Who is Hari? Why was he living with the sheep
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Answer: When and how did Hari Singh meet Anil?
Answer:
Hari Singh met Anil when he was watching a wrestling match. Hari Singh tried to befriend Anil.
Question 2.
How did Hari Singh succeed in his profession?
Answer:
He would frequently change his name to dupe the police. He would find out a kind and simple person for his target. He could wait until he had a favourable chance.
Question 3.
Why did Hari Singh change his name every month?
Answer:
Hari Singh was a fifteen year old boy who introduces himself to Anil as Hari Singh. He was an experienced thief. He changed his name every month for his own safety from the police and his former employers.
Question 4.
Why did Anil agree to feed Hari Singh?
Answer:
Anil needed a helping hand who could cook for him. When Hari Singh said that he could copk well, Anil agreed to feed him.
Question 5.
How did the thief realise that Anil knew that he was robbed?
Answer:
When Anil gave him a fifty-rupees note it was still damp. The damp note was telling the whole story. Hari Singh knew that Anil was intelligent enough to understand what had happened in the rainy night.
Question 6.
Why was it not easy for the thief to rob Anil?
Answer:
It was not easy for the thief to rob Anil as he was the most trusting person he had ever seen. The thief knew that it was easy to rob a greedy man because he could afford to be robbed. But to rob a careless man like Anil sometimes gave no pleasure of the work as he even did not notice that he had been robbed.
Question 7.
What was the thief s reaction when he took Anil’s money?
Answer:
As the thief got the money he quickly crawled out of the room. When he was on the road, he began to run. He had the notes at his waist, held them by the string of his pyjamas. Later on he slowed down to walk and counted the notes. He thought that with those 600 rupees he could lead a luxurious life like an oil-rich Arab at least for a week.
Question 8.
How, according to Hari Singh, would the greedy man, the rich man and the poor man react. when they had lost their goods?
Answer:
Hari Singh had made a study of men’s faces when they had lost their goods. According to the thief, on losing their goods a greedy man’s face would show fear, the rich man’s face would show anger and the poor man’s face would show acceptance.
Question 9.
How did Hari Singh know that Anil had forgiven him?
Answer:
It seems Anil knew about theft but neither his lips nor his eyes showed anything. He gave him fifty rupees and told him that now he would be paid regularly. He informed him that he would teach him to write sentences. It shows that Anil had forgiven him.
Question 10.
Why did the thief smile without any effect towards the end of the story?
Answer:
The thief smiled at Anil towards the end of the story in his most appealing way. But unlike as on previous occasions, this smile was natural and from the innermost comer of his heart. Being spontaneous, the smile was “without any effect”.
Question 11.
Who does ‘I’ refer to in this story?
Answer:
In this story, T refers to the thief.
Question 12.
What is he “a fairly successful hand” at?
Answer:
He is “a fairly successful hand” at stealing and robbing people.
Question 13.
What does he get from Anil in return for his work?
Answer:
When Hari asks Anil if he could work for him, Anil replies that he could not pay him. Finally, they reach an agreement that if he would cook, then Anil would feed him. However, Anil soon found out that he did not know how to cook. So, he taught him how to cook and later, how to write his name. He promised he would teach him how to write whole sentences and also how to add numbers. Apart from this, when Hari went out to buy the day’s supplies, he would make a profit of a rupee a day.
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