Why does grandfather take Toto to Saharanpur and how? Why does the ticket collector insist on calling Toto a dog?
Toto was really a mischievous monkey and annoyance for every living soul in the house. Other animals in grandfather’s zoo were a Toto’s mercy during the night. So, grandfather decided to provide some relief to the other animals living in the zoo and thought of taking toto to shaharanpur. The ticket collector was performing his duty as there seems to be no rule regulation for fixing a monkey’s fare so he equated Toto with the dog and charged a similar.
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”?
How does Toto come to grandfather’s private zoo?
“Toto was a pretty monkey.” In what sense is Toto pretty?
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 havoc has the super cyclone wreaked in the life of the people of Orissa?
Bill Bryson “ached to be suave”. Is he successful in his mis- sion? List his ‘unsuave’ ways.
In what way is Iswaran an asset to Mahendra?
How does he narrate the story of the tusker? Does it appear to be plausible?
Behrman has a dream. What is it? Does it come true?
What do you think happens in the end? Does the child find his parents?
In the fair he wants many things. What are they? Why does he move on without waiting for an answer?
What are the two strange things the guru and his disciple find in the Kingdom of Fools?
Mahendra calls ghosts or spirits a figment of the imagination. What happens to him on a full-moon night?
Bill Bryson says, “I am, in short, easily confused.” What examples has he given to justify this?