Class 10 English - Footprints Without Feet - Chapter The Necklace NCERT Solutions | What was the cause of Matilda’s ru

The course of the Loisels’ life changed due to the necklace. Comment.

If you were caught in a situation like this, how would you have dealt with it?

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?

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?

“Horace Danby was good and respectable — but not completely honest”. Why do you think this description is apt for Horace? Why can’t he be categorised as a typical thief?

“Ausable did not fit any description of a secret agent Fowler had ever read.” What do secret agents in books and films look like, in your opinion? Discuss in groups or in class some stories or movies featuring spies, detectives and secret agents, and compare their appearance with that of Ausable in this story. (You may mention characters from fiction in languages other than English. In English fiction you may have come across Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, or Miss Marple. Have you watched any movies featuring James Bond?)

What more does Bill say about Lutkins and his family?

Why do you think Lutkins’ neighbours were anxious to meet the lawyer?

Why are books referred to as a man’s best companion? Which is your favourite book and why? Write a paragraph about that book.

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?

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?

Why does he steal every year?

Bholi’s story must have moved you. Do you think girl children are not treated at par with boys? You are aware that the government has introduced a scheme to save the girl child as the sex ratio is declining. The scheme is called Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, Save the Girl Child. Read about the scheme and design a poster in groups of four and display on the school notice board.