B. Answer the following questions.
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Does the author give us a reason why the twenty-fourth year of a person's life is significant?
Why was the man dismissed?
How did the man's decision to keep visitors out of his hut have a fortunate result?
d. How did the Government try to capture the long-nosed man?
How was confusion caused in the minds of the people?
How did the doctors prove that the nose was genuine?
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These questions are more difficult. Discuss them first.
What do you think happened in the man's first feature film?
h.
The author tells us: 'Newspapers published his comments.' What comments does he make,
about which subjects? What is the author trying to tell us by giving us this information?
i.
What rumours were spread about the long-nosed one and by whom? Why were the
rumours spread?
What is satirical about the story?
2.
What do you understand by the following?
b.
His daily routine was confined to these activities.
Expectant years slip by and the trees bear fruit.
Conspiracies were hatched.
United Front
d.
3.
a.
Answer the following questions with reference to context.
Students of history need hardly be told this.
i. What is it that students of history need not be told?
ii. How does the life of the main character of the story change?
b. As the dismissed cook sat starving in his lowly hut, he was convinced of one thing his nose had
acquired great publicity!
i. Did anyone come to explain this to him?
ii. How did the publicity change his life initially?
iii. How did it change his life in the long run?
As this shouting and revelry ended, the President thought of another gimmick.
i. What is a gimmick?
ii. What was the first gimmick that the President tried?
iii. Did the members of the press try any gimmicks? Why?