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About the passage

A.  Read to understand

Answer these questions.

1. Give two reasons why the author had an uneasy and disturbed night.

2. What was the result of the author’s giggle?

3. Where did Grandpa lead the author?

4. What did Grandpa want the author to lend him a hand with?

5. How did Grandpa sort the papers he had picked up?

6. How did Grandpa plan to use the sorted papers?

 

B.  Read to infer

1. Find the lines in the passage that express the following thoughts.

    a. Grandpa was a man of habit.

    b. Grandpa was being careful not to wake up the author.

    c. Grandpa knew the ‘shabby storehouse’ well.

    d. At first, the author did not think much of Grandpa’s act.

 

2.  Answer the following questions.

    a. What made the author think that Grandpa was shopping in his sleep?

    b. Was the author comfortable with his grandfather unlocking and entering the rented part of the house? Give a reasoned answer.

    c. What was the ‘lone endeavour’? What does it make the author realize?

 

C.  Discuss

1.   Do you approve of Grandpa’s act of entering his tenants’ premises at night and removing the papers? Justify your response. Also, discuss how he could have done this differently.

2.   What does the author mean by calling his Grandpa’s act ‘a real, concrete, genuine effort to save paper and the planet’?

3. In what ways does reusing and recycling of paper help save the planet?