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Mijbil the Otter
What are some of the things we come to know about otters from this text?
Otters belong to a small group of animals called Mustellines. Animals like badger, mongoose, weasel, stoat, mink and others are from the same group. Otters love to play with water. They go wild with water and spread every drop of water about the place. For them, water must be constantly used for some work. If it is immobile, it provokes them to play with it. An otter loves to lie on his back juggling with small objects between his paws.
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Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow:
I was craning my neck trying to follow the hunt when suddenly I heard from my feet a distressed chitter of recognition and welcome, and Mij bounded on to my knee and began to nuzzle my face and my neck.
1. What was the narrator doing?
2. What does expression ‘distressed chitter of recognition’ indicate?
3. Find a word from the passage which means ‘surrounded’.
Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow:
On his way home, but never on his way out, Mij would tug me to this wall, jump on to it, and gallop the full length of its thirty yards, to the hopeless distraction both of pupils and of staff within.
1. What would Mij do habitually?
2. What would distract the pupils and the staff?
3. Find a word in the passage that means ‘to move fast’.
How did Maxwell get the otter?
How did ‘the opening of that sack’ change Maxwell’s life?
Why was the otter named as Maxwell’s otter?
How did Mijbil get accustomed to Maxwell and his new surroundings?
How did Mijbil behave with water?
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What happened when Maxwell took Mijbil to the bathroom?
What does the narrator learn about the otters?
What did Mijbil do in the bathroom that left the narrator amazed ? What irritated Mijbil?
What were Mijbil’s favourite pastimes?
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