CLASS-X R K Narayan Secondary Secondary Story Story

Father’s Help SAQ

By Golam Mortuja

Updated on: November 4, 2024

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Father’s Help : R K Narayan

SAQ TEST

Text : Unit 1

Read The Text Carefully And Answer The Following Questions :

Lying in bed, Swami realized with a shudder that it was Monday morning. It looked as though only a moment ago it was Friday. Already Monday was here. He hoped he didn’t have to go to school.

At nine o’clock, Swaminathan wailed, “I have a headache.”

Mother generously suggested that Swami might stay at home. At 9.30, when he ought to have been in the school prayer hall, Swami was lying on the bench in Mother’s room.

Father asked him, “Have you no school today?”

“Headache,” Swami replied.

“Nonsense! Dress up and go.”

“Headache!”

“Loaf about less on Sundays and you will be without a headache on Monday.”

Swami knew how strict his father could be. So he changed his tactics. “I can’t go so late to the class.”

“You’ll have to. It is your own fault.”

“What will the teacher think if I go so late?”

“Tell him you had a headache and so are late.”

“He will scold me if I say so.”

“Will he? Let us see. What is his name?”

“Samuel.”

“Does he always scold the students?”

“He is a very angry man. He is especially angry with boys who come in late. I wouldn’t like to go late to Samuel’s class.”

“If he is so angry, why not tell your headmaster about it?”

“They say that even the headmaster is afraid of him.”

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SAQ : 2 Marks

[Short Answer-type Questions]

[Answer within 25 Words]

VSAQ : 1 Mark

[Very Short Answer-type Questions]

[Answer within 15 Words]

Questions : Answers

1️⃣ What type of text ‘Father’s Help’ is?

👉R K Narayan’s ‘Father’s Help’ is a short-story.

2️⃣ Who is the writer of the story ‘Father’s Help’?

👉The writer of the story ‘Father’s Help’ is R K Narayan.

Related Question

Who wrote the story ‘Father’s Help’?

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3️⃣ Where has the story ‘Father’s Help’ been taken from?

👉The story ‘Father’s Help’ has been taken from ‘Malgudi Days’, a famous collection of short-stories by R K Narayan.

4️⃣ Who was Swami? What was his full name? [2 Marks]

👉In R K Narayan’s story ‘Father’s Help’ Swami was a young boy who was unwilling to go school, but his father forced him to attend school.

Swami’s full name was Swaminathan. He was affectionately called as Swami.

5️⃣ What feelings did Swami have in the morning?

[2 Marks]

👉Lying in bed, in the morning, Swami realized with a shudder that it was Monday morning. It seemed to him a moment ago that it was Friday. However, he hoped he didn’t have to go to school.

6️⃣ Where was Swaminathan when he realized that it was Monday morning?

👉Swami was lying in bed when he realized that it was Monday morning.

7️⃣ What did Swami realize with a shudder?

👉Lying in bed, Swami realized with a shudder that it was Monday morning.

8️⃣ How did Swami feel when he realized that it was Monday morning?

👉When Swami realized that it was Monday morning, he felt a shudder throughout his body.

9️⃣ When and why did Swami shudder?

[2 Marks]

👉Lying in bed, in the morning, Swami shuddered because he realized that it was Monday morning, and he would have to follow another week’s slow suffering of going to school from Monday to Saturday.

Related Questions

1️⃣ Why did Swami shudder while lying in bed?

2️⃣ Why did Swami shudder on Monday morning?

👉While lying in bed in the morning Swami shuddered because he realized that it was Monday morning and he had to attend school again regularly from the Monday to Friday.

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1️⃣0️⃣ What did Swami hope for?

Swami hoped he didn’t have to go to school.

Related Question

What did Swami hope on Monday morning?

👉On Monday morning, Swami hoped he didn’t have to go to school.

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1️⃣1️⃣ How did Swaminathan want to avoid going to school? [2 Marks]

👉Swaminathan wanted to avoid school by giving an excuse of headache to his parents, so that he could stay at home.

1️⃣2️⃣ When did Swami wail that he had a headache?

👉At nine o’clock, Swami wailed that he had a headache.

1️⃣3️⃣ What excuse did Swami give for not going to school?

👉Swami told his parents that he had a headache.

Related Question

What was Swami’s first excuse for not going to school?

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1️⃣4️⃣ Did his mother believe Swami? How do you know? [2 Marks]

👉Yes, Swami’s mother believed in Swami. When Swami wailed that he had a headache, his mother generously suggested that Swami might stay at home.

Related Question

What suggestion came from Swami’s mother?

👉When Swami wailed that he had a headache, his mother generously suggested that Swami might stay at home.

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1️⃣5️⃣ Where should have been Swami at 9.30?

👉At 9.30, Swami should have been in the school prayer hall.

Related Questions

1️⃣ Where was Swami supposed to be at 9.30 a.m.?

👉At 9.30 a.m. Swami was supposed to be in the school prayer hall.

2️⃣ Where was Swaminathan expected to be at 9.30 a.m.?

👉At 9.30 a.m. Swaminathan was expected to be in the school prayer hall.

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1️⃣6️⃣ What was Swami doing at 9.30 A.M.?

At 9.30, when Swami should have been in the school prayer hall, he was lying on the bench in his mother’s room.

Related Question

What was Swami doing at 9.30?

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1️⃣7️⃣ Where was Swami lying without going to school?

👉At 9.30, without going to school Swami was lying on the bench in his mother’s room.

1️⃣8️⃣ How did Swami’s parents react to his excuses? [2 Marks]

👉When Swami wailed that he had a headache, his mother generously suggested that Swami might stay at home. But his strict father considered his headache as a nonsense and he ordered Swami to dress up and go to school. Later when Swami gave an excuse of being late, his father said that it was his own fault.

1️⃣9️⃣ What did Swami’s mother generously suggest?

👉When Swami wailed that he had a headache, his mother generously suggested that Swami might stay at home.

Related Questions

1️⃣ What did Swami’s mother suggest listening about his headache?

2️⃣ What did Swami’s mother suggest when he wailed that he had a headache?

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2️⃣0️⃣ What did Swami’s father ask him to do?

👉Swami strict father asked him to dress up and go to school.

2️⃣1️⃣ What did Swami’s father advise him?

👉Swami’s father advised him to loaf about less on Sundays and he would be without a headache on Monday.

Related Questions

1️⃣ What piece of advice did father give to Swami to be without a headache on Monday?

2️⃣ What did Swami father’s advise him to get rid of a headache on Monday?

👉To get rid of a headache on Monday, Swami’s father advised him to loaf about less on Sundays.

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2️⃣2️⃣ What was the reaction of Swami’s father?

[2 Marks]

👉Father considered Swami’s headache as nonsense and wanted Swami to go to school. He advised Swami to loaf about less on Sundays in order to avoid a headache on Monday

Related Questions

1️⃣ What was Swami’s father reaction when Swami told that he had a headache?

2️⃣ What was Swami’s father reaction when Swami complained of a headache?

3️⃣ What was father’s opinion regarding Swami’s headache?

4️⃣ How did Swami’s father react to his excuse of not going to school?

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2️⃣3️⃣ What, according to Swami’s father, was the cause of Swami’s headache?

[2 Marks]

👉Swami loafed about in the Sun on Sundays, and that according to Swami’s father was the cause of headache.

Related Question

Why, according to his father, did Swami suffer from headaches on Mondays?

👉According to Swami’s father, Swami suffered from headaches on Mondays because he loafed about much on Sundays.

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2️⃣4️⃣ Why did Swami’s father say that Swami would have to go to school?

👉Swami’s father said that Swami would have to go to school because he had the headache for his own fault.

2️⃣5️⃣ Why did Swami change his tactics?

👉Swami changed his tactics because his father was strict and he knew how strict his father could be.

Related Question

What made Swami to change his strategy?

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2️⃣6️⃣ What was Swami’s tactics to convince his father? [2 Marks]

👉When Swami understood that his excuse of headache could not change his father’s mind, he changed his tactics and told his father that he could not go to school to attend Samuel’s class as he was very late.

Related Question

When and how did Swami change his tactics?

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2️⃣7️⃣ Why didn’t Swami want to go late to Samuel’s class? [2 Marks]

👉According to Swami, Samuel was a very angry man and he was especially angry with those boys who came in late in class, so he didn’t want to go late to Samuel’s class.

2️⃣8️⃣ How did Swami describe Samuel, the class teacher? [2 Marks]

👉According to Swami, his class teacher Samuel was a very angry man. He was especially angry with those boys who came in late in class. He also informed his father that even the headmaster was afraid of him.

Related Questions

1️⃣ How had Swami described Samuel to his father?

2️⃣ According to Swami, what kind of man was Samuel?

3️⃣ What impression of his teacher Samuel did Swami give to his father?

4️⃣ How was the relationship between Samuel and the headmaster, according to Swami?

👉According to Swami, his teacher Samuel was a very angry man. He was especially angry with those boys who came in late in class. As per Swami’s opinion, even the headmaster was afraid of Samuel.

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2️⃣9️⃣ With whom was Samuel especially angry?

👉Samuel was especially angry with the boys who are late to school.

3️⃣0️⃣ Why didn’t Swami tell the headmaster about Samuel?

👉None said so because the headmaster himself was afraid of Samuel.

Related Question

Why didn’t anyone tell the headmaster about Samuel?

👉None didn’t tell the headmaster about Samuel because, according to Swami, even the headmaster himself was afraid of Samuel.

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