11th English 2nd Assignment Unit 2 Supplementary A shot in the Dark This is the full answerkey for the 11th standard english second assignment for 2021 10th standard sslc assignment
Unit 2 – Supplementary
A Shot in the Dark
I. Choose the correct answer for the following questions.
1.Philip Sletherby was going to …..
a) America
b) Brill Manor
c) London
d) Cape town
Answer:- b) Brill Manor
2.Bertie had left his …….
a) suitcase
b) file
c) book
d) sovereign purse
Answer:- d) sovereign purse
3.Bertie was the…… son of Mrs. SaltpenJago.
a) first
b) third
c) second
d) fourth
Answer:- c) second
4.Sletherby met…….in the train.
a) Bertie
b) Saltpen
c) Bertie’s father
d) President
Answer:- a) Bertie
5.Bertie had only …… pence with him.
a) 5
b) 3
c) 2
d) 6
Answer:- d) 6
6.Bertie asked Sletherby to lend …….pounds.
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
Answer:- c) 3
7.Mrs. SaltpenJago used to have beautiful ……..hair.
a) black
b) grey
c) brown
d) white
Answer:- c) brown
8.Claude is the….. of Sletherby.
a)friend
b) brother
c) father
d) uncle
Answer:- a)friend
9.“What is your ….. by the way?”,Sletherby asked.
a) symbol
b) emblem
c) identity card
d) crest
Answer:- d) crest
10.Bertie uses the …….. crest.
a) Jago
b) Demilion
c) Tiger
d) Eagle
Answer:- b) Demilion
II. Answer the following questions in one or two lines.
1.Why did Philip Sletherby visit Brill Manor?
Philip Sletherby visited Brill Manor because he had been invited by Mrs. Honorio Saltpen Jago for a luncheon at Brill Manor.
2.Why did his travel companion curse and mutter?
Mr. Sletherby’s travel companion was a young man of about twenty-two. He cursed and muttered because he had lost his valet along with the family crest. He claimed that he did so foolishly to seal a letter. He had forgotten to collect the valet.
3.Whom did Sletherby meet on the platform of the railway station?
Mr. Sletherby had left Mr. Bertie, Mrs. Honario Saltpen-Jago’s younger son on his way to Brill Manor in a railway station penniless and frustrated.
4.“Therewas a tinge of coldness in his voice” – Why?
When Bertie told of hismother, his voice became cold and he was emotional
5.What was Sletherby’s response to Bertie’s request?
Sletherby initially agreed to lend three pounds. But he wanted to ensure that he was not taken for a ride. He asked him if his mother had a close resemblance with him. Bertie claimed that his mom had dark brown hair like himself. Mr. Sletherby was already biased against lending the money as he believed that Grey hound was the crest found on Mrs. Saltpen-Jago’s note book paper. So, he refused to lend the promised loan to Bertie.
III. Answer the following questions in three or four lines.
1.Describe Bertie’s problem.
Bertie was returning ffomyachting experience for about six months. He had done a damn awkward thing. He left behind his sovereign purse with four quid in it. It was all his worldly wealth at the moment. He must have left the purse on the table. He was stopping at a little country in a near Brondquay for three days’ fishing. As none knows him there, he needed money for his week-end bill and tips and cab to and from the station. In short, he desperately needed three pounds to manage the crisis.
2.How did Bertie describe his mother?
Bertie stated that it was the Jago crest He further added that his mother’s hair was dark brown similar to his
3.Compare the two crests.
The Saltpen crest was “a demi-lion holding a cross-crosslet in its paw.” The Jago crest was a grey hound. Both were used in the family. Bertie could use either of the crests. Bertie had a feeling that he belonged to Saltpens, who used demi-lion crest always.
4.How was Sletherby greeted on the platform of his destination?
On the platform he was greeted sedately by a tall footman and noisily by claude people,K.C.who had apparently travelled down by the same train.
5.What did Sletherby realize in the end?
Stetherby realized that Bertie had not lied to him, but that he had mistaken him for a fraud.
IV. Write in detail.
Describe the youth’s strange behaviour when he was in the train.
The young man who entered the coach gave out a smothered curse. He was engaged in searching something elusive angrily and uselessly. From time to time, he dug a six penny bit out of a waist coat pocket and stared at it sadly, then resumed his search. He voluntarily broke the silence. He exclaimed that Mr. Sletherby was-going to Bill Manor. He introduced himself as Bertie, the younger son of Mrs. Saltpen-Jago. He admitted that he was away for about six months and had not seen his own mother. Making use of the lucky coincidence that he was going to Brill Manor, he asked for a loan of three pounds as he had lost his sovereign purse and was desperately in need of help. He promised to meet him on the subsequent Monday.
“There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.”
‘Seeing is believing’. How this statement humorously disproved in this story?
Bring out the irony in the situation.
“Seeing is believing” is an age old adage which is also contradicted by Plato’s saying Appearance is always deceptive because it appears to appear”. Some times truth is not quite impressive. She needs the support of limping old maid called time to prove herself. Being a cynic and skeptic, Mr. Sletherby takes up a stand right at the beginning of the encounter, not to show any interest in the young man’s fussy outbursts. He carefully lays the trap by telling a lie that he had not seen his mom. He further asks him cleverly if his mom resembled him.
Both Bertie himself and Mr. Sletherby are unaware of the altered looks of Mrs. Saltpen-Jago. There is a dramatic irony when the son himself gives a different version of his mom’s appearance. This influences the decision of Mr. Sletherby in refusing to lend Bertie a loan of three pounds. Thus the adage “Seeing is believing” is humorously disproved in this story. Enquiring thoroughly and compassionately one can find the truth.
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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