Chapter 1 Solutions — The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse

Reading with Insight

1. 1.
   You will probably agree that this story does not have breathless adventure and exciting action. Then what in your opinion makes it interesting?
2. 2.
   Did the boys return the horse because they were conscience-stricken or because they were afraid?
3. 3.
   "One day back there in the good old days when I was nine and the world was full of every imaginable kind of magnificence, and life was still a delightful and mysterious dream..." The story begins in a mood of nostalgia. Can you narrate some incident from your childhood that might make an interesting story?
4. 4.
   The story revolves around characters who belong to a tribe in Armenia. Mourad and Aram are members of the Garoghlanian family. Now locate Armenia and Assyria on the atlas and prepare a write-up on the Garoghlanian tribes. You may write about people, their names, traits, geographical and economic features as suggested in the story.