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Time to answer
A. Choose the correct option.

1. What time did the elephant with shining tusks come after the child?

12 o’clock in the afternoon 2 o’clock or maybe 3 at night

2 o’clock or maybe 3 in the afternoon 5 o’clock in the morning

2. Where does the child see these creatures?

on the television while watching a film

in his dreams in his school

3. What is the theme of the poem?

the dreams children have at night

how children get scared because of nightmares

the great imagination of children

the faith of a child about the protective nature of his/her father

B. Answer these questions.

1. Why didn’t the child scream or show that he was scared when the elephant
attacked him?

2. Describe the giant that chased the child.

3. How did the giant threaten the child?

4. How did the child fool the giant?

5. What gives the child confidence against the giants, ghosts or elephants?

Reference to the context

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

1. An’ I just raced ’em round the room an’ let ’em think maybe

I’d have to stop an’ rest awhile, when they could capture me.
a. Who has attacked the child this time?

b. What is the child trying to explain in these lines?

i. The child is trying to explain how he managed to escape from the giants.

ii. The child is trying to explain how the ghosts managed to capture him.

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