class 9th
unit 2 bonds of love
maternity
question : describe the life of the refugees in the camp?
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Answer:
Living in a refugee camp is difficult. There's no food, no water, no toilet and no place to bathe. We can't afford to eat three times a day.
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Maternity Textual Questions and Answers
Question 1.
How did the Armenian refugees settle?
Answer:
They settled down in any way they could: the richest under tents; the others in the ruined sheds; but the majority of the refugees were sheltered under carpets held up at the four corners by sticks.
Question 2.
Describe the life of the refugees in the camp.
Answer:
The men found odd jobs and so that they and their families had something to eat.
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Question 3.
Why couldn’t Mikail earn even a penny?
Answer:
Mikail couldn’t look for work because he had with him his new-born brother. His mother had died at childbirth.
Question 4.
Why was he chased away by his fellow Armenians?
Answer:
He was chased away by his fellow Armenians because they were unable to bear the continuous, disturbing cries of the new-born baby.
Question 5.
Mikali wandered like a ‘lost soul.’ Comment on the comparison.
Answer:
Mikali wandered about like a lost soul because he did not get any help or protection from anyone. As a lost soul wanders around looking for peace and rest, Mikali too was wandering.
Question 6.
Why did the refugees wish that the child would die?
Answer:
The refugees listened to the cries of the baby with irritation. They all had so many troubles of their own and they all wanted it to die and give them their peace.
Question 7.
Notice how the women behaved. What do you think about their attitude?
Answer:
No woman in the camp came forward to help and protect the child. It is very saddening and shameful of them to behave in that inhuman manner.
Question 8.
What made Mikali go to the camp of the Anatolians?
Answer:
Mikali had been told that there was a nursing mother there who might take pity on his baby. So with full of hope there he went there.
Question 9.
Mikali did not stop when the old women rose to ask him what he wanted because …
a. he was very tired.
b. he heard the wailing of the infant.
c. he wanted to see the ‘nursing mother.’
d. he didn’t like the women.
Answer:
c. he wanted to see the nursing mother.
Question 10.
Why was Mikali happy?
Answer:
At Mikali’s appeal, a lovely, dark woman appeared. She held in her arms an infant blissfully sucking the maternal breast; its eyes were half-closed. She asked if she could see the kid and enquired whether it was a boy or a girl. On hearing this Mikali was happy.
Question 11.
Why did the women give vent to cries of horror?
Answer:
The child had no longer anything human about it. The head had become enormous and the body was all shrivelled up. As until then it had sucked only its thumb, it was all swollen. So, the women give vent to cries of horror.
Question 12.
Why did he feel immensely alone and lost?
Answer:
It was very difficult for Mikali to get food and shelter. He was helpless and his life was full of misery. Moreover, he was mercilessly turned away by people, g. There was nothing he could do to help the baby he carried along. So he felt immensely alone and lost.
Question 13.
Why did he sob?
Answer:
He would have to go looking for some half-eaten roll left on a plate; or else, rake about in the garbage for what a dog would not have eaten. Suddenly, life 9. seemed to him so full of horrors that he covered his face with his hands and began to cry badly.
Question 14.
In what way is the Chinaman different from the refugees?
Answer:
The Chinaman was kind-hearted and helpful. He helped Mikali to overcome the difficult situation.
Question 15.
Describe how the Chinaman’s wife behaved when she saw Mikali with her husband.
Answer:
Seeing the men, her face reddened and with a happy smile she made a brief courtesy to them.
Question 16.
What did the Chinaman’s wife do when she saw the famished infant?
Answer:
She gave a cry of immense pity and then pressed the baby to her heart, giving it the breast. Then, with a gesture of modesty, she brought forward a flap of her robe over the milk-swollen breast and the poor, gluttonous infant suckling there.