What does the swallow see when it flies over the city?
When the swallow flew over the city, he saw the rich people making merry and the beggars sitting down the lane. It was a evident contrast of wealth and poverty. He saw pale faces of starving children on the streets there. He saw that two boys being shouted at and denied of a sound sleep by the watchman and police patrolling .
Why did the swallow not leave the prince and go to Egypt?
Why do the courtiers call the prince ‘the Happy Prince’? Is he really happy? What does he see all around him?
What are the precious things mentioned in the story? Why are they precious?
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?
What are the things the child sees on his way to the fair? Why does he lag behind?
How does Toto come to grandfather’s private zoo?
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?
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?
In the fair he wants many things. What are they? Why does he move on without waiting for an answer?
Is Lushkoff a willing worker? Why, then, does he agree to chop wood for Sergei?
How does Toto come to grandfather’s private zoo?
What actions of the schoolmates change the author’s understanding of life and people, and comfort him emotionally? How does his loneliness vanish and how does he start participating in life?
Why is the author deeply embarrassed the next day in school? Which words show his fear and insecurity?
What is the significance of the title?
What havoc has the super cyclone wreaked in the life of the people of Orissa?
Why does the author say, “Toto was not the sort of pet we could keep for long”?
Bill Bryson “ached to be suave”. Is he successful in his mis- sion? List his ‘unsuave’ ways.
What is the meaning of “My cat was back and so was I”? Had the author gone anywhere? Why does he say that he is also back?