Intelligence or cleverness cannot be identified with a profession. It has to be inbuilt. Explain the same with reference to ‘The Hack driver’.
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Question 1.
I was sent, not to prepare legal briefs, but to serve summons, like a cheap detective.
(a) At what post was T working?
(b) Why was he not given legal briefs to prepare?
(c) Find a word meaning ‘court order’ from the given extract.
(d) What is the present tense of ‘sent’?*
Answer:
(a) T was working as a junior assistant clerk.
(b) Probably because he was inexperienced, he was not given legal briefs to prepare.
(c) ‘Summons’ from the extract means ‘court order’.
(d) ‘Send’ is its present tense.
Question 2.
He was so open and friendly that I glowed with the warmth of his affection. I knew, of course, that he wanted the business, but his kindness was real.
(a) Who is ‘he’ in these lines?
(b) Give an instance of his kindness.
(c) Find a word from the extract which means ‘a gentle feeling of fordness’.
(d) What is the opposite of kindness?
Answer:
(a) ‘He’ in these lines is Bill Magnuson, the hack driver.
(b) He offered to take the narrator through the village and find Lutkins.
(c) ‘Affection’ from the extract means ‘a gentle feeling of fondness’.
(d) Cruelty’ is the opposite of ‘kindness’.
Question 3.
So we pursued him, just behind him, but never catching him, for an hour till it was past one o’ clock,
(a) Who was pursuing whom?
(b) Why were they pursuing him?
(c) Which word in the extract is a synonym of ‘followed’?
(d) What is the opposite of ‘behind’?
Answer:
(a) The narrator and Bill were pursuing Lutkins.
(b) They were pursuing him because the lawyer had to serve him a summons.
(c) ‘pursued’ in the extract, is the synonym of‘followed’.
(d) ‘ahead’ is its opposite.
Question 4.
What really hurt me was that when I served the summons, Lutkins and his mother laughed at me as though I were a bright boy of seven.
(a) What hurt the narrator?
(b) Why did the two laugh?
(c) Which word in the extract is a synonym of ‘delivered1?
(d) What is the opposite of ‘bright’?
Answer:
(a) The laughter of Lutkins and his mother hurt the narrator.
(b) The two laughed because they had been successful in fooling him.
(c) ‘served’ from the extract is the synonym of ‘delivered’.
(d) Its opposite is ‘dull’.
Question 5.
I had to go to dirty and shadowy comers of the city to seek out my victims. Some of the larger and more self-confident ones even beat me up. [CBSE 2013]
(a) Who is ‘I’?
(b) What was the nature of Ts job?
(c) Find a word from the extract which means find’.
(d) What is the opposite of ‘dirty’?
Answer:
(a) ‘I’ is the young lawyer who is the narrator of the story.
(b) The nature of his job was to serve summons on people who were required to present themselves in the court.
(c) ‘Seek out’ from the extract means ‘find’.
(d) Its opposite is ‘dean’.
Question 6.
When I got to New Mullion, my eager expectations of a sweet and simple country village were severely disappointed. Its streets were rivers of mud, with rows of wooden shops, either painted a sour brown, or bare of any paint at all. [CBSE 2015]
(a) Who is T?
(b) Why was T disappointed?
(c) What does the word ‘expectations’ mean?
(d) What is the opposite of ‘disappointed’?
Answer:
(a) ‘I’ is the young lawyer who is the narrator of the story.
(b) T was disappointed because he did not like the muddy streets and unpainted looks of the shops.
(c) It means ‘a brief about how good something will be’.
(d) Its opposite is’‘pleased’.
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Yes, it is quite right that intelligence and cleverness come automatically from our inside because it is our birth quality, it cannot be created, that’s why our intelligence or cleverness cannot be identiKed only on the basis of our work or profession. Many times in our daily life, we can Knd such examples. For example, a policeman is always considered brave and Kghter because he has to face many diiculties daily and if he is not like that, he cannot defeat criminals, dacoits, burglars and cheaters. But sometimes we Knd some policemen opposite to it.
Some policemen nm away from the place where the people need them very much. Such policemen never think about their duty. They think only to save their lives. Such examples can easily be found in many different Kelds like medical, political. Some doctors don’t fulKll expectation of the common people, they think only for their families. So it is clear that our work or profession cannot disclose our internal quality like intelligence or cleverness. As we Knd in this story, the lawyer is not so clever or intelligent but the hackman is very cunning.
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