INVISIBLE MAN
BCA Semester IV
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Solved Question Paper
I. Answer the following questions in a word or phrase each.
1) What was the name of the village where the stranger stayed?
Ans. Iping
2) Why was Mrs. Hall glad when the stranger arrived at her inn?
Ans. It was winter
season; a guest was an unheard piece of luck for her.
3) How did the stranger appear when he first arrived at the inn?
Ans. The stranger was
wrapped from head to toe and the large hat that he wore hid every inch of his
face except the shiny tip of his nose.
4) What incident took place at the vicar, Bunting’s house?
Ans. Burglary
5) What did Griffin try to do in the house on Great Portland
Street?
Ans. Griffin tried to
make cat invisible first and later he tried to make himself invisible. He was
experiment in the house on Great Portland Street.
6) Name the supermarket where the invisible man hoped to find clothes to
cover his body?
Ans. Omniums.( The
Emporium)
7) To whom does the Invisible Man first disclose his story?
Ans. Mr. Marvel
8) Whom did the Invisible Man decide to make the first victim of his
reign of terror?
Ans. Dr. Kemp
9) Name the skin disorder/ problem that Griffin suffered from.
Ans. Vitiligo
(Skinner)
10) After Griffin’s death, with whom do his money and books
remain?
Ans. Mr. Marvel
II. Answer the following in a sentence or two each.
1) Why does Mrs. Hall, after a
few days, refuse to attend to the stranger’s needs?
Ans. Mrs. Hall is
suspicious of the stranger. She is angry with the mess he is making and she
thinks there is something very odd about him.
2) What made Griffin to burn down the house on Grand Portland
Street?
Ans. The landlord and his stepsons tried to break in, which angered Griffin so much that he planned to burn down the house. Griffin destroyed his equipment, found some matches, and set his room on fire because "It was the only way to cover his trail and no doubt it was insured"
3) For what purpose did the Invisible Man choose Marvel?
Ans. One of them was
that Griffin wanted someone who was just like him. Mr Marvel fit the bill
perfectly. Like Griffin, Marvel was a tramp and also considered an outcast
among people. Moreover, he had the same temperament as Griffin. Another reason
was that Griffin realized that Marvel was a simpleton who would not notice that
Griffin was actually invisible. Burdened with his own problems, Marvel had no
time to be inquisitive. Also, he did not have the courage to question
Griffin.
4) Why was the Invisible Man not able to leave the super market with
clothes on his body?
Ans. When Griffin
woke up to leave the super market with clothes on his body, the workers came ,
and he almost got caught. The workers chased him around the store (they could
see him because he was wearing clothes); but once again, Griffin took off his
clothes to become invisible. Since he couldn’t steal clothes, Griffin had to
leave the store with nothing.
5) Why did Kemp’s neighbor, Mr. Heelas, not take him into his
house?
Ans. Griffin was
after Dr Kemp. When Mr Heelas woke up and saw his neighbour’s house, he at once
realised that the Invisible Man was after him. Dr Kemp came running to him, but
he denied him entry. Perhaps, he was trying to save his family, but this was
not a moral act...!!
III. 1) Describe the scene when the stranger showed the people at the
hotel what was strange about him.
Ans. The stranger remains locked in the parlor all morning. He rings his
bell for Mrs. Hall several times, but she does not answer it. About noon, he
emerges and demands to know why his meals have not been brought to him. Mrs.
Hall tells him that his bill has not been paid in five days. She refuses to
accept the excuse that he is waiting for a remittance. When he produces some
money, she refuses it, saying she first wants to know why he doesn’t enter by
doorways and move about like normal people.
For his answer, the stranger removes all his head wrappings, including
his nose and moustache. He thus looks like a person with a missing head. At the
sound of screams a crowd of people run toward the inn. “Eye-witnesses” suddenly
babble hysterical stories of the man attacking the servant girl, and
brandishing a knife. Bobby Jaffers, the village constable, appears with a
warrant.
The stranger slaps Jaffers with his glove, but then says he will
surrender. He will not accept handcuffs, however. As the constable, Halls and
others watch, the man removes the rest of his clothes, becoming invisible
before them. He tells them that he is invisible. Jaffers wants to take him in
for questioning on suspicion of robbing the Bunting home. A scuffle ensues, and
the stranger, now known as the “Invisible Man,” escapes.
Or
2) Write a character sketch of Dr. Kemp.
Ans. Dr. Kemp was a good character in the novel. He was a college mate
of Griffin. He was a man of principles and understood his responsibilities to
his fellow men and women. Not only he helped Griffin in his hour of need but
also dared to risk his life for saving his fellow men and women from the cruel
plans of Griffin. He was quite observant and self-confident scientist. He
examined the first traces of the Invisible man’s presence in his house
objectively. On coming face with him, Kemp did not at all get started. Without
losing his composure, he heard Griffin’s entire story with
patience and assured to provide all the help he could. However, after he
read all the reports about the invisible man as printed in the newspapers, he
sent a word to the police chief, Colonel Adye to come and arrest this
criminal.
After he became sure Griffin was a danger mankind, he took decisions in
the larger interest of the welfare of the society. The manner in which he got
Griffin arrested – by making himself bait, shows he was capable of putting his
life in danger for the larger interests of society. Griffin was selfish; but
Kemp could sacrifice his own life, this was the main difference between them.
Therefore, Kemp earns the admiration of the readers for the positive qualities
for grit and determination.
IV. 1) ” In Griffin, the Invisible Man, we see the potential for evil
that science has”. Discuss.
Ans. Griffin’s story is of a man who had no conscience, was callous
towards other people and simply self-centered. He appeared to be at war with
the entire mankind. All his actions stemmed from his desire to save himself,
with not a thought about the pain he inflicted on others. That some traits were
inborn can be seen in how he hid his work from his own professor, lest he or
anyone else claimed the credit from it. When he was short of money he continued
his experiments, without any thoughts of the consequences, he robed his own
father, who committed suicide because the money was not his. He attended his
father’s funeral without feeling sorry for his own act; instead he blamed his
father for being a sentimental fool. He experimented on a cat, with no concern
for the poor creature’s cries of pain. He threw it out and never tried to find
whether it was alive or dead. He burnt down the house at Great Portland Street
when the landlord and his sons found about his experiments and were horrified.
He was only worried about covering his trail.
After becoming invisible he committed one brutal act after another, not
because they were necessary for his survival, but simply because he enjoyed
doing them. The way he looted his owner of a small costume shop, and left after
striking the old man on his head, spoke volumes about his inhumanity. He
terrorized Marvel when he was on the run, fought with the policemen. His plan
to spread reign of terror among people using his powers of invisibility really
shocked Dr. Kemp. He even tried to kill him for betraying him. In his final run
from the people hunting him, he killed an old man with a rod because he bumped
into him. Before his death, he had sunk to the lowest depth a man could go and
was truly a monster in human form.
Or
2) Give an account of Griffin’s story as told to Dr. Kemp.
Ans. Dr.Kemp was sitting in this room probably thinking of some
experiments. When he hears the sound of gunshots, He wonders whether people
have gone mad. Later in the night someone rings the door bell, but no one is
seen, his maid informs him that its probably a runaway ring. And when Dr. Kemp
goes back to his room he observes blood stains in the floor mat (invisible mans
blood stain is visible). When he gets into the room he sees, that his bed has been
depressed just like someone is sitting in the bed. He hears a voice calling
Kemp, at first he ignores later is convinced that invisible man exists, and the
man is none other than his junior during his college times.
Later Griffin tells Dr. Kemp his story..... Griffin, the Invisible Man,
tells his own story to Doctor Kemp, his old acquaintance. He tells him that he
dreams to establish a. reign of terror by his invisibility. He believes in
killing people. His behavior becomes reprehensible. Kemp refuses to be a part
of his plan. He lays a trap to get him caught. He writes a note to Adye, the
police chief. Griffin thinks that he has been betrayed. His story becomes an
essential part of the main plot because Griffin returns to take revenge on Kemp
for betraying him. Kemp follows his housemaid and escapes through a window. but
is soon followed by Griffin who can see him but he can't see Griffin This
climax takes the plot to its logical conclusion when Griffin is chased by the
people of the town. Some of the people are able to grasp the invisible man’s
wrists and ankles and hold him down. The conflict in the plot is resolved with
the death of the Invisible Man.
V. Write short notes on any two of the following.
1) The stranger’s luggage : the stranger's luggage is brought from
the station by a man named Fearenside, who has a dog. The stranger has lots of
luggage, including boxes of glass bottles cushioned by straw. It was a
remarkable luggage. There were a couple of trunks indeed, such as a rational
man might need, but in addition there were books, very big and fat books of
which some were just in an incomprehensible handwriting. There were boxes and
cases, containing objects packed in straw, as it seemed to Hall, tugging with a
casual curiosity at the straw, glass bottles.
2) Mrs. Hall : Mrs.Hall, the owner of the 'Coach and Horses' inn
is a courteous and caring hostess. She is hospitable towards her guests at the
inn. She manages her inn in an efficient manner. She is practical and pragmatic
in her business. She displays affectionate courtesy towards the stranger as
there are few lodgers in winter. She tries to involve the stranger in
conversation but fails because the stranger is reclusive. She is a good manager
and does not want anyone to disturb her guest who wants to be alone in the room.
She is a domineering wife and nags her husband about drinking. She is a strict
business woman. She does not send food in the stranger’s room for he has not
paid the bill. Then she objects to the straw lying 0n the floor in the
stranger’s room. She cares for the cleanliness in the room. She is friendly
with the country people and gets their help and cooperation whenever
needed.
3) Mr. Wicksteed’s Murder : Mr. Wicksteed was a man of forty-five
or forty-six, steward to Lord Burdock, of inoffensive habits and appearance,
the very last person in the world to provoke such a terrible antagonist.
Against him it would seem the Invisible Man used an iron rod dragged from a
broken piece of fence. There were still people who had not heard of the
invisible man. Mr. Wicksteed was brutally murdered within two hundred yards
from Burdock’s lodge gate. He was an amiable man. Mr. Wicksteed was on his way
home for his mid-day meal. A schoolgirl reported seeing him walking towards the
gravel pit, away from his direct path home, bent forward and striking
repeatedly at something in front of him with his walking stick. An iron rod
moving around by itself seems to have aroused his curiosity and led to the
tragedy.
4) Mr. Marvel: Marvel is an eccentric bachelor and local tramp who
likes to be comfortable and take his time about things. He has come across a
pair of boots in a ditch. He has tried them on and found them too big, and is
occupied in contemplating the boots when he hears a voice nearby. Marvel talks
about boots with the voice for several minutes before turning to see his
visitor and finding no one there.
First Marvel tells
himself that he has had too much to drink, then that his imagination has played
some sort of trick on him. The Invisible Man begins throwing things at Marvel
to convince him that he is not just imagining the presence. Eventually the Man
convinces Marvel that he is real and is in need of an accomplice who will first
give him food, water and shelter. He delivers an unfinished threat of what he
will do if Marvel betrays him.
VI. A) Select and write the correctly spelt word from each group of
words given below.
1) Absense/ absence/absance:
Ans. absence
2) Changeable/ changable/ changeble
Ans. Changeable
3) Grateful/ gratefull/ greatful
Ans. Grateful
4) Library/ libary/
liberry
Ans. Library
5) Omission/ ommision/ omision
Ans. Omission
B) Rearrange the following sentences in order to
get a well-organized composition
a) Every year, during early winter, birds travel from their breeding
places in northern Asia, Europe and America to the warmer southern lands. b)
They make the return journey during spring. c) We can calculate almost the
exact date of their return. d) They are punctual too, unless they are delayed
by bad weather. e) One of the greatest mysteries of bird life is migration or
travelling.
Answer: e) One of the greatest mysteries of bird life is migration or
travelling. a) Every year, during early winter, birds travel from their
breeding places in northern Asia, Europe and America to the warmer southern
lands. b) They make the return journey during spring. d) They are punctual too,
unless they are delayed by bad weather. c) We can calculate almost the exact date
of their return.
VII. Expand the below outline into a full story and give a suitable
title to it:
King Soloman ____ very wise ___ two mother’s come to him ______ they
carry two babies ______ one living, the other dead _____ both mothers claim
living baby _____ each says dead baby belongs to the other ____ king has to
decide who is the mother of living baby _______ women seek justice _____
Solomon thinks and gives decision ______ cut living baby into two _____ give
one piece to each mother _____ one woman agrees _____ the other cries bitterly
_______ says don’t cut the baby ______ ‘let the other woman have the baby’
________ Soloman smiles _______ says that woman is the real mother ______ gives
her the living baby.
Answer:
The wise king-King Soloman
One day, when Soloman was sitting in the court, two women entered. The
two of them were arguing over a small baby boy. Both of them said that they
were the mothers. The duo had come to the king for a remedy. “This woman’s baby
died in the night. Then she switched her baby with mine! I am the mother of
this baby”, one of the screamed.
“No!” replied the other. “The living one is mine”. This argument
continued for a while. The king couldn’t possibly know whose child the baby
was! But wise King Solomon had an idea. “Bring me the sword”, he asked
suddenly. The sword was brought.
Then he said, “Divide the child into half. Give one piece to both of
them”, he ordered. Upon hearing this, one of the women became shocked. “No my
lord” she pleaded. “Do not do that, the baby will die. Please give the child to
her, but don’t kill him”. Whereas the other woman said, “Let it be. That way,
neither I nor she will get the baby”.
At that very moment, the king took back his order and gave the first
woman the baby. He then addressed the court and told them that a mother would
never let her baby die. And that’s how he knew who the real mother was. All of
his courtiers realized how wise there king truly was and respected his
judgment.
VIII. A) The government bus service to
your area is unreliable and inadequate. Write a letter to the editor of a
local newspapers highlighting problems face by students as a result.
Answer:
From,
Smriti Kashyap
Keerti Nagar
Vijayapur
14th July, 2020
To,
The Editor
Hindustan times
Vijayapur
Subject-Poor bus
service
Sir,
I want to draw to
draw your kind attention towards the irregular bus service in our city. The
passengers face hardship because the bus is never on time. Sometimes, people
have to wait a lot to catch a bus. Even so the drivers and conductors are too
lazy and careless as they pass the stoppage without stopping the bus.
I tell you a story
about the city busses. Yesterday, a young boy has to go to his interview in the
financial company. He has to take a bus of his route to reach the company. The
bus haven't stopped at his stoppage and because it is very important for him to
reach the company. So he started to follow the bus, although he reached the bus
but he had a sharp cut on his arm. He bandaged his cut and go with a painful mind
and what about lateness????
Sir, I tell you the
only one story think about is how many passengers are suffering daily because
of this circumstances. Sometimes, we see many busses traveling on the same
route. On the other hand there is a time that there are no busses.
I For this purpose in
my views you have to put more busses on the road, the older one have to be
diamante, no need to refer the busses on busy and coward roads. If you and your
newspaper help us to send this request,
I. therefore, request
you to look into the matter. I am sure that the situation of city will improve
time to time. Its a pure humble request sir, please ensure it.
Thanking You, Yours
faithfully, Smriti Kashyap
B) Write a letter to the Municipal Commissioner of
your town municipality complaining about the extremely bad condition of the
road in front of your college. Also describe the danger the bad roads pose to
students and elderly citizens.
Answer:
Anay Mehta
2/A Russel
Street Kolkata 45
12th July 2020
The Editor-in-Chief
The Times of India
52B Chowringee Lane
Kolkata
Subject: Bad road conditions of the city.
Sir/Madam,
It is with great dismay that I am bringing under your notice, the
deteriorating road conditions in our locality. I write this letter to highlight
how the present miserable condition of roads is affecting the lives of the
citizens on a regular basis. The increasing number of potholes is becoming a
death trap for late night drivers. Because of the several broken edges and
potholes, the vehicles have to halt after very short intervals therefore
hindering the smooth run of transport. Often enough, traffic comes to a
standstill, making it difficult for school and office goers to reach their destinations,
on time. . Traffic jams consisting of a lengthy serpentine queue of vehicles
have become every passenger’s nightmare. Despite lodging repeated complaints to
the local authorities, no actions have been taken yet. All assurances have been
given in vain. Owing to this deep distress, there’s a developing unrest. I hope
to use your daily as a medium of raising concern for this grave issue that
affects the lives of a million people and hope it reaches the appropriate
audience soon.
Thank you
Yours sincerely
Anay Mehta
