Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
He went to the police and to the cab offices, and put an advertisement in the newspapers, offering a reward. She waited all day in a state of bewilderment before this frightful disaster. Loisel returned in the evening, his face pale; he had discovered nothing.
(a) Who is he here and what has happened?
(b) For what did he offer a reward?
(c) What was the cause of Matilda's ruin?
(d) How could she have avoided it?
Answers
(a) He is Mr. Loisel. The necklace that Mrs. Loisel had borrowed from one of her friends to attend the ball had been lost.
(b) He offered the reward for the lost diamond necklace.
(c) The cause of Matilda's ruin was her vanity.
(d) She could have avoided it by being simple.
Answer:
1. He went to the police and to the cab offices, and put an advertisement in the newspapers, offering a reward. She waited all day in a state of bewilderment before this frightful disaster. Lisle returned in the evening, his face pale; he had discovered nothing.
(a) What did he do?
(b) For what did he offer a reward?
(c) What was the cause of Matilda’s ruin?
(d) How could she have avoided it?
answers :-
(a) He went to the police and to the cab office and put an advertisement in the newspapers.
(b) He offered a reward to find the lost necklace.
(c) Her weakness for admiration, pleasure and vanity became the cause of her ruin.
(d) Matilda could have avoided this entire suffering if’ she had tried to live within her means and controlled her wild desires for short-lived pleasure.