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Second Year Intermediate English Questions Answers

CHAPTER # 04

End of Term
BOOK II
SHORT QUESTIONS / ANSWERS

Q.1: What was David Daiches' attitude towards the week-end as a school boy? Why did he long for it?

Ans: His attitude towards the week-end is being reflected through his statement "Friday morning was positively rose-coloured. The last 'period' on a friday whatever the subject was had its special happy flavour of  the end of the week, and one walked home from school with the tread of an escaped prisoner." The daily grind of school, with its abundant home work, its fierce competition, the sense of never being able to relax pressed heavily upon him inspite of the fact that he often enjoyed the actual classroom work. Waking up in the morning with the knowledge  that one simply had to get out of  the bed, that there was no possibility for turning over for an extra doze, and seeing the hours of school stretching ahead, was a dismal experience, especially on a Monday. That's why he longed passionately for the weekend to enjoy it.

Q.2:What was his general view of school life?

Ans:The daily grind of school, with its abundant home work, its fierce competition, the sense of never being able to relax pressed heavily upon him inspite of the fact that he often enjoyed the actual classroom work. Waking up in the morning with the knowledge  that one simply had to get out of  the bed, that there was no possibility for turning over for an extra doze, and seeing the hours of school stretching ahead, was a dismal experience, especially on a Monday. He had a maid once who would climb each morning with grim steps up to the attic floor, and announce in deep, funeral tones: "Lionel, David, Sylvia-time!". I used to lie waiting for that ominous tread on the uncarpeted attic stairs, and the voice it heralded sounded in my ears like a summons to damnation.

Q.3: He liked holidays for their freedom-freedom from what?

Ans: Freedom from The daily grind of school, with its abundant home work, its fierce competition, the sense of never being able to relax, waking up in the morning and from the daily routine.

Q.4:How did he spend his summer holidays?

Ans: It was a period of permanent felicity. He would walk home across the Meadows in the July sunshine, wearing his summer school clothes of grey cricket shirt, grey shorts, and red Wetson's blazer and savour his happinesss with conscious relish.

Q.5: Wishes don't come true in this life, writes Daiches. What are the things he longed for but could not have?

Ans: All his early childhood he longed desperately for a tricycle, which his parents could never afford, and later the wish was transferred to a bicycle, and there, too he was permanently disappointed. (He bought his first bicycle for himself when he was twenty-one with prize money he had won at Edinburgh University). How often had he stood outside sweet shops with empty pockets longing for a penny or two to materialize somehow or hung on the outskirts of a crowd around an ice-cream barrow wondering whether the ice-cream man would be miraculously inspired to offer him a 'cornet' or a 'slider' free. These things never happened. 

Q.6: What did he do with his pocket money?

Ans:The few pence a week pocket-money they received was to be put into a money box and saved, and during their early childhood Lionel, Sylvia and he never had anything to spend for themselves.

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