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?
Behrman has a dream. What is it? Does it come true?
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?
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?
Is Lushkoff a willing worker? Why, then, does he agree to chop wood for Sergei?
The cat and the author are very fond of each other. How has this been shown in the story? Where was the cat after the fire? Who brings it back and how?
How does the guru manage to save his disciple’s life?
How has Prashant, a teenager, been able to help the people of his village?
Why is the author deeply embarrassed the next day in school? Which words show his fear and insecurity?
What is the significance of the title?