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1. 1.

   In the first paragraph of the story what are the two children trying to do?

2. 2.

   How do we know that Morvenna is not too keen on continuing the activity that she and her brother are engaged in?

3. 3.

   How do we know that the children are completely absorbed in watching the meat-ant being attacked by the abt-lion? Choose two sentence (from different paragraphs), which tell us that their concentration was directed towards the battle alone.

4. 4.

   What difficulties did the meat-ant have to contend with in trying to get out of reach of the ant-lion?

5. 5.

   Which words and expression are used to decribe the movements of the ant-lion?

6. 6.

   At the beginning Max says about the ant-lion, 'I want to show it to everyone.' At the end of the story Morvenna asks him excitedly, 'Are you going to bring Harry down and show it to him?' Max tells her to shut up. Why do you think he changed his mind about showing the ant-lion to his friends?