Question

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
The young liftman in a city office, who threw a passenger out of his lift the other morning and was
fined for the offence was undoubtedly in the wrong one. It was a question of „please‟. The passenger
entering the lift said „Top‟. The liftman demanded „Top, please‟, and his demand being refused, the
liftman hurled the passenger out of the lift.
While it is true that there is no law that compels us to say „ please‟, there is a social practice much
older and much more sacred than any law that orders us to be civil. The first requirement of civility is
that we should acknowledge a service. „Please‟ and „Thank you‟ are the small change with which we
pave our way as social beings. They are the little courtesies by which we keep the machine of life
oiled and running smoothly. They put our interaction upon the basis of a friendly co-operation and
easy give-and-take instead of superiors dictating to inferiors. It is a very vulgar mind that would wish
to command when he can have the service for asking and have it with willingness and good feeling
instead of resentment.
If bad manners are infectious, so also are good manners. If we encounter incivility, most of us are apt
to become uncivil but it is an unusually uncouth person who can be disagreeable with sunny people. It
is with manners as with weather. “ Nothing cheers up my spirits like a fine day,” said Keats, and a
cheerful person descends on even the gloomiest of us with something of the benediction of a fine day.
It is a matter of general agreement that the war has had a chilling effect upon these little everyday
civilities of behavior that sweeten the general air. We must get those civilities back if we are to make
life kind and tolerable for each other. We cannot get them back by invoking the law. The policeman is
a necessary symbol and the law is a necessary institution for a society that is still somewhat lower than
the angles. But the law can only protect us against material attack. Nor will the liftman‟s way of
meeting moral insult by physical violence help us to restore the civilities.
Answer the following questions: (5x1m=5M)
a. Why was the young liftman fined?
b. What is the first requirement of civility?
c. How can you say that little courtesies are important in life?
d. The author blames the war. Why?
e. Find the words in the passage that mean
i. threw out (para1) ii. to bring back (para 4)

Answer 1

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Answer 2

a. Why was the young liftman fined?

Ans. The liftman was fined because he threw out a passenger from the lift, for not saying please to him.

b. What is the first requirement of civility?

Ans. The first requirement of civility is that we should acknowledge a service. „Please‟ and „Thank you‟ are the small change with which we pave our way as social beings.

c. How can you say that little courtesies are important in life?

Ans. with the help of little courtesies we keep the machine of life

oiled and running smoothly. They put our interaction upon the basis of a friendly co-operation and easy give-and-take instead of superiors dictating to inferiors.

d. The author blames the war. Why?

Ans. The author blames the war because it induces the spirit of violence in people and creates a bad environment.

e. Find the words in the passage that mean

i. threw out (para1) ii. to bring back (para 4)

i) Hurled

ii) restore

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