How does Toto take a bath? Where has he learnt to do this? How does Toto almost boil himself alive?
Toto takes bath in a tub of warm water by putting legs in the water one by one and applies soap as well. As monkeys are good at replicating others, Toto has learnt the proper steps of bathing by watching the narrator. Toto is fond of bathing with the warm water by checking the temperature. Being an animal he is not much intelligent or enough to understand the risk of boiling water so he keeps popping his head up and down in the kettle. Toto kept on doing this until the grandmother sees him and pulled him out in the proper time.
Why does the author say, “Toto was not the sort of pet we could keep for long”?
How does Toto come to grandfather’s private zoo?
“Toto was a pretty monkey.” In what sense is Toto pretty?
Why does grandfather take Toto to Saharanpur and how? Why does the ticket collector insist on calling Toto a dog?
What are the things the child sees on his way to the fair? Why does he lag behind?
In what way is Iswaran an asset to Mahendra?
What are the two strange things the guru and his disciple find in the Kingdom of Fools?
Why do the courtiers call the prince ‘the Happy Prince’? Is he really happy? What does he see all around him?
What havoc has the super cyclone wreaked in the life of the people of Orissa?
What is Johnsy’s illness? What can cure her, the medicine or the willingness to live?
What does the author notice one Sunday afternoon? What is his mother’s reaction? What does she do?
Bill Bryson says, “I am, in short, easily confused.” What examples has he given to justify this?
Has Lushkoff become a beggar by circumstance or by choice?
In the fair he wants many things. What are they? Why does he move on without waiting for an answer?
Bill Bryson “ached to be suave”. Is he successful in his mis- sion? List his ‘unsuave’ ways.
Why does the lost child lose interest in the things that he had wanted earlier?
Lushkoff is earning thirty five roubles a month. How is he obliged to Sergei for this?
What is the meaning of “My cat was back and so was I”? Had the author gone anywhere? Why does he say that he is also back?
During their conversation Lushkoff reveals that Sergei’s cook, Olga, is responsible for the positive change in him. How has Olga saved Lushkoff?
What is Johnsy’s illness? What can cure her, the medicine or the willingness to live?
In the fair he wants many things. What are they? Why does he move on without waiting for an answer?
Why do the courtiers call the prince ‘the Happy Prince’? Is he really happy? What does he see all around him?
Has Lushkoff become a beggar by circumstance or by choice?
Why does the Happy Prince send a ruby for the seamstress? What does the swallow do in the seamstress’ house?