Q 1. Who was Mahendra? What did he do?
Answer: Mahendra was a young man. He was a junior supervisor in a firm. His job was to keep an eye on the activities at the work site. He had flect quently to go from one place to the other. He was a bachelor and his needs were simple.
Q 2. Who was iswaran? How was he an asset?Ans. Iswaran was Mahendra's cook, he was an asset to him. He cooked for him, washed his clothes and chatted away with his master at night. He often narrated imaginati stories.
Q. 3. How did he described the aprooted tree on the road?
Ans. Iswaran told that road was deserted and he was all alone. Suddenly he spotted something that looked like an enormous bushy beast lying sprawled across the road.
Q.4. What was the routine of Iswaran?
Ans.Iswaran was a cook. He was attached to Mahendra. He cooked food, washed clothes and did other household works. After completing his work, he used to take bath and read some books. So he was an asset to Mahendra.
Q.5 What happened when the wild elephant entered the school playground?
Ans. When the wild elephant entered the school playground, there was chaos. The boys ran into their classrooms and shut the doors. The elephant pulled out the football goalpost, flattened the drum and uprooted the shrubs.
Q.6. How did Iswaran remind Mahendra of the supernatural experience he had had the previous night?
Ans.
He told Mahendra that he had seen the ghost the previous night, when he had come running after hearing the moaning coming from his master’s room.
Q.7. How did Mahendra react to his ghostly misadventure?
Answer:
He handed in his papers at the office and resolved to leave the haunted place the very next day.
Q.8. How did Iswaran control the wild elephant?
Ans.
Iswaran controlled the wild elephant. He took a stick in his hand, moved forward and with all his might, hit the elephant’s third toenail. Finally, it shivered and collapsed.
