PROSE 3 - JAMAICAN FRAGMENT - 2MARKS

PROSE 3 - JAMAICAN FRAGMENT

Class 08 Second Language English  JAMAICAN FRAGMENT - Questions with Answers are provided below. Along with Question and Answers, you can also check out JAMAICAN FRAGMENT Part B Grammar also.

PART - A

C1. Answer the following questions and share your responses with your partner.

1. Why was the morning walk pleasant to Mr. A. L. Hendricks?

Ans: The morning walk was pleasant to Mr. A. L. Hendricks because the exercise is good for him he thought.  

2. “The exercise is good for me”, says the narrator. What was that exercise?

Ans: The exercise was that walking from his home to the rail tracks in the morning and from the lines to his home in the evening.

3. What did the narrator notice one morning?

Ans: One morning the narrator noticed two boys playing in the garden of the more modest cottages.

4. How did the smaller boy behave while playing with the bigger boy?

Ans: The little boy walked majestically up and down, and every now and then shouted in a commanding tone at his bigger playmate.

C2. Answer the following questions and share your responses with your partner.

1. What sight surprised the narrator the next day?

Ans: The next day the boys were there again. The narrator was surprised at that time the dark boy was commanding, while the little white youngster did everything.  

2. What were the two commands given by the black boy to the white boy?  

Ans: The two commands given by the black boy were ‘Get me a banana?’, ‘Peel it for me!’

3. Why was the white man surprised at the narrator’s outburst?

Ans: The narrator looking at the person and said he was thinking that one day other day the black will rule over whites. He asked him not to have wrong notions because that is only game. Only the grownups are silly. Hearing the narrator’s outburst the man was surprised.

4. Why do you think the narrator smiled at the end?

Ans: When the white man told that he knew all about the game and the boys were brothers and his sons. Then he pointed at a brown woman on the veranda and said that she was his wife. Narrator knew all this then he laughed at the end.

Read and Write:

C5. Read and discuss your responses with your partner. Then write.

1. What similarities and differences can you make out between the two boys? 

 Ans: The similarities between the two boys both dressed in blue shirts and khaki pants they wore no shoes and their feet were muddy. The difference between two boys the bigger boy was youngster, very dark, with a mat of coarse hair on his head and coal- black eyes. The other little boy was smaller but also sturdy. He was white with hazel eyes and light-brown hair.

2. What three commands did the big boy give to the small boy?

Ans: Three commands given by big boy to small boy were ‘Pick up that stick!’ The dark boy picked up the stick. ‘Jump into the flowers!’ The dark boy jumped. ‘Get me some water!’ The dark boy ran inside to take water.

3. The author could find no answer to some questions. Which are those questions [see paragraph 5]

Ans: The author could find no answer to some questions. They were as follows: Was it that even as a boy he sensed that in his own country he could be at the white man’s beck and call? Could he make difference between himself and the white boy? And could he think that he was going to boss over the black boy?

4. Why the narrator surprised the next morning?

Ans: The next morning the boys were there again and a man was standing at the gate watching them. The narrator stopped and looked just to see what the white boy was making his little servant do. The narrator was surprised now the dark boy was commanding, while the little white youngster did everything.

5. How did the two boys behave while playing?

Ans: The two boys behave like one boy as boss and other was slave while playing. The boss commands the slave; the slave makes what the boss commands to him. 

6. What made the narrator think that the black boy could be the son of a servant or a classmate of the white boy?

Ans: When the boys were playing the white boy commanding the black boy, black boy submitting him. Narrator saw this scene and thought himself that the black boy was a son of a servant. But then he thinks that they were dressed alike so they were classmates.

7. What were the two points that the narrator wanted to clarify to the white man?

Ans: The two points that the narrator wanted to clarify to the white man were the first one is yesterday the white boy ruled over the black boy and that day the black was ruled over the white boy. The second clarifying the boys were playing a game.

8. The two boys, although brothers, differed in their colour. What might be the reason?

Ans: The two boys, although brothers, differed in their colour because they were the children of Jamaican lady and a white man.

9. If you were the white man, how do you react to the narrator’s comment?

Ans: If I were the white man I convince the narrator all are equal in presence of the god only the differences are made by us.

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PART - B

Vocabulary:

V1. Column ‘A’ has the names of the Countries. Choose correct nationality from the list given below and write in Column ‘B’.

e.g. America - American

V2. Guess and give the meaning of the words underlined in the table given below.

1) The stipulated period of twelve years was coming to close.
2) How can I perform the fire Sacrifice?
3) Pandavas wanted to quench their thirst. They went in search of water.
4) After seeing all his brothers lying dead, Yudhisthira was drowned in sarrow.
5) Yaksha was pleased with the answer given by Yudhisthira.

A                              B
Stipulated              fixed
Perform                 carryout
Quench                 satisfy
Drowned              sink
Pleased                 happy

Now verify the meaning you have written with the help of a dictionary.

V3 Read the following conversation and use the appropriate word from the ones given in brackets.

Patient: Doctor, the wound in my heel pains me a lot. [heel, heal]

Doctor: Don’t worry, if it will heal up after treatment [heel, heal]. You’re diabetic and weak, so it may take one week.

Patient: Excuse me, a word with you doctor. I don’t know whether it is fair to ask you this question[fair, fare].

Doctor: Oh! Don’t worry. Tell me what it is.

Patient: I have no money to pay the fare [fair, fare]. I’m sorry doctor. I forgot to tell you that last week I lost your prescription [last, lost].

Doctor: OK. No problem. I’ll give both.

V5. Fill in the blanks with words that have similar pronunciation as the words underlined.

1) Papanna and Somanna are good friends. The former is a farmer and the latter is a businessman.
2) The thief wanted to steal. But the doors were locked. He broke open the lock with a steel rod.
3) “Come here,” said the teacher. But the student did not hear.
4) “Mandanna, your answer is quite right. But, for a moment will you keep quit ?”
5) Rashmi gave birth to a male child in Bangalore. Her husband who was in Mysore came to Bangalore by the mail train.

V5. We can form the opposites by adding prefixes to words:

e.g. Important x Unimportant

Similarly, add the given prefixes so that, they become Opposite of the words underlined.
1) Sunita is regular to the class, but Sushma is irregular.
2) Rama Murthy’s answer is correct, but Narayan’s is incorrect.
3) Sita’s way of expressing facts is proper, but Lakshmi’s is improper.
4) All should respect the National flag. No one should disrespect it.
5) The competition was very tough. It was Rahul’s fortune that he won, but it was Sanjay’s unfortune that he lost.