Read these lines and guess the answers to the questions given below:
It was Mrs. Packletide’s pleasure and intention that she should shoot a tiger … The compelling motive … was the fact that Loona Bimberton had recently … personally procured tiger-skin and a heavy harvest of Press photographs could successfully counter that sort of thing.
(a) Why did Mrs. Packletide want to kill a tiger?
(b) What does it tell you about her?
(c) What is the tone of the storywriter?
(d) Do you think she was successful in her mission?
(e) What do you think the story is all about?
(a) Mrs. Packletide wanted to kill a tiger for pleasure and to compete with her friend Loona Bimberton who had procured a tiger-skin and gained great popularity.
(b) She wanted to shoot a tiger as she was jealous of her friend and wanted to gain popularity.
(c) The tone of the story writer is humorous.
(d) Yes she was successful in her mission.
(e) The story is about hunting a tiger for pleasure and popularity.