Question

2. 'I have lost my job.' What is the job that the narrator is referring to?
Did he like his job? How can you tell?

3. 'I was lucky to get the job.' Why does the narrator say this?

4. Why do you think the young lady gave the narrator a one-hundred-
rupee note rather than 40 in, say, ten-rupee notes?

5. How did the narrator conclude that the two customers belonged to
the same household? Did he guess correctly? How do you know?

6. “She took both the saris and paid for them: ninety rupees ... I looked
at the notes carefully. I wondered if this was a new angle to the old
trick.' Why did the narrator examine the notes? What had he already
concluded about the two women? Why was he not sure that it was
the same 'old trick'?

7. Was Mr Ratnam's visit to the shop related in any way to the visit of
the two ladies to the shop earlier? How do you know?

8. What did Mr Ratnam do when he found that a sum of one hundred
rupees was missing from the cash box? Why did he do so?​

Answer 1

Answer:

from which chapter it belongs to?