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About the Author
Hugh John Lofting (1886−1947) was an English-born American writer who created the classic children’s literature
character Doctor Dolittle. The Story of Dr Dolittle, the first of his series, appeared in 1920 and won instant success.
Doctor Dolittle was originally created to entertain Lofting’s children in letters that he sent to them from the front
during World War I. There have been a number of adaptations of the Doctor Dolittle stories in other media.
Time to answer
A. Choose the correct answer.
1. What is the setting of the story?
a town in England
the Cat’s-meat-Man’s home
Dr Dolittle’s home
Dr Dolittle’s clinic
2. Who convinced the doctor to be an animal-doctor?
the Cat’s-meat-Man the plow-horse
the farmer’s boy Polynesia
3. You must have noticed that the Cat’s-meat-Man is not able to frame proper sentences
and he drops some letters from his words. What could be the reason?
because he is always in a hurry
because he has some speech problem
because he is poor and uneducated
because he is a scholar and loves to drop letters
4. What made the Cat’s-meat-Man think that Dr Dolittle could become a better
animal-doctor than a people’s doctor?
because he felt the doctor loved animals a lot
because as an animal-doctor, the doctor could make more money
because the doctor’s book on cats was wonderful and showed that he had deep
knowledge of animals
because people are ungrateful and treating them was no good
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