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B. Answer these questions.

1. Where did the grandfather search for his spectacles?

2. Mention the places where Henry, Nelly and Edward searched for the spectacles.

3. Why were the children so motivated to search for the spectacles?

4. Who found the spectacles? Where were the spectacles?

Reference to the context

Read these lines from the poem and answer the questions that follow.

1. All through the big Bible she searches with care

That lies on the table by Grandpapa’s chair.

They feel in his pockets, they peep in his hat,

They pull out the sofa, they shake out the mat.

a. Who is ‘she’ in the above lines?
i. mother ii. nanny iii. Nelly iv. aunt

b. Who are involved in the search?
c. What are they searching for?

i. Grandpapa’s notebook ii. Grandpapa’s spectacles

iii. Grandpapa’s stick iv. Grandpapa’s slippers

d. Why is the search being carried out with care?

2. But Nelly, who, leaning on Grandpapa’s knee,

Was thinking most earnestly where they could be,

Looked suddenly up in the kind, faded eyes,
And her own shining brown ones grew big with surprise.

a. What is ‘they’ in the above lines?

b. What was Nelly thinking about most earnestly?

i. about the ten cents she would receive on finding the spectacles

ii. about where Grandpapa’s spectacles were

iii. about who would be the first to find the spectacles

iv. about what Henry and Ed would find under the table

c. Why did her eyes grow ‘big with surprise’?

d. What did she announce soon after?

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