CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Answers. The writer’s grandfather thought that the tail added to the good looks of an animal. Toto’s tail was like a third hand for him. It helped him hang from the branch of a tree.

Detailed explanation-2: -Yet his fingers were quick and wicked; and his tail, while adding to his good looks (Grandfather believed a tail would add to anyone’s good looks), also served as a third hand. He could use it to hang from a branch; and it was capable of scooping up any delicacy that might be out of reach of his hands.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer: He believed that a tail would add to anyone’s beauty.

Detailed explanation-4: -What incident led to Grandfather’s decision of not keeping Toto as a pet? Toto was once caught stuffing ‘pullao’ during lunchtime. On being screamed at by Grandmother and the narrator’s aunt, Toto hurled a plate and a glass of water at them.

Detailed explanation-5: -GRANDFATHER bought Toto from a tonga-driver for the sum of five rupees. The tonga-driver used to keep the little red monkey tied to a feeding-trough, and the monkey looked so out of place there that Grandfather decided he would add the little fellow to his private zoo. Toto was a pretty monkey.