CLASS-10TH
(R.K. Narayan)
Question / Answer’s
Q1. How did Subbiah manage to get
rice during the drought?
Ans: During the drought, Subbiah would go round the
countryside and collect as much rice as he could. He would sell it at a very high
rate and earn huge profits.
Q2. Those were the days when Subbiah
loathed the rice bags.’ Which were those days? Why did he dislike the rice
then?
Ans. Subbiah was then a young boy. Like other boys, he longed
to go and enjoy life in the open. But his father would not allow him to leave
the shop. Naturally, Subbiah loathed the rice bags.
Q3. What is the meaning of the statement ‘Rice was
in his blood.’?
Ans. Subbiah had spent all his days with his father in his rice
shop. Thus, he knew all about rice, and the rice business. It could be said that
rice was in his blood.
Q4. How did Subbiah’s profits increase during the
war? Did he follow the rules laid down by the government? How did he tackle the
officers?
Ans. During the war, there was a scarcity of rice. Subbiah
sold his stock at very high rate and made big profit. He followed the rules
only on paper, not in practice. He bribed the officers who came to check his
stock and accounts.
Q5. Besides selling rice, what else did Subbiah do
to earn more?
Ans. Subbiah lent money at very high rates of interest. If people
failed to pay back his money, he would acquire their houses. Thus he earned
more and more money.
Q6. Who came to buy rice one evening when Subbiah
was about to go home? Did he give rice to him? What did he say ?
Ans. `A person came to buy some rice. Subbiah refused to give him
any. He said that he had some other business. But then he agreed to give the
rice, but only half a seer for eight annas.
Q7. How much rice did Subbiah agree to sell the man
and for how much?
Ans. Subbiah agreed to sell him half a seer of rice for half a rupee.
Q8. Why did Subbiah ask the man to wait? What reasons did he give?
Ans. Subbiah did not want anyone to know about his secret
godown. So, he asked the man to wait. He said that he would have to go and
bring rice from some other man.
Q9. Where did Subbiah go to get the rice?
Ans.
He went to his godown to get the rice. This godown was situated in a back
street.
Q10. Did the man wait for Subbiah for long? How do you know?
Ans.
The man waited for a very long time. He came in the evening and waited till
morning. Then he went to Subbiah’s wife who took him to the godown.
Q11. Where did the man go after waiting for Subbiah for long time?
Ans.
The man went to Subbiah’s home. There he asked Subbiah’s wife about him. The
wife took the man to Subbiah’s godown.
Q12. How did Subbiah die?
Ans.
Subbiah tried to take out some rice from a heap of bags. While he was doing,
so, the bags fell on him. He was buried under the bags and killed.
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