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CLASS-12th
IN CELEBRATION OF BEING ALIVE
(Dr.
Christiaan Barnard)
Question's & Answer's
Q. 1. According to Dr. Barnard what is the business of living?
Ans.
The business of living is joy in the real sense of the word; it is the
celebration of being alive.
Q. 2. What do the people with brave and positive attitude teach us?
Ans. They
teach us to move forward in life and not to cry and weep.
Q. 3. In which incident were Barnard's gloomy thoughts rooted?
Ans. His gloomy thoughts were rooted in an incident in which he
and his wife got involved and then hospitalized.
Q. 4. What was Dr. Barnard's father's attitude towards life?
Ans. Barnard's father believed that God's will be done and God
tests man through suffering and suffering ennobles man.
Q. 5. What introduced Dr.
Barnard to the sufferings of the children?
Ans. He came to know the
sufferings of children by his brother's birth with an abnormal heart.
Q. 6. Why couldn't
Barnard's brother survive?
Ans. He could not survive because
proper surgical treatment was not available to him
Q. 7. Why does Dr. Barnard
consider the sufferings of the children heart-breaking?
Ans. He considers them
heart-breaking because they have total faith in the ability of doctors to cure
them.
Q. 8. What made the driver and the mechanic choose their roles ?
Ans. They chose their roles because the mechanic
was totally blind and the driver had only one arm. Both were quite suitable for
their roles. Spectators enjoyed the fun. They laughed loudly and appreciated
the performance of the driver and the mechanic.
SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
Q. 1. Write in brief about Dr. Barnard's brother's suffering.
Ans. Dr. Barnard was introduced to suffering of children when he was a little boy. One day, his father showed him a half eaten mouldy biscuit. It had two tiny tooth marks in it. His father told Barnard the suffering of his brother. He had been born with an abnormal heart. If he had been born today, probably someone could have corrected that heart problem. But in those days such a surgery was not available.
Q. 2. What was an eye opener for Dr. Barnard at Cape Town's Red
Cross Children's Hospital ? Explain.
Ans. It opened his eyes to the fact that he was missing something in all his thinking about suffering. He was missing something basic that was full of consolation for him. That morning a breakfast trolley was taken away by two brave boys—a driver and a mechanic. The mechanic ran along behind the trolley with his head down. The driver seated on the lower deck of the trolley, held on with one hand and steered by scraping his foot on the floor. The mechanic was totally blind and the driver had only one arm. They put an a very good show.
Q.3.How did the driver and the mechanic put up an entertaining show with an unattended trolley?
Ans. One morning a nurse had left a breakfast trolley unattended. Very soon
this trolley was taken away by two brave boys--a driver and a mechanic. The
mechani was totally blind. The driver had only one arm. The mechanic provided
runnin power to the trolley by running fast along behind the trolley with his
head down The driver got seated on the lower deck of the trolley. He held on
with one hand and steered by scraping his foot on the floor. The two put on
quite a show that day. The rest of the patients laughed and shouted. It was a
better entertainment than a car race. There was also a show of scattered plates
and silverware. Then the nurse and ward sister caught up with them. The driver
and the mechanic were scolded and put back to bed.
Q. 4. What made the
mechanic lose his eyes?
Ans.The mechanic was seven years old when his mother and father were drunk. His mother threw a lantern at his father. The lantern missed his father. It broke over the child's head and shoulders. He suffered very bad burns on the upper part of his body. He lost both his eyes. At the time of the Grand Prix (car race) he was a walking horror. Despite his disability he loved to laugh.
Q. 5. Write a note on the theme of the chapter 'In Celebration of
Being Alive'.
Ans. This lesson is based on the idea that one must not feel troubled by thoughts suffering and pain. Pleasure and pain are parts of human life. One must try forget suffering and try to find joy in the present state of freedom from Paris suffering. We can learn this lesson for living from the young people who like to lead cheerful lives. Dr. Barnard was most often thinking of suffering and But one must get on with the business of living. Business of living is joy in the real sense of the word without sorrow and suffering. The business of living is the celebration of living.
Q. 6. How did Dr. Barnard correct his notions about suffering? (V.V. Imp.)
Ans. Dr. Barnard had been looking at suffering from the wrong end. He had realised that one did not become a better person because one had been suffering. One becomes a better person because he has experienced suffering. We can't appreciate light if we have not known darkness. Nor can we appreciate warmth if we have never suffered cold. The two children, the mechanic and the driver showed to him that it was not what one has lost that is important. What is important is what you have been left with. The two children gave him a profound lesson that the business of living is the celebration of being alive.
TYPE-III
LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
Q. 1. What was the lesson Dr. Barnard learnt from two brave youngsters ?(V. Imp.)
Q.2. In the hospital, Dr. Barnard experienced not only agony and
fear but also anger. Why?
Ans. Dr. Barnard and his wife met with an accident while crossing a road. They were admitted in the hospital. There he experienced not only agony and fear but also anger. He could not understand why he and his wife had to suffer. He had eleven broken ribs and a perforated lung. His wife had a badly fractured shoulder. Again and again he asked himself, why this should happen to them. He had work to do. He had patients waiting for him to operate on them. His wife had to take care of the baby.
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