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1X - English The Collectors, , >r, , 11., A:, , 12., A:, , 13., A:, , Why was the group looking for a shelter?, , The group of teachers and students were out for an adventure walk. It started, raining hard, forcing them to look for shelter., , How far was the village from the place the group was living in?, , The village was nearly three miles away from their place., , Why did Mr. Hunt hesitate to seek shelter in the house?, , Mr. Hunt was worried that the owners of the house might refuse to giving shelter, to a big crowd of children and teachers who were all drenched and dripping wet., , He also felt strange about the house that he had not seen when he had come, walking to the place the last time., , Name the occupants of the house., Mr and Mrs Brown were the two occupants of the house., , On what pretext did the occupants of the house separate the teachers from, the children?, , The teachers and the childen were separated on the pretext of offering hot tea to, the teachers., , What seemed unnatural in the house to the children?, , The house felt very cold to the children. They were surprised to find that there, , were no plates, pots or pans in the kitchen cupboards. The fridge too was empty., , What was unnatural with Mrs. Brown's hand?, , Mrs Browns it seemed had 7 seven fingers on each hand as seen by Carol., , What did the children find in the larger cupboard?, , The larger cupboard had, dials, digital readouts, coloured lights and a mass of, other electronic equipments., , When Pete went to Mr. Hunt, Pete heard the Browns talking to each other, but could not understand what they were saying. Why?, , The Browns were talking to each other in some foreign language that involved, , hissing and clicking noises. _, , Why did Pete prevent the other children from taking the drink?, , Pete had observed how the teachers in the other room had appeared drugged, after drinking the tea offered to them by the Browns. He had found them blankly, staring ahead. Hence he prevented the other children from taking the drink, suspecting that they too may end up being drugged., , Where were the aliens taking the children?, , The aliens planned to take them to their home planet., , Why were the aliens taking the children?, , The aliens had been collecting creations from other planets to experiment and, , perform scientific studies on them., , Where was the control of the back-door located?, , The control to the back door was located on the panel. It was on the left side and, was marked with a yellow light.

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14. After sending all the others out of the spaceship, how did Pete and Glenn, manage to escape from the aliens?, , A: Pete and Glenn force the aliens to go out of the room through the front door., After locking them out, they both escape through the backdoor., , 1. What circumstances forced the party to take shelter in the spaceship?, , A: The group of students and teachers were caught in a downpour of rain as they, , were taking an adventure walk ona lonely countryside. Since the nearest village, , was 3 miles away and the children were getting very wet. the party started looking, , out for a shelter. Eventually, they spotted a house all by itself. Mr. Hunt who had, , trekked in the area during summer did not remember seeing it then. With no, , other choice, the party seeks shelter at the house without realizing that it actually, , is a modified spaceship., , List the things that made the children uncomfortable in the kitchen., , The children were left all by themselves in the kitchen by Mr. and Mrs. Brown,, , the residents of the house. As they started exploring around the room, they feel, , cold. They assume that it might be because they all had got drenched in the rain., , The emptiness of the kitchen seems strange. There were no plates. pots or pans., , Wayne, one of the boys, checks the cupboards, but they are empty too. Pete,, , another boy in the group opens the fridge. They find that too empty and the, , fridge light too was not working., , All these findings and Glenn's suggestion that Mr. and Mrs. Brown might be, , crooks makes the children uncomfortable., , Why wouldn’t the children escape either through the back door or window?, , The children couldn't escape through the back door as it was locked. The children, , tried to open the window but that too was shut, They even tried smashing the, , glass of the window, but the walking stick bounced off from the glass. They were, , also worried about leaving their teachers behind., , 4. List the following, , A :a) Things that were in the kitchen, , i) The kitchen was empty and did not have any pots, pans or plates. The cupboards, and the fridge was empty too. They later discover lots of electronic equipment, including dials, digital readouts, coloured lights and other equipment behind a, larger cupboard., , b) —_- Unusual features of the Browns, , i) Both Mr. and Mrs. Brown were overly friendly to a bunch of strangers., , ii) Mrs. Brown had 7 fingers on each hand., , iii) | Mr. and Mrs. Brown were found to be talking in a hissing and clicking sound, , c) Different ways the children tried to get out of the house, , i) The children tned to force their way out of the house through the back doar and the, window but they found them locked. The window glass too could not be broken., , ii) They also tried sneaking out of the house through the front door but were, confronted by Mrs. Brown., , tii) Eventually they managed to escape by forving the Browns to reveal to them the, switch to open the back door. They threatened to smash the electronic equipment, in case the Browns refused to let them out or keep the teachers hostage., , er, , mw