Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow:
I watched, amazed; in less than a minute he had turned the tap far enough to produce a trickle of water, and after a moment or two achieved the full flow. He had been lucky to turn the tap the right way.

1. What surprised the narrator?
2. Who does ‘He’ here refer?
3. Find a word from the passage that means ‘surprised’.

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?

Or

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?

Why did Maxwell put Mijbil into a box? What happened to him ?