The Eyes Have It Quiz

The eyes of the girl were beautiful, but they were of no use to her because she was completely blind.

The new passenger who boarded the train at Saharanpur claimed himself not nearly as attractive as the girl.

The male co-passenger of the narrator boarded the train at Saharanpur.

The girl in "The Eyes Have It" was happy because it was a short journey.

To the narrator the voice of the girl seemed to have the sparkle of a mountain stream.

The narrator fell in love with the girl as she spoke smartly with her sweet voice and had her perfumed hair.

"It was a safe remark." The 'safe remark' made by the narrator was the girl had an interesting face.

The narrator could see telegraph posts flashing by in his mind's eye.

The girl loved the hills especially in October.

According to the narrator, the 'formidable creatures' are aunts.

The narrator wanted to prevent the girl from discovering his blindness. Though he was blind, he did not want to be noticed as blind. 

The woman instructed the girl as to where to keep her things, when not to lean out of windows, and how to avoid speaking to strangers.

"....then a girl got in." The girl got in the train compartment at Rohana station.

During his journey upto Rohana the narrator was alone.

The narrator was alone in the train compartment upto Rohana station and then a girl got in the train compartment.

The short-story, "The Eyes Have It" is written by Ruskin Bond, an Indian writer with British descent.

Though Ruskin Bond's story, "The Eyes Have It" deals with a situational irony, it ends with a dramatic irony. Actually the story has a dramatic ending.

The story 'The Eyes Have It' deals with the theme of vision and blindness.

The new fellow traveller's remark took the narrator by surprise because he said that he did not notice the girl's hairstyle.

The new passenger described the girl's eyes as beautiful but blind. He told the narrator that though the girl had beautiful eyes, they were of no use to her because she was completely blind.

The narrator wanted to know from the new passenger about the girl's hairstyle.

The word 'reverie' means a daydream.

The passenger who got into the train at Saharanpur broke into the narrator's 'reverie' which means 'daydream'.

The game that the narrator played with his fellow-travellers was to make sure that they did not realise that he could not see. Actually he was playing a deception with his fellow-travellers.

The new passenger who boarded the train at Saharanpur stammered an apology while getting into the train compartment at Saharanpur.

"There was some confusion in the doorway." The confusion was a man, getting into the compartment, stammered an apology.

The narrator in the story 'The Eyes Have It' could not touch the girl's hair because the girl moved away.

The narrator was so curious about the hairstyle of the girl that he wanted to raise his hand to touch her hair.

The narrator wanted to touch the girl's hair as it was tantalising to him.

The girl was standing very close to the narrator. The perfume of the girl's hair was tantalising to the narrator. He wanted to raise his hand to touch her hair.

When the girl left the train, she made a parting remark for the narrator. It was 'Goodbye'.

When the carriage wheels changed their sound and rhythm, the girl got up and began to collect her things as the train drew slowly into her station Saharanpur.

The engine's whistle shrieked, the carriage wheels changed their sound and rhythm, the girl got up and began to collect her things as the train drew slowly into her station Saharanpur.

".......it would stay with me for the rest of the journey." Here 'it' refers to the memory of sweet words of the girl with whom he was travelling in a solitary train compartment.

The narrator praised the girl's voice by saying that her voice had the sparkle of a mountain stream.

The narrator was curious about the girl's hair because the perfume from her hair was tantalising to him.

Though the girl said that she could not bear to sit in a train for more than two or three hours, the narrator said that he was prepared to listen to the girl's talking for almost any length of time.

The girl thanked God for being the journey a short one because the girl said that she could not bear to sit in a train for more than two or three hours.

The girl was feeling relieved as the journey was a short one and then she thanked God for being the journey a short one.

The narrator in the story, "The Eyes Have It" said that the girl's voice had the sparkle of a mountain stream.

The thought of laughter only made the narrator of the story entitled 'The Eyes Have It' feel troubled and lonely.

The girl in the train compartment at first considered the narrator as a very gallant young man, and then considered him as a serious man also.

The narrator answered quite confidently that he could not see any animal outside.

The narrator wondered if the girl thought him to be a romantic fool.

In October the roads of Mussoorie are quiet and almost deserted.

The initial destination of the narrator was Dehra.

The narrator attempts to strike up a conversation with the girl by asking her where she is going.

According to the narrator, people with good eyesight often fail to see things in from of them because they have too much to take in.

The narrator's very first clue about his fellow traveller in the train is that he knows that she wears slippers, from the way they slapped against her heels.

The eyes of the narrator were sensitive only to light and darkness.