The Crooked Picture

Question 1

Rising

Answer 1

Getting up

Question 2

Handsome compensation

Answer 2

A large sum of money given to the owners for the house being demolished by the government

Question 3

Struck her

Answer 3

Suddenly she understood

Question 4

Contradicted

Answer 4

Say the opposite of something someone has said

Question 5

Demolished

Answer 5

Broken down and removed

Question 6

Dismantled

Answer 6

Took something to pieces

Question 7

Title deeds

Answer 7

Documents giving the name of the owners of property

Question 8

Reassembled

Answer 8

Put it together once more

Question 9

Figured it out

Answer 9

Worked it out

Question 10

Why did Radhika wake up?

Answer 10

Radhika woke up in the middle of the night because she heard footsteps in the corridor.

Question 11

What happened to the photograph of dada and his brother?

Answer 11

The photograph was hanging crooked

Question 12

Why was grandfather’s restaurant doing well?

Answer 12

Because it was in a central location near the main shopping area.

Question 13

Why was the building going to be demolished?

Answer 13

Because the roads were being widened so the government was demolishing the building

Question 14

What was offered to the family in exchange for demolishing the house?

Answer 14

The family was offered a handsome compensation.

Question 15

“…have written to me asking for their share. They think that this property belonged to the two brothers…”

(a) Who is the speaker?
(b) Who is ‘They’?
(c) Why did they want their share?

Answer 15

(a) The speaker is Mr. Shetty.
(b) ‘They’ refers to Mr. Shetty’s father’s elder brother’s grand children.
(c) They wanted their share because they believe that the property belong to the two brothers , Mr. Shetty’s father, and his elder brother.

Question 16

“I heard Papa telling you that we have to find his… Do you think it will be here?”
(a) Who is ‘I’?
(b) Who is ‘You’?
(c) What did they have to find and why?

Answer 16

(a) ‘I’ is Radhika
(b) ‘You’ is Mrs. Shetty.
(c) They had to find Mr. Shetty’s fathers will

Question 17

“This is …son, Advocate Prakash Rao,” he said… “He is also a lawyer. He has all the… I need, in his office.”
(a) Who is the speaker and who is he speaking to?
(b) Who was Advocate Prakash Rao?
(c) What did Prakash Rao have?

Answer 17

(a) The speaker is Mr. Shetty, and he is speaking to Radhika.
(b) Advocate Prakash Rao was uncle Nagesh’s son.
(c) Prakash Rao had all the documents that the Shetty family needed.

Question 18

Who will was the family looking for?

Answer 18

Mr. Shetty’s fathers will.

Question 19

Why was Radhika surprised when the picture on the wall began to swing?

Answer 19

Radhika was surprised when the picture on the wall behind the swing because neither there was any breeze to explain the movement, nor any of the other pictures were moving.

Question 20

Where did Radhika look for the will?

Answer 20

Inside the photo frame

Question 21

Who were the two people in the crooked picture and how did the family find out about this?

Answer 21

The two people in the crooked picture were Mr. Shetty’s father and his friend, Nagesh. The family found out about it by looking at the back of the photograph.

Question 22

Radhika jumped out of her chair and ran to hug her parents. “I knew it! I knew it!” she cried.
(a) What did Radhika know? What was she talking about?

Answer 22

Radhika knew that the answer to the mystery of the lost will was somewhere connected to uncle Nagesh and at the end the papers were found with uncle Nagesh’s son, advocate Prakash Rao.