Saturday, September 15, 2012

Analysing Textual Passages 3

Read the passage and answer the questions that follow:
Ravi sat back on the harsh edge of the tub, deciding to hold out a bit longer.
What fun if they were all found and caught - he alone left unconquered! He
had never known that sensation. Nothing more wonderful had ever happened
to him than being taken out by an uncle and bought a whole slab of chocolate
all to himself. There he sat smiling, knocking his heels against the bathtub,
now and then getting up and going to the door to put his ear to the broad crack
and listening for sounds of the game, the pursuer and the pursued and then
returning to his seat with the dogged determination of the true winner, a breaker
of records, a champion.
1. What, according to Ravi, is the greatest fun of hiding in the desolate shed?
2. What present does Ravi dream of being gifted with when he becomes the
champion?
3. Who are the pursuer and the pursued referred to in the passage?
4. Which expression in the passage is suggestive of Ravi's strong decision to
win the game?
5. How does Ravi express his happiness though impatiently waiting in the
shed?

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