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How did the people react to see Cutie-Pie shown on T.V sets?
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| Answer: The people were very fascinated by the extraordinary appearance of this extra terrestrial creature. They called him "Cute" because of his admirable rainbow-like coloured feathers. They wanted to cuddle him, touch him, hold him. |
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| Question (2): |
Describe Cutie - Pie's appearance.
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| Answer: Cutie-Pie had a curved, cosy, rounded body. He had dark, liquid eyes. He had a gentle smiling mouth and bushy little hands, complete with thumbs. What was fascinating about him was his iridescent feathers down on his belly with radiant shimmering patterns. |
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How did Cutie Pie affect the commercial side of public life?
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| Answer: Cutie Pie became an instant celebrity.
Commercial mileage was taken by his presence. Cutie Pie dolls were made to be sold. Colouring books, Tee-shirts, fan clubs, cereal cartons, cartoon serials, anything and everything had Cutie Pie represented on it.
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| Question (4): |
What kind of a special place was created by the scientists to keep Ch-tsal?
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| Answer: Since Ch-tsal was an alien, he was kept in an air-tight sealed glass prison - a kind of scientific tomb with 180oF temperature, 98 percent humidity and an atmosphere of hydrogen, oxygen and careful proportions of a dozen exotic gases. |
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| Question (5): |
How did Ch-tsal get captured? Where was he captured from?
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| Answer: Ch-tsal was captured from the planet Quta-Pie, another planet. He merely chanced to be there, as he had gone to get initiated there. He went there as a boy, hoping to return, to his own planet as a man after having faced difficulties and dangers in strange places. Quta pie was a strange and hostile planet from where he was captured.
Quentar was a spaceship which had gone to explore Quta-Pie. The spaceship was scooping samples of soil, rock and shale from Quta-Pie, when doing so, it accidentally scooped Ch-tsal who happened to be there and thus he was brought to earth.
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| Question (6): |
Why couldnt Ch-tsal establish any kind of contact with his captors?
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| Answer: Ch-tsal couldnt establish any contact with his captors because he couldnt talk to them. He had no vocal chords and his race did not speak. He could only look past the goggle glasses into the eyes of his captors begging them to understand him. But they could not. |
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| Question (7): |
Why did Ch-tsal try so hard to grow his feathers and whiskers?
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| Answer: Ch-tsal groomed his feathers and whiskers because they were filters, temperature controllers, respirators and much more. His whiskers, were receivers, antennae, language-carriers, voice and his life-line. Through them alone, he could establish contact with his people. |
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| Question (8): |
How did Ch-tsal sustain himself though he underwent great physical miseries on earth?
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| Answer: Ch-tsal fought his miseries with courage. His five stomachs and numerous organic filters, allowed him to stomach the food and atmosphere supplied to him. He forced his mind and hands to entertain him. He slept most of the time and dreamed of his home. |
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| Question (9): |
What appalling reality did Ch-tsal wake up to on the nineteenth day, Earth time?
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| Answer: On the nineteenth day of his captivity, Ch-tsal saw that his jewelled feathers from his back and sides had fallen out in the night. These were his communication channels, respirators, temperature controllers, receive, antennae - his entire lifeline so to say. He now looked naked and hideous. |
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| Question (10): |
What important feature did Ch-tsal have which his mother also possessed?
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Answer: Like his mother, Ch-tsal could also will his own individual, self-expressive loveliness. The beauty, the shape, the pattern and colour of his feathers could be created by will by him. To him, his feathers were what clothes were to humans.
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| Question (11): |
How was Ch-tsal treated by people after his change?
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| Answer: After Ch-tsal's feathers and whiskers were shed, he looked naked and hideous and monster-like. Everyone pitied him. Then pity turned to disgust and soon everyone began to change to other channels on T.V. inorder to forget him. The birth of a panda, the Olympic games, a new girl singer with an exotic dress became their points of attraction. Cutie-Pie was soon forgotten. |
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| Question (12): |
What kind of a life did Ch-tsal live in the glass prison?
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| Answer: Ch-tsal looked hideous and was near to death. He had no feathers and whiskers. Without them he couldn't communicate. The glass walls prevented him from sending or receiving messages. He was completely powerless. |
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| Question (13): |
"Cutie Pie were words they flinched from". Who does "they" refer to? Why did they flich at the mention of these words?
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| Answer: "They" here refers to the scientists - jailors of Cutie Pie. They saw that Cutie-Pie had shed his feathers and whiskers. Besides, he looked hideous and was near to death. His sickness accused them of their incompetence. His survival was a challenge to their expertise. |
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| Question (14): |
How did Ch-tsal manage to escape from his glass prison?
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| Answer: One day, the scientists - jailors entered the glass prison to examine his food. They hastened from the prison to avoid the strange gases seeping into their masks. One of them pressed the button that closed the glass wall. The food bowl jammed the door, leaving a gap. Ch-tsal managed to escape through this gap. |
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| Question (15): |
How did Ch-tsal adjust to the outside atmosphere after his escape from the glass prison?
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| Answer: Ch-tsal found that he could breathe in the air. The temperature was pleasant. There was even a sun to warm his naked, decaying body and tingle his naked skin. He felt great ecstasy in the rain. He felt he was efficient in everything. He explored the facts and things of the earth around him and found them easy to handle. |
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| Question (16): |
Though Cutie-Pie escaped from the glass prison, he was not able to return to his planet immediately? Why?
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| Answer: Cutie-Pie was not able to return to his planet immediately because he had not grown his feathers and whiskers which had fallen. These were his life line, a kind of receivers antennae, machinery to take him off, or to establish a contact with his own people. |
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| Question (17): |
How did Ch-tsal find the infant Christopher Mary Winters?
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| Answer: Ch-tsal was very lonely, he wanted some company. He found Winters - a baby of six weeks and 3 days lying on a rug in the garden, warming in the sun. Winters was the same size as Ch-tsal and naked like him. He didnt have to feel ashamed of his own nakedness in Winter's company. The baby looked very happy as it kicked its legs about and drooled. Later, Ch-tsal realized that Winters was an ungrown specimen of the senior species of Earth. |
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| Question (18): |
How did Ch-tsal recognize "the big creature" to be the mother of baby Winters?
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| Answer: Ch-tsal after getting soaked in the rain, had started growing his feathers and whiskers which were his lifeline. He could now pick up the strong, thick waves of loving emotion that flowed between mother and baby. He recognized them and remembered them from his own childhood. |
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| Question (19): |
What did Cutie Pie learn from his interaction with Winters?
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| Answer: Cutie Pie learned what it was like for a human to plunge through a great wave, to hunt down animals in dark forests, to shoot an arrow and to know how it would hit its mark. He also learned of the glories of the battle, the terrors of defeat, the cold wickedness of snakes etc. |
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| Question (20): |
What information did Ch-tsal give Winters, lying down besides him?
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| Answer: Ch-tsal told Winters of the building of Crystal cities, of creatures in Caves, of the pioneer ships that opened up the galaxy, of the Venus invaders and how they were repulsed. He also told him of the five ways of knowing God, of the taste of a certain food that grew only when his planet's three moons were full. |
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| Question (21): |
What was the effect of Ch-tsal's friendly talks on Winters?
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| Answer: Winters was happier than ever with the friendly talks between him and Ch-tsal. He gurgled, bubbled, and chuckled. He laughed loudly and tugged at his mothers hair. He was a happy, contented baby with hair curling day by day. |
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| Question (22): |
What happened to Ch-tsal after he heard his mother one day?
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| Answer: One particular night, Ch-tsal heard his mother faintly and brokenly. He got so excited and ecstatic that he almost went mad. In the dewy moonlight of the woods, he became a firework, a bombshell, spinning, zooming and bouncing off tree trunks. He somersaulted, flashed and was filled with sheer joy and excitement. |
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| Question (23): |
What became of Cutie Pie after he established contact with his own planet? What is the proof of it?
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| Answer: Cutie Pie, heard his mother call out to him. He was wild with joy. One fine day, a spaceship landed in Hertz village and took off with Cutie Pie aboard. It became a real sensation. The landing of the spaceship was seen physically in the burnt grass in the roped-off area - a patch of burnt field with a furrow leading to a dimple like an exclamation mark (!) had been formed. This was the proof that Cutie Pie went away to his own planet. |
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| Question (24): |
How does Christopher's mother react when he tries to tell her of his meeting and friendship with Cutie Pie?
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| Answer: Christopher tells his mother about Cutie Pie but his mother only humours him saying, "Did he come, darling? I'm glad. Hold your mug properly". She does not believe him and tells him to finish his milk. When he tells that Cutie told him stories, she tells him 'you're sure you're not telling stories, darling? Christopher feels helpless that his mother cannot accept a simple truth that quite often in the night Cutie Pie visits him in his dreams and they tell each other stories and that this friendship will last all his life. |
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| Question (25): |
Imagine you are C.H. Winters. You have grown up and wish to share with someone, your secret friendship with Cutie Pie. Write a letter to your friend victor telling him about your experiences with Cutie Pie.
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Answer:
Hertz.
20.1.07
Dear Victor,
Thank you for the lovely birthday card you sent me. As usual my birthday always brings back some memories which are very precious to me I wish to share them with you.
I am sure you have heard about Cutie Pie the cute extra-terrestrial who was scooped from Quta Pie by our scientists. I was only two at that time. One night I felt something warm and cosy ticked next to me I was surprised to see Cutie Pie smiling at me 'We struck up an instant friendship. We communicated with our minds I spoke history of the humans. Cutie Pie told me his real name was Chtsal. He told me about his planet, the crystal cities, of creatures in caves, of the pioneer ships that opened up the galaxy, of the Venus invaders and how they were repulsed. He also told me about how his planet had 3 Suns and Moons and the taste of a certain food that grew only when his planets three moon were full. We grew fond of each other I realized he was hiding from humans as he met me only in the night.
One night he disappeared. I soon gathered that he had returned to his planet Victor this may seem incredible to you, but trust me every year on my birthday he sends his love and greetings to me. I value that friendship as much as I value your. I hope you understand and believe me.
Lots of love,
Christopher.
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| Question (26): |
You are a newspaper reporter writing about the mysterious landing of the village in Hertz Village and connecting this with disappearance of Cute Pie.
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Answer:
Spaceship land in Hertz village!
20.01.07
It is believed that a spaceship mysteriously landed in Hertz village last night. A patch of burnt field with a furrow leading to a dimple like an exclamation mark(!) hears testimony to the landing of the spaceship. Scientists believe that the spaceship was on a special mission to rescue Cutie Pie, the alien who created a sensation a few months ago. Readers will recall that Cutie Pie
Had been scooped from Quta Pie and kept in a glass cage where the atmosphere of Quata Pie was created Cutie Pie had lost its beauty and feathers inside the cage and had managed to escape due to the carelessness of a couple of scientists. Thought efforts were mad Cutie Pie could not be traced.
Some questions loom large
How did Cutie Pie survive in Earth? Had the scientists misjudged that Cutie Pie belonged to Quta Pie? Did Cutie Pie communicate with someone on earth? So far these questions remain unanswered as no eye witnesses have come forward with any information. However, one thing remains certain. It was a failure of the scientists to provide a conducive atmosphere for Cutie Pie. They lost a golden chance to study the existence of life in other plant |
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| Question (27): |
Describe Cutie Pie's feeling about the Earth and his experiences after his escape from the glass prism.
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Answer: The Earth astonished him and he could breathe the air and the temperature was pleasant! He loved the warm sun tingling his naked skin and the coolness of the night! He was ecstatic when it rained. It was like a balm on his tortured skin!
He found everything in the earth very crude and simple. He could easily operate the knobs and handles. He found food, cacti in the extension of Mrs. Chatsworth's house. He made himself and carrying bag, cut himself a store of food and carried if off. He was in need of companionship to give him comfort. He met a cat who tried to attack and a dog who displayed a silly niceness. He was disgusted by the simple, crude thoughts these creatures possessed. At last he found a human body who was the prefect friend for him. He communicated with baby Christopher, regaling him with stories about his own planet. During the daytime he hid from human beings but at night he moved about stealthily. Soon his whiskers and feathers grew back. Finally his mother came in a spaceship and a delighted, rapturous Cutie escaped back home.
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