Question

SECTION - A
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below.
My friend Todd owes me a dollar. He has owed it to me for twelve months, and I fear there is little
prospect of his ever returning it. I can realize whenever I meet him that he has forgotten that he owes
me a dollar. He meets me in the same ank friendly way as always. My dollar has clean gone out of his
mind. I see that I shall never get it back.
On the other hand, I know that I shall remember all my life that Todd owes me a dollar. It will make no
difference, I trust, to our friendship, but I hall never be able to forget it. I don't know how it is with other
people; but if any man borrows a dollar from me I carry the recollection of it to the grave.
Let me relate what happened. Todd borrowed this dollar last year on the 8thy April (1 mention the data
in case this should ever meet Todd's eye), just as he was about to leave for Bermuda. He needed a dollar
in change to pay his taxi; and I lent it to him. It happened quite simply and naturally, I hardly realized it
till it was all over. He merely said "Let me have a dollar, will you!" And I said, "Certainly. Is a dollar
enough?" I believe, in fact I know, that when Todd took that dollar he meant to pay for it
He sent me a note from Hamilton, Bermuda, I thought when I opened it that the dollar would be in it.
But it wasn't. He merely said that the temperature was up to nearly 100. The figure confused me for a
moment.
Todd came back within three weeks. I met him at the train, not because of the dollar, but because !
really esteem him. I felt it would be nice for him to see someone waiting for him on the platform after
being away for three weeks. I said," Let's take a taxi up to the Club." But he answered, No, let's walk."
We spent the evening together, talking about Bermuda. I was thinking of the dollar but of course I didn't
refer to it. One simply can't. I asked him what currency is used in Bermuda, and whether the American
Dollar goes at per (I put a slight emphasis on the American Dollar), but found again that I could not bring
myself to make any reference to it.
It took me sometime (I see Todd practically every day at my Club) to realize that he had completely
forgotten the dollar. I asked him one day what his trip cost and he said that he kept no accounts. A little
later I asked him if he felt settled down after his trip, and he said that he had completely forgotten
about it. So I knew it was all over.
In all this I bear Todd had no grudge. I have simply added him to the list of men who owe me a dollar
and who have forgotten it. There are a quite few of them now and I only wish that I could forget.
But a meantime, a thought - a rather painful thought - has begun to come in to my mind at intervals. It
is this. If Todd owes me a dollar and has forgotten it, it is possible - indeed it is theoretically probable -
that there must be men to whom I owe a dollar which I have forgotten. There may be a list of them. The
more I think of it, the less I like it, because I am quite sure that if I had once forgotten a dollar, I should
never pay it, on this side of the grave.
If there are such men I want them to speak out. Not all at once; but in reasonable numbers, and as far as
may be in alphabetical order, and I will immediately, write their names down on paper. But if any man
ever lent me a dollar to pay for a taxi when I was starting to Bermuda, I want to pay it.
More than that: I want to start a general movement, "A Back to Honesty", for paying all these old dollars
that are borrowed in moments of expansion. Let us remember that the greatest nations were built upon
the rock basis of absolute honesty.
In conclusion may I say that I do particularly ask that no reader of this book will be careless enough to
leave this copy round where it might be seen by Major Todd, of the University Club of Montreal.
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QUESTIONS
1. Construct the sentences of your own for the following words.
a). conference b) grudge
2. What made the writer fear that he would never forget his dollar back?
3. Write a short note on why the author wanted to start the "Back to Honesty Movement"?
4. What did Todd's note from Bermuda say"?
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Answer 1

My friend Todd owes me a dollar.