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Mrs Packletide's Tiger

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Read the extract and answer the following questions by choosing the   most appropriate options:
‘And for Loona Bimberton, she refused to look at an illustrated paper for weeks and her letter of thanks for the gift of a tiger-claw brooch was a model of repressed emotion.’

(a) Loona didn’t look at papers for weeks because ______.
(i) they praised Packletide 
(ii) she lost her brooch
(iii) Packletide killed a tiger
(iv) Loona could not kill a tiger

(b) Who gave her the gift?
(i) Miss Mebbin                    
(ii) Mrs Packletide
(iii) Algerian aviator
(iv) the villagers

(c) Her emotions were “repressed” because _________
(i) she was an emotional person
(ii) she was envious of Miss Mebbin
(iii) she was a paid companion
(iv) she was envious of Mrs Packletide



Solution

(a) they praised Packletide
(b) Mrs Packletide
(c) she was envious of Mrs Packletide

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How did Mrs. Mebbin exploit Mrs. Packletide?

Solution

Louisa Mebbin exploited Mrs. Packletide into buying her the weekend cottage or else she would have told Loona Bimberton that it was not the tiger but a mere goat that Mrs. Packletide had shot.
Miss Mebbin commented that the bullet had shot the goat not the tiger. The tiger had succumbed to heart failure caused by the sound of firing accelerated by senile decay. She made this comment to take advantage of the fact that the tiger was not killed by Mrs. Packletide.

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Why did Mrs. Packletide want to kill a tiger?

Solution

Mrs. Packletide wanted to kill a tiger because she was envious of her neighbour Loona Bimberton, who had recently been carried 11 miles in an aeroplane by an Algerian aviator. She wanted to outshine her. She also wanted her pictures to appear in the press. 

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What does it tell you about her?

Solution

It tells that she is jealous of others' fate. She is a self-centered person who wants fame. 

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