Chapter 7
In Celebration of Being Alive
Dr. Christian Barnard
A. Short Answer Type Questions
Question 1. According to Barnard what is the business of living ?
Answer :- The Business of living is joy in the real sense of the word, it is the celebration of being alive.
Question 2. What do that people with brave and attitude teach us ?
Answer :- They teach us to move forward in life and not to cry and weep.
Question 3. In which incident were Barnard’s gloomy thoughts rooted ?
Answer :- His gloomy thoughts were rooted in an incident in which he and his wife got involved and then hospitalised.
Question 4. What was Dr. Barnard’s father attitude toward life ?
Answer :- Barnard’s father believed that God’s will be done and God tests man through suffering and suffering ennobles man.
Question 5. What introduced Dr. Barnard to the sufferings of the children ?
Answer :- He come to know the sufferings of children by his brother’s birth with an abnormal heart.
Question 6. Why couldn’t Barnard’s brother survive ?
Answer :- He could not survive because proper surgical treatment was not available to him.
Question 7. Why does Dr. Barnard consider the sufferings of the children heart breaking ?
Answer :- He considers them heart – breaking because they have total faith in the ability of doctors to cure them.
Question 8. What made the driver and the mechanic choose their roles ?
Answer :- They choose their roles because the mechanic was totally blind and the driver had only one arm.
Question 9. What did narrator’s brother suffer from ?
Answer :- He Suffered from an abnormal heart.
B. Long Answers Type Questions
Question 1. What was the lesson Dr. Barnard learnt from two brave youngsters ?
Answer :- The Two youngsters were a blind mechanic and a driver with only one hand. They once took away a breakfast trolley and provided a lot of entertainment to the people by driving the trolley. The mechanic once got serious injuries by a burning lamp. The driver had a hole in his heart. Both were happy despite their unhealthy weak bodies.
These two children gave to Dr. Barnard a lesson in getting on with the business of living. The Business of living is joy in the real sense of the world. It is the celebration of being alive. Dr. Barnard had been looking at suffering from the wrong end. One does not become a better person by suffering. One becomes a better person because one has experienced suffering. we can’t appreciate light if we have not know darkness. Nor can we appreciate warmth if we have never suffered cold. These children showed to Dr. Barnard that it is not what you have last that’s important. what is important is what you have been left with.
Question 2. In the Hospital, Dr. Barnard experienced not only agony and fear but also anger. How ?
Answer :- Dr. Barnard and his wife an accident while crossing a road. They were admitted in the hospital. There he experienced not only agony and fear but also anger. He could not understand why he and his wife had to suffer, He had eleven broken ribs and a perforated lung. His wife had a badly fractured shoulder. Again and again he asked himself, why this shoulder happen to them. He had work to do. He had patients waiting for him to operate on them. His wife had to take care of the baby.
Question 3. Write in brief about Dr. Barnard’s brother’s suffering.
Answer :- Dr. Barnard was introduced to suffering of children when he was little boy. one day, his father showed him a half eaten mouldy biscuit. It had too tiny tooth marks in it. His father told Barnard the suffering of his brother. He had been born with an abnormal heart. If he had been born today, probably someone could have corrected that heart problem. But in those days such a surgery was not available.
Question 4. How did the driver and the mechanic put up an entertaining show with an unattended trolley ?
Answer :- One morning a nurse had left a breakfast trolley unattended. Very soon this trolley was taken away by two brave boys – a driver and a mechanic. The mechanic was totally blind. The driver had only one arm. The mechanic provided running power to the trolley by running fast along behind the trolley with his head down. The driver got seated on the lower desk of the trolley. He held on with one head and steered by scraping his foot on the floor. The two put on quite a show that day. The rest of the patients laughed and shouted. It was a better entertainment than a car race. There was also a show of scattered plates and silverware. Then the nurse and ward sister caught up with them. The Driver and the mechanic were scalded and put back to bed.
Question 5. What made the mechanic lose his eyes ?
Answer :- The mechanic was seven years old when his mother and father were drunk. His mother threw a lantern at his father. The Lantern missed his father. It broke over the child’s head and shoulders. He suffered very bad burns on the upper part of his body. He last both his eyes. At the time of the grand prix he was a walking horror. Despite his disability he loved to laugh.
Question 6. Write a note on the theme of the chapter ‘In celebration of Being Alive ?’
Answer :- This lesson is based one the idea that one must not feel troubled by thoughts of suffering and pain. Pleasure and pain are parts of human life. one must try to forget suffering and try to find joy in the present state of freedom from pain and suffering. we can learn this lesson for living from the young people who like to lead cheerful lives. Dr. Barnard was most often thinking of suffering and pain. But one must get on with the business of living. Business of living is joy in the real sense of the world. without sorrow and suffering. The Business of living is the celebration of living.
Question 7. How did Dr. Barnard correct his nations about suffering ?
Answer :- Dr. Barnard had been looking at suffering from the wrong end. He had realised that one did not become a better person because one had been suffering. One become a better person because he has experienced suffering. we can’t appreciate light if we have not know darkness. Nor can we appreciate warmth if we have never suffered cold. The two children, the mechanic and the driver showed to him that it was not what one has lost that is important. What is important what you have been left with. The two children gave him a profound lesson that the business of living is the celebration of being alive.
C. Form adjectives using suffixes -al, -ful, -able
drink, option, avoid, nation, care, peace, beauty, count, profession
Answer :- drinkable, optional, avoidable, national, careful, peaceful, beautiful, countable, professional
D. Match the noun in column A with their definitions in Column B :
A.
1.A pedestrian is someone
2.A Compass is an instrument
3.A Kidnapper is someone
4.A Customer is a person
5.A referee is a person
6.An orphan is a child
B.
1.Who buys something, esp. from a shop.
2.Who has lost both his parents.
3.that is used for finding directions.
4.Who has taken a person away by force and is demanding money for his safe return.
5.who controls sports match or contest.
6.who is walking in a street, not travelling in a vehicle.
Answer :- A1 match with B6, A2 match with B3, A3 match with B4, A4 match with B1, A5 match with B5, A6 match with B2
E. Change the Narration
A. The leader said, “Trust in God.
Answer :- “The leader exhorted them to trust in God.
B. My friend said to me, “Let me go home now as it is already twelve.
Answer :- “My friend told me that he should be allowed to go home then as it was already twelve.
C. She said, “What a lovely scene!
Answer :- “She exclaimed with joy that it was a very lovely scene.
D. My father said to me, “Learn your lesson every day.”
Answer :- My father advised me to learn my lesson every day.
E. Columbus said to the courier, “Oh, leave m alone.”
Answer :- He asked if I would serve him faithfully.
F. The policeman advised me to obey the traffic rules.
Answer :- The policeman said to me, “Obey the traffic rules.”
G. She asked him when the postman came.
Answer :- She said to him, “When did the postman come?”
H. He asked, “Will you serve me faithfully.”
Answer :- He asked if I would serve him faithfully.
I. You said, “You must work hard,”
Answer :- You said that I had to work hard.
J. He says to me, “I will leave you now.”
Answer :- He tells me that he will leave me now.
F. Fill in the blanks with suitable Determiners
A. He did not make____(some/any) mistakes in his essay.
Answer :- any
B. I have lost appetite, so i did not eat_____(some/any) bananas.
Answer :- any
C. I must sign_____(an/the) will.
Answer :- the
D. When i think of India, I think of_____(some/many) things.
Answer :- many
E. ______ (A lot, Lot) of people go without food in India every day.
Answer :- A lot
F. She said,”_____pen is mightier than the sword.” (a,the)
Answer :- the
G. ____ (The,A) book you want is not with me.
Answer :- The
H. _____(Some.Many) houses were damaged in the cyclone.
Answer :- Many
I. I shall return this book in____(few, a few) days.
Answer :- a few
J. I had put in _____ (much/any) hard work.
Answer :- much
G. Do as Directed
A. She was sobbing too deeply to give any answer. (Remove ‘too’)
Answer :- She was sobbing so deeply that she could not give any answer.
B. No other season is as refreshing as the spring. (Change the degree of Comparison)
Answer :- Spring is more refreshing than any other season.
C. Seeing the signal, the troops marched out. (Change into a Complex Sentence)
Answer :- As soon as the troops saw the signal, they marched out.
D. You must encourage him, as he is sure to lose. (Change into a Compound Sentence)
Answer :- You must encourage him, for he is sure to lose.
E. He is respected for his humility. (Change Voice)
Answer :- His humility is respected by everyone.
F. i. The Scout carried a Sliken banner.
ii. He had stood first. (Combine the two sentences)
Answer :- The Scout who carried a silken banner had stood first.
G. You will never learn manners. (Change into the interrogative form)
Answer :- Will you never learn manners?
