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Answer» Choose extracts from
the story that illustrate the character of the people listed in the
table given below. There are some words given to help you. You may
add words of your own. One has been done as an example:
vain
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jealous
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competitive
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shrewd
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manipulative
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stingy
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materialistic
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spiteful
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Character
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Extract from the story
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What this tells us about the
character
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Mrs. Packletide
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(i) The compelling
motive for her sudden deviation towards the footsteps of Nimrod
was the fact that Loona Bimberton had recently been carried eleven
miles in an aeroplane by an Algerian aviator, and talked of
nothing else; only a personally procured tiger-skin and a heavy
harvest of Press photographs could successfully counter that sort
of thing
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Competitive
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(ii) Mrs. Packletide had offered a thousand rupees for the
opportunity of shooting a tiger without over-much risk or
exertion,
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(iii) Mrs. Packletide faced the cameras with a light heart, and
her pictured fame reached from the pages of the Texas Weekly
Snapshot to the illustrated Monday upplement of the Novoe Vremya.
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Louisa Mebbin
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(i) "If it's an
old tiger I think you ought to get it cheaper. A thousand rupees
is a lot of money."
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(ii) Louisa Mebbin
adopted a protective elder-sister attitude towards money in
general, irrespective of nationality or denomination
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(iii) "How
amused everyone would be if they knew what really happened,"
said Louisa Mebbin a few days after the ball.
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(iv) Louisa Mebbin's
pretty week-end cottage, christened by her "Les Fauves,"
and gay in summer-time with its garden borders of tiger-lilies, is
the wonder and admiration of her friends
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Loona Bimberton
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(i) As for Loona
Bimberton, she refused to look at an illustrated paper for weeks,
and her letter of thanks for the gift of a tiger-claw brooch was a
model of repressed emotions
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(ii) there are limits beyond which repressed
emotions become dangerous.
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