The story The Secret of Seaview Cottage belongs to the adventure fiction genre.

Adventure fiction
stories became popular during the nineteenth century as large numbers of children, especially boys,
learnt how to read at school. Writers began writing stories especially to excite and interest young
school-going boys. Many girls also read and enjoyed these stories. Treasure Island, The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer, and The Swiss Family Robinson are some of the earliest examples of children’s adventure
fiction

THE SECRET OF SEAVIEW COTTAGE:

Q1. How long did the sea scouts plan to stay in the cottage?

Q2. How did the sea scouts get to the cottage?

Q3. “But how did the smugglers manage to manage to miss it?”

Q4. Why did the sea scouts carry torches?

Q5. What were the two secrets of the seaview cottage?

Q6. How were the sea scouts rewarded?

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It is a funny story by Roald Dahl which ends in a tragic road accident.

The narrator buys a new motor car in the year 1925 and narrator's 21 year old sister decides to drive the
car after just two driving lessons.

Narrator's family gets ready because her sister is going to learn driving a motor car.

A total of seven people board the motor car and it flies on the road.

Narrator's mother is scared when the motor car crosses the speed limit of 35 miles per hour.

Narrator is trying to calm her down when the car meets with an accident.

Narrator's nose gets cut and he is taken to the hospital by his sister who did the accident.

One day during the Christmas holiday in 1925 our whole family got ready to drive the first motor-car we
had ever owned. The car was called a De Dion-Bouton. My 21 old half-sister had recently removed her
appendix. She has had two driving lessons from the man who delivered the car. In 1925 no one had to
take a driving test.

We were seven people in the car. Everyone wanted go faster with the car, but our mother was nervous.
The speedometer was up in 35 miles an hour when we came suddenly to a sharpish bend in the road.
The ancient sister shouted "Help!" and slammed on the brakes and swung the wheel wildly round. The
rear wheels locked and went into a fierce sideways skid, and then we went crashing into the hedge. The
front passengers all shot through the front widescreen and the back passengers all shot through the
back widescreen. No one was hurt very much except me.

My nose had been cut almost clean off my face as i went through the rear windscreen and now it was
hanging on only by a single small thread of skin. My mother clapped the dangling nose back into place
fast and held it there. A man with a horse and cart now appeared on the scene and the man dismounted
from his cart and walked across to our car and leaned over the rear door. He had a big dropping
moustache and he wore a small bowler-hat. The ancient sister forgot to learn how to reverse, after a
while she moved the car up on the road.

After they had came on the road they begun to drive to Dr Dunbar`s surgery in Cathedral Road, Cardiff.
The ancient sister had never drive in the city before. "You are about to do so," the mother said. "Keep
going."
1. Why did the author describe that morning as ‘amazing’ ?
2. What year did this story did take place?
3. What did the female drivers used to wear in those days?
4. Why can we say that it wasn’t raining that day?
5. How many persons were riding in the car?
6. The car described, had one special feature not present in today’s cars. What was it?
7. Why was it difficult for a driver to collide his/her car in those days?