Meanings

1.Dumbo:a stupid person

2.Mimic:imitate

3.Guilty: responsible for a specified wrong doing

4. Gobble up:to swallow or eat hastily

5.Undertone:muted tone of sound.

Question Answer

1.What similarities do you find between Apu and Durga?

Ans:They are siblings and both like to eat mango pickle. They have the same taste and feelings. Both of them were afraid of their mother.

2.Pick out the sentence which tells that Durga is pretty.

Ans: On her finely shaped face her eyes shown large like her brother’s.

3.‘You stand by the back door and keep a look out’.Why does Apu say so?

Ans: Durga told her brother to fetch some oil and salt from the kitchen. Their mother has gone to the ghat for washing the clothes. He is scared for the arrival of their mother. Because if she sees, he is stealing, she will beat him. So he asks Durga to stand by the back door.