I SEM. B.A. 2024-25 (SEP) (One mark questions and answers)

Short stories 

 1. THE LAST LEAF

O.HENRY (1867-1910)

1. Name the village to which the art people came prowling in the short story, „The Last Leaf’.

Answer; Greenwich Village.

2. Name the disease mentioned in the short story, „The Last Leaf’.

Answer: Pneumonia 

3. Name the two young artists in the story,‘The last Leaf’.Where do they come from?

Answer: Johnsy and Sue. Johnsy comes from Maine and Sue from California.

4. What did Johnsy want to paint?

Answer: The Bay of Naples.

5. Who was suffering from pneumonia?

Answer: Johnsy 

6. What was Johnsy counting?

Answer: Johnsy was counting the leaves of the ivy vine. 

7. Who saved Johnsy from pneumonia disease?

Answer: Behrman

8. Who was Behrman?

Answer: A Painter and an artist. 

9. How old was Behrman?

Answer: 60 years.

 2. THE DEATH OF A GOVERNMENT CLERK 

By

Anton Chekov (1860-1904)

1. Name the government employee mentioned in the story The Death of a Government Clerk.

Answer: Ivan Dmitritch Tchervyakov

2. Who is Brizzhalov?

Answer: A civil general serving in the Department of Transport.

3. What does the clerk do to Brizzhalov?

Answer: He sneezed on Brizzhalov.

4. Where does the sneezing happen?

Answer: The sneezing happened at Cloches de Corneville.

5. What does the clerk do immediately after sneezing on Brizzhalov?

Answer: He asked his pardon.

6. What ultimately caused the death of the clerk?

Answer: Psychological trauma on account of sneezing on Brizzhalov.

3. THE RIGHTFUL INHERITORS OF THE EARTH

By

VAIKOM MUHAMMED BASHEER (1908-1994)

1. What is the name of the dog (sentry)in the rightful inheritors of the earth?

Answer: Shan

2. Name the visitors who came to the farm of the author every day?

Answer: Birds, butterfly, howls, mongooses and cobra.

3. How did the narrator respond when his wife suggested that he purchase a gun?

Answer: The narrator responded that the gun is a symbol of cruelty. it is the child of sin.

4. Who were the trespassers?

Answer: Birds, butterfly, howls, mongooses and cobra.

5. What was the reaction of the cobra?

Answer: The reacted by spreading its hood as if asking the author what business he had on this patch.

6. What were considered as the reincarnation of our ancestors?

Answer: Bats

7. Which old statement does the story „The Rightful Inheritors of the Earth Remind’ us of?

Answer: All living beings are the rightful inheritor of the Earth.

ESSAYS

1. THE ORIGIN OF SCIENCE

WILL DURANT (1885-1981)

1. What did science begin with, according to Herbert Sencer?

Answer: The priests.

2. What was geometry to the ancient people?

Answer: The measurement of the soil.

3. What was one of the earliest forms of speech?

Answer: Counting

4. How did the Tasmanians count?

Answer: the Tasmanians counted „one, two, plenty.

5. How did the New Hollanders refer to the numbers three and four?

Answer: Three they called: „two-one‟ and four they called „two-two‟.

6. Why did the number thirteen become disputable and unlucky forever for the British?

Answer: Because number 13 was refused to be divided.

7. What was the primitive women‟s role in healing?

Answer: Doctor

8. What, according to Will Durant, was the beginning of astronomy?

Answer: observation of stars.

9. Describe the calendar of Polynesians?

Answer: the calendar of Polynesians had 13 months regulated by the moon.

10. What was the most popular method of cure for the primitive man?

Answer: Magic incantation.

11. How, according to Durant, did the Brazilian Bororos take science to a higher stage?

Answer: By having the father take the medicine inorder to cure the sick child.

12. Name the anesthetic used by the Peruvians?

Answer: Coca

13. How did the Iroquois cure scurvy?

Answer: The Iroquois cured scurvy with the bark and leaves of the hemlock spruce.

14. What is trephine?

Answer: Trephine is a surgical instrument having circular saw like edges.

15. What is trephining of the skull?

Answer: Cutting out discs of tissue, usually bone from skull with trephine.

16. Name the hotel in Paris where the trephining of the skull was done in 1786?

Answer: Hotel 

2. THE BOAT 

 Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (1931-2015)

1. Where did Abdul Kalam live while growing up?

Answer: Rameswaram.

2. What did Abdul Kalam‟s father do for a living?

Answer: Operated ferry.

3. What was Rameswaram been since antiquity?

Answer: A pilgrimage destination.

4. To whom is the temple of Rameswaram dedicated?

Answer: Lord Shiva

5. What is Sangam?

Answer: The Sangam is the meeting place of the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean.

6. What, according to Kalam, was the first introduction to engineering?

Answer: Watching the boat come to life from the pieces of wood and metal.

7. Who was Ahmed Jallaluddin?

Answer: Ahmed Jalalluddin was Kalam's Cousin.

8. What, according to Kalam, was the bed rock of engineering marvels?

Answer: Complex Mathematics and Scientific research.

9. What was the worst news of all after the cyclone?

Answer: Washing away of the boat belonging to Kalam‟s family. 

10. What quality of Kalam's father helped the family to overcome the crisis?

Answer: Stoicism

11. How was Dhanushkodi affected during 1964 storm?

Answer: During 1964 storm, a part of the landmass of Dhanushkodi was carried away and, a train that was on the Pamban Bridge with many pilgrims inside was washed away. It altered the geography of the area and I became a ghost town. 

12. What did Kalam remember when he built the Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV) rocket, or Prithvi and Agni missiles?

Answer: The look on his father‟s face the day after the storm.

13. What, according to Kalam, was the only way to survive in the world?

Answer: To face the troubles and rebuild our life. 

3. A BORN DREAMER 

by

CHITHRA MANDAL

1. Who was allowed inside the classroom to take care of Chitra Mandal

Answer: Chitra Mandal‟s grandmother.

2. What was Chitra Mandal‟s dream?

Answer: To become a doctor.

3. Who are the scientists according to Chitra Mandal?

Answer: Gods

4. Name person who inspired Chitra Mandal to continue her research in I.I.C.B.?

Answer: Pro. B.K. Bachhawat

5. What are required to fulfill one‟s dream according to Chitra Mandal?

Answer: Passion and sincerity.

6. What was Chitra Mandal dream place?

Answer: Her laboratory.

7. Where is the Indian Institute of Science located (I.I.Sc.)?

Answer: Bangalore