Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
18 marks)
MAGIC MACHINE (Literary-excerpt from a Story)
Mohammed Jamshed Khan replaced the ATM card in his wallet and counted the crisp new notes
he'd just withdrawn from the machine, 6000? This can't be right!" thought the young Mumbai
civil contractor. He counted again. It was indeed 6000. "All I'd asked for was? 1200," Khan told his
friend Faisal Mukhi who was standing nearby
"You pressed the wrong buttons, silly," sad Mukhi.
"No way!" exclaimed Khan as be pushed his card back in agan, keyed in his numeric password
and asked for 1000. Beep, click whirr, beeeep! Out popped 5000 and a little transaction slip that
read. Withdrawal 1000." "Let's try again," said Khan Card, password, 2-0-0-Obeeeep' But he
got 10,000. By now it seemed certain that the ATM was giving away 500-rupee notes instead of
hundreds
May be something's wrong with your card." Mukhi told Khan, "let me try mine." Mukhi's balance
was low-only 3 1300. He pushed his card in and asked for 1000. The machine spat out 6000
"ATMs short for automated teller machines) are extremely secure and among the hardiest of
machines. Look up the Encyclopedia Britannica for "ATMs" and you'll find entered under "Locks"-
it's virtually impossible to fool an ATM. And the probability of an ATM overpaying is virtually nil.
But here they were, two buddies with 26000 between them? 20.800 of it free money
There were no other customers in sight on that warm July afternoon. And they could have kept on
going. Instead, Khan and Mukhi went outside the ATM's enclosure and summoned the guard on
duty. "The machine's all mixed up." they told him. The two men then gave the guard a demo "Look
here," said Khan as he inserted his card one last time and hit the buttons, "I'm withdrawing 7 500
but here's 2500! "Don't let anybody near this place." they told the guard as they hopped into an auto
rickshaw and sped off with all the money
It looked like a daylight robbery-in reverse. For they drove two kilometers, to the nearest branch
of the bank that owned the ATM. placed the cash? 28.500 on the bank manager's desk and complained
about their faulty machine.
We could have lost a real lot that day," says the manager. This is the kind of honesty we can only
dream about. A human error made while holding cash in the ATM had caused the problem. Although
we could have traced the customers, it might have meant a lot of trouble for us, had they kept our
money. "But did either Mohammed Khan or Faisal Mukhi ever think of keeping the money during
their moment with the magic machine? "Not once," says Khan Adds Mukhi : "Never."
(CBSE 2017)
1. Why was Mohammed Jamshed Khan surprised?
2. How did he express it and to whom?
3. What efforts did the two friends make to verify the behaviour of the machine?
4. What do you know about ATM? What wns peculiar about this particular ATM?
5. "It looked like a daylight robbery in reverse." Explain.
Answers
Answer:
Why was Mohammed Jamshed Khan surprised? How did he express it and to whom?
(b) What efforts did the two friends make to verify the behaviour of the machine?
(c) What do you know about ATM? What was peculiar about this particular ATM?
(d) “It looked like a daylight robbery-in reverse." Substantiate this statement.
(e) How did the manager react to the disclosure?
(f) What did they ask the guard to do?er:
Explanation:
(a) He had asked for 1200, but the ATM machine gave him 36000. He counted the money twice. He expressed hi! surprise to his friend Faisal Mukhi who was standing nearby.
(b) Faisal thought Jamshed had pressed wrong buttons. So Khan's ATM card was in-serted again for 1000. 5000 poppedout. But the transaction slip showed with-drawal as 1000 only. Two other attempts were made: one with Khan's card and another with Mukhi's. They had inserted cards for 5200, but got five times the money i.e., 7 26,000.
(c) ATM is short for Automated Teller Machine. It is a counting device run by automatic machine. It is quite tough and exact. It is almost impossible to commit an error. This ATM was issuing money five times more.
(d) Here the men were returning the easy money to the rightful owner i.e., the bank. They presented the entire money to the manager.
(e) The manager praised the customers for their dream honesty. A human error while loading cash was responsible for the erratic behaviour of ATM.
(f) They asked the guard not to allow anybody to use the ATM.
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