PRACTISE
Comprehension
A. Answer these questions briefly.
1. What was the narrator hoping Todd would remember?
2. What made the narrator feel that Todd had forgotten that he had borrowed
anything from him?
3. What did Todd write in his note to the narrator?
4. Why did the narrator suggest that they take a taxi to the club?
5. What did the narrator hope that Todd would remember when he mentioned
Poland? How was Poland connected to what the narrator was thinking about?
6. What did the narrator feel about money he might have borrowed from
various people?
7. Why do you think the narrator asked Todd about the currency used in Bermuda?
8. What kind of a movement would the narrator like to start and why?
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Answers
Answer:
Ans. 1: The narrator asked Todd about the currency used in Bermuda in a hope to remind him of the one American dollar that Todd owed him. Further, he asked Todd how much the trip to Bermuda cost him. The narrator made such several indirect references to money hoping that he would remember that one dollar he owes him.
Ans. 2: This is because a year has already passed since his friend has borrowed the dollar. He seems to have totally forgotten about it because a number of indirect references given by the narrator about debts does not have any effect in reviving his friend's memory. Todd came back within three weeks
Ans. 3: In Leacock's story 'My Lost Dollar', Todd sent a note from Hamilton, Bermuda to his friend and our speaker in the story. In that note, he merely spoke about the weather conditions over there and said that the temperature was up to nearly 100.
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Ans 4 The narrator's suggested that they should take a taxi to the club because his friend had taken a dollar from him and didn't remember to return him back.So he used the term 'taxi' to make him remember about the dollar which he took from him because that day also the narrator's friend had taken a dollar to pay to the taxi.
Ans 5 In the story "My Lost Dollar", the narrator hoped that if he mentioned about Poland to Todd, he would be able remind Todd about the dollar he had not paid him.
Poland was connected to what the narrator was thinking because Poland who too borrowed money from him didn't return her the money. He hoped that Todd would be reminded of his debt if he mentioned about Poland to him.
Ans 6 The narrator feels uncomfortable at the thought of owing money to people. He feels that it is theoretically probable that there are people in the world from whom he may have taken a dollar but who haven't asked their dollars back and whose dollar he too has forgotten about.
Ans 7 The narrator asked Todd about the currency used in Bermuda in a hope to remind him of the one American dollar that Todd owed him. Further, he asked Todd how much the trip to Bermuda cost him. The narrator made such several indirect references to money hoping that he would remember that one dollar he owes him.
Ans 8 The speaker wanted to start a general movement,a BACK of HoNESTY movement, for paying all the dollar that were borrowed in movement of expansion . HE wanted all all of them returned in the name if honesty.