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Is the narrator as rich as Tricki’s mistress?
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How does he treat the dog?
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Why is he tempted to keep Tricki on as a permanent guest?
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Why does Mrs Pumphrey think the dog’s recovery is “a triumph of surgery”?
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What kind of a person do you think the narrator, a veterinary surgeon, is? Would you say he is tactful as well as full of common sense?
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Do you think Tricki was happy to go home? What do you think will happen now?
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Do you think this is a real-life episode, or mere fiction? Or is it a mixture of both?
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Who does ‘I’ refer to in this story?
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What is he “a fairly successful hand” at?
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What does he get from Anil in return for his work?
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How does the thief think Anil will react to the theft?
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What does he say about the different reactions of people when they are robbed?
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Does Anil realize that he has been robbed?
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What are Hari Singh’s reactions to the prospect of receiving an education? Do they change over time? (Hint: compare, for example, the thought: “I knew that once I could write like an educated man there would be no limit to what I could achieve” with these later thoughts: ‘Whole sentences, I knew, cloud one day bring me more than a few hundred rupees. It was a simple matter to steal − and sometimes just as simple to be caught. But to be a really big man, a clever and respected man, was something else.”) What makes him return to Anil?
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Why does not Anil hand the thief over to the police? Do you think most people would have done so? In what ways is Anil different from such employers?
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How is Ausable different from other secret agents?
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Who is Fowler and what is his first authentic thrill of the day?
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How has Max got in?
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How does Ausable say he got in?
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“Ausable did not fit any description of a secret agent Fowler hand ever read.” What do secret agents in books and films look like, in your opinion? Discuss in groups or in class some stories or movies featuring spies, detectives and secret agents, and compare their appearance with that of Ausable in this story. (You may mention characters from fiction in languages other than English. In English fiction you may have come across Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, or Miss Marple. Hove you watched any movies featuring James Bond?)
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