Answer the following questions briefly.
(a) One day last summer the author was travelling to Pittsburg by
chair car. What does he say about his co-passengers?
(b) Who was the passenger of chair No.9? What did he suddenly do?
(c) What was John A. Pescud’s opinion about best-sellers?
Why?
(d) What does John say about himself since his last meeting with
the author?
(e) How did John’s first meeting with Jessie’s father
go? What did the author tell him?
(f) Why did John get off at Coketown?
(g) John is a hypocrite. Do you agree with this statement?
Substantiate your answer.
(h) Describe John A. Pescud with reference to the following
points:
Physical
appearance........................................................................................
His philosophy on
behaviour.........................................................................
His
profession................................................................................................
His first impression of his
wife.......................................................................
His
success.....................................................................................................
Answer the following questions briefly.
(a) One day last summer the author was travelling to Pittsburg by chair car. What does he say about his co-passengers?
(b) Who was the passenger of chair No.9? What did he suddenly do?
(c) What was John A. Pescud’s opinion about best-sellers? Why?
(d) What does John say about himself since his last meeting with the author?
(e) How did John’s first meeting with Jessie’s father go? What did the author tell him?
(f) Why did John get off at Coketown?
(g) John is a hypocrite. Do you agree with this statement? Substantiate your answer.
(h) Describe John A. Pescud with reference to the following points:
Physical appearance........................................................................................
His philosophy on behaviour.........................................................................
His profession................................................................................................
His first impression of his wife.......................................................................
His success.....................................................................................................
(a) The author described his co-passengers in detail while
travelling to Pittsburg by chair car. He describes the women as
wearing brown-silk dresses with square yokes, laces and dotted veils
who refused to raise the windows. Men were well-dressed and looked
like doing any type of business.
(b) The passenger of chair No. 9 was John A. Pescud, a
travelling salesman for a plate-glass company and on old acquaintance
of the author. He suddenly hurled a book to the floor of the chair
car.
(c) John A. Pescud thought all best-sellers to be of the
same kind, having similar stories and lengthy conversations that were
far away from reality.
(d) John tells the author that his salary had been raised
twice since he last met the author. He had also got married and had
bought a house during this time span.
(e) John’s first meeting with Jessie’s father
went well. He told her father about his liking for Jessie and how he
had come all the way from Pittsburg, chasing her. He told him about
his job and salary and asked him to give a chance to know Jessie.
Jessie’s father was very pleased with John.
(f) John got off at Coketown to get same saplings of
petunias for his wife Jessie who was very fond of them.
(g) Yes, John can be described as a hypocrite because what
he preaches is entirely different from what he does. He criticizes
bestsellers saying that they contain love stories where a boy marries
a girl belonging to a different nation. However, in real life, John
himself married Jessie, who lived in far-away Virginia.
(h)
• Physical appearance: Small man with a wide smile and
a fixed eye.
• His philosophy on behaviour: When a man is in his
hometown, he ought to be decent and law abiding.
• His profession: A travelling salesman for a
plate-glass company.
• His first impression of his wife: He found her to be
the finest looking girl on earth, just the type one would like to
marry.
• His success: He was very successful as he got a
salary hike in two years in addition to a commission.
(a) The author described his co-passengers in detail while travelling to Pittsburg by chair car. He describes the women as wearing brown-silk dresses with square yokes, laces and dotted veils who refused to raise the windows. Men were well-dressed and looked like doing any type of business.
(b) The passenger of chair No. 9 was John A. Pescud, a travelling salesman for a plate-glass company and on old acquaintance of the author. He suddenly hurled a book to the floor of the chair car.
(c) John A. Pescud thought all best-sellers to be of the same kind, having similar stories and lengthy conversations that were far away from reality.
(d) John tells the author that his salary had been raised twice since he last met the author. He had also got married and had bought a house during this time span.
(e) John’s first meeting with Jessie’s father went well. He told her father about his liking for Jessie and how he had come all the way from Pittsburg, chasing her. He told him about his job and salary and asked him to give a chance to know Jessie. Jessie’s father was very pleased with John.
(f) John got off at Coketown to get same saplings of petunias for his wife Jessie who was very fond of them.
(g) Yes, John can be described as a hypocrite because what he preaches is entirely different from what he does. He criticizes bestsellers saying that they contain love stories where a boy marries a girl belonging to a different nation. However, in real life, John himself married Jessie, who lived in far-away Virginia.
(h)
• Physical appearance: Small man with a wide smile and a fixed eye.
• His philosophy on behaviour: When a man is in his hometown, he ought to be decent and law abiding.
• His profession: A travelling salesman for a plate-glass company.
• His first impression of his wife: He found her to be the finest looking girl on earth, just the type one would like to marry.
• His success: He was very successful as he got a salary hike in two years in addition to a commission.
