11th English 2nd Assignment Unit 2 Supplementary The first patient (play) This is the full answerkey for the 11th standard english second assignment for 2021 10th standard sslc assignment
Unit 3 – Supplementary
The First Patient (Play)
I. Multiple Choice Questions.
1.One who treats the condition of teeth and oral cavity is called …..
a) pulmonologist
b) Dermatologist
c) Gynecologist
d) Dentist
Answer:- d) Dentist
2.What is the name of the small boy?
a) Maurice
b) Morris
c) Malik
d) Morrison
Answer:- a) Maurice
3.The small boy felt like reading and he wanted to get a ………..
a) novel
b) magazine
c) dictionary
d) book
Answer:- b) magazine
4.Woman 5 takes some of her holiday __ to pass the time.
a) pictures
b) photograph
c) videos
d) clippings
Answer:- b) photograph
5.Woman 7 warned her daughter, __ who start a fight with the little boy.
a) Emily
b) Jacky
c) Joe
d) Dorothea
Answer:- d) Dorothea
6.Woman 4 said that it was against law for a ……to use a saw.
a) doctor
b) nurse
c) dentist
d) patient
Answer:- c) dentist
7.‘Mummy, take me to school”, said ….
a) Maurice
b) Joe
c) Jack
d) Dorothea
Answer:- a) Maurice
8.As the sound of hammering is heard from the surgery, everyone got …….
a) happy
b) anxious
c) worried
d) upset
Answer:- c) worried
9.The nurse gave man 1 some …… to deaden the pain.
a) injection
b) tonic
c) prescription
d) pills
Answer:- d) pills
10.Finally, Woman – 5 follows the nurse into the ….
a) surgery
b) dressing room
c) clinic
d) waiting room
Answer:- a) surgery
II. Answer the following questions in one or two lines.
1.Why did Woman – 1 panic more than the others?
Woman 1 panicked more than the rest of the visitors because her husband Joe was the first male patient of the day. He was with the dentist. The groans emerging from the surgical room really panicked her more than others. The large carpentry tools being taken to the surgical room annoyed her.
2.Did the little boy and the little girl really had toothache?
3.Woman 5 was not aware of what was happening. Why?
Women 5 was busy showing her family album of photos: She was describing each photo with woman 6 who pathetically listened to her. So, she was not aware of what was happening.
4.How does the mother of the girl try to convince her to see the dentist?
5.Why do patients leave the clinic without meeting?
Some of them couldn’t wait as they had to rush to work. Some were upset by Dorothea’s howling. Some were scared by the groans made inside the surgical room and the hammer, pliers and jacksaw being taken inside the dentist’s room. So, patients left the clinic without meeting the dentist.
III. Answer the following questions in three or four lines.
Describe the condition of the patients at the waiting room.
What were the strange instruments the nurse carried to the surgery? How
did the waiting patients interpret her act?
The nurse carried pliers, hammer and hacksaw to the Dentists’s room. The patients thought the dentist was using those tools to extract bad tooth from patient one. Lady 1 couldn’t resist going to the surgical room as to know what was exactly happening to Joe who was the first patient. Woman restrained her all the time. Unable to bear the groans, two men left the waiting room. They were getting late for work.
Why the patients in the waiting room sympathized with the first patient?
The first patient was seated inside the surgical room of the dentist for a long time. His devoted wife was anxiously waiting out for a long time. Whenever a noisy groan escaped the dentist’s surgical room,she cried. She wanted to rush to the room but was often restrained by the second person. Every adult who watched the lady in distress sympathized with her.
Why did the small boy tell his mother not to treat him as a baby?
What had really happened in the dentist’s room?
The dentist had misplaced the key of the tool cabinet. He tried various carpentry tools like hammer, pliers, and hacksaw to open the cabinet without success for a long time. The groans were literally made by the dentist himself who was trying to break open the tool cabinet with out key.
IV. Write in detail.
Based on your understanding of the play, explain how a mistaken
understanding of events can lead to confusion. How has the author used this
unexpected combination of events in the situation to create humour?
Author C.V. Burgess is a master craftsman. He reveals only a few names. The first patient Joe and his wife Emily are the most dominant characters. Joe is inside the surgical room. Emily is apprehensive about the husband. Among two children the dramatist uses only the girl’s name Dorothea and the Dentist hospital becomes a play area for Dorothea and the little boy who claim the same magazine for reading. The snobbish woman who goes on showing her
photo album gives us an impression if she came to see the doctor or to show her photos. The whole play resolves around the dramatic irony of patients’ guess as to what happened inside the dentists’ room and what really happened. The pliers, hack saw and the huge hammer were taken inside the dentist’s room only for opening the tool cabinet. But the patients wondered how these tools would be used in surgery. The groaning noise from inside the dentist’s rooms and the vexation of Emily Joe add to the dramatic irony. A few women patients leave the waiting room scared of subjecting themselves to the torture of having their bad teeth extracted with carpentry tools. The nurse moves about with all feigned seriousness without disclosing the fact of the misplacement of key which adds to the comic situation
How did woman – 5 in the play ‘The First Patient’ spend her time in the
waiting room of the dentist?
Woman 5 spent her time by showing her photos to some of the patients. She went on describing the place when the photo was taken. She explained the persons found in the photos and about their qualities and frailities.
Man 6 and man 5 left the clinic as it was late for work. Man 2 and 3 left the clinic unable to stand the howling of Dorothea. Women 3, 4 and 6 left seeing tools like pliers being taken into the surgical room. Man 7 who was very heroic and stoical about the pain on a dentist’s chair also left. Then women 2 and 7 also left. Now only woman 1 was left who was waiting for Joe. When woman 5 started looking for an amusing photograph, Joe came out. As all had left, woman 5 was told to go into the dentist’s room.
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