CBSE Class 12 English The Rattrap Worksheet Set F

               Very Short Answer

Q.1)        What were the peddler’s feelings as he drove over to the ironmaster’s house?

Q.2)        What strange idea struck the rattrap seller which seemed to him entertaining?

Q.3)        Who was a keen observer: the ironmaster or his daughter? Substantiate your answer with an example from the text

Q.4)        Did the peddler expect the kind of hospitality that he received from the crofter?

Q.5)        The crofter can be called a “good host”. Why?

               Short Answer

Q.6)        The Rattrap is a story which shows that basic human goodness can be brought out by understanding and love. Comment.

Q.7)        Why did the ironmaster invite the peddler to his home? Why did the latter decline it?

Q.8)        What were the precautions that the peddler took to remain undetected as a thief?

Q.9)        How did the seller of rattraps realise that he himself was caught up in a rattrap after he left the crofter’s cottage?

Q.10)      Why did the peddler derive pleasure from his idea of the world as a rat trap?

               Long Answer

Q.11)      Briefly explain the Summary of the Lesson “The Rattrap”?

Q.12)      The peddler had a philosophy of life and he lived by it. Comment.

Q.13)      The story ‘The Rattrap’ explores the idea that given the right motivation the human beings possess the innate tendency to redeem themselves from their dishonest ways. Discuss.

Q.14)      Answer the following questions:-

(1)          What made the man think that he had fallen into a rat trap?

(2)        Why did Edla plead with father not to send the vagabond away?

(3)         Why was the peddler surprised when he knocked at the door of the cottage?

Q.15)      Attempt a character sketch of the peddler in the story ‘The Rattrap’?

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