CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

CLASS 10

FOOTPRINTS WITHOUT FEET

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Why were Mrs & Mr Clergyman surprised in the chapter ‘Footprint without Feet’?
A
Nobody was seen coming in
B
The room was empty
C
The money was stolen
D
All of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: One morning, the clergyman and his wife were awakened by noise. They saw no person. They were shocked to find that their money had been stolen from the desk.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer: The clergyman and his wife were awakened by noises emanating from their study early one morning. They heard monies being removed from the clergyman’s desk as they crept downstairs. They were shocked to see the study empty when they walked in.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mr. Jaffers, the constable of the village was surprised as he saw that he had to arrest a man without any head. But Jaffers still wanted to do his duty as he knew that the magistrate wanted him to arrest the person and it did not matter that he had a head or not.

Detailed explanation-4: -The scientist (the invisible man) first became visible to the two boys when he accidentally stepped into mud and started walking with muddy feet. The boys started following the footprints until the prints started to faint.

Detailed explanation-5: -Answer: The two boys in London were surprised and fascinated when they saw fresh muddy footprints of a human being on the steps of a house, but no man was there making them! As they looked, a fresh footprint appeared from nowhere. Question 2.

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