LAYER 3 EDUCATION

The English Teacher By R.K Narayan

1. Whose books did Krishna read for the fiftieth time?
Ans: Milton, Carlyle and Shakespeare.
2. Where did Krishna work?
Ans: He worked in Albert Mission College.
3. What was the salary paid to Krishna?
Ans: One hundred rupees per month.
4. Who was the principal (head) of Albert Mission College?
Ans: Mr Brown.
5. Who was the assistant professor of English?
Ans: Gajapathy.
6. Who spoke on the importance of English and the need for preserving its
purity?
Ans: Mr Brown.
7. Name two colleagues of Krishna?
Ans: Rangappa, Gajapati, Gopal.
8. Who was as sharp as a knife in Mathematics?
Ans: Gopal.
9. What did the English department solely exist for?
Ans: For dotting the – i’s and crossing the – t’s.
10. What does ‘raining cat and dogs mean’?
Ans: Strong wind, heavy and hard rain.
11. Who was the ever questioning philosopher?
Ans: Rangappa.
12. Why did Krishna want to be up very early the next day?
Ans: To see the sunrise and get some exercise before work.
13. Where had Krishna brought the alarm clock from?
Ans: Junk store in Madras.
14. When did the alarm clock stop shrieking?
Ans: When a heavy book like ‘Taine’s History of English Literature’ was
placed on
its crest.
15. What was in heaps on Krishnan’s table?
Ans: Books from libraries and friends, untouched and unanswered letters.
16. Who was Singaram?
Ans: Hostel servant of 80 years
17. Which bath is a real bath for a real man according to singaram?
Ans: River bath.
18. Which poem did Krishna write and how many lines?
Ans: Nature, Fifty lines.
19. What takes up most of the teachers’ hours?
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Ans: Attendance.
20. Which is the vital portion of the great tragedy King Lear?
Ans: Lear facing the storm.
21. Which hour is a sort of relaxation for teachers?
Ans: The Composition hour.
22. Who had written two pages about a poem without understanding it?
Ans: Ramaswami.
23. Which epigram Krishnan set for essay writing?
Ans: “Man is the master of his own destiny”?
24. Who read the four day old newspaper?
Ans: Logic lecturer Sastri.
25. Who was the assistant professor of philosophy?
Ans: Dr Menon.
26. Where had Dr Menon obtained his Ph.D?
Ans: Columbia University.
27. Who said the “American spelling is foolish buffoonery”?
Ans: Gajapathy.
28. Where did Krishna’s brother work?
Ans: He worked in Hyderabad as an auditor.
29. Who led her husband by nose?
Ans: Krishna’s brother’s wife.
30. Who underlined the ‘town’ three times while writing a letter?
Ans: Susila.
31. Who was fastidious and precise in handling the English language?
Ans: Krishna’s father.
32. Who was the B.A. of the olden days?
Ans: Krishna’s father.
33. Which bathrooms are like hell on the earth?
Ans: Hostel bathrooms.
34. Who was an assistant professor in the Economics Department?
Ans: Subharam.
35. What was a grand affair for Krishna’s mother?
Ans: Housekeeping.
36. How did Susila spend her time before marriage?
Ans: Reading, knitting, embroidering or looking after a garden.
37. Whom did Krishna’s mother hates heartily?
Ans: Her eldest daughter-in-law.
38. Who said ‘I shall never accept a girl from High Court Judge’s family’?
Ans: Krishna’s mother.
39. Which was a wonderful place for Krishna?
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Ans: Kavadi.
40. Who were the eminent professors of the Madras College?
Ans: Dr William Miller, Mark Hunter
41. What amount of rent Krishna had to pay for the house?
Ans: Twenty five on the fifth of every month.
42. Why should be jasmine bush grown in a boys’ hostel?
Ans: To remind that there are better things in the world.
43. Why did Krishna want a house facing south?
Ans: It keeps the western sun out and gets eastern in and admits northern
light.
44. What are the conditions that are looked for in residential locality?
Ans: Cheap houses, refined surroundings, near to the market and the office.
45. Who revered the college teachers?
Ans: The old man.
46. Who said, “Susila is a modest girl, she is not obstinate”?
Ans: Krishna’s mother.
47. Who disliked the extravagance of travelling second class?
Ans: Krishna’s father-in-law.
48. Which was the best shop in the town?
Ans: The National Provision Stores (N.P.S).
49. Who never understand the importance of travelling alone?
Ans: Women.
50. Who says man or woman is not born merely to cook and eat?
Ans: Krishna.
51. Who was the cash-keeper in Krishna’s house?
Ans: His wife Susila.
52. In whose hand a hundred rupees seemed to do the work of two hundred
rupees.
Ans: Susila.
53. Who is ‘Kamu’ in the novel?
Ans: Krishna’s mother.
54. What salary was fixed for the old lady?
Ans: Six rupees per month.
55. What did Krishna fancy?
Ans: He was born for a poetic career and someday he hoped to take the
world by storm with the publication.
56. Who jostled each other in a struggle for existence?
Ans: Milton, Shakespeare, Bradley
57. What did Susila read without Krishna’s help?
Ans: The Tamil classics and Sanskrit texts.
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58. Who was a ‘Phantom of Delight’ for Krishna?
Ans: Susila
59. What price Susila got for the old clock?
Ans: Twelve annas.
60. According to Sushila what affects a child’s health?
Ans: Husband and wife quarrelling.
61. Who advanced money to Krishna to buy a new house?
Ans: His father.
62. Where did Krishna and his wife go to choose a house?
Ans: To Lawley Extension.
63. How do the soul and body laugh?
Ans: The soul laughs through the eyes and body laughs with lips.
64. Where did Krishna and Susila take their morning tiffin?
Ans: The Bombay Anand Bhavan.
65. Name the boy who serves Tiffin to Krishna and Susila?
Ans: Mani, a youngster from Malabar.
66. Who had promised Krishna in choosing the house?
Ans: Sastri, of the logic section.
67. What did Krishna call his wife?
Ans: Jasmine.
68. Who blamed Krishna for living in a rented house?
Ans: Sushila’s mother.
69. Who was the moving spirit of the new Lawley Extension?
Ans: Dr Sastri of the logic section.
70. Who was the secretary of the Building and Acquisition Society?
Ans: Dr Sastri of the logic section
71. What name Krishna loved to give to the new home?
Ans: Jasmine Home
72. What did the God Srinivas grant the visitors?
Ans: He granted all theirs boons and blessed all their efforts.
73. Who never heard of buttermilk being given for fever?
Ans: The old woman in Krishna’s house.
74. Who wrote encouraging letters to Krishna during Susila’s illness?
Ans: His brother in Hyderabad, his sister at Vellore and the other sister at
Delhi.
75. Who try to starve patients to death?
Ans: The English doctors.
76. Who was convinced that an Evil Eye had fallen on her daughter?
Ans: Susila’s mother.
77. What does the exorcist do to bring down the fever of Susila?
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Ans: He feels her pulse, utters some mantras with closed eyes, takes a pinch
of sacred ash and rubs it on Susila’s forehead. He ties her arm a talisman
strung in yellow thread.
78. Why did Susila not like the doctors?
Ans: They pressed the stomach, and here and there.
79. Who, according to Rangappa, was the greatest physician on the earth?
Ans: Dr Shankar of the Krishna Medical Hall.
80. Which is the most erratic and temperamental disease on the earth?
Ans: Malaria.
81. Which ailment is the king among the fevers?
Ans: Typhoid.
82. Who said,” Never trust these English doctors”?
Ans: The contractor.
83. Where did Krishna’s mother live?
Ans: Kamalapuram.
84. Why was Krishna to take Fourth-hour class?
Ans: Because George of the language class was absent.
85. What was one aim in Krishna’s life after Susila’s death?
Ans: To see that Leela did not feel the absence of her mother.
86. What seemed to be the greatest task for Krishna in life after Susila’s death?
Ans: Living without illusions.
87. What was the most welcome sound into the pandemonium-like class?
Ans: The college bell.
88. Who brings a letter to Krishna?
Ans: The village boy of fifteen years.
89. Why should we first wash and then read stories?
Ans: We must never touch goddess Saraswati without washing.
90. Who built the goddess ‘Yak Matha’ temple by mere chanting?
Ans: Sankara.
91. Through whom Susila communicated with Krishna?
Ans: The Farmer
92. Who have been working to bridge the gulf between life and the afterlife?
Ans: A band or group of spirits.
93. Who said children must not eat more than two sweets at a time?
Ans: Krishna.
94. How many skirts and shirts Leela had?
Ans: Over forty.
95. What did Susila urge Krishna on to look for at every sitting?
Ans: Her sandalwood casket and the fourteen letters.
96. Why did the spirits need no exercise?
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Ans: Because they have no physical bodies.
97. What transports us directly?
Ans: Music
98. What was the evidence of Susila’s visit to Krishna’s room after her death?
Ans: Taking away the scent from the ten jasmine buds.
99. What had Leela made on her first-day visit to the college?
Ans: A green paper boat.
100. Who brings in a shield or cup?
Ans: The eleven stalwart idiots.
101. What is the main business of an educational institution?
Ans: To shape the mind and character 102. Who are made to pass the
examinations?
Ans: The sportsmen.
103. What was the name of the tiger in the Headmaster’s story?
Ans: Raja.
104. Who never used a towel for the bath?
Ans: The Headmaster.
105. Where was the house of the Headmaster?
Ans: In Anderson Lane.
106. What had Malagudi earned notoriety for?
Ans: Its municipal affairs.
107. Who was Anderson?
Ans: Some gentleman of the East India Company.
108. What had children taught to the Headmaster?
Ans: To speak plainly, without the varnish of the adult world.
109. Which was the dullest work read in the English language by Krishna?
Ans: Criticism of the Elizabethan dramatists, Beaumont and Fletcher.
110. Whose company is unfit for children?
Ans: Adults’ company.
111. Which problem is crushing us all the time?
Ans: The problem of living and dying.
112. Who is a nice fellow to have around never fallen back?
Ans: A dog.
113. How does Leela look?
Ans: Like a miniature version of Susila
114. Which story does the Headmaster narrate to the children in front of
Krishna?
Ans: The story of a ‘Bison and a Tiger’.
115. Who preferred poison to brinjal?
Ans: The Headmaster.
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116. What seemed real work to Krishna?
Ans: Something which satisfied his innermost aspirations.
117. What is necessary for complete communion?
Ans: A degree of concentration and psychic development.
118. What did the Honours boy say about Krishna on the occasion of send off
to Krishna?
Ans: Our country needs more men like our beloved teacher who is going out
today.
119. Who said ‘I mug up and repeat and they mug up and repeat in the
examination?
Ans: Krishna.
120. What did young minds need according to Krishna?
Ans: They need lessons in the fullest use of the mind.
121. What do children need above all else?
Ans: The warmth of mother’s touch.
122. What did the Headmaster give to his wife and children?
Ans: Monthly allowance for their upkeep.

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