1. Describe where Mr. Hoppy lives?
Answer :
Mr Hoppy lived in a small flat high in a tall concrete building. He lives alone. He had always been a
lonely person, and now that he had retired from work, he was lonelier than ever.
2. What are the plants that Mr. Hoppy loves?
Japan :
There are two favorites in Mr Hoppy's life. One of them is a flower growing on his balcony. They
grow in pots and tubs and baskets, and in summer the little balconies become so colorful. Mr.
second love Hoppy is a secret he keeps completely to himself.
3. How is the condition of Mr. Hoppy's balcony?
Answer :
The balcony directly below Mr Hoppy jutted out a little further from the building than his own, so Mr
Hoppy always had a good view of what was going on there.
4. Who owns the balcony?
Answer :
This balcony belongs to an attractive middle-aged woman named Mrs Silver. Mrs Silver is a widow
who also lives alone. And even though he didn't know it, he was the object of Mr Hoppy's secret
love. She had loved him from his balcony for years, but he was a very shy man and he could never
bring himself to give her even a bit of her love.
5. What does Mr Hoppy do every morning?
Answer :
Each morning Mr Hoppy and Mrs Silver exchanged polite conversation, one looking down from
above, the other looking up, but that was only so far.
6. What is the nature and personality of Mrs. Silver?
Answer :
Mrs Silver for a cup of tea and biscuits, but every time she was about to form the words on her lips,
her fear thwarted her. Like I said, he is a very shy guy.
7. In this story is there any indication of the problem?
Answer :
The problem with Mrs Silver is that she gives all her love to someone else, and that that someone is
a little turtle named Alfie. Every day, when Mr Hoppy looked out on his balcony and saw Mrs Silver
whispering charmingly to Alfie and caressing his shell, he felt very jealous. He didn't even mind being
a tortoise himself if it meant Mrs Silver stroking his shell every morning and whispering it
charmingly.
8. Who is Alfie in this story?
Alfie had been with Mrs Silver for many years, and he lived on her balcony summer and winter.
Planks had been placed around the sides of the balcony so Alfie could walk without rolling over the
edge, and in one corner, there was a small house where Alfie would crawl every night to keep warm.
9. How do you behave when it's cold?
Answer :
When the cold weather came in November, Mrs Silver would fill Alfie's house with dry hay, and the
tortoise would crawl there and bury itself deep under the hay and go to sleep for months without
food or water. This is called hibernation.
10. How are the activities in spring?
In early spring, when Alfie felt the warmer weather through his shell, he would wake up and crawl
very slowly out of his house onto the balcony.
