Worksheet on The Rattrap

Q. 1. How did the Rattrap seller make a living?

Q. 2. How did the Rattrap seller look?

Q. 3. What kind of life did he have to live?

Q. 4. What strange idea struck the Rattrap seller which seemed to him
entertaining?

Q. 5. Did the peddler expect the kind of hospitality that he received from the
crofter?

Q. 6. How did the crofter receive the Rattrap seller into his cottage?

Q. 7. What did the crofter tell the Rattrap seller about himself?

Q. 8. Why did the Rattrap seller steal the crofter's money?

Q. 9. How did the Rattrap seller steal the crofter's money?

Q. 10. What do you think about the peddler's act of stealing the crofter's money?

Q. 11. Why was the crofter so talkative and friendly with the peddler?

Q. 12. Why did he show the thirty kroner to the peddler?

Q. 13. Did the peddler respect the confidence reposed in him by the crofter?

Q. 14. Why did the peddler enter the woods and get himself trapped?

Q. 15. How is the wood compared to a rattrap? Why?

Q. 16. How did the peddler feel when he realised that he could not escape?

Q. 17. How did the peddler manage to get out of the forest?

Q. 18. The peddler opened the gate and entered the forge. Why did the
blacksmith not notice his coming in?

Q. 19. Why was the blacksmith indifferent to the peddler?

Q. 20. Why did the ironmaster visit the forge at night?

Mrs. Rayena Reza

P.G.T (English)
SHSSS (Boys)
A.M.U., Aligarh