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4. Tutu lied to the mob to save his neighbour.

5. The mob did not believe it when Tutu said that there was nobody in the room.

6. In the end, they realised that Tutu was a good neighbour.

D. Answer the following questions.

1. Why was the girl scared?

2. How did the old man react when the girl said that the people in the crowd were their neighbours
and friends?

3. Why did the girl ask her grandfather not to cough?

4. Do you think the place behind the almirah was safe for them? Discuss.

5. Why had Tutu come with the mob?

6. How did the girl reach Tutu’s house?

E. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

With a pounding heart, the girl listened into the night. She could hear the mob draw closer and
closer; they came advancing towards their house. It was a small, simple cement construction,
sandwiched between drab, identical buildings on either side. There was a tiny patch of grass
between the dilapidated wooden gate and the front door. A row of pink and yellow gladioli,
all neatly tied to sticks, stretched along the boundary wall. Tutu, their neighbour’s eighteen-
year-old son had given her the flower bulbs and taught her about gardening and growing
flowers. The girl liked Tutu. She admired him. How she wished she was here now. Tutu would
help him, he certainly would. He would not let them die.

1. Describe the house the girl lived in.

2. Who did the girl wish to come and save them?

3. Which flowers stretched along the boundary wall of the girl’s house?

4. What could be heard by the girl into the night?

Let’s Listen

Your teacher will read out a passage from the chapter. Listen to him / her carefully and fill in the
blanks.

The voice came closer, came towards the _____________ . The does was _____________ open
and silhouetted against the _____________ room light stood a tall young man—Tutu, the
_____________ son. He _____________ on the torch. Its _____________ searched through

the dark room. It _____________ over the floor and under the bed, it _____________ over

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