CLASS – 12TH
(Mulk Raj Anand)
EXTENSIVE STUDY
SHORT QUESTION’S ANSWER’S
Q1. What was
the age difference between Chandu and the narrator?
Ans. It
was a difference of six months; Chandu was senior to the narrator.
Q2. Why did
the narrator consider Chandu the embodiment of perfection for him?
Ans.
He considered him the embodiment of perfection because he could make and fly
paper kites of complicated designs and balance which the narrator could not do.
Q3. Why was Chandu not good at doing sums at school?
Ans. He was not good at
doing sums because he did not do any homework given by teachers and he went to
learn the work as a barber.
Q4. Why did the narrator’s mother constantly dissuade him to play
with Chandu?
Ans. She dissuades him
by saying that Chandu was a low-caste barber’s son and he had to keep up the
status of his caste and class.
Q5. What does the narrator tell us about Chandu’s dress?
Ans. Chandu wore a
Khaki shorts, black velvet waist-coat with many buttons and a round felt cap.
Q6. What did Chandu tell
the narrator about Kalan Khan’s appearance?
Ans. He was a young man
with parted hair, dressed in a starched shirt, an ivory collar and bow tie, a
black coat an striped trousers and a wonderful rubber overcoat.
Q7. Why did Bijay Chand,
the landlord, turn Chandu out of his house?
Ans. He told him to get
out of his house as he was defiling it with a leather bag of cowhide, a coat of
some animal’s marrow and to mere the dress suiting his profession.
Q8. What did the Sahukar
think about Chandu’s wearing clothes like a doctor?
Ans. He abused him and
told him to come back in his own clothes and not wear the defiled clothes of
the hospital people.
Q9. Why had the landlord
summoned Pandit Parmanand?
Ans. He had been called
by the landlord to discuss the unholy emergency in which Chandu had landed by
wearing English shoes and a doctor’s dress.
Q10. What type of woman
was Chandu’s mother?
Ans. She was an
ill-tempered woman from low caste and knew the reality about upper caste
people.
Q11. How did Chandu’s
mother treat the narrator?
Ans. She was very kind
to the narrator though she spoke to him in a joking manner.
Q12. Why did Chandu
decide to go on strike?
Ans. He decided to go
on strike by stopping to shave the upper-caste people as they had been abusing
him.
Q13. Why did Chandu
decide to buy a bicycle?
Ans. He decided to buy
a cycle in order to shave people and give them a haircut and earn money after
stopping to do the haircut of the upper-caste people.
Q14. Why had the men
gathered in the Sahukar’s shop?
Ans. They had gathered
there round the figure of the landlord to talk with him.
Q15. How did the Sahukar
look without being trimmed by the barber?
Ans. He looked like a
leper with brown colour of tobacco on his big moustaches.
Q16. What jokes became
popular in every home and why?
Ans. Jokes about the unclean beards of the elders and the landlord’s young wife threatening to run away with somebody because of his shabby appearance became popular.
Q17. What was the reason
of the rumour that the landlord’s wife had theatned to run away with someone
else?
Ans. She threatened to
do so because being twenty years younger than her husband; she had tolerated
him as long as he kept in trim. But now his unclean beard was disgusting to
her.
Q18. What did the village
elders threaten Chandu?
Ans. They threatened to
have him sent to prison for his offences and ordered his mother to force him to
obey them.
Q19. Name the union that
gave birth to many other active trade unions in the town?
Ans. The name was
‘Rajkot District Barber Brother’ Hairdressing and Shaving Saloon’.
LONG QUESTION’S ANSWER’S
Q1. How did the village elders behave when Chandu dressed up like a
doctor?
Ans. The landlord
called Chandu the son of a pig. He cursed him by saying that he was bringing a
leather bag of cow-hide into his house and a coat of some animal’s marrow. He
told him to get out of his house lest he should defile his religion. The
Sahukar abused Chandu in the foulest way. He told him to come after wearing his
own clothes. Only then will he let him cut his hair.
Q2. Give a brief character-sketch of Chandu’s mother.
Ans. Chandu’s mother
was an ill-tempered woman. She was over sixty year old. She could always read
the nature of the upper caste people. But she was very kind to the narrator.
She did not have a good word for the upper caste people.
Probably, she must have suffered at the hands of the upper caste people. She
was happy when Chandu started earning more money by shaving and cutting hair of
people in the town. We can only pity Chandu’s old mother because she did not
have a good quality of life.
Q3. Write brief character-sketch of Chandu?
Ans. Chandu is the
barber boy of the narrator’s village. He is the main character of the story. He
is a close friend of the narrator. The narrator calls him one of the makers of modern
India. He organizes barbers into a union. He stops going to people’s home to
give them a haircut or shave beards. He refuses to dance to the tune of
upper-caste people.
Chandu is the narrator’s senior. He takes lead in all
matters. He is very fond of his boyish mischiefs. He likes catching wasps. Them
he takes out the poison from their tails. He makes them fly by trying their
legs with a thread.
The narrator considers him the embodiment of perfection. He
is an expert at making kites of various designs. Despite his skill in other
matters, he is a duffer in learning.
He is a member of a low caste. Upper caste people often
abused him and insulted him. They did not like the narrator to mix with him.
Chandu is self-respecting. He decided to teach them a lesson. He bought a cycle
and started shaving people in the town. He set up a barber’s shop. He organized
some barbers in villages into a union. They stopped going to people’s home for
shaving and haircutting. They forced the people to come to their shops. We
cannot help admiring Chandu for his skill of enterprise.
Q2.Why did Chandu go on a strike? What was the result of the strike?
Ans. Chandu was a
barber in a village. He used to go to people’s homes to cut their hair and
shave their beards. He started going to the town from time to time. He earned
more money there by haircutting. One day he put on a doctor’s dress and went on
the round of his village to shave the beards of a landlord, a sahukar and some
other person. They were all from higher caste. But Chandu belonged to a lower
caste. The narrator and the landlord‘s little boy Devi were happy to see him in
the doctor’s dress. The landlord called him the son of a pig. He insulted him
by saying that he was carrying a leather bag of cow-hide and the coat of the
marrow of some animal. He told him to get out of his house. He did not want his
house and his religion to be defiled. He asked him to wear the clothes that
suit his profession. Then he went to the village Shaukar’s house. He abused
Chandu in the foulest way. He told him not to go about dressed like a clown. He
should shoulder his own responsibilities and look after his old mother. He
should not wear the defiled clothes of the hospital folk. He told him to go and
come back in his own clothes. Then he would let him cut his hair.
He decided to teach the
orthodox village idiots a lesson. He would go on strike and not go to their
house to attend to them. They were forced to go to his shop to get their beards
shaves and their hair cut.
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