extra questions of hack driver
Answers
Question 1.
What job did the narrator get after graduation? Did he like his work?
Answer:
After doing his graduation, the narrator got the job of a junior assistant clerk in a law firm. No, he did not like his work. He had to serve a summons on the wanted people. He had to visit many dirty places. He never liked his work.
Question 2.
Why was he happy to go to New Mullion? Why did he go there?
Answer:
The narrator did not like the dirty and dark sides of the city life. He thought that he would find some pleasant sights in New Mullion. So, he was happy to go there.He went there to serve summons on Oliver Lutkins.
Question 3.
Why did the lawyer find the sight at the station’ “agreeable”?
Answer:
The narrator was disappointed to see the dirty roads and rows of wooden shops. But there was a man
who made the dull scene of the station agreeable by adding his cheerfulness.
He was the delivery man at the station.
Question 4.
How did the hack driver sketch the character of Lutkins?
Answer:
In fact, the hack driver was Lutkins himself. He sketched Lutkins as a very clever man who was good
at deceiving people. He never repaid the money he had taken from others.
He had a passion for Poker.
Question 5.
The narrator and the hack driver drove around together to find Lutkins.
(i) Which were the places they visited?
(ii) Why couldn’t they find Lutkins?
Answer:
(i) The hack driver took the narrator to almost all the places where Lutkins could be found. They visited Fritz’s shop, GustafFs shop, Gray’s stop, the pool room and Lutkins mother’s farmhouse.
(ii) They could not find Lutkins because the Hack driver was Lutkins himself.
Question 6.
What did the hack driver tell the narrator about Lutkins’ mother?
Answer:
The hack driver told the narrator that Lutkins’ mother was a real terror. She was nine feet tall, four feet thick and as quick as a cat.
Question 7.
How did Lutkins’ mother receive the narrator?
Answer:
Lutkins’ mother was not ready to tell them anything about Lutkins’. She tried to avoid their enquiry. When she ceune to know about the purposes of the narrator, she got furious. She went to the kitchen and came out with an iron rod. She marched towards them with a threat. They had to retreat from there.
Question 8.
What does the narrator describe as “pretty disrespectful treatment”?
Answer:
The narrator describes the treatment given to them by Lutkins’ mother as a pretty disrespected treatment. She insulted them. She marched towards them with a hot iron rod. She laughed at them when they retreated with a fear from there.
Question 9.
With what impression did the lawyer come back to the city?
Answer:
The lawyer returned to the city with a good impression. He liked the people of the village. He found them simple, wise and soft-spoken. He thought of practising law there. He was excited. He had found a treasure and a new way of life in New Mullion.
Question 10.
How did the people at the law firm receive him?
Answer:
The narrator could not find Lutkins. He could not serve the Summons on him so everyone at the firm was angry with him. They scolded and disgraced him,. His chief considered him as a useless fool. He was asked to go back to serve the summons on Lutkins.
Question 11.
Why was he sent back to New Mullion? Who went with him?
Answer:
The lawyer was sent back to New Mullion to serve summons on Lutkins. He had failed in his mission earlier. This time another man who had worked with Lutkins was also sent with him.
Question 12.
Who was the hack driver? What really hurt the feelings of the narrator in the end?
Answer:
The hack driver was Lutkins himself. He had driven the lawyer previous day. The narrator was really hurt when Lutkins and his mother were laughing at him as if he were a bright boy of seven.
Question 13.
How did the lawyer find the streets and shops of New Mullion?
Answer:
The lawyer found the streets of New Mullion muddy. With rows of wooden shops, either painted in sour brown or not painted at all. He was disappointed because he expected to see a sweet and simple country village.
Question 14.
Did the lawyer and the hack driver find Lutkins at Gustaffs barber shop? What did Gustaff say about Lutkins?
Answer:
No, they did not find Lutkins at Gustaffs barber shop. Gustaff told the hack driver that he had neither seen Lutkins nor he cared to see him. He asked him that if he finds Lutkins, he might collect the thirty , five dollars which Lutkins owes to him.
Question 15.
“Let’s go to a restaurant and I’ll buy your lunch,” the lawyer told the hack driver. Did they go to a restaurant to have lunch?
Answer: The hack driver told the young lawyer that all the four restaurants in the town were bad. He suggested that only for half a dollar his wife would pack up the lunch for them and they would eat at Wade’s Hill. So they did not go to a restaurant.