Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
I didn’t jump. I didn’t tremble. I didn’t cry out. There was no time to do any such thing. The snake slithered along my shoulder and coiled around my left arm above the elbow. The hood was spread out and its head was hardly three or four-inch from my face!
It would not be correct to say merely that I sat there holding my breath I was turned to stone.
1. Why did the author not jump, tremble and cry?
2. Did the snake bit the speaker? What was his reaction?
3. What does the word “tremble” from the above lines mean?
1. The author did not jump, tremble and cry because a snake had fallen on his shoulders.
2. No, the snake did not bite the speaker. He said, “Oh!” He had a relief as he was not bitten by the snake.
3. Shiver.