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Q1 I. Given in the box are some headings. Find the relevant paragraphs in the text to match the headings. An Orphaned Cub; Bruno’s Food-chart; An Accidental Case of Poisoning; Playful Baba; Pain of Separation; Joy of Reunion; A Request to the Zoo; An Island in the Courtyard Ans: An orphaned cub : paragraph 3
Bruno ‘s food – chart : paragraph 6
An accidental case of poisoning : paragraph 8
Playful baba : paragraph 12
Pain of separation : paragraph 14
Joy of reunion : paragraph 16
A request to the zoo : paragraph 18
An island in the courtyard : paragraph 21Q2 II. Answer the following questions. 1. “I got him for her by accident.” (i) Who says this? (ii) Who do ‘him’ and ‘her’ refer to? (iii) What is the incident referred to here? 2. “He stood on his head in delight.” (i) Who does ‘he’ refer to? (ii) Why was he delighted? 3. “We all missed him greatly: but in a sense we were relieved.” (i) Who does ‘we all’ stand for? (ii) Who did they miss? (iii) Why did they nevertheless feel relieved? Ans: 1. (i) The narrator says this so.
(ii) Here, him refers to the sloth bear and her refers to the wife of narrator.
(iii) Two years ago, the narrator and his companions were crossing through the sugarcane fields near mystore. All of as a sudden they saw a black sloth bear. One of the companions of the narrator shot the bear on the spot. As they saw the animal fall, they were amazed to see that the black fur on its back moving even after he died. Soon after they realized that it was a baby bear that had been riding on the back of his mother. The narrator ran up to it and attempted to catch it. Succeeded in capturing it and gifted it to his wife.2. (i) He refers to the bear Bruno.
(ii) Bruno was extremely happy and pleased to see the wife of narrator after three months of separation.
3. (i) We all stands for the narrator, his wife and his son.
(ii) They missed Bruno.
(iii) They felt relieved because Bruno was growing in size and getting too big to be kept at home. That's why he had to be sent off at zoo.Q3 III. Answer the following questions in 30 to 40 words each. 1. On two occasions Bruno ate/drank something that should not be eaten/ drunk. What happened to him on these occasions? 2. Was Bruno a loving and playful pet? Why, then, did he have to be sent away? 3. How was the problem of what to do with Bruno finally solved? Ans: 1. Bruno ate some poison-barium carbonate and after eating he started vomiting and breathed heavily, but was later cured. In another incident, he drank nearly a gallon of old engine oil which was made for the rats. Fortunately, he survived but it paralysed and weakened him.
2. Yes, Bruno was a loving and playful pet. Everybody in the family was very emotionally attached to him; especially the narrator’s wife. He was getting too big to be kept at home and had to be sent at the zoo.
3. Bruno wasn’t much happy at the zoo. By seeing his poor condition and state of happiness at seeing the narrator’s wife, he was allowed to go back to Bangalore. An island that was made for the bear, keeping all its requirements and necessities in mind.