Question

questionaire of chapter keeping it from harold

Answer 1

3. Based on your reading of the story, answer the following questions by choosing the correct option.


(a) Mrs Bramble was a proud woman because __________.
(i) she was the wife of a famous boxer
(ii) she had motivated her husband
(iii) she was a good housewife
(iv) she was the mother of a child prodigy

Answer 

(iv) she was the mother of a child prodigy

(b) "The very naming of Harold had caused a sacrifice on his part." The writer's tone here is __________________.
(i) admiring
(ii) assertive
(iii) satirical 
(iv) gentle

Answer 

(iv) gentle

(c) Harold had defied the laws of heredity by ______.
(i) becoming a sportsperson
(ii) being good at academics
(iii) being well-built and muscular
(iv) respecting his parents

Answer 

(ii) being good at academics

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(d) Harold felt that he was deprived of the respect that his classmates would give him as _________.
(i) they did not know his father was the famous boxer, 'Young Porky'
(ii) his hero, Jimmy Murphy had not won the wrestling match
(iii) he had not got Phil Scott's autograph
(iv) Sid Simpson had lost the Lonsdale belt

Answer 

(i) they did not know his father was the famous boxer, 'Young Porky'

4. Answer the following questions

(a) What was strange about the manner in which Mrs. Bramble addressed her son? What did he feel about it?

Answer 

Mrs. Bramble always referred to herself in the third person and treated ten-year-old Harold as a baby. He would feel irritated and wished that his mother would give him due credit of being a grown-up boy who had won prizes in spellings and dictation.

(b) Why was it necessary to keep Harold's father's profession a secret from him?

Answer 

Harold’s father was a professional boxer but Harold was a scholarly child with a very gentle and sophisticated behaviour. Mr. Bramble and his wife considered that boxing was an inferior profession and it may become difficult for Harold to accept the image and qualities of his father as displayed by any professional boxer. Hence, they thought it was necessary to hide his father’s profession from him.