Class 10 English - Footprints Without Feet - Chapter The Necklace NCERT Solutions | If you were caught in a situation like t

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.

How do they replace the necklace?

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?

When the lawyer reached New Mullion, did ‘Bill’ know that he was looking for Lutkins? When do you think Bill came up with his plan for fooling the lawyer?

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

How does Ausable manage to make Max believe that there is a balcony attached to his room? Look back at his detailed description of it. What makes it a convincing story?

Why do Bholi’s parents accept Bishamber’s marriage proposal?

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?

Who is speaking to Horace Danby?

Why does he steal every year?

What does he say about Lutkins?

Who does ‘I’ refer to in this story?

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?