Read the passage, that morning too I stepped out onto our veranda to take in some air. Looking around, my glance fell on a bundle of green in a corner of the veranda. It was parrot; its awkward twitching indicated that it was alive. Even as I approached it the parrot made no effort to fly away. Parrots are intermittent visitors to our veranda but always skitter away it you get to close to them. It was obviously wounded in some way. I picked it up. I expect we named it Hariya because of its bright green plumage, and it became a family pet. A cage more to protect Hariya from predators than to keep him imprisoned. In fact , we often let him out of his carge, so he could fly away if he wanted to. Hariya just didn’t seem to want to. It was only after many days that we realized that he had never shown an urge to fly. One day I took Hariya in my hands and gently examined him more thoroughly than we had ever done. To my horror I found that his wings had been stitched up with every fine plastic thread that was almost invisible to the naked eye. Someone had obviously taken great pains to ensure that Hariya couldn’t fly. Removing those threads was a very was a very difficult task-it took me a whole week because it had to be done gently and slowly. It was only Hariya’s faith and confidence in me that allowed it to happen. As I removed the last thread. Hariya squawked and fluffed his suddenly free wings. Then his neck swiveled and he just started at me. Ha=riya’s eyes seemed to be shining 1. Hariya remained with the writer’s family through he was not caged all the time because: (1) he did not seem to want to go (2) he never showed an urge to fly (3) he was a family pet and he liked it (4) his wings were stitched up 2. Which quality of Hariya helped the writer to removes the stitches? (1) he had a bright green plumage (2) he had faith and confidence in the author (3) he was wounded and weak (4) he did not have an urge to fly and so remained calm 3. He had never shown an urge to fly. (Replace the underlined word with a synonym) (1) impulse (2) courage (3) desire (4) ability 4. What were the indicators of the bird being alive? (1) it made no efforts to fly away (2) it was twitching awkwardly (3) it was an intermittent visitor (4) the writer could pick it up