FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH - KSEEB - CLASS 08 - COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE

Unit – 06

THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE

Comprehension:

I. Answer the following questions in two or three sentences each:

1) What sort of man was Hughie Erskine?

Ans: Hughie Erskine was an attractive youngster. He was loved and appreciated by people the same. He was not shrewd, and never had any cash.

2) What were the various jobs he took up? Why?

Ans: Hughie was continually changing his jobs, since he was not effective in any of them. He chipped away at the Stock Trade for a half year. He began selling tea and afterward sherry. He flopped in the entirety of his endeavors.

3) What was the condition laid down for Hughie to marry Laura?

Ans: Laura's dad, a retired Colonel, put a condition for the marriage of Hughie and Laura. He asked Hughie to win 10,000 pounds of his own and afterward come to him with the proposition of marriage.

4) Who was Alan Trevor? What was Alan Trevor doing when Hughie called on him?

Ans: Alan Trevor was an artist. He was giving last strokes to the existence size canvas of a beggar when Hughie approached him.

5) How was the model beggar dressed?

Ans: The model beggar was wearing torn, grimy garments. He had a battered earthy colored coat behind him. His boots were fixed and all around worn.

6) What did Hughie feel the model should get? Why? Hughie felt that the beggar model should get a part of what

Ans: Alan earned subsequent to selling his image. As he would see it, the beggar had likewise been filling in as hard as Alan.

7) Why did Hughie feel sorry for the beggar-man?

Ans: The beggar man was an elderly person, twisted and wrinkled, with an abandoned look all over. He looked pitiful and desolate.

8) What did Hughie give the old beggar-man?

Ans: A sovereign was given by Hughie to the old beggar-man

9) What did Alan Trevor tell Hughie when he met him at the Palette club?

Ans: Alan revealed to Hughie that the homeless person model was Baron Hausberg, probably the most extravagant man in Europe. The Aristocrat had a house in each capital city and ate food in gold plates. He had such a lot of cash that he could purchase the entirety of London.

10) Alan says, “He’ll invest your sovereign for you Hughie”. How do you think the Baron could have invested the sovereign for Hughie?

Ans: The Baron Hausberg may have various business firms of his own. He could put Hughie's cash in one of his organizations and gain benefits.

11) What was the beggar’s true identity? Why did Hughie mistake him for a beggar?

Ans: The beggar’s true identified was that he was Baron Hausberg. He was perhaps the most extravagant man in Europe. The bum model had a shriveled face. He looked truly hopeless. His worn out shroud and fixed boots made him a common homeless person. Thus, Hughie confused him with a genuine bum.

12) Why is the model’s face, his fortune?

Ans: The beggar model had a shriveled face. He looked truly hopeless. His face brings cash for both him and the painter. In this way the model’s face became his fortune.

II. Answer the following questions in five or six sentences each:

1) ‘That old beggar, as you call him, is one of the richest men in Europe’. Name the richest man referred to. How is he described to Hughie?

Ans: The most extravagant man's name was Baron Hausberg. He had a house in each capital city. He ate his food in gold plates. He could purchase all of London the following day, and keep Russia from doing battle. He was compelling and ground-breaking. He wanted to get his image painted as a beggar. He had asked Alan to paint his picture and offered to act like the bum model himself.

2) Describe how Hughie was able to marry Laura Merton.

Ans: Hughie was an attractive youngster. He was not canny and didn't have any cash. He attempted to bring in cash by doing various positions, however fizzled in his endeavors. He was profoundly enamored with Laura. Laura's dad revealed to him that he would consider giving his little girl in marriage in the event that he earned 10,000 pounds of his own. At some point, Hughie saw a homeless person model in Alan Trevor's studio. He confused him with a genuine homeless person and gave him a sovereign. The homeless person model was in all actuality a rich man by name Baron Hausberg. He was intrigued by Hughie's liberality. He discovered everything about Hughie from Alan Trevor. He sent Hughie a cheque for 10,000 pounds as a wedding present. Hence, Hughie had the option to wed Laura.

3) Bring out the subtle humour in the story “The Model Millionaire”.

Ans: The entire story has an inclination of unpretentious humor. Hughie endeavors to work and procure cash. At the point when he falls flat at everything, he surrenders his endeavors. He chooses to live on a small remittance given to him by an old auntie. These things bring out hilarious response in the perusers. Hughie's discussion with Alan Trevor is likewise hilarious. Without knowing the genuine character of the homeless person model, Hughie gives him the main sovereign he had. At the point when he comes to realize that the bum is Aristocrat Hausberg, he thinks he has made an idiot of himself. Alan's jokes about Hughie's liberality are silly. Baron Hausberg's response when Hughie gives him the sovereign, his altruistic nature and the manner by which he sends the wedding present, are largely instances of unpretentious humor in the story.

4) ‘I have got heaps of old clothes at home. Do you think he would like any of them? Why, his rags were falling to bits’, said Hughie. ‘But, he looks so wonderful in them’, said Trevor. ‘I wouldn’t paint him in a good suit for anything. However, I’ll tell him of your offer’. The above instance is an example of subtle humour. Pick out other incidents of humour from the story.

Ans: 1) “He had been a tea merchant, but soon got tired of selling tea”.

2) “Laura loved him very much, and together they made a handsome couple. Of course, neither of them had any money”.

3) “The old man jumped, and a faint smile crossed his lips”.

4) “Good Heavens! I gave him a Sovereign”.

5) “He will invest your sovereign for you and pay you interest”.

III. Vocabulary:

A. Compound Words – When two different words are put together to form a new word, the word is called a compound word.

Eg: beggar-man

1) Fill in the blanks given below with the help of the compound words.

1) Full-size picture (full-size)

2) Good-looking young man (good-looking)

3) The old beggar-man (beggar-man

4) The frame-maker wanted to speak to Trevor, (frame-maker)

2) Match the words in column A with the words in column B to make more compound words:

Ans: 1) Grandmother

2) Newspaper

3) Milestone

4) Bookmark

5) Tiebreaker

6) Footpath

B. Affix = Prefix + Suffix

1) Prefix: A word which does not have a meaning by itself, but when added to the beginning of a word, forms a new word. The new word is very often the opposite of the root word.

Eg: un – He never said an unkind word to anyone.

Use appropriate prefixes to the words given below to form words opposite in meaning (dis, mis, un) do, honour, broken, comfort, clean, honest, respect, obey, regard, appear, like, agree, wanted, content

Ans: do – undo, broken – unbroken, clean – unclean,

respect– disrespect, regard – disregard, like – dislike,

wanted – unwanted, honour – dishonor, comfort – discomfort,

honest – dishonest, obey – disobey, appear – disappear,

agree – disagree, content – discontent

2) Suffix – a word which does not have a meaning by itself, but when added to the end of a word, forms a new word.

Eg: ful – i) What a wonderful model! ii) I think its dreadful.

Use appropriate suffixes to the words given below to form new words: (ly, ness, ish, ful, less) easy, child, hope, use, fool, beauty, brown, doubt, calm, slow, help, cheer, pain, colour.

Ans: easy – easily, hope – hopeful, fool – foolish,

brown – brownish, calm – calmly, help – helpful, helpless,

pain – painful, painless, child – childish, use – useful,

beauty – beautiful, doubt – doubtful, slow – slowly, slowness,

cheer – cheerful, cheerless, colour – colourful, colourless,

3) Homonyms – a word which has the same sound, same spelling, but two different meanings.

Eg: Model – a person or thing that is an excellent example of a quality.

Gandhiji is the model of sacrifice.

Model – a copy of something

There is a model of the Taj Mahal made of marble.

Colour in Language:

Study this sentence:

‘You told that old beggar all my private affairs?’ cried Hughie, looking very red and angry.

The word ‘red’ is used to describe a feeling of anger. Colours are often associated with various types of emotions.

Select a colour from the box to describe the feelings associated with them and then fill in the blanks: green, red, blue, black, grey, white, pink

1) The old lady seemed to be in the pink of health.

2) John was green with envy when he heard that his friend would be meeting the Prime Minister in person.

3) Shalini became red with anger when Anjali shared her secret with other girls.

4) We must cheer him up. He was feeling grey all day.

5) The cop beat him up black and blue

6) The stallion (breed) was as pure as white in colour.

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