Q9.Answer the following questions in 30 - 40 words each: 2×4=8
(a) Is the bread seller in gao popular, how did you know?
(b)In what way Wanda is different from other children?
(c) How did a book become a turning point in Richard Ebright’s life?
(d) Why do Bholi’s parents accept Bishamber’s marriage proposal?
Answers
Explanation:
(a)Yes, bread-making is still popular in Goa. The author can say so as one can still find mixers, the moulders, the bakers and the old age furnaces. The main festivals and occasions are also still not celebrated without loaves, bol or bread-bangles.
(b)Wanda was different from other children as she had no friends. She came to school alone and went home alone. She always wore a faded blue dress that did not fit her properly. Unlike other children, she kept quiet and did not talk to anyone
(c)The book about monarch butter's fly migration to central America opened the new world of science to the eager young mind. ... Thus the book was a turning point in his life because it helped him to study butterflies.
(d)Bholi's parents accept Bishamber's marriage proposal because they think if they don't accept it, she would not be married for the rest of her life. Moreover, they don't have to pay him dowry.