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Read the extract and answer the questions given below:

Halfway up the tree I had built a crude platform where I would spend the afternoons when it was not too hot. I could read there propping myself up against the tree with a cushion from the living room. Treasure Island, Huckleberry Finn and The Story of Dr. Dolittle were some of the books that made up my banyan tree library. When I did not feel like reading/1 could look down through the leaves at the world below. And on one particular afternoon I had a grandstand view of that classic of the Indian wilds, a fight between a mongoose and a cobra.

(i) Who made a crude platform high up the tree?

(ii) What books did he have?

(iii) What did he do with the books?

(iv) What did he see one afternoon?

Answer:

(i) The author made a crude platform half way up the tree.

(ii) He had Treasure Island, Huckleberry Finn and The Story of Dr. Dolittle.

(iii) He made a library on the tree.

(iv) One afternoon the author had a peculiar view of a fight between a snake and a mongoose.