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Q.1. How many daughters did the royal couple have?   Q.2.Why were they named after the months of the year?    Q.3. The King had a peculiar habit. What was it? Why is it called peculiar?   Q.4. (i) What was Princess September's reaction to the loss of her parrot? (ii) What was her mother's reaction to it?   (iii)What do the reactions indicate about the nature and temperament of each?               Q.5. What pulled the Princess out of her gloom?   Q.6. How did the Maids of Honour come to know that the Princess and the bird had become intimate friends?   Q.7. The new bird was full of new songs but the old parrots always repeated themselves. What did they say?   Q. 8.What is the King's opinion about his councillors? Why did he form that opinion?   Q.9. (i) The eight princesses made an offer to Princess September. What was it?   Q.10.(i)What did the sisters advise the Princess to do about her bird? (ii) Why, in your view, did they do it?  

Answer:

A.1.The royal couple of Siam had nine daughters.   A.2. They were named so, so that the Queen had not difficulty remembering their names. subjects. It was very unusual, thus it was called peculiar.      A.3. The King's peculiar habit was that instead of receiving gifts on his birthday, he distributed gifts to the    A.4. (i) Princess September burst into a flood of tears at the loss of her parrot. She kept crying and nothing  comforted her. (ii) Her mother declared it as nonsense, and said that she should go to bed without any supper. (iii) The Princess’ reaction indicates that she was a young, sensitive child. That is why she cried over the loss of her parrot. It was a very important thing for her. The loss of her parrot filled her with grief. Her mother’s reaction indicates that she was a little harsh. She did not understand her daughter’s grief and console her. She did not think that the dying of the parrot was in any way a significant incident to shed tears.   A.5.The Princess felt happy again on getting a new, more talented bird, for company.   A.6. The Maids of Honor came to know about it when they came to serve breakfast to the Princess.   A.7. They said, 'God save the King', 'Pretty Polly'.   A.8. The King said that his councillors said the same thing in several different ways which confused the matter,    A.9.(i) The eight princesses offered to buy a lovely green and yellow parrot for Princess September by putting in all their pocket money. (ii) They did so because they were distressed by the fact that everybody was praising Princess September’s bird, which could sing. Their parrots looked sad and repeated the same things. They wanted her to have the same pet as they had.   A.10.  The sisters advised the Princess to pop her bird into a cage when he came back from his father-in-law's.