Read the Passage carefully and answers the following Questions:-
COBRA
How long I remained in the room with the cobra I cannot say. My servant said later that it was only half an hour, and no sound has ever been more welcome to me than the sounds I heard as my servant laid the table for dinner. I called him to the bathroom door, and told him of my predicament and instructed him to fetch a lantern and a ladder. After another long wait, I heard the Babel of voices, followed by the scraping of the ladder against the outer wall of the house. When the lantern had been lifted to the window, ten feet above the ground, it did not illuminate the room, so I told the man who was holding it to break a pane of glass and pass the lantern through the opening. The opening was too small for the lantern to be passed in upright. However, after it had been relit three times, it was finally inserted into the room and, feeling that the cobra was behind me, I turned my head and saw it lying at the bottom of the bedroom door two feet away. Leaning forward very slowly, I picked up the heavy bath-mat, raised it high and let it fall as the Cobra was sliding over the floor towards me. Fortunately, I judged my aim accurately and the bath-mat crashed down on the cobra’s neck six inches from its head. As it bit at the wood and lashed about with its tail, I took a hasty stride to the verandah door and in a moment was outside, among a crowd of men, armed with sticks and carrying lanterns, for word had got round to the railway quarters that 1 was having a life-and-death struggle with a big snake in a locked room.
1. The incident narrated in the passage is
 (a) humorous
(b) tragic
(c) dramatic
(d) thrilling
2. The room in which the writer is locked in with the Cobra is his
 (a) drawing room
(b) bathroom
(c) toilet
(d) bed-room
 3. “It did not illuminate the room”. Here ‘illuminate’ can be replaced by
 (a) light up brightly
(b) make colourful
(c) throw faint light
(d) enlighten
4. A large crowd had gathered outside the writer’s room, presumably to
(a) catch the snake
 (b) kill the snake if it came out
(c) watch the writer’s struggle with the cobra
(d) break open the door of the room
ANSWERS:-
1. (c)
2. (b)
3. (a)
4. (b)
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