(i) Why did all of them feel relieved?
(ii) Who was inconsolable? What did she do?
(iii) Find from the passage the antonyms of the given words:
(a) tensed, (b) accepts.
(i) They felt relieved because the big bear had been sent to the zoo.
(ii) The writer’s wife was inconsolable. She wept and fretted. For the first few days she ate nothing.
(iii) (a) tensed — relieved.
(b) accepts — refuses.