Madhyamik Examination 2023 : মাধ্যমিক ২০২৩ ● ইংরেজি প্রস্তুতি / প্রস্তুত করেছেন রামিজ আলী আহমেদ
মাধ্যমিক ২০২৩ ● ইংরেজি প্রস্তুতি
প্রস্তুত করেছেন রামিজ আলী আহমেদ
সৌজন্যে :স্যান্ডফোর্ড অ্যাকাডেমি
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পর্ব – দুই
*FATHER’S HELP*
*R.K.Narayan*
*Very Short Answer Questions (VSAQ)(1 Mark)*
1. What did Swami realize with a shudder?
Ans. Swami realized with a shudder that it was Monday morning.
2. What did Swami hope on Monday morning?
Ans. On Monday morning, Swami hoped he didn’t have to go to school.
3. What excuse did Swami give for not going to school?
Ans. Swami told his parents that he had a headache.
4. Where should have been Swami at 9.30?
Ans. Swami should have been in the school prayer hall at 9.30.
5. What was the reaction of Swami’s father?
Ans. Swami’s father thought that the headache was nonsense and wanted Swami to go to school.
6. What, according to Swami’s father, was the cause of Swami’s headache?
Ans. Swami loafed about in the Sun on Sundays, and that according to Swami’s father was the cause of headache.
7. Why did Swami’s father say that Swami would have to go to school?
Ans. Swami’s father said that Swami would have to go to school because he had the headache for his own fault.
8. Where did Swami stop to make up his mind about Samuel?
Ans. Swami stopped on the roadside to make up his mind about Samuel.
9. Why did Swami change his tactics?
Ans. Swami changed his tactics because his father was strict.
10. With whom was Samuel especially angry?
Ans. Samuel was especially angry with the boys who had come in late to school.
11. Why didn’t anyone tell the headmaster about Samuel?
Ans. None said so because the headmaster himself was afraid of Samuel.
12. What unexpected turn did the behaviour of Swami’s father take?
Ans. Swami’s father proposed to send a letter of complaint against Samuel.
13. What did Swami’s father do with the letter?
Ans. Swami’s father put the letter in an envelope and sealed it.
14. What did Swami ask his father apprehensively?
Ans. Swami asked his father apprehensively what his father had written in the letter.
15. What did Swami’s father write about in the letter?
Ans. Swami’s father complained against Samuel, a teacher in his son’s school.
16. With what feeling did Swami go to school?
Ans. As Swami was going to school, he felt that he was the worst boy in the world.
17. What was Swami not sure of?
Ans. Swami was not sure if his description of Samuel was accurate.
18. What kind of relation did Swami have with Samuel?
Ans. Samuel was friendlier than the other teachers, and he seemed to have a special liking for Swami.
19. What could Swami recall?
Ans. Swami could recall Samuel’s dark face, thin moustache, cheeks that were not shaven and a coat which was yellow.
20. What idea occurred to Swami?
Ans. Swami thought that he would deliver the letter to the headmaster after the school break.
21. What did Swami fail to decide about Samuel?
Ans. Swami failed to decide whether Samuel deserved the allegation made against him.
22. What was Samuel doing when Swami entered the class?
Ans. When Swami entered the class, Samuel was teaching arithmetic.
23. What did Swami hope?
Ans. Swami hoped that his teacher would scold him bitterly.
24. What excuse did Swami give for coming late to school?
Ans. Swami told his teacher that he had a headache, and so he was late for school.
25. Why did Swami feel sad?
Ans. Swami felt sad because Samuel was good to him but he had to give the letter to the headmaster.
26. What did Swami do when the final bell rang?
Ans. When the final bell rang, Swami picked up the books and ran to the room of the headmaster.
27. What was Swami told?
Ans. The peon standing at the gate of the headmaster’s room Swami told that the headmaster had gone on a week’s leave.
28. What was the reaction of Swami’s father?
Ans. Swami’s father snatched the letter away from Swami and tore it up with anger.
29. Where did Father put the letter?
Ans. Father put the letter in an envelope.
30. Why could not Swami deliver the letter to the headmaster?
Ans. Swami could not deliver the letter to the headmaster because he was on a week’s leave.
*Complete the following sentences with information from the text.(1 Mark)*
1. It seemed to Swami as though a short while ago__________________.
Ans. it was Friday
2. Swami’s mother was generous and suggested__________________.
Ans. that Swami might not go to school/was allowed to stay at home.
3. Swami chose to lie______________.
Ans. on a bench in her mother’s room.
4. Swami’s father thought that Swami must go to school because _________________.
Ans. it was Swami’s fault.
5. Swami introduced Samuel as_______________ to his father.
Ans. an angry man.
6. Swami couldn’t tell the headmaster about Samuel because_________________.
Ans. the headmaster himself was afraid of Samuel.
7. Swami might protest but_______________.
Ans. his father’s mind won’t change.
8. While going to school Swami felt___________________.
Ans. that he was the worst boy on earth.
9. Swami was very anxious and wanted to know____________________.
Ans. what his father had written in the letter.
10. Swami had a feeling that he might have__________________.v
Ans. given an inaccurate description of Samuel.
11. On his way to school Swami felt unsure, so he___________________.
Ans. stopped on the roadside.
12. Besides being friendly, Samuel had__________________.
Ans. a special regard for Swami.
13. Other teachers were not as_______________,
Ans. friendly as Samuel was.
14. A new idea came to Swami as he_______________.
Ans. entered the school gate.
15. Instead of scolding Swami, Samuel told him________________.
Ans. that he was half an hour late.
16. The unexpected question from Samuel was_______________.
Ans. why Swami had at all come to school.
17. Samuel mostly got angry when________________.
Ans. he was checking homework.
18. Swami ran to the headmaster’s room because_______________.
Ans. he had to deliver the letter.
19. Swami’s father knew that Swami_______________.
Ans. won’t give the letter to the headmaster.
20. Swami wanted to defend himself by saying that________________.
Ans. the headmaster had gone on a leave.
