11th English Unit 4 Online Test – Old Book

Explanation:- Dreams are not real, they are short lived and they are nothing but our thoughts and reflection of what we see in day to day life

Explanation:- Edward Morgan Forster was an English fictional writer, essayist, film script writer. Some of his famous novels are- ‘A Room with a view; A passage to India”. He was known for his famous short story ‘The machine stops; The other side of the edge’. 

Explanation:- Mr.Henderson and Lady Anstey were professional friends and once he had just educated her with his story and research on an Italian painter Giovanni da Empoli. And Lady Anstey had stolen his papers and published them as her book, as her own research idea, though she has not even visited the Italian city

Explanation:- Cautious meaning careful, watchful

Explanation:- Giovanni da Empoli- is an Italian painter about whom Mr.Henderson was researching and thinking to publish a book on.

Explanation:-  Lady Anstey copied the idea and exact words and writings of Mr.Henderson which he had once given her to just read

Explanation:- Mr.Henderson was researching about an Italian painter. So he travelled to Empoli-where a gallery /archieve of historical and artistic works were kept.

Explanation:- Appropriated=meaning= copied or stolen without owner’s permission.

Explanation:- Editor of Dudley published the book of Lady Anstey. So wife of Henderson wrote to him about the cheap trick of Lady Anstey who copied her husband’s work and published the book

Explanation:- Rinaldi is a professor, a learned man who once worked as a incharge- curator in a small museum. He told Mr.Henderson that all his research and theories about Giovanni da Empoli were wrong

Explanation:- Mr.Henderson was terribly upset when he came to know that Lady Anstey stole his idea and published a book. But when he came to know that all his theories and ideas were wrong, he was relieved and happy that better he did not publish the book. But unfortunately his wife had written letter to the editor claiming for justice to him to get the copyright for the book.

Explanation:- Attributed = means= contributed, dedicated

Explanation:- Since Mrs.Henderson did not know the plagiarism of   Lady Anstey- she felt happy and surprised as Anstey was friend to her husband

Explanation:- Henderson helped Anstey to gain knowledge about Italian painter- Rinaldi helped Henderson to get relieved of his sadness- Wife of Henderson thought she is helping Henderson in getting justice and wrote letter to the Editor complaining on plagiarism of Anstey

Explanation:- Lady Anstey had stolen his papers and published them as her book, as her own research idea, though she has not even visited the Italian city

Explanation:- Stimulate means= provoke, encourage. So opposite is discourage

Explanation:- Henderson did not have any trust worthy friend to share about the plagiarism of Lady Anstey. And Rinaldi was a good old friend of Henderson who visited the city after long time. So Henderson decided to meet him inorder to share his burden and secret.

Explanation:- Henderson was unable to feel happy as she had plagiarised. He was unable to get angry as it was his mistake for sharing his research paper to her. So he lamented inside her heart without telling it out to others

Explanation:- Lady Anstey do not know anything about Giovanni da Empoli- and she had not even visited Italy nor did any research about him. So when asked question from her book, she just retold what she had written in the book.

Explanation:- Henderson was unable to feel happy as she had plagiarised. He was unable to get angry as it was his mistake for sharing his research paper to her. So he lamented inside her heart without telling it out to others

Explanation:- Guarding, washing are actions so they are verbs. “Safe & White”-are complimenting the verbs- so it is called adjective. Thus it is a combination of Adjective+Verb

Explanation:- ‘Ought to’ is used for denoting disciplinary action

Explanation:- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, known by the name Lewis Carroll is a famous English writer of Children’s fiction. Famous for his work- “Alice’s adventure in wonderland”and its sequel ‘Through the looking glass’. He has written many poems as well

Explanation:- The poem begins with a positive tone but the poet ultimately feels and laments that the children would grow as adults and would stop listening to his stories

Explanation:- The poet recites that three children accompanied him in the boat and waited eagerly to listen to his stories

Explanation:- ‘Alice’ is the character used by the poet in his novel. She is the naughty little girl who finds her in wonderland along with the magical creatures in it. The poet seemed to have met a little girl named Alice and he wrote a novel based on her

^Explanation: The poet recollects his summer holidays during which he went on a boat ride with the Liddell children reciting the stories. He used to entertain them with his stories

Explanation:- The poet compares the month of July and Autumn as persons fighting with sword killing each other. So seasons are personified as human being

Explanation:- The poet Carroll became famous after his novel ‘Alice’s adventure in the wonderland’. So once the children see him and come to know as the author of the Alice novel, they become excited and surround the poet asking to recite the story

Explanation:- The story of wonderland is so dreamy and magical that it would come in the dreams of children once they listen to the story

Explanation:- The poet compares life with the boat and the stream with the time. As the boat keeps moving in the stream, life moves with the passage of time

Explanation:- The poet compares life with the boat and the stream with the time. As the boat keeps moving in the stream, life moves with the passage of time

Explanation:- Children after children comes to the poet and listen to his stories but once they grow they stop listening to stories and get busy in their adulthood. The poet cannot hold any of them as life itself is no permanent so is the childhood

Explanation:- Poet says, as human beings we laugh sometimes and get stuck in troubles sometime and travel in the life without knowing the purpose and die a silent ending. So life is not permanent. It seems to be a dream at the end.

Explanation:- The poet talks about the non permanence or short lived childhood and life

Explanation:- Sundara Ramaswamy is an Indian novelist, short story writer and a poet in tamil literature. His notable works include “Oru puliyamarathin kathai; pengal, aangal; J.J.sila kuripugal”

Explanation:- The main character who had lost his identity at the end of the story regains it with his unique memory power skill and holds a place for himself

Explanation:- Rowther- is a blind man who works at the textile shop. He is very good at math, billing that he is regarded as a super brain fellow.

Explanation:- Rowther was too good at speed math. His calculations on billing were always right.

Explanation:- Ambi, the speaker in the short story tells the readers that his father- the shop owner is a angry person. So it is difficult to calm down him. 

Explanation:- The shop owner on his visit to wholesalers in Bombay did bring calculator to make easy calculation. So it replaced Rowther’s fast math calculation. Hence Rowther was upset that his genius found no work in the shop

Explanation:- Though calculator replaced the math speed of Rowther, it was no match to Rowther’s memory power. He remembered everything about the shop products and all due dates to bill payment 

Explanation:- Though calculator replaced the math speed of Rowther, it was no match to Rowther’s memory power. He remembered everything about the shop products and all due dates to bill payment 

Explanation:- Rowther who was proud man in the shop for his math genius became very silent after the arrival of calculator since it replaced Rowther for calculations and billing very complex numbers

Explanation:- Rowther suffered from a great financial crisis that his house came for public auction due to non payment of debt. So the shop owner paid his debt in the court and helped him

Explanation:- Rowther was leading a life in poverty. He had a very old fashioned house and a huge family to support so his earnings were not enough to lead a good life. So he had borrowed loan but he could not pay it back which led to public auction of his house

Explanation:- Chettiar said that he would pay his debts if Rwther works for him. So he joined for billing in Chettiar’s shop. But later he learnt that his previous shop owner paid all his debt and he regrets and hoins back in the shop of Ambi’s father

Explanation:- Ambi’s father- the shop owner had bought the calculator on his visit to Bombay to meet the wholesalers for cloth stocking

Explanation:- Due to Rowther’s sincerity, commitment and extra ordinary memory power he got promoted as manager.

Explanation:- The sory opens up with the scene of Ambi and his mother waking up late. Ambi’s mother suffered from Asthma problem and Ambi suffered from joint problem. So they both had the privilege of waking up late

Explanation:- Rowther was a blind man who worked in a cloth shop and he excelled in billing as a math genius. His disability was never an impediment for him

Explanation:- Gomathi is the co-worker to Rowther who helped Rowther daily in going out of shop to his home

Explanation:- Ambi- Son of the shop owner narrates the story.

Explanation:- Metaphor is a thing regarded as representative or symbolic  of something else 

Explanation:- In the story more of emotional conflict between the shop owner and Rowther; Rowther’s emotions when calculator arrived at the shop; Rowther’s financial struggle, ect..  arouses emotions in the minds of readers as well