Question

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: [20]
A prominent Engineer was talking to a fellow passenger in the train. He said: “What exactly is
the meaning of the word, fame? No one has given a clear, logicaldefinition of the word. If we
knew what fame is, the means of attaining it might also perhaps be known to us, when I was
younger. I strove after a celebrity position with every fiber of my being. To be popular was my
craze, so to speak. For the sake of it I studied, worked, Sat up at night and neglected my meals.
And I fancy, as far as I can judge, I had all the natural gifts for attaining it. To begin with, I am
an Engineer by profession. In the course of my life I have built Russia some two dozen
magnificent bridges, I have laid aqueducts for three towns; I have worked in Russia, in England,
in Belgium.... And yet I am in my old age, I am a celebrated as that black dog running on the
embankment."
"How can you tell? Perhaps you are celebrated." Said the fellow passenger,
-Well, we will test it at once. Tell me, have you ever heard the name Krikunov?"
"No I haven't heard it."
Then the engineer said, "That is my surname. You, an educated man, have never heard of me - a
convincing proof! If you are not tired of listening I will illustrate my point of view by an
example. Some years ago I built a bridge in the town of Kremlin. There I got touch with a
singer. This young lady had not the slightest right to herself a singer. She was a creature entirely
devoid of talent. A public ceremony took place to celebrate the opening of the newly
constructed bridge. My bridge was a magnificent work! I thought that the eyes of all the people
will be on me! Except the official personages, no one took the slightest notice of me. They were
not bothered to know who had built the bridge. All at once at the public became agitated; a
whisper ran through the crowd. I looked, and the singer was making her way through the crowd.
A whisper begun in a thousand voices: 'that's so- and- so.... 'Then they notice me ...... A
couple of young boys looked at me, exchanged glances, and whispered: 'that's her lover!' How
do you like that?
Now it was the sum of the fellow passenger. He said, "There are no bards nowadays; and a
celebrity is created almost exclusively by the media. I could give you so many examples. Do our
masses know anything of Russian artists, sculptors, and literary men?Allow me to ask you a
question: Do you know the name of Pushkov?"
"Pushkov?.. No, I don't know it!
"That is my name, .." said the fellow passenger. "Then you don't know it? And yet I have been
a professor of one of the Russian universities for thirty-five years ... a member of the
Academy of Sciences. I have published many books and articles."
The engineer and his fellow traveler looked at each other and burst out laughing.

who was the engineers fellow passenger was he celebrity ?
why did the engineer and his fellow passenger burst out laughing ?
please.......help​

Answer 1

Answer:

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