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  A QUESTION OF TRUST Question 1. What does Horace Danby like to collect? Answer: Horace Danby likes to collect rare and expensive books.   Question 2. Why does he steal every year? Answer: He stole every year so that he could buy the rare and expensive books that he loved to collect. Each year he planned one robbery carefully so as to steal enough to last twelve months.   Question 3. Who is speaking to Horace Danby? Answer: A lady standing in the doorway is speaking to Horace Danby. She was young and pretty and was dressed in red. She said she had come just in time, or else her family would have been robbed by Horace. Thus she pretended to be one of the members of the family living at Shotover Grange.   Question 4. Who is the real culprit in the story? Answer: The real culprit in the story is the woman who pretended to be a member of the family living at Shotover Grange. She tricked Horace Danby into believing her, and cleverly took away all th...

  THE MIDNIGHT VISITOR Question 1. How was Ausable different from other secret agents? Answer: Ausable was different from other secret agents in more ways than one. He had a small room in the musty corridor of a gloomy French hotel. It was on the sixth and top floor and it was scarcely the setting for a romantic adventure. He was extremely fat. In spite of living in Paris for over twenty years, he spoke French and German with difficulty and had an American accent. Instead of getting messages passed secretly to him by beautiful girls, he got only a routine telephone call making an appointment. In his appearance and mannerism, he was different from the conventional notion of a secret agent.   Question 2. Who was Fowler and what was his first authentic thrill of the day? Answer: Fowler was a writer and he had come to meet Ausable. His first authentic thrill of the day came when he saw a man in Ausable’s room pointing a pistol towards Ausable and himself.   Ques...

  THE THIEF’S STORY Question 1. Who does ‘I’ refer to in this story? Answer: I refers to Hari Singh, the narrator of the story who is a 15 year old experienced thief.   Question 2. What is he “a fairly successful hand” at? Answer: He is a fairly successful hand at stealing. He is an experienced thief. He is so clean and swift in his work that he robs people without being caught   Question 3. What does he get from Anil in return for his work? Answer: In return of Hari Singh’s work, Anil gives him food and a place to live in.   Question 4. How does the thief think Anil will react to the theft? Answer: According to Hari, Anil would be sad not because of the loss of money but because of the loss of trust he had in Hari.   Question 5. What does he say about the different reactions of people when they are robbed? Answer: Hari’s experience at theft had made him aware of differences in reactions of people when they’re robbed. According to him, a g...

                A LETTER TO GOD   Q 1:  What did Lencho hope for? Answer:  Lencho hoped for rains as the only thing that his field of ripe corn needed was a shower.   Q 2:  Why did Lencho say the raindrops were like ‘new coins’? Answer:  Lencho’s crops were ready for harvest. However, they required a good downpour before harvesting. After a downpour, he could sell the harvest and get money. That is why he compared the raindrops to ‘new coins’. This also shows that the appearance of the raindrops was round and silver in colour like new coins.   Q 3:  How did the rain change? What happened to Lencho’s fields? Answer:  The rain changed into hail and Lencho’s crops were destroyed. There was not a single leaf left on the trees and the flowers were gone from the plants.   Q 4:  What were Lencho’s feelings when the hail stopped? Answer:  When the hail stopped, Lencho’s s...