Q. 7 At Ranchi Bepin Babu arranged
for a car and left for
Answers
Anwers of Reference to Context – 1
1. Bepin Choudhary bought books of crime stories, ghost stories, and thrillers from Kalicharan’s Newmarket every Monday.
2. Bepin lived alone in his house. He was not a good mixer. He had only a few friends and didn’t like spending time in idle chat.
3. Bepin Babu felt that somebody was keeping at an eye on him who was observing him.
4. Parimal Ghose revealed that he met him every day during his stay in Ranchi in 1958. He had arranged a car for him to take him to the Hudroo falls.
5. Close quarters.
Answers of Reference to Context – 2
1. Bepin Babu was working in the office and he was performing his duties with responsibility. He spoke for half an hour at an important meeting. Yet he was not sure of his mental state.
2. Bepin Babu was in Kanpur in October 1958 at his friend Haridas Bagchi’s place.
3. Bepin wanted to contact Haridas, then he remembered that Haridas had left with his wife for Japan some weeks ago.
4. Parimal Ghose knew about the intimate details about the bag of books, his wife’s death, brother’s insanity, etc.
5. Bepin was initially confident that Parimal mistook him for someone else. But his lie shook him. He started doubting himself.
Answers of Reference to Context – 3
1. Chunni Lai visited Bepin’s place to take his help in finding a suitable job for him.
2. Paresh Chandra was a young physician with a pair of bright eyes and a sharp nose.
3. Bepin Babu was desperate to get a cure for his horrible illness of forgetfulness.
4. Bepin Babu visited the doctor to analyze the medical condition and he could not find anything suspicious in him.
5. The doctor suggested him to visit Ranchi. Once again to get the real experience he could make out if he had visited those places.
Answers of Reference to Context – 4
1. Bepin Babu visited Ranchi by hiring a taxi. He realized that the streets, the buildings, the hotels, the bazaars, etc were not familiar at all.
2. Bepin Babu was sure that he had not visited the place before. But he did not want to take a chance so he went to Hudroo Falls.
3. Bepin Babu was lying unconscious beside a boulder. Two Gujarati gentlemen found him.
4. Bepin visited Ranchi with the hope to remember any incident or place to relate his previous trip to Ranchi. But he couldn’t relate anything. He was thus in a state of shock that he had lost his memory.
5. Bepin Babu lost faith in his memory. He was devastated. He worked hard and managed solutions by engaging himself in reading books. The false story had so much impact on his mind that he lost all his hope of leading a normal life.