I SEMESTER B.B.A & B.C.A (SEP): 2024-25 (One mark questions and answers)

 ONE MARK QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Answer the following questions in a word or a phrase or a sentence:

* JIMMY VALENTINE by O. Henry 

1. How many months did Jimmy Valentine spend in the prison?

Answer: Ten months

2. What was the accusation against Jimmy Valentine?

Answer: He was accused of opening a safe in Springfield.

3. How many extra dollars did the prison officer give to Jimmy Valentine when he was released from the prison?

Answer: Five dollars

4. What was the number allotted to Jimmy Valentine while in the prison?

Answer: 9762

5. How many dollars did Jimmy Valentine pay to get the tool for breaking safes?

Answer: Nine hundred dollars

6. Name the places where safes were broken after Jimmy Valentine‟s release from the prison.

Answer: (1) Richmond, Indiana (2) Logansport City (3) Jefferson City 

7. Who is Ben Price?

Answer: Cop (Police) 

8. Why did Ben Price suspect Jimmy of bank robbery?

Answer: Why Ben Price suspected Jimmy of bank robbery because he was safe-breaker and after his release from prison safes were broken in three places. 

9. Where did Jimmy Valentine meet Annabel Adams?

Answer: Elmore

10. Why did Jimmy Valentine look at Annabel so strangely?

Answer: Jimmy Valentine looked at Annabel so strangely because he mistook her for young lady Polly Simpson.

11. What was the false name given by Jimmy Valentine when he got a room in the hotel at Elmore?

Answer: Ralf D. Spencer

12. How are Jimmy Valentine and Ralf D. Spencer alike and different?

Answer: Ralf D. Spencer is the name of Jimmy Valentine in Elmore. Jimmy Valentine is a safe-breaker by profession whereas Ralf D. Spencer is a businessman by profession.

13. What business did Ralf D. Spencer start in Elmore?

Answer: Shoe business.

14. Why does Jimmy Valentine request Annabel for her flower?

Answer: In order to put it where he could not lose it.

15. Name the girl who shut Agatha in the vault? 

Answer: May, a nine year old girl.

16. How much time did Jimmy Valentine take to open the vault to rescue Agatha?

Answer: Ten minutes

* THE BEST INVESTMENT I EVER MADE

A.J. CRONIN (1896-1981)

1. What did the speaker notice on the second day of his voyage? 

Answer: On the second day of his voyage, the speaker noticed one of the passengers watching him and gazing at him earnestly.

2. Why were the man on the ship and his wife on tour of New England?

Answer:To inspect many of the summer camps for young people there and visit settlement houses in New York and other cities.

3. What was the man on the ship by profession?

Answer:A solicitor.

4. Where did the speaker set up practice as a young doctor?

Answer:A working class district of London.

5. Why did the sergeant of police call the young doctor in the middle of the night?

Answer:To attend a suicide case.

6. Describe the night on which the sergeant of police called the young doctor in the middle of the night.

Answer:It was a foggy November night.

7. What was the young man?

Answer: The young man was a clerk in London solicitor‟s office.

8. What did the young man steal from London solicitor‟s office? OrWhat made the young man attempt suicide?

Answer:The young man stoleseven pounds ten shillings from London solicitor‟s office. This made the young man attempt suicide.

9. Who were the three people who helped the young man who attempted suicide?

Answer:The sergeant of police, the speaker and the landlady.

THE REFUGEE

K.A. ABBAS (1914-1987)

1. Why did millions of people find themselves uprooted and driven to alien land?

Answer: Because of the tragic storm of August-September, 1947.

2. What was the tragic storm of August-September, 1947?

Answer: Partition of India

3. Who were the two old women who were forced to flee to Bombay in 1947?

Answer: Ammaan and Maanji.

4. How did the narrator‟s mother travel to Bombay? Why?

Answer: The narrator‟s mother travelled to Bombay by plane. It was still unsafe to travel by train because of communal riots.

5. How did Maanji come from Rawalpindi to Amritsar?

Answer: Maanji came from Rawalpindi to Amritsar in a refugee caravan.

6. What did Muslim women of the neighbour call Maanji?

Answer: Muslim women of the neighbour called Maanji Sardarni Behanji.

7. Mention the names places where Maanji son worked?

Answer: Lahore, Calcutta and Bombay.

8. Who came to Rawalpindi with bitter feelings of revenge and hate?

Answer: The Muslims from East Punjab came to Rawalpindi with bitter feelings of revenge and hate.

9. Which incident made Maanji lose her faith?

Answer: The killing of a Hindu tongawallah and his horse in front of her house.

10. Who was stabbed to death in front of Maanji‟s house?

Answer: A Hindu tongawallah was stabbed to death in front of Maanji‟s house.

11. How was Manji‟s house in Bombay?

Answer: Manji‟s house in Bombay was a single room tenement with a dhobi occupying the room on one side, and a coal shop on the other.

12. How was Manji‟s house in Rawalpindi?

Answer: Manji‟s house in Rawalpindi was a house with six spacious rooms, wide verandas, and big courtyard.

13. What according to Maanji, can one get only in Rawalpindi?

Answer: Peaches, apricots, apples, grapes, melons.

UNIT: 3 ESSAYS

1. ON SUPERSTITIONS 

by

A.G. GARDINER (1865-1946)

What is the number of the bus, which A.G.Gardiner often rode in London? 

Answer: 13

2. What is the passionate advocacy of Florence Nightingale in the sick bedroom?

Answer: Keeping flowers in the sick bedroom.

3. Who recorded the medical experiences during the war?

Answer: M.Duhmal

4. Who objects to pork as unclean on religious grounds?

Answer: The Jews

5. For what reason Thucydides‟ battle were being postponed (and lost)?

Answer: Because they had a belief that falling off a leaf is a bad sign or unlucky. 

6. How did Pompey get the whole election postponed? 

Answer:By shouting to the assembly that he heard thunder.

7. How did Cicero lose his life?

Answer: By trusting the wisdom of crows.

8. When did Cicero lose his life?

Answer: When he was in flight from Antony and Caesar Augustus.

3. THE LIGHT HAS GONE OUT

By

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU (1889-1964)

1. What does the „light‟ refer to in “The Light Has Gone Out”? 

Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

2.Who remarked, “The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere”?

Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru

3. Where did Nehru deliver the speech “The Light Has Gone Out”?

Answer:Nehru deliver the speech “The Light Has Gone Out” on All India Radio.

4. What does the great disaster remind us?

Answer: The great disaster remind us of the big things of life and the living truth.

5.Why was Mahatmaji‟s body not embalmed?

Answer: It was Gandhi‟s repeated wish and opposition to any embalmment of his body.

 A TOWN BY THE SEA 

by

AMITAV GOSH (1956 ---)

1. Where and when did the Director of the Malaria Research Centre work? 

Answer: The Director of the Malaria Research Centre worked in the island of Car Nicobar in 1991.

2. Where is Malacca located? What are the words used to describe Malacca?

Answer: Malacca is located in Car Nicobar Island. The word seafront is used to describe Malacca.

3. Where did the Director spend the night of December 25, 2004?

Answer: Haddo Circuit House.

4. What woke up the Director on the morning of 26, December?

Answer: An earthquake woke him up by shaking of his bed.

5. What was the strange phenomena that began to happen in the sea?

Answer: The water in the sea began to rise very rapidly and the anchored ships bean to swirl about.

6. Why did the Director become frantic?

Answer: Because he head the worn tsunami.

7. What was the information that the Director got through the Satellite phone?

Answer: Malacca had been badly hit.

8. Where was the Director‟s son found?

Answer: The Director‟s son was found clinging to the rafter of the church.

9. What was the house built of? What happened when the wave hit?

Answer: The house built of wood. The house was dissolved into spinters.

10. What remained of the town of Malacca after the tsunami?

Answer: a deep crust of wreckage.

11. What happened to Director‟s wife and daughter?

Answer: Director‟s wife and daughter just disappeared because of tsunami.

12. What did the Director tell the writer about his daughter, Vineeta?

Answer: the Director‟s daughter Vineeta loved to paint; she was good at it. She was given a prize, from Hyderabad.