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प्रश्न
Answer the following question:
Why does the author say that Louisa Mebbin had a "protective elder sister" attitude towards money?
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उत्तर
Miss Mebbin was a paid companion of Mrs. Packletide. She was money-minded and saved each and every penny given to her as tips in the same Moscow hotel. She blackmailed Mrs. Packletide and forced her to buy a cottage for herself. Looking at all these behavior of her, the author says that Miss. Mebbin had a "protective elder sister" attitude towards money.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Read these lines and guess the answers to the questions given below.
It was Mrs. Packletide's pleasure and intention that she should shoot a tiger …. The
compelling motive ….was the fact that Loona Bimberton had recently …… personally
procured tiger-skin and a heavy harvest of Press photographs could successfully
counter that sort of thing.
a) Why did Mrs. Packletide want to kill a tiger?
b) What does it tell you about her?
c) What is the tone of the storywriter?
d) Do you think she was successful in her mission?
e) What do you think the story is all about?
Who was Miss Mebbin? Was she really devoted to Mrs. Packletide? How did she behave during the tiger shooting?
Answer the following question in your own words:
How did the villagers react to the tiger’s death?
Did Mrs. Packletide achieve her heart’s desire? Give reasons for your answer.
“The incidental expenses are so heavy,” she confides to inquiring friends. Who is the speaker? What is she referring to here?
How does the writer create humour in this story?
Rewrite the one in ordinary prose so that the meaning is retained.
Louisa Mebbin adopted a protective elder-sister attitude towards money in
general, irrespective of nationality or denomination.
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Years later Mrs. Packletide writes her autobiography. As Mrs. Packletide, write
about the tiger episode with the help of the clues given below.
| jealous of the applause Loona was getting-thought of tiger hunt--all arranged-- Louisa Mebbin accompanied; turned out to be a blackmailer-huge price to pay to outdo a rival |
The hunting of lionesses is discouraged because
The Maasai use three parts of the lion. They are
