Chapter- 9      The Bond of Love


1. What was riding on the mother bear’s back?

Answer: A baby bear (bear cub) was riding on its mother’s back.

2. What happened to the mother bear?

Answer: The mother bear was killed by a sudden shot.

3. What did the baby bear do after its mother died?

Answer: The baby bear ran around its mother making a pitiful noise.

4. What did the narrator try to do with the cub?

Answer: The narrator ran up to capture the cub.

5. Where did the cub run to escape?

Answer: It ran into a sugarcane field.

6. Who helped the narrator catch the cub?

Answer: The narrator’s companions helped him.

7. How did the narrator finally catch the cub?

Answer: He grabbed it by the scruff of its neck.

8. How did the cub react when it was caught?

Answer: It snapped and tried to scratch with its claws.

9. Where was the cub kept after being caught?

Answer: It was put inside a gunny bag.

10. Where did the narrator take the cub afterwards?

Answer: He took it back to Bangalore.

11. To whom did the narrator present the cub?

Answer: He presented the cub to his wife.

12. How did the narrator’s wife react?

Answer: She was very delighted.

13. What did she tie around the cub’s neck?

Answer: She tied a coloured ribbon around its neck.

14. What name did she give the cub?

Answer: She named him Bruno.

15. How did Bruno start drinking milk?

Answer: Bruno drank milk from a bottle.

16. What kind of food did Bruno eat?

Answer: Bruno ate almost everything.

17. What foods did Bruno enjoy eating?

Answer: He ate porridge, vegetables, fruit, nuts, meat, curry and rice, bread, eggs, chocolates, sweets, pudding, and ice-cream.

18. What kinds of drinks did Bruno consume?

Answer: He drank milk, tea, coffee, lime-juice, aerated water, buttermilk, beer and alcoholic liquor.

19. How did Bruno eat and drink all these things?

Answer: He consumed them with great relish.

20. Which animals did Bruno become attached to?

Answer: He became attached to the two Alsatian dogs.

21. With whom else did Bruno enjoy playing?

Answer: He played with the children of the tenants living in the bungalow.

22. Was Bruno kept tied up when he was young?

Answer: No, he was left quite free.

23. Where did Bruno often run during the day?

Answer: He often ran into the kitchen.

24. Where did Bruno like to sleep?

Answer: He liked to sleep in the beds of the family.

25. What accident happened to Bruno one day?

Answer: He ate poison that had been kept to kill rats and mice.

26. What poison had been kept in the library?

Answer: The poison was barium carbonate.

27. What effect did the poison have on Bruno?

Answer: It caused paralysis, and he could not stand on his feet.

28. What did Bruno do despite being paralyzed?

Answer: He dragged himself to the narrator’s wife.

29. What did the narrator do after learning about the poisoning?

Answer: He rushed to the veterinarian’s house in his car.

30. What was the problem the narrator explained to the vet?

Answer: He said it was a case of poisoning of the tame bear Bruno by barium carbonate.

Answer by Dimpee Bora