(1) How unlawfully does Macavity act ?

Question

Read the following stanzas and answer the questions given below them:

Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity,

He’s broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.

His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,And 

when you reach the scene of crime

Macavity’s not there !You may seek him in the basement,

you may look up in the air 

But I tell you once and once again,

Macavity’s not there !

(1) How unlawfully does Macavity act ?

(2) What is said about Macavity’s powers of levitation?

(3) Where is Macavity not found ?

Answer 1

1. Macavity disobeys all human laws and also the law of gravity.

2. Macavity’s levitation is so powerful that it causes a fakir to stare bewildered.

3. When the investigators reach the scene of crime, Macavity is not there. The poet says that we may search him in the basement or we may look up in the air but Macavity is not there.