B.Sc./ B.C.A./B.Sc. C.C.J. Programmes
CARVALHO
Poornachandra
Tejaswi
Questions and Answers
1) Why
did the narrator go Moodigere Bee-keepers’ Cooperative Society? Whom did he
meet?
Ans: The narrator went to Moodigere
Bee-Keepers’ Cooperative Society to buy honey for seventy rupees and there he
met Mandana.
2)
Manadana and Lakshmana worked in …………
Ans: in Bee Cooperative Society.
3) How
much did the bottle of honey cost?
Ans: It cost Rs 78
4) The
narrator bought the best of honey from the ……. area.
Ans: The narrator bought the best of honey
form the Gutti area.
5) Why
did the jeep stop and who helped the narrator?
Ans: On the way back from the bee shop,
the narrator’s jeep’s engine made a few strange noises and then stopped. Two
men on a Jawa motor bicycle helped the narrator bringing a cane of petrol.
6) Who
is Pyara? What was he doing in the narrator’s house?
Ans: Pyara is a Muslim boy, working as a
kitchen assistant in the narrator’s house.
7) The
honey was whitish fluid very much like………..
Ans: coconut oil.
8)
Mandana asked the narrator to buy …………. Honey.
ANs: Gutti honey/ a tin
9) Why
did Mandana visit the narrator at Moodigere?
Ans: As the minister who was also the
chairman of the Khadi Board was coming to Moodigere and Mandana wanted to write
an application urging the minister to appoint Mandana as bee-keeper of the
socity. For that purpose, Mandana handed over application form and a blank
sheet of white paper to the narrator to help him to fill it.
10) Who
is Carvalho? How did Mandana Look up to him?
Ans: Carvalho is great botanist, an
entomologist of great renown. Mandana was Carvalho’s disciple. Mandana
considers him as his Guru.
11)
What happened when Mandana and his scout friends blew their bugles and beat
drums?
Ans: This commotion disturbed the
humble-bees in their hives at the Taluk office and they, getting angry, buzzed
and flew around. They hit against the flag, stung the stocky Hon. Minister and
the police and the bigwigs and the drum-beating Mandana and boys and girls and
the women folk and lookers-on, frightened, they ran helter-skelter.
12) Why
did the narrator meet Carvalho?
Ans: The narrator’s paddy fields were
plagued by a strange variety of pests and he had suffered losses. He wanted to
discuss this problem with Carvalho and he went to his Research Centre.
13)
Name the bee which attacks without provocation in South Africa.
Ans: Mau Mau bee
14)
What did Mandana bring in a big gunny bag to the narrator’s house?
Ans: Mandana brought pork in a gunny bag
to the narrator’s house.
15)
What did Pyara see in an overturned earthen pot?
ANs: Bees had built their hives in the
pot.
16)
Kiwi was a ………….. spaniel.
Ans: Kiwi was a white spaniel/ Kiwi was
the narrator’s dog.
17) Who
is the father-in-law of Mandana? Why did he refuse to give his daughter in
marriage to Mandana?
Ans: Ramiah is the father-in-law of
Mandana. Norvey Ramaiah refuses to give his daughter in marriage to Mandana on
account of his joblessness. Mandana has no permanent job and is worried.
18) Who
is Prabhakara?
Ans: Prabhakaran is a radio mechanic in
Chikkamangaluru and student of Carvalho working as a photographer, enlarging
slides, films, etc. He has also set up a lab in a part of the Research Centre
itself.
19) In
Mandana’s marriage ………….. acted as the father of the bridegroom.
Ans: Lakshmanna.
20) A
…………. Pandal was raised in Mandanna’s marriage.
Ans: small.
21) Why
did the police arrest Mandana?
Ans: Police raided Norvey Ramiah’s house.
They had heard of illicit distillation. They took away Mandana’s honey pot
saying it contained country-liquor. Hence, Mandana was arrested for trafficking
in illicit liquor.
22) How
was Kiwi lying on the floor?
Ans: Kiwi made strange painful sounds.
Kiwi had hidden a big piece of bone, with rotten flesh. The bone looked like
that of a cow or an ox and no mortal
could bear the smell. Kiwi had treasured it to chew it at leisure, unseen. This
may have caused some infection and it was lying on the floor.
23) Who
bails out Mandana?
Ans: Narrator
24)
Name the lawyer argues intelligently and wins the case in favour of Mandanna?
Ans: Cyril Gonsalves
25)
Yenkta…….. has come for…… in the jungle.
Ans: the snake catcher, hunting
26)
Biriyani………… is known for his……….. skills.
Ans: Kariappa, cooking skills as well as
tree climbing skills.
27) In
this novella, officially which species is declared extinct?
Ans: the flying lizard
28) Carvalho shows the narrator the glow worms,
which catch …….. and …… them.
Ans: the bees, swallow
29)
What did Mandanna find in the forests of Norvey?
Ans: rare bird, the flying lizard
30) Did
Carvalho and his team members catch the flying lizard alive?
Ans: The team could not catch. But
witnessed it. Moreover, Kariappa was fortunate to grab it by its tail.
Answer
the following questions in a page each.
1) Write short notes on Kariappa
ANs: Biriyani Kariappa is an interesting
character in the novella. He is known for his culinary skills in preparing
excellent biriyani. He accompanies Carvalho’s scientific expedition as their
cart man. He is bothered about shooting the birds and animals on the way while
others are busy searching for the flying lizard. Kariappa is not only an
excellent cook but also a proficient tree climber. His tree climbing skills is
reflected, when he grabs the flying lizard by its tail.
2) Write
short notes on Yenkta
Ans: Yenkta, the snake catcher, has come
for hunting in the jungle. He comes to collect the skins of mangoose, otter and
snakes. He says that there is not enough money in snake-catching or medicines.
An otter skin fetches him a hundred
rupees and a snake’s thirteen. That could help him buy new clothes etc.
He was also taxidermist of sorts and he was also seen selling stuffed foxes and
mongoose. Yenkata has come there to look for the cow that had run away. When
Kariappa was racing with the flying lizard, Yenkta also joined in the
expedition.
3) Write
short notes on Lakshmana
Ans: Lakshmana works with Manadanna in the
Moodigere Bee-Keepers Co-operative Soceity. Here they sell honey. Lakshmana
accepts the request of Mandana to play the role of his father and take care
everything during his wedding. Lakshamana is so kind that he goes around to
collect money for Mandanna’s marriage. Even he requests the narrator to help in
this regard. He is fed up of Ramiah’s demands, Mandana’s father-in-law. It
appears that Lakshmnana has made his bride’s people cry, cringe and fall at his
feet during his wedding.
4) Write
short notes on Mandanna
Ans: Mandana is bee-keeper by profession
and has been considered as a vagabond by the local commoners and friends. But
Carvalho, the scientist with an international reputation, describes Mandana as
‘a born naturalist’, a man with the keen ‘art of observation’ and ‘an
extraordinary natural scientist’.
In Mandana’s Life, emotional and the
economic problems are interrelated. Norvey Ramaiah refuses to give his daughter
in marriage to Mandanna on account of his joblessness. Mandanna has no
permanent job and is worried. He refuses to meet Carvalho as Carvalho did not
give him a job of an attender in his office. Mandana, therefore, requests the
narrator to put in a word to Ramaiah in his favour. But Mandanna can get a job
only if he gets married. The narrator, therefore, requests Carvalho to give a
job to Mandanna in his Research Centre. But Carvalho expresses his inability to
do so. But he speaks to Norvey Ramaiah to give his daughter in marriage to
Mandanna. Finally, Mandanna’s wedding with Raami takes place.
A few days after Mandana’s marriage, he is
beaten up and arrested by the police for illict-brewing. At Moodigere, the
narrator obsereves Mandanna’s plight at the Police Station. On humanitarian
grounds, he bails Mandana out by standing surety tohim. Finally, Mandanna is
realeased from the police custody. The narrator knows Mandanna as an oridinary
servant. Carvalho understands Mandanna in a completely new light. He needs
Mandanna’s service in the adventurous discovery of the mysterious dream world.
At last they are disappointed for not catching the flying lizard, but are very
happy to have been able to discover such a rare bird in the Sahyadri Mountain
range with the help of an illiterate person like Mandanna.
5) Write
short notes on Pyara
Ans: Pyara is a Muslim boy and a kitchen
assistanat in the narrator’s house. He helps the narrator to search his dog
Kiwi in the forest. He mocks Mandana even after his marriage saying if he
becomes his cast man, Mandanna can marry four times. Pyara helps to pack the
bee box. He also joins the narrator’s expedition in the jungle.
6) Write
short notes on Kiwi
Ans: In this novella, non-human beings
also play an interesting role. For example, the narrator’s dog, Kiwi is an
interesting companion. Here Tejaswi’s photographic and microscopic observation
of the animal behavior is in display. Kiwi, with its extraoridinary olfactory
organ, helps the narrator in many ways. When the narrator is discussing the
possible sale of his land to a buyer, Pyara tells him that Kiwi has been
absconding. The narrator and Pyara go in serach of the dog in the nearby forest
by wading through the thick shrubbery. Finally, they find out their Kiwi
barking at an earthen pot full of bees. Thus, Kiwi helps them have interesting
and disconcerting experiences.
7)
Narrate how the bees attacked when the Minister addressed the public at
Moodigere.
Ans: Mandanna could not present his
petition for job to the minister in person. When he came to know that the
minister’s address was scheduled in the vast open ground in Moodigere on 15th
August occasion, he decided to go there and took part in the scout movement
group. The scout group was carrying with drums, bugles, and cymbals. After the
unfurling of the flag, Mandanna and his scout-friends blew their bugles, beat
their drums and crushed their cymbals, the walls and the windows of the Taluk
Office shook under the impact of the terrible din he was creating. The hills and forests around echoed and sent
back waves of reverberating noise. The murderous commotion disturbed the humble
bees in their hives at the Taluk Office and they, getting angry, buzzed and
flew around. Everyone was attacked by the bees and the whole programme was
disturbed. People ran helter-skelter. And Mandanna could not submit his
application to the minister.
8) The
narrator’s paddy field was plagued by the strange variety of pests. Did
Carvalho solve this? If so how?
Ans: Narrator went to see Carvalho for the
first time. Here he discussed the problem of pests which were eating up his
standing paddy crop. Prof. Carvalho listened to him patiently and suggested the
narrator to bring specimen and told him to drain away the water from the
fields. Possible these pests live to the stem, and under water, and therefore
the insecticide had been of little use. They must be army-worms. Carvalho’s
prediction was right. The pests had taken shelter near the stem under the
water. The water was drained away, they dropped off and began to crawl on the
wet earth and then the birds and the frogs and ants made a feast of them. The
remaining ones were sprayed with insecticides and destroyed. But by then they
had eaten away more than half the crop. Carvalho was happy to know the result
of his experiment. Then Carvalho told about Mandanna, his disciple and the
narrator also shared the bees incident on 15th August occasion.
9)
Discuss the relationship between the narrator and his dog Kiwi.
Ans: In this novella, non-human beings
also play an interesting role. For example, the narrator’s dog, Kiwi is an
interesting companion. Here Tejaswi’s photographic and microscopic observation
of the animal behavior is in display. Kiwi, with its extraordinary olfactory
organ, helps the narrator in many ways. When the narrator is discussing the
possible sale of his land to a buyer, Pyara tells him that Kiwi has been
absconding. The narrator and Pyara go in search of the dog in the nearby forest
by wading through the thick shrubbery. Finally, they find out their dog barking
at an earthen pot full of bees. Thus, Kiwi helps them have interesting and
disconcerting experiences. When Kiwi got
injured, the narrator immediately rushed to the Moodigere hospital for his
speedy recovery. That time he was lurching between Mandanna’s police case and
Kiwi’s situation. Kiwi and the narrator’s bonding can be seen when the narrator
lost interest in the expedition, he started to think of his wife and daughter
and became nostalgic. Kiwi was the only link that remained with him at the
moment from the world of memories.
10) Write
the role of Prabhakara in finding the flying lizard.
Ans: Prabhakaran is a radio mechanic in
Chickkamangalore. Now he is a student of Carvalho who works as a photographer,
enlarging slides, film etc. He has set up his lab in Carvalho’s research
centre. Prabhakar joined Carvalho’s expedition to jungle along with others. He
was using chromometer and compass to know the right direction. Prabhakara’s
culinary skills were appreciated. Prabhakara’s transistor radio, hung on the
roof of the cart by a nail, was blaring some Hindi love songs. On seeing the
flying lizard by the narrator, everyone got alert. Prabhakara used binoculars
with tele-lens and started to take few snaps. He was told to bring movie camera
and put the tele-lens to focus on the green patch of moss. He gave binoculars
to the narrator and focused on camera. He was like an astronomer getting ready
to see a new planet swim across in the sky. His movie camera was making a “Krr”
sound. Without taking his eye off the camera-hole Prabhakara pressed its button.
The flying lizard crossed the green patch and got merged with the colour of the
bark of the tree. This is how Prabhakara’s skills played an important role in
finding the flying lizard.
11) How
did the lawyer release Mandanna from the illicit brewing case?
Ans: Police raided Norvey Ramiah’s house
and heard of illicit distillation. They took away Mandanna’s honey-pot saying
it contained country-liquor. According to the constable, while honeymooning at
his father-in-law’s house, Mandanna was making country liquor and he had kept
it in a honey-pot. Then he admitted it. Police arrested Mandanna and put him in
the lock-up. The police filed a case and the court had issued summons. He would
be fined Rs. 600 and put in jail for a year. The narrator gives surety for
Mandanna. Carvalho appoints a criminal lawyer to fight the case of Mandanna. As
directed by Carvalho, the narrator meets the criminal lawyer Cyril Gonsalves
explains the case of Mandanna. The narrator, Carvalho and others attend that
whatever the pot contained was indisputably base material for the manufacture
of liquor. But then Gonsalves asked the prosecutor if he would agree that what
was originally in the pot was honey. He said it could be and that was enough
for Gonsalves. He argued tht the cost of a bottle of liquor was 60 paisa whereas
the cost of bottle of honey was Rs. 10 and no sensible man would want to lose
ten rupees on every bottle of liquor he made. Hence, Lawyer Gonsalves
intelligently wins the case in favour of Mandanna.
12) Who is Yenkta? Why did he come to the jungle?
Ans: Yenkta, the snake catcher, has come
for hunting in the jungle. He comes to collect the skins of mangoose, otter and
snakes. He says that there is not enough money in snake-catching or medicines.
An otter skin fetches him a hundred rupees and a snake’s thirteen. That could
help him buy new clothes etc. He was also taxidermist of sorts and he was also
seen selling stuffed foxes and mongoose. Yenkata has come there to look for the
cow that had run away. When Kariappa was racing with the flying lizard, Yenkta
also joined in the expedition.
13)
Write about the role of Carvalho.
Ans: Carvalho who is “an officer at the
Paddy Research Centre” and “a great botanist, an entomologist of great renown”
and most importantly the teacher of Mandanna. Carvalho, the scientist with an
international reputation, solves the narrator’s problem of pests which is
eating away his standing paddy crop. Carvalho considers Mandanna as “a born
naturalist”, a man with the keen “art of observation” and “an extraordinary
natural scientist”. When Mandana is arrested by the police for illicit liquor
case, the narrator gives surety for Mandanna. Even Carvalho appoints a criminal
lawyer to fight the case of Mandanna. As directed by Carvalho, the narrator
meets the criminal lawyer Cyril Gonsalves, explains the case of Mandanna. The
narrator, Carvalho and others attend the Magistrate’s court and Mandanna wins
the case. Carvalho also appreciates Mandanna’s findings about the glow-worm.
Carvalho is interested in finding the lizard, previously thought to have been
extinct. Carvalho is now on a mission to find this creature. He asks the
narrator to join his team, his fellow student Mandanna, a camera man and the
cook Biryani Kariappa. The narrator begins the journey into the thick forest of
Norvey, in search of an ancient creature which no human eyes has ever seen. At
last they are disappointed for not catching the flying lizard, but are very
happy to have been able to discover such a rare bird in the Sahyadri Mountain
range with the help of an illerate person like Mandanna. Carvalho’s and the
narrator’s curiosity for the scientific truth is fulfilled.
14) The
narrator plays an important role in the novella Carvalho? Discuss.
Ans: The novella opens with the narrator
going to Moodigere Bee-Keepers Co-operative society. Here Mandana and Lakshmana
work as servants. The narrator buys a pot of honey from Gutti area for Rs. 78.
He is quite happy to learn that the honey from Gutti area is of the best
quality. Later, the narrator encounters Carvalho who is “an officer at the
Paddy research Centre’ and ‘a great botanist, an entomologist of great renown’
and most importantly the teacher of Mandanna. The narrator gets acquainted with
Carvalho by asking the solution of his crops problem. He is amazed to see the
new finding about the glow-worms which are shown by Carvalho is his laboratory.
The narrator helps Mandanna to convince
Carvalho to give him the job of an attender but fails. He also joins Carvalho
to convince Ramiah to give his daughter to Mandanna. Thus he extends his
support in mandanna’s wedding. A few
days after Mandanna’s marriage, he is beaten up and arrested by the police for
illicit-brewing. At Moodigere, the narrator observes Mandanna’s plight at the
Police Station. On humanitarian grounds, he bails Mandanna out by standing
surety to him. Finally, Mandanna is released from the police custody. During
the expediton in the quest of the flying lizard, it’s the narrator only who has
witnessed the flying lizard very first as the brown coloured flying lizard.
Then the race begins to catch it. Thus the narrator has weaved the first thread
of the story till the last knot of the story. His presence is well witnessed
throughout the novella.
15) The
flying lizard plays a significant role in the novella Carvalho? Substantiate.
Ans: Published in 1980, Poornachandra
Tejaswi’s Kannada classic “Carvalho” is set around the town of Mudugere in
Chikamagalur. A typical town in the Western Ghats: The locals grow honey, rear
cattle, and live a hard life, which is made harder by police and politicians.
They have a stranger in their midst. Professor Carvalho, a scientist posted at
a nearby research centre, is a treasury of information on all kinds of
agricultural problems, an expert on glow-worms, and a man who receives
photographs and letters from around the world. One day Carvalho confesses that
he is on the trail of a very rare lizard, one that can fly. The creature is a
living fossil, a relative of the dinosaurs that survived their extinction by
growing wings.
Though it was last observed a hundred
years ago in Africa, Carvalho is sure it matches the descriptions of a creature
seen recently in the forests of the Western Ghats. He has written to the
Smithsonian Institute and the British Geographical Institute, and they have
jointly offered a reward for this amazing lizard-payable in pounds sterling! Now
all the locals want to be friends with Carvalho. A search party, armed with a
cook, heads into the woods. Fatigue sets in quickly, and men who are used to
coming to the wilderness only for firewood or shikar grow weary of its
monotony.
The scientist revives them. He makes them
see the forest with new eyes: He touches the branch of a tree, and it sprouts a
moustache and legs and turns into a worm. Under the dark cover of the trees,
the locals hold discussions with Carvalho. Does God exist? Does he oversee
Evolution? If all creatures are subject to Evolution, how has this living
fossil alone opted out of the process?
At last they find the lizard-or something
that might be their lizard-and give it chase as it glides through the trees,
slipping past their hands again and again to reach the very edge of the Western
Ghats. Now Carvalho and the others think they have got it: The lizard is at a
sheer cliff with nowhere to go. The mysterious reptile, however, has one last
trick to play on its pursuers. At the end, the flying lizard is given a
suffocating chase and due to the same the climax is both heartwarming and
cosmic.
The expedition, like all true expeditions,
is a failure as well as a success. The flying lizard escapes but expeditions
have succeeded in understanding in an important way of evolution of the
universe. Hence Poornachandra Tejaswi’s “Carvalho” presents many worlds: the
dream world, the world of science and mystery and a world of normal simple
human beings. All these are yoked together to the animal world through Kiwi,
the narrator’s Golden Spaniel, and through the born-climber of trees, Biriyani
Kairiappa, the world of vegetation becomes an integral part of the story.
16)
Narrate the first encounter between the narrator and Mandanna and Lakshmana.
Ans: In the opening chapter of the
novella, we find that the narrator goes to the Moodigere Bee-Keeper’s
Co-operative Society; the rainy season had set in for quite some time in
Malnad. The whole town was covered with mud and slush, and wore a bedraggled
look. The narrator’s trousers were wet, his feet sore. His father asked him to
get some honey from Moodigere as it was likely to be cheaper there than at
Mysore. An Ayurvedic Physician has advised him to take a spoonful of honey with
water every morning-which worked to a half-a-bottle a month and about a seven
bottles a year and calculating at ten rupees a bottle. So he had taken seventy
rupees with him.
The narrator peeped in the office room and
saw two young man scribbling way something. One of them raised his head and
asked what he wanted. When the narrator
told that he had come to buy honey, first he was denied and later when they
recognized him, and introduced each other. Both Lakshmana and Mandanna were
working there to be a bee-keeper. Mandanna told that a full bottle of money
would cost rupees ten. The pot honey would be less expensive compare to bottle
of honey. Mandanna distinguished the pot honey and bottle honey. He told that
bottled honey is machine extracted and pottered-honey is hand extracted. The
potted-honey would be dull in colour which could easily be identified. Mandanna
was explained like a student explaining to a teacher. The narrator had only
seventy rupees and he told that he would pay remaining rupees eight the next
day. Then Mandanna gave the narrator the best quality of honey i.e. honeys from
Gutti area. And finally the narrator got tin of honey and it did feel heavy,
lie iron. He left.
