Instructions
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow:
Comprehension:
To the great delight of children, schools were being hurriedly closed. Children of all ages and sizes were running helter-skelter,
screaming joyously, "No school, no school. Tiger, tiger!" They were shouting and laughing and even enjoyed being scared. They seemed
to welcome me. I felt like joining them, and bounded away from the restaurant door and trotted along with them, at which they gleefully
cried, "The tiger is coming to eat us; let us get back to the school!"
I followed them through their school gate while they ran up and shut themselves in the school hall securely. I ascended the steps of the
school, saw an open door at the far end of a veranda, and walked in. It happened to be the headmaster's room, I believed, as I noticed a
very dignified man jumping on his table and heaving himself up into an attic. I walked in and flung myself on the cool floor, having a
partiality for cool stone floor, with my head under the large desk — which gave me the feeling of being back in the Mempi cave ... As I
drowsed, I was aware of cautious steps and hushed voices all around. I was in no mood to bother about anything. All I wanted was a
little moment of sleep; the daylight was dazzling. In half sleep I heard the doors of the room being shut and bolted and locked. I didn't
care. I slept.
While I slept a great deal of consultation was going on. I learnt about it later through my Master, who was in the crowd - the crowd which
had gathered after making sure that I had been properly locked up — and was watching. The headmaster seems to have remarked some
days later, "Never dreamt in my wildest mood that I'd have to yield my place to a tiger." A wag had retorted, "Might be one way of
maintaining better discipline among the boys."