FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH - KSEEB - CLASS 10 - COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - THE EYES ARE NOT HERE

 

Unit – 06

THE EYES ARE NOT HERE

Ruskin Bond

Comprehension Questions

I. Answer briefly the following questions.

1) The narrator guessed that the couple who saw the girl of at Rohana was probably her parents because of

a. they were middle-aged

b. they seemed very anxious

c. they accompanied the girl to the railway station.

d. they gave detailed instructions about the care she had to take.

Ans: (d) they gave detailed instructions about the care she had to take.

 

2) Why did the narrator feel that he would never be able to discover something about the girl’s looks?

Ans: The narrator felt that he could always be unable to find something about the young lady's looks since he was a visually impaired man could just get some answers concerning the young lady's looks dependent on little pieces of information, for example, what he heard, felt or saw.

 

3) The narrator was born completely blind. (Say True/False)

Ans: False

 

4) What did the narrator infer when the girl was startled by his voice?

Ans: The narrator inferred that it was workable for individuals with great visual perception to neglect to perceive what was directly before them when the girl was frightened by his voice.

 

5) The girl told the narrator that her aunt was meeting her at Saharanpur. She said this probably because,

a. She wanted to introduce her aunt to the narrator.

b. She wanted to convey a message that he couldn’t take advantage of her thinking that she was alone.

c. It was a casual remark.

Ans: (b) She wanted to convey a message that he couldn’t take advantage of her thinking that she was alone.

 

6) How could the narrator, being blind, describe Mussoorie?

Ans: The narrator describes Mussoorie dependent on his recollections. We could derive from this that the narrator was not generally visually impaired and had visited Mussoorie when his vision was acceptable.

 

7) With what intention did the narrator remark that the girl had an interesting face?

Ans:  The narrator remarked that girl had an interesting face with an intention to flatter the girl and wanted to please her.

 

8) Hiding his blindness was a ……………………………….for the narrator. (challenge/game/child’s play). Choose the correct answer.

Ans: (b) game.

 

9) The new fellow-traveler had made out that the girl was blind. (Say True/False.)

Ans: True

 

10) The story ends with a revelation. What is the revelation?

Ans: The story ends with a revelation; here revelation is a sensational divulgence of something not recently uncovered. The revelation in the story was that the girl who was sitting opposite the narrator was visually impaired as him.

 

11) The narrator and the girl reveal something about themselves through their words and actions. The adjectives listed in the box below describe

the narrator and the girl. Put each word either under the narrator or the girl (Note: some qualities may be common to both).

[clever, smart, humorous, suspicious, sentimental, curious, emotional, romantic, careful, intuitive, pretentious, confident, guilty, inquisitive.]

 

Ans: The Narrator                                             The Girl

Clever                   Curious                                    Clever         Confident

Smart                    Romantic                                 Smart          Emotional

Humorous            Careful                                     Suspicious   Careful

Sentimental           Intuitive

Confident             Inquisitive

 

II. Close Study:

Read the following extracts carefully. Discuss in pairs and then write the answers to the questions given below them.

 

1) “You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, but the scent of the roses will linger there still….”

a)  What is the figure of speech used in the passage above?

Ans: Metaphor

 

b) What is the vase compared to?

Ans: The vase is compared to the existence of the girl.

 

c) What does the shattering of the vase refer to?

Ans: The shattering of the vase refers to departure of the girl.

 

d) What does ‘the scent of the roses’ refer to?

Ans: The scent of the roses refers to perfume of the girl’s hair.

 

2) “Once again, I had a game to play, a new fellow traveler”.

a) What kind of the game does the speaker play with his fellow, travelers?

Ans: He pretends to be man of good sight and fool with his fellow travelers.

 

b) What do you understand from this about his attitude?

Ans: The narrator needed to get the hang of all that he could about the people he experienced.

 

c) Who had out-witted whom, in the game already played by the narrator?

Ans: The girl had out-witted in the game already played by the narrator.

 

III. Paragraph Writing:

Discuss in pairs /groups of 4 each and answer the following questions. Individually note down the important points and then develop the points into one paragraph answers.

1) Give instances to show that the narrator tried his best to impress that he was normal sighted during his encounter with the girl.

Ans: The narrator tried to impress the girl initially surprising her by asking where she was going. He behaved as if he was normal sighted person in front of the girl. The narrator described about Mussoorie and time to visit that place to enjoy the beauty of the nature. Even he described her face as interesting face to impress and flatter through his words.

 

2) Everyone thinks, he could out-wit anyone but sometimes, he himself is out-witted by others. Substantiate this with reference to the story.

Ans:  The test that the man had taken onto himself was to persuade others that he was an ordinary located individual. In any case, the incongruity in the story is noted in that while the storyteller attempted to out-mind the travelers about his sight, he himself was out-witted at long last, as meager did he realize that the young lady sitting across him was visually impaired too.

 

3) The story ends with the new fellow- traveler telling the narrator that the girl was completely blind. What do you think, would be the feelings and thoughts of the narrator after knowing the truth?

Ans: The narrator on discovering that the girl was visually impaired, would have encountered the accompanying feelings. He would have felt surprise as he least expected the lovely girl sitting across him to be visually impaired. He should have additionally felt a feeling of humiliation for setting up affectation before the girl, when there was no requirement for it. He would have lamented not conversing with the young lady, similar to they were comparable here and there, in that the two of them did not have the feeling of sight.

 

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