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Textbook Questions
Q.No.1 Why had Rustomji’s smuggling offences not been discovered earlier?
Answer: Rustomji’s smuggling offences had not been discovered earlier because he was on best terms with the customs officials; thus, nobody was inclined to suspect him. They used to consider his invoices on trust. Some of them might have even connived at his smuggling.
Q.No. 2 What did Rustomji consider to be the greatest cause for shame to him?
Answer: Rustomji considered the discovery of his guilt to be his destruction. Going to jail was the greatest cause for shame to him. He pleaded to Gandhiji to save him from this predicament
Q.No. 3 What did Gandhiji consider to be a greater cause for shame?
Answer: According to Gandhiji, the greater cause for shame was in committing the offence rather than going to jail. Imprisonment is just a penance, but the real penance lies in resolving never to smuggle again.
Q.No.4 Which words that Rustomji uses to describe his offence show us that he did not consider it to be a moral offence?
Answer: Rustom Ji called his smuggling activities merely ‘tricks of the trade’. These words show that he did not consider smuggling to be a moral offence.Q.No.5 Who, according to Gandhiji, was the one who would finally decide whether Rustomji was to be saved or not?
Answer: According to Gandhiji, it was the Customs Officer who was to decide whether Rustomji was to be saved or not and the Customs Officer would, in turn, be guided by the Attorney General.
Q.No.6 Gandhiji and the other counsel differed in the way in which they thought the case ought to be handled. How did a Gandhiji and the other counsel hope to settle the case?
Answer: Gandhiji thought that the case shouldn’t be taken to court. It should be kept up to the customs officer to prosecute Rustomji or let him free. The other counsel hoped that the case would be tried by a jury and a Natal jury would acquit Rustomji which seemed quite difficult.
Q.No.7 Gandhiji spoke of two penances. What were they? Which of them did Rustomji not have to do?
Answer: a) Gandhiji spoke of two penances. The first penance was to pay penalty for the crime. The second penance was the imprisonment. But according to Gandhi Ji, the real penance was to resolve never to smuggle again.
b) Rustom Ji did not have to be imprisoned because it would ruin his edifice of name and fame.
Q.No.8 Why did Gandhi Ji have to go to the Attorney General as well as to the customs officer?Answer: Gandhiji had to go to the Customs Officer as well as to the Attorney General because both of them were employed in the taxation process. Moreover, the Customs Officer was guided by the Attorney General. So, after persuading the customs officer, he had to motivate the Attorney General regarding the guilt.
Q.No.9 Which two qualities of Gandhiji helped him to persuade the Attorney General not to drag Rustomji into court?
Ans. Gandhiji’s persuasiveness and frankness helped him to persuade the Attorney General not to drag Rustomji into court.
Q.No.10 What did Rustomji (a) lose (b) partly save by the settlement of the case.
Answer: Rustomji lost twice the amount of money which he had earned by smuggling. Rustomji partly saved his edifice of name and fame by the settlement of the case.