Do you think Tricki was happy to go home? What do you think will happen now?
Tricki really had a good time with other dogs in his surgery time. But Tricki was really more happier to get back to home. We can result it out from the case when Mrs. Pumphrey came to take Tricki. when he saw her, he leaped into her laps and started licking her face. Tricki was brought for the surgery. But he got cured in two days without any medication. The proper healthy diet and regular exercise helped a lot in his speedy recovery. Tricki regained his best health and was no longer seen without energy. Now I think same indulge will start again. Mrs. Pumphrey will take excessive care of the dog and again overfeed him.
Do you think this is a real-life episode, or mere fiction? Or is it a mixture of both?
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?
How does he treat the dog?
Is the narrator as rich as Tricki’s mistress?
Why is Mrs Pumphrey worried about Tricki?
What does she do to help him? Is she wise in this?
Who does ‘I’ refer to in this story?
Why does Mrs Pumphrey think the dog’s recovery is “a triumph of surgery”?
Why is he tempted to keep Tricki on as a permanent guest?
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?
What kind of a person is Mme Loisel — why is she always unhappy?
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?
Who is Fowler and what is his first authentic thrill of the day?
Who is Fowler and what is his first authentic thrill of the day?
Does the narrator serve the summons that day?
If you were caught in a situation like this, how would you have dealt with it?
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?
What experiments and projects does he then undertake?
Horace Danby was a meticulous planner but still he faltered. Where did he go wrong and why?
How has Max got in?
Bholi’s real name is Sulekha. We are told this right at the beginning. But only in the last but one paragraph of the story is Bholi called Sulekha again. Why do you think she is called Sulekha at that point in the story?
How would you assess Griffin as a scientist?
What are Hari Singh’s reactions to the prospect of receiving an education? Do they change over time? (Hint: Compare, for example, the thought: “I knew that once I could write like an educated man there would be no limit to what I could achieve” with these later thoughts: “Whole sentences, I knew, could one day bring me more than a few hundred rupees. It was a simple matter to steal — and sometimes just as simple to be caught. But to be a really big man, a clever and respected man, was something else.”) What makes him return to Anil?