Question

I. Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions :-



Shahid ignored my reassurances. He began to laugh and it was then that I realized that he was dead

serious. I understood that he was entrusting me with a quite specific charge: he wanted me to

remember him not through the spoken recitatives of memory and friendship, but through the

written word. Shahid knew all too well that for those writers for whom things become real only in

the process of writing, there is an inbuilt resistance to dealing with loss and bereavement. He knew

that my instincts would have led me to search for reasons to avoid writing about his death: I would

have told myself that I was not a poet: that our friendship was of recent date; that there were many

others who knew him much better and would be writing from greater understanding and

knowledge. All this Shahid had guessed and he had decided to shut off those routes while there was

still time. ‘You must write about me.’

Questions:-

a) How does Shahid wanted to be remember by the writer ?

b) Writer would avoid writing about what ?

c) What writer would have told himself ?

d) Give meaning of the words : (a) Entrust (b) Bereavement or Instinct​

Answer 1

Answer:

a)through the

written word

b)to avoid writing about his death

c)I was not a poet

d) entrust-to make somebody responsible for something. instinct-the natural force that causes a person or animal to behave in a particular way without thinking or learning about it.