Chapter - 4
On Saying 'Please'
A.G. Gardiner
A. Short Answers Type Questions
Question 1. Why was the passenger hurled out of the lift ?
Answer :- When the passenger did not use the ward ‘please’. The lift man got angry at him and threw him out of the lift.
Question 2. How could the lift man restare his equilibrium ?
Answer :- The lift man would have show his anger on his wife to restore his equilibrium.
Question 3. Describe the chain reactions that possibly led to the lift man’s outburst.
Answer :- The Lift man feft hunt by the rudeness of the passenger who might be expressing rudeness that his employer showed him in the morning and the employer might to be in bad temper because had been solded by his wife.
Question 4. what is the first requirement of ‘civility’ ?
Answer :- The first requirement of civility is that we should acknowledge a service.
Question 5.. What serves as little courtesies in our daily life ?
Answer :- Words like ‘Please’ and ‘Thank you’ are the little courtesies that help in our daily life.
Question 6. What does a conductor in the bus generally thinking about the passengers ?
Answer :- Most Conductors think well of passenger though some of them regard the passengers as their natural enemies.
Question 7. Why was the narrator annoyed at himself in the bus ?
Answer :- The narrator was annoyed because he had boarded. The Bus without having any money in his pocket.
Question 8. Describe the glow of pleasure that the narrator. Explained
Answer :- The narrator experienced the glow of pleasure due to the bus conductor’s good behaviour.
Question 9. What were the good qualities of the conductor ?
Answer :- He was cheerful, polite, helpful to passengers and had good manner’s.
Question 10. How could the liftman have avoided the troubled ?
Answer :- The liftman could have avoid trouble if he had treated the passenger with elaborate politeness.
B. Long Answers Type Questions
Question 1. Write in your own words the theme of the chapter ‘on saying please’.
Answer :- The Chapter tells us about the importance of good manners. Good manners win us the good will of our fellow beings. small courtesies don’t cast us anything. The use of works like ‘Please’ and ‘thank you’ make our life sweet and pleasant. Bad manners poison the stream of life. Politeness is a social practice. It spreads cheerful around us.
Question 2. Describe the narrator’s encounter with the Bus – Conductor.
Answer :- One day the narrator board a bus in hurry. He found that he had no money. he feared that the conductor might look upon him as cheat. The narrator told him that he had no money. The conductor asked him where wanted to go and gave him the ticket. The narrator asked him where he should send the fare. The conductor said that he would see him same day. luckily the narrator found a shilling in his pocket and cleared the account. But this act did not lesson. The good impression of the conductor on narrator.
Question 3. Draw a brief character sketch of the Bus Conductor in your own words ?
Answer :- The Bus Conductor was a man of good habits. He was polite with his passengers. He had an endless fund of patience. He was considerate as a son with the old people with children he was a careful as a father. For young people he had a warm place in his heart. If a blind man was on board, he would set him safely on the pavements. The narrator once boarded his bus without money, yet the conductor gave him a ticket. A journey with him was a lesson in courtesy and good manners.
C. Objective Type Questions
Question 1. Who is the writer of the lesson ‘on saying please’ ?
Answer :- A.G. Gardiner.
Question 2. Who hurled the passenger out of the lift ?
Answer :- The lift man.
Question 3. What did the liftman want the passenger to say ?
Answer :- ‘Top please’.
Question 4. Who trampled upon the writer’s toe ?
Answer :- The bus conductor.
Question 5. Who bullied Capital Absolute ?
Answer :- Sir Anthony.
Question 6. Whom did Fag Kick ?
Answer :- Sir Aanthony.
Question 7. Bad manners ______ (Poison/ sweeten) the general stream of life.
Answer :- Poison
Question 8. The Conductor behaved in a ______ manner.
Answer :- Decent.
Question 9. Unkind words are more painful than ______ (physical/spiritual) injury.
Answer :- physical.
Question 10. What does not compel us to be polite ?
Answer :- The Law.
Question 11. The lift-man threw (a dog/ a passenger) out of the lift.
Answer :- a passenger.
Question 12. Law will permit me to retaliate with reasonable (violence/ non- violence).
Answer :- Violence.
Question 13. What types of damages do not get any allowance ?
Answer :- Moral and intellectual
Question 14. What is the meaning of the word ‘sunshine’ in this lesson ?
Answer :- Cheerfulness.
Question 15. Who said, “Nothing clears up my spirits like a fine day.”
Answer :- John Keats.
Question 16. “I never give the wall to a scoundrel.” Who said these words to Chesterfield ?
Answer :- A man in a London Street.
Question 17. We infect the world ______
Answer :- with our ill- humours.
Question 18. With old people, the bus conductor was as considerate as a _______
Answer :- son
Question 19. The law can protect us against________.
Answer :- material attack.
Question 20. What serves as little courtesies ?
Answer :- Words like ‘Please’ and ‘Thank you’.
Question 21. What is the requirement of the civility ?
Answer :- To acknowledge a service.
Question 22. Good manners are infectious. (True/False)
Answer :- True
Question 23. Discourtesy is a legal offence. (True/False)
Answer :- False
D. Change the Narration
Answer :- Why am I being laughed at by you?
D. Do as Directed
A. The ability ______ (laugh) is peculiar to mankind. (Fill up the blank with an infinitive)
Answer :- to laugh
B. Can you hope______ (count) the stars. (Fill up the blank with an infinitive)
Answer :- to count
C. Combine the following sentence using a Participle.
i. I call a spade a spade.
ii. I am not afraid of it.
Answer :- Calling a spade a spade, I am not afraid of it.
D. She comes_____me every day. (see) (Fill up the blank with an infinitive)
Answer :- to see
E. Do as Directed
A. He is too poor to offer you any financial help. (Remove too)
Answer :- He is so poor that he cannot offer you any financial help.
B. Iron is the most useful of all metals. (Change the degree of comparison)
Answer :- Iron is more useful than any other metal.
C. The doctor is hopeful of his recovery. (Change into a complex sentence) (Hint :_______that he would recover)
Answer :- he doctor is hopeful that he will recover.
D. If she does not weep, she will die. (Change into a compound Sentence) (Hint : She must weep or _____)
Answer :-She must weep, or she will die.
E. He was fined because of his absence. (use the Adjective form of the word in italics)
Answer :- He was fined because he was absent.
