CH 4: END OF TERM Short Questions with Answers

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Q1: What was Daiches’ attitude towards the week-end as a school boy? Why did he long for it?

ANS: Daiches’ attitude towards the week-end was that of happiness. He longed for it because it freed him from the difficult routine of school and home work.

Q2: What was Daiches’ general view of school life?

ANS: Daiches’ general view of school life was not so good. He was not a weak student but he was fed up of difficult routine of school and home work. .

Q3: Daitches like holidays for thier freedom – freedom from what?

ANS: Daitches liked holidays because they freed him from the difficult routine of school and home work. They provided him happiness.

Q4: How did Daiches spend his summer holidays?

ANS: He felt very happy at the arrival of summer holidays because they freed him from the difficult routine of school and home work.  This time looked to be a period of joy. He spent the summer holidays in his village.

Q5: Wishes don’t come true in this life, writes Daiches. What are the things he longed for but could not have?

ANS: He said so because he wished to have a tricycle and then a bicycle but could not get them. Once he wanted to get ice-cream but could not get that.

Q6: Which night was the best night of the week for the writer and why? OR What/How did the writer feel on Friday night?

ANS: He felt very happy on Friday night. It was the best night of the week as it was followed by two holidays.

Q7: How did the writer feel on Saturday night?

ANS: It was quite a pleasent night because it was still followed by a holiday.

Q8: How did the writer feel on Sunday night?

ANS: It was full of the threat of Monday morning. He felt very sad on that night because he had to go to the school next morning.

Q9: What wish of the writer could his parents not afford?

ANS: The writer longed for a tricycle in his early life. Later the wish was changed to a bicycle but his parents could afford neither.

Q10: How did the writer buy his first bicycle?

ANS: At the age of twenty one, the writer bought it with the prize money that he had won at the university.

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Q11: What did Daiches do with his pocket money?

ANS: He got a little sum as pocket money which he had to save in a money-box. So, he rarely got a chance to spend it on himself.