Topic: Mijbil the Otter

Short Answer Type Questions [2/3 Marks each]:

1. Describe the havoc created by Mijbil on the aeroplane when it came out of the box.
2. What were the guesses made by the Londoners about Mijbil?

3. How was `Mijbil’ a source of amazement on London streets?

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4. Give an example from the text to show that Mijbil is an intelligent animal.
5. What happened when Maxwell opened the box on the plane?
6. How did Maxwell learn of Mijbil’s love for water?
7. Describe some of the games Mij liked to play.
8. When and why did Maxwell think of keeping an otter as a pet?
9. What are ‘compulsive habits’? What does Maxwell say are the compulsive habits of school
children?
10. What did his friend advise Maxwell?
11. Why were they going to the Consulate-General in Basra? Why did he wait for five days there?
12. How did Mijbil behave in the beginning? Did some change come in the otter afterwards?
13. Why did Maxwell call the air hostess “the queen of her kind?”

Long Answer (Value Based) Type Questions [5 Marks each]:

1. Mijbil did things which demonstrated its personality. Which qualities of the narrator are shown
in his care for Mijbil?
2. What did Maxwell do to transport Mijbil to England?
3. Describe the relationship between the otter and Maxwell in your own words.
4. Why was Mijbil, the otter was christened Maxwell’s otter by zoologists? How did the otter
behave in the beginning and afterwards?

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