CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

CLASS 10

MIJBIL THE OTTER

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Was Mijbil the 1st pet of the author of the chapter, ‘Mijbil the Otter’?
A
No
B
Yes
C
May be
D
May be not
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Gavin Maxwell is the author of the prose named ‘Mijbil, the Otter’. The author describes how his life changed after keeping an Otter as a pet as he lost his first pet dog. He is trying to take the audience through his journey of playing and all his experiences with Mijbil-the-Otter.

Detailed explanation-2: -The author of the story is Gavin Maxwell. In this story, the writer tells us how his life altered after he decided to keep an otter. Here he is taking us through his journey and his experiences with Mijbil (or Mij) the otter.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer: Mijbil, the otter, was a fun-loving intelligent animal. He loved water. On the first day, he went wild with joy in the water.

Detailed explanation-4: -The writer called his pet ‘Mijbil’ or in short, ‘Mij’. Mijbil was a part of a race of otters that had been recently discovered by a zoologist named Lutrogale Perspicillata Maxwell and was thus known as Maxwell’s otter. It required the otter a little time to open up and settle in his new surroundings.

Detailed explanation-5: -During the journey to Basra, the author Maxwell expressed his desire to domesticate an otter because after he had lost his pet dog, life had become lonely for him. His friend suggested that he should get one from the Tigris marshes in Iraq, where otters were as common as mosquitoes.

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