrong and why?

If you were in Noodle’s place, how would you handle Think-Tank’s mistakes?

Why do you think Lutkins’ neighbours were anxious to meet the lawyer?

Does Anil realise that he has been robbed?

“Ausable did not fit any description of a secret agent Fowler had ever read.” What do secret agents in books and films look like, in your opinion? Discuss in groups or in class some stories or movies featuring spies, detectives and secret agents, and compare their appearance with that of Ausable in this story. (You may mention characters from fiction in languages other than English. In English fiction you may have come across Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, or Miss Marple. Have you watched any movies featuring James Bond?)

How does Ausable say he got in?