Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Dwarfing the tiny tea plants were tall sturdy shade-trees and amidst the orderly rows of bushes busily moved doll-like figures. In the distance was an ugly building with smoke billowing out of tall chimneys.

1. What does ‘The doll-like figures’ refer to here?
2. Why is the building called ‘ugly’?
3. What scene is described here?

Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Marriage gifts are meaningless without the sweet bread known as the bol, just as a party or a feast loses its charm without bread. Not enough can be said to show how important a baker can be for a village.

1. What was the role of bread in the life of the Goans?
2. Why is a baker important to the people of the village?
3. Find the word in the passage that means opposite to ‘significant’.

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
The baker and his family never starved. He, his family and his servants always looked happy and prosperous. Their plump physique was an open testimony to this.

1. What does the phrase: “The baker and his family never starved” mean?
2. What proves the baker’s prosperity?
3. Find out a word in the passage that is opposite to ‘thin or slender’.

How do the Goan people react to their colonial past?

Is bread-making still popular in Goa? How do you know?

Why would the baker come everyday? What announced his arrival?

What would the baker do after his musical entry?

How did he treat the kids who surrounded him?

How did the children get along with the baker?

Or

Why would the children run to meet the baker as soon as he arrived?

How do you know the kids were excited about the bread?

‘The tiger never brushed his teeth.’ Why does the author say so?