How does Toto come to grandfather’s private zoo?
The author’s grandfather was very fond of collecting animals and made a zoo at home. Toto was in the control of a Tonga owner. The grandfather felt pitying with the monkey and thinks that his private zoo would be a better place for the Toto . So, he purchased that Toto from the Tonga wallah for five rupees.
How does Toto take a bath? Where has he learnt to do this? How does Toto almost boil himself alive?
Why does the author say, “Toto was not the sort of pet we could keep for long”?
“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?
What does the author notice one Sunday afternoon? What is his mother’s reaction? What does she do?
Has Lushkoff become a beggar by circumstance or by choice?
Bill Bryson says, “I am, in short, easily confused.” What examples has he given to justify this?
What is the significance of the title?
What are the things the child sees on his way to the fair? Why does he lag behind?
What do you think happens in the end? Does the child find his parents?
Bill Bryson “ached to be suave”. Is he successful in his mis- sion? List his ‘unsuave’ ways.
Why does the Happy Prince send a ruby for the seamstress? What does the swallow do in the seamstress’ house?
For whom does the prince send the sapphires and why?
How does he narrate the story of the tusker? Does it appear to be plausible?