What is the secret that Meena shares with Mridu in the backyard?
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Answer: Meena shares the secret of the kitten they found in front of the house in the morning. They had kept it in the backyard behind a thick bush.
Question 2. How does Ravi get milk for the kitten?
Answer: Ravi gets milk for the kitten cleverly from the kitchen by pretending that he is hungry. In order to prove that he indeed was hungry, he had to drink most of the milk. He would leave some milk in the tumbler and empty it in the coconut shell kept in the backyard.
Question 3. Who does he say the kitten’s ancestors are? Do you believe him?
Answer: Ravi says that the kitten’s ancestor was the Pallava Lion, emblem of the Pallava dynasty.
No, I don’t believe him.
Question 4. Ravi has a lot to say about M.P. Poonai. This shows that
(i) he is merely trying to impress Mridu.
(ii) his knowledge of history is sound.
(iii) he has a rich imagination.
(iv) he is an intelligent child.
Which of these statements do you agree/disagree to?
Answer: I think that his knowledge of history is sound. Also, he has a rich imagination and he is an intelligent child.
Question 5. What was the noise that startled Mridu and frightened Mahendran?
Answer: The noise that startled Mridu and frightened Mahendran was the ‘kreeching’ sound of Lalli’s violin.