English: Class 10
Lesson 4: The Hack Driver by Sinclair Lewis
The Hack Driver Questions And Answers Class 10

The Hack Driver Questions Answers

 HSLC ASSAM SEBA Solutions | Footprint Without Feet all questions answers | English Class 10

Footprint without feet questions answers

1.    What did Griffin do in the Drury Lane. Narrate Griffin’s experience in Drury Lane? [H.S.L.C. 2017, 2020]

OR Why did Griffin go to the Drury Lane? What did he do there? 

Answer: Griffin was an excellent scientist. He recently invented a drug that could make people invisible or unseen. In order to test his experiment he swallowed some drops and then he successfully became invisible. He was very talented scientist but a lawless person. He put his landlord’s house on fire. By becoming invisible he stole in a shop in London and another in Drury Lane.

 He was wandering about the streets of London in the bitter cold of January month. So, to comfort himself he entered a shop in Drury Lane, the heart of the theater world. In the shop, he found the necessary clothing to make him visible. He went upstairs invisible. He wore a bandage around his forehead. He put on dark glasses, a false nose, bushy whiskers, and a hat. He then attacked the owner to run away from the shop. Moreover, he even spanned his eyes on the cash of the shop and looted everything. 

2. Briefly describe the extraordinary behavior of Mrs. Hall’s furniture. 

Or what extraordinary things happen in the inn?

Or What curious episode occurred in the story?

Answer: After Griffin occupied a room in the inn of Iping, many extraordinary things happened. One morning the landlord and his wife of the inn found that the door of the room of Griffin was open. They peeped around the room and found none in the room. They saw that the clothes and bandages of griffin were lying about in the room. Mrs. Hall heard a sniff close to her ears but she found nobody. A moment later, the hat on the bedpost kept up and dashed itself into her face. The bad room chair started moving and attacked them. As they turned away in terror, the chair pushed them out of the room. Mrs. Hall almost fell down the stairs in hysterics. She was convinced that the room as hunted by the spirit and that the spirit had some link with the strange scientist, Griffin.

 Griffen was suspected of having a hand in the burglary at the clergy man’s home. Mrs. Hall questioned him on the stage happenings in his room. He then threw off his bandage, whisker, black glass, and false nose. The people ere horrified to see a headless man. When the police came he threw all the garments and became invisible and ran away. 

3. "Griffin ....... law less per son" comment.

OR  Who was Griffin? How did he make himself invisible? 

Do you think Griffin a law less per son? Enumerate it. 

OR  How would you assess Griffin as Scientist?

Answer: Griffin was a skillful scientist. He recently invented a drug that can make people invisible. He swallowed a few drops of the drug and he became invisible. He was an stupendous scientist but a law less person also. Griffin never thought twice before harming anybody. He put his landlord’s house on fire. By becoming invisible he stole in a shop in London and another in Drury Lane.

He seems to enjoy the feeling of power which he got out of his invisibility. He misused his power to hurt other people. He put people in trouble in the village of Iping also. He hurt the landlady. He stole from Clergyman’s house. He was occupied with the thought of self-interest. He cannot be assessed as a good scientist. A good scientist offers his discovery for the wellbeing of society. 

4. Why did Griffin set fire to his Landlord’s house? How did Griffin escape from there?

Answer:  Griffin was a propounding scientist. But he was a lawless person at the same time. His landlord always disliked him. The landlord tried to throw out from his house. Griffin, therefore, decided to take revenge. So, he set fire to his landlord’s house. 

 In order to escape from the house of the landlord, Griffin swallowed a few drops of the drug and he became invisible. 

5. Who was Griffin? How did he become invisible? [H.S.L.C. 2015]

Answer: Griffin was a smart scientist, but rather a lawless person. To his credit, he was the inventor of a rare species of drug that could make people invisible. A successful experiment ended when he swallowed a few drops of his discovery and then he himself becomes invisible. 

6. Why did Griffin become a homeless wanderer? Why did he slip into the big London store and what did he do there? [H.S.L.C. 2018]

Answer: Griffin was an extraordinary scientist but a lawless person. He lived as a tenant. But the landlord wanted to throw him out of the house. So, in anger, he set fire to the landlord’s house and became a homeless wanderer. 

 When he was wandering in London it was bitterly cold. So, he slipped into the big London store to comfort himself with cloth and food.  

 Griffin broke open the boxes of the store and took the cash with him. He got rid of his hunger with a meal, wine, and coffee. Then he had a dreamy sleep on a pile of the quilt.

7. How and why did Griffin come to the village of Iping? [H.SL.C. 2019]

Answer: Griffin was a talented scientist. He recently invented a drug that could make people invisible. He swallowed a few drops of the drug and he became invisible. He was an expert but a lawless person. He put his landlord’s house on fire. By becoming invisible he stole in a shop in London and another in Drury Lane. But he got into trouble because of the crowd. He wanted solitude to keep him visible by wearing clothes as there was extreme cold outside. So, he went to the village of Iping in search of solitude and silence. 

8. Is there any special reason why Mrs. Hall found Griffin to be eccentric? [H.S.L.C. 2015, 2019]

Answer: The arrival of a guest in Iping in the winter was very uncommon. Griffin had a bandage over his face all the time.  Griffin was very unsociable. Mrs. Hall tried to become friendly with Griffin. But Griffin said that he liked solitude. So, the odd look and behavior made Mrs. Hall believe Griffin to be eccentric.

 ENGLISH: CLASS 10 LESSON 12: A QUESTION OF TRUST BY VICTOR CANNING

A QUESTION OF TRUST QUESTIONS ANSWERS

A. Question Of Trust Questions And Answers

1. Who is Horace Danby? What type of man was he? [HSLC 2017]

OR “Horace Danby was a good and respectable, but not completely honest” – Why do you think his description is apt for Horace?

OR Judge the honesty of Horace Danby. Also comment whether he was a typical thief. OR Give a description of Horace Danby. What does he like to collect? Why was he not completely honest?

Answer: Horace Danby was a good and respectable citizen. He was about fifty years old. However, he was not completely honest. He dealt in locks and was successful in his trade. He had a hobby of reading rare and expensive books but not at his own cost. He would rather execute a robbery in any rich house and used the money to buy the books through an agent. 

  Everybody in society has an opinion that Horace is a good, honest citizen. He makes locks. But he used to rob only in one occasion in a year. His profession of making locks help him to cover his stealing. He loves reading books. He cannot be categorized as a typical thief because he did not take it up as a profession. Gaining any material objects was not his motive of stealing. He liked to buy rare and expensive books and read them.

2. Describe the meeting between Horace Danby and the woman.

OR   Horace Danby was a meticulous planner but still, he faltered. Where did he go wrong?     

OR      How did the lady trick, Horace Danby? [HSLC 2019]

OR    What are the subtle ways in which the lady manages to think to deceive Horace Danby into thinking she is the lady of the house?

OR  Describe how Horace Danby was tricked and was arrested?

Answer: Horace Danby met a lady at the house of Shotover Grange. The lady introduced herself to be the wife of the owner of the house. Horace was very much afraid of being caught red-handed by the lady of the house. But the lady behaved very sociably without showing much fear and surprise of meeting a thief in her house. Horace saw a good chance to convince the lady for his escape. But the lady proposed that she would let him go only if he broke the safe for her.

The lady acted so confidently that Horace Danby could not have the slightest doubt that she was not the lady of the house.  She had firmness in her voice. She invented a false story and told him that she wanted to wear the jewels as she had to go to a party that night. She also threatened him with the idea of prison. Thus, Horace Danby falls prey to the lady who was actually another thief. She stole the jewelry with the help of Horace Danby. Horace was arrested in charge of stealing the jewelry at the house in Shotover Grange. His fingerprints on the box worked as proof against him. 

3. Who is the real culprit in the story “A Question of Trust”? Does he deserve the punishment? How did he become an assistant librarian in the prison? [H.S.L.C. 2018]

Answer: The real culprit in the story “A question of trust” is the lady who deceived Horace Danby.

 Though Horace Danby could not succeed in his theft, he is guilty because he had any intention of committing theft. Moreover, he had already committed many thefts over the years. So, he deserved his punishment.

 Horace Danby was arrested for the theft in Shotover Grange. He conducted the theft of buying books as he used to love books. So, in jail, he was awarded the job of an Assistant Librarian. Now he could read as many books as he could. 

Story Details: This story of "Question of Trust" is all about a very strange personality Horace Danby. He was a successful lock maker and because of his well of trade morale, he had a high hall of fame in the city. But he was ridiculously book lover. Being book lover is not ridiculous, but the path he selected to satisfy the thrust of reading book can kill the common sense of even the wisest man on earth. He had to commit a theft in rich houses of the city to buy rare copies of books through an agent. A question generally strikes in the mind that he was such a big businessman, so why he had to steal to buy books.

Every year however he did only one mischief. He used to select a big prey for his black adventure and then the stealing he did would last for the whole year. 

But this year his luck was not a bit favorable. A smarter lady deceived him and led him to jail. However in the jail, he was awarded the job of a Jail Librarian. He spent his days of punishment reading rare and expensive books.   

HSLC Assam SEBA solutions | The Midnight Visitor Questions Answers | English | Rapid Reader

The Midnight Visitor Questions and Answers

The Midnight Visitor Questions Answers

Answer: Ausable was a secret agent who was spying a report on a missile. He did not look smart and intelligent but he proved his intelligence by misguiding Max. Max was another secret agent. He tried to collect the report from Ausable at gunpoint. Ausable was staying in a hotel. But in spite of Max’s appearance, he sat heavily and calmly on the chair and he chided the management for not correcting the balcony. The balcony was constructed for the other apartment, a portion of it was extending adjacent to Ausable’s room. So, anyone could enter his room from the other apartment. However, Max said that he had to find some other way to enter the room. And he was not aware of the Balcony. Meanwhile, the doorbell rang and Ausable said that he had called the police for security reasons. Max was frightened. He then jumped out of the window to escape and hide on the balcony.

1. How did Ausable be fool Max? or briefly describe how Ausable defeated Max’s scheme to take away the report. [H.S.L.C-16]

OR               How did Ausable get rid of Max?

OR               Describe how Ausable outsmart Max?

OR           How does Ausable manage to make Max believe that there is a balcony attached to his room?

OR  How does Ausable manage to make believe that there is a balcony attached to his room? [H.S.L.C 2015, 2019]. Look at his detailed descriptions of it. What makes it a convincing story? 

Answer: Ausable was a secret agent who was on a mission to collect a report on missile. He looked neither smart nor intelligent but he proved his intelligence by misguiding Max. Max was another secret agent. He tried to collect the report from Ausableat gunpoint. When Ausable with Fowler, a young romantic writer entered the room, he was surprised to see Max. So, he created a convincing story to misguide Max that there was a balcony attached to his room. He said that the balcony was for the next apartment but it was extended to the window. He said that somebody had entered the room through the balcony. Ausable played the role of being irritated at the hotel management about the balcony. He also said that despite his repeated complaints to the management for blocking it off, no action had been taken. 

Ausable told this imaginary story in such a convincing way that Max fully believed that there was a balcony outside the window. At that time a waiter of the hotel knocked at the door. Ausable told Max that it would be the police. The police were coming to check whether everything was alright. Max already believed in the existence of the balcony. To get rid of the police he jumped onto the balcony and felt down and probably died as there was no balcony. In this way, Ausable befooled Max and defeated Max’s schema to take away the report.  

2. Describe the meeting between Ausable and Fowler?

OR Who was Fowler? Why did he meet Ausable? [Give a description of his meeting with Ausable.] [H.S.L.C. 2018]

Answer: Ausable was a secret agent who was spying a report on a missile. He did not look smart and intelligent. Fowler was a writer who was writing a novel on detectives. Fowler wanted to study the life of a spy. So he accompanied on Ausable in one of his detective missions.

  Fowler found the meeting so distasteful because he did not see any adventurous moment at first. They had a dull evening in a French music hall and came to a French hotel. Fowler imagined mysterious figures around Ausable, the message slipped into his pocket. But nothing of that sort happened. But Fowler met real thrill when they saw Max in Ausable’s room. Max was another secret agent who tried to steal a report from Ausable at gunpoint. But Ausable told an imaginary story about a balcony so as to befool Max. Ausable behaved mysteriously and also told him that police had knocked at his door. Max then jumped out of the window but actually, there was no balcony. Max might have died jumping out from there. Fowler was very surprised to see the cleverness of Ausable. 

3. How was Ausable different from other secret agents?

Answer: Ausable was a secret agent engaged to spy a report on a missile. He was neither  smart nor intelligent. Ausable was very fat and he did not fit any description of a secret agent. He lived in a very small room in a French hotel. When Fowler met him, they enjoyed the evening in a French music hall. Fowler imagined mysterious figures around Ausable, the message slipped into his pocket. But nothing of that sort happened. But Fowler met real thrill when they saw Max in Ausable’s room. Max was another secret agent who tried to steal a report from Ausable at gunpoint. But Ausable told an imaginary story about a balcony so as to befool Max. Ausable gradually developed such a situation which led Max to jumped out of the window. Actually, there was no balcony attached to Ausable’s room. Max met his finals jumping out from there. Fowler was very surprised to see the cleverness of Ausable.

 HSLC Solutions Assam | The Ball Poem by John Berryman All questions Answers | English Class 10

The Ball Poem by John Berryman All questions Answers | English Class 10

Summary of Ball Poem by John Berryman 

Summary   In the poem "The Ball Poem" written by John Berryman, a little boy was playing with his ball. Suddenly, the ball slid bouncing down the street and sloped down in the water. To be precise, the boy lost his ball. He was unhappy. Shaking grief fixes the boy. He stood beside the harbor where his ball went down. The grief of loss made him stand rigid and trembling. 

The poet, at that moment, could intrude him and provide his sympathetic support. But he did not. He left all to the boy, but with a hidden intention, and that is, he wanted the boy to learn a lesson from the loss of the ball. Like the ball, loss is a paramount part of life. But every man must have to stand up and cohabit with the epistemology of loss. 

   Though the poet could offer him a new ball, yet he did not because a new ball could not have replaced the emotional attachment that the boy had with the old ball. So, the boy has to learn that loss of lovable is an eternal truth, and it is a rule of this universe. All one can do is to outlive the loss. As a growing up boy, he must learn his first responsibility in the world of possession. The golden rule of this world is that people will take balls and at some point of time, they will lose it again. It however does not mean an end of life. 

Every man must learn the epistemology of loss. Then only the small boy will one day turn into a responsible man. In this small poem, the poet conveys a bigger truth of life yet in a simple words with the help of poetic symbols.

BALL POEM BY JOHN BERRYMAN NOTES | Questions Answers

Very Short Answer Type Questions: 

1.Who wrote the poem “The Ball Poem”?

Answer: John Berryman wrote the poem “The Ball Poem”.

2.Who is the writer/author of the poem “The Ball Poem”?

Answer: John Berryman is the writer/author of the poem “The Ball Poem”.

3.What did the boy lose?

Answer: The boy lost his ball.

4.Where did the boy lost his ball?

Answer: The boy lost his ball down in the water. 

5.What has happened to the boy?

Answer: The boy has lost his ball and now he has been grieved with sadness.

6.Why does the poet say ‘No use to say – ‘O there are other balls’?

Answer: The poet says ‘No use to say – ‘O there are other balls’ because other balls cannot take place of the lost ball. 

7.Which word means ‘happily’?

Answer: The word ‘merrily’ also means ‘happily’.

8.Where did the ball go?

Answer: The ball went bouncing down in the water.

9.What is the boy learning?

Answer: The boy is learning the epistemology of loss.

10.Why are the boy’s eyes desperate?

Answer: The boy’s eyes are desperate because he is trying to make out how to stand up against the loss.

11.What do you mean by ‘epistemology of loss’?

Answer: ‘Epistemology of loss’ means understanding the nature of loss and trying to understand what it means to lose something.

12.What every man needs to know one day?

Answer: Every man needs to know one day that losing something is a part of life and he must stand up against such losses. 

Ball Poem By John Berryman Short Answer Type Questions: 

1.Why does the poet say, “I would not intrude on him”? Why doesn’t he offer money to buy another ball?

Answer: The poet says, “I would not intrude on him” because the poet wants the boy to learn a lesson from the loss, to experience his first responsibility.

Though the poet can offer him a new ball, yet he does not because a new ball cannot replace the emotional attachment that the boy had with the old ball.

2.“.... staring down/All his young days into the harbor where/His ball went…” Do you think the boy has had the ball for a long time? Is it linked to the memories of days when he played with it?

Answer: The boy lost the ball in his childhood days and he used to mourn the loss all throughout his childhood days. The loss of the ball linked him up with the grief of loss in his childhood. 

3.What does “in the world of possession” mean?

Answer: “In the world of possession” is used to indicate the materialistic world where all the people are busy to take possession of earthly objects. But the fact is that money is external that can buy only material things. Real happiness is something different from money or material possessions. 

4.Do you think the boy has lost anything earlier? 

Answer: No, the poem clearly shows that the boy had not lost anything earlier because the loss of his ball jeopardizes him in the grief of loss. 

5.What does the poet say the boy is learning from the loss of the ball?

Answer: The boy experiences a loss for the first time and it gave him many secret lessons. Loss is a paramount part of human life. But no one can stand by a loss, rather they will have to go ahead with the grief of loss. The boy is now experiencing his first responsibility in the world of possessions. He is understanding the meaning of loss for the first time.  

 ENGLISH | NCERT SOLUTIONS | CLASS 10 | LESSON | ANIMAL | WALT WHITMAN | NOTES | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Animal by Walt Whitman questions answers

1. Do you have any idea about the name of the poet of this poem?

Answer: We left it for you to find the name of the poet of this poem.

2. Name the book from where this poem has been extracted.

Answer: - The poem “Animals” is extracted from ‘Song of Myself’ in leaves of Grass.

3. What was the wish of the poet?

Answer: - The poet wished to live like an animal.

4. What do the animals not do for their sins?

Answer: - The animals never weep for their sins.

5. For what do the animals not demented?

Answer:-The animals are not demented with the mania of owning things.

6. What do the animals bring to the poet?

Answer:-The animals bring to the poet the tokens of himself.

7. Why does the poet wonder in the poem “animals”?

Answer: - The poet wonders where the animals have got the tokens of selfless life in the poem “animals”.

8. Why does Walt Whitman feel more at home with animals? [HSLC 2019]

Answer: - The animals are placid and self contained. They never complain of their condition. The poet is fed up with the ever complaining nature of human beings. So he feels more at home with animals.

9. How, according to poet Walt Whitman, are animals superior to men?

Answer: Animals are superior to human beings in many ways. They possess such tokens which human beings lost ages before. The animals are placid and self contained. They never complain of their condition.

10. Why do you think the poet’ could turn and live with animals’ rather than with human?

Answer: The animals are placid and self contained. They never complain of their condition. The poet is fed up with the ever complaining nature of human beings. So he feels more at home with animals.

11. What are the ‘tokens’ of animals the poet refers to?

OR What quality of the animals mesmerizes the poet?

OR What are the qualities possessed by the animals?

Answer: - The animals are placid and self contained. They never complain of their condition. The animals never weep for their sins. They don’t discuss their duty to God. The animals are not demented with the mania of owning things. The animals bring to the poet the tokens of himself. These qualities of the animals mesmerize the poet.

12. How do the animals act about their condition and duty to God?

Answer: - The animals never sweat and whine about their condition and they don’t discuss their duty to God.

13. How do the animals accept their condition? [H.S.L.C. 2017]

Answer: The animals never sweat and whine about their condition. The animals are placid and self contained. The animals are not demented with the mania of owning things.

14. How are animals superior to human being?

Answer: - The animals are placid and self contained. They never complain of their condition. The animals are not demented with the mania of owning things. The animals bring tokens of better l life for the human beings. So the animals are superior to human being.

15. Mention three things that humans do and animals don’t?

Answer: - The animals never sweat and whine about their condition unlike human being.  The animals never weep for their sins. But human beings are always worried about their sins. The animals are not demented with the mania of owning things. But humans do.

16. Why does the poet say that no animals are dissatisfied?

Answer: The poet says that no animals are dissatisfied because the animals never sweat and whine about their condition. The animals are not demented with the mania of owning things.

17. How do animals accept their condition?

Answer: The animals never sweat and whine about their condition. They are not dissatisfied with their condition of life.

18. Choose the meaning of the underlined word from  the alternatives given in brackets:

a.    ……….so placid and self contained.[Clam, pleased, angry] [angry, humble, dishonest]

b.   ………sweat and whine ……. [roar, a long high complaining cry, utter softly]

c.    …………  one is demented with……………[sane, clam, mad]

d.   ………………evince them plainly………… [show, express, present]

 HSLC Solutions Assam | A Tiger in the Zoo Questions Answers | NCERT | English Class 10

A Tiger in the Zoo Questions Answers

Very Short answer type question

1. Any guess regarding the name of the poet the poem “A tiger in the zoo”?

Answer:  Can please take the pain and see it in your textbook.

2. Where does the tiger stalk after being captured?

Answer:  The tiger stalks in the few steps of the cage after being captured.

3. Where is the tiger kept in the zoo?

Answer: The tiger was kept in a cage in the zoo.

4. Can you please guess where the tiger should be lurking?

Answer:  The tiger should be lurking in shadow sliding through long grass near the water hole.

5. Who is terrorized by the tiger? OR How does the tiger terrorize the villagers?

Answer: The villagers are terrorized by the tiger by baring his white fangs.

6. Where does his strength lie after being locked up in a concrete cell?

Answer: The strength of the tiger lies behind the bars after being locked up in a concrete cell.

7. What is the last voice heard by the tiger and when?

Answer:  The tiger hears the last voice of the patrolling cars at night.

8. What does the tiger stare at?

Answer:  The tiger stares at the brilliant stars.

9. What does the tiger do when he hears the patrolling cars?

Answer: The tiger stares at the brilliant stars when he hears the patrolling cars.

10. Where the tiger should be snarling?

Answer: The tiger should be snarling around the houses of the villages terrorizing the villagers.

11. How does the tiger terrify the villagers?

Answer: The tiger terrifies the villagers by baring his white fangs.

12. What voice does a tiger in the zoo hear at night?

Answer: The tiger hears the last voice of the patrolling cars at night.

13. Where is the tiger kept in the zoo?

Answer: The tiger is kept in a cage in the zoo.

14. What will you find near the water hole?

Answer: We will find fat deer near the water hole.

Short answer type question  

1. Where does the tiger stalk his pray? How is his behavior?

Answer:  The tiger stalks in the shadow sliding through long grass near the water hole. The tiger is at its full rage when he stalks at his prey.

2. What is a water hole? Why should the tiger be lurking near it? [H.S.L.C. 2018]

Answer: A water hole is a naturally formed depression in the land where water gets collected and animals use to drink water from it. The tiger should be lurking near it because fat deer pass near the water wholes and the tiger can hunt them.

3. Why does the tiger express his rage quietly?

Answer:  The tiger expresses his rage quietly because his strength has been locked behind bars and all of his strength is gone.

4. What does the poet think where the tiger should be?

Answer: The poet thinks that the tiger should be in its natural habitat. The tiger should be lurking in the shadow sliding through long grasses near the water hole. He should be roaring near the villages terrorizing the villagers.

5. Cite the reason behind the tiger’s sliding through the long grass?

Answer: The tiger slides through the long grass hiding itself in the shadow near the water holes because it wants to hunt the plump deer that pass through the water hole.

6. Why is the tiger ignoring the visitors?

Answer:  The tiger once used to terrorize the villagers by revealing all its strength. Now, the strength of the tiger is locked behind the bars and he becomes an object to be seen by the visitors in the zoo. So, tiger now ignores the visitors.

7. Choose the meaning of the underlined word from the alternatives given in brackets:

a. He stalks in his vivid strips. (to crawl/to walk/lying) OR (move angrily/ move happily/ move freely)

b. He stalks in his vivid strips. (Glaring/dark/pale) (bright/dim)

c. In his quiet rage. (mood/violent anger/walk)

d. On pads of velvet quiet. (making very little noise/making very little comfort/ making very little angry)

e. At the jungle’s edge. (the centre of an area/ the outside limit of an area/ the base of an area)

f. He should be snarling around houses. (walking/making an angry sound/sniffing) OR (sharp/growling/trembling)

g. Baring white fangs. (teeth/eyes/nose)

h. Baring white fangs.(showing/opening/ forbidding)

i. He should be lurking in the shadow. (conceal/sleep/nose) OR (lying/hiding/waiting)

j. Where plump deer pass. (thin/fat/nice) OR (lovely/short/fleshy)

k. But he is locked in a concrete cell. (mobile/cage/jail)

l. And stare at the brilliant stars. (gaze/imagine/anger)

m. And stares with his brilliant eyes…………... (dull/very bright/angry)