Bihar Board Class11 English South Delhi Murder Questions and Answers
Class11 English South Delhi Murder
A. Work in small groups and discuss these questions :
Question 1.
Why are old people compelled to live alone now-a-days ?
Answer:
Old people are compelled to live alone now-a-days because their children like a nuclear family in which only husband, wife and their children have rooms. There is no room even for parents in their house.
Question 2.
Do old people feel safe to live in big cities ? Why or why not ?
Answer:
A few of them feel safe in living in a big cities because they think that they may get easy medical add which is the foremost demand of the old age. They may have the facility of easy vehicle. They feel they are protected from the criminal elements. They want to live in free atmosphere. They may walk in the green field and take bath in the water of river.
Question 3.
What would you do if you happen to be the first person to have come to know about the occurrence of any accident or crime ?
Answer:
If I am the first person to know about the occurrence of any accident or crime, I will ring to the police station to inform about the occurrence.
Class11 English South Delhi Murder
B. 1. Answer the following questions briefly :
Question 1.
Who is ‘she’ referred to in the poem ?
Answer:
‘She’ is an old lady living in the same apartment in South Delhi.
Question 2.
What did ‘she’ think for three days ?
Answer:
For three days she thought that it was spilled red ink or nail polish.
Question 3.
Whom did ‘she’ call and why ?
Answer:
She called police because it was a case of murder of the old couple in a flat.
Question 4.
What did ’she’ tell Mrs Guha ?
Answer:
She told Mrs. Guha that the couple had a boy servant. He was very pleasant and smiling. It was the boy who had committed the murder with his companions.
Question 5.
Who lived with the old couple ?
Answer:
A boy-servant named Shyam, a Bihari Chokra lived with the old couple.
Class11 English South Delhi Murder
B. 2. Answer the following questions briefly :
Question 1.
When was the murder committed ?
Answer:
The murder was committed at the darkness of night.
Question 2.
Who was accused of committing the murder ?
Answer:
Shyam, a Bihari chokkra was accused of the murder.
Question 3.
What were the weapons used for the murder ?
Answer:
Club and knife were used as weapons for the murder.
Question 4.
Who made the inventory of missing items ?
Answer:
The police with the help of a cousin of the murdered couple made the inventory of missing items.
Question 5.
Which items were found missing ?
Answer:
Two T. V. sets, Radio, valuable Banarasi sari, valuable jewellery and cash were found missing.
:Question 6.
Why did the killers not take away the laptop ?
Answer
The laptop was not looted. This was left behind either in panic or least in value for the robbers.
Question 7.
How was Shyam identified by the police ?
Answer:
A Lady in the appartment told the police that a lovely boy servant whose name was Shyam was living in the flat with the old couple. Shyam opened the door to enter the robbers.
Question 8.
How and when Shyam was nabbed ?
Answer:
Shyam had been filmed holding loaded trays in the party and his address was noted. Shyam was nabbed in his village with fifty rupees cash and a sari for his mother.
Class11 English South Delhi Murder
C. Long Answer type Questions :
Question 1.
‘low could ‘she’ make out that the murder was committed ?
Answer:
She at first mistook the marks of blood for spilled red ink or nail polish. A swarm of flies suggested the mark of some blood wounds closed up behind the door of the flat. Question 2.
What was her opinion about Shyam ? Which words or phrases suggest this ? Does her opinion change after the murder of the old couple ?
Answer:
She told Mrs. Guha that the murdered couple had a lovely boy servant. He was smiling and very sweet. ’So sweet Shyam1 were the words and phrases used for Shyam. Her opinion about Shyam was changed after the murder of the old couple. She was sure that Shyam, with the help of some robbers, had committed the murder.
Question 3.
Whom did the police suspect to have committed the crime ? How did they come to the conclusion ?
Answer:
The police was informed that an old coupl lived in a flat with one boy servant. The police came and broke open the door and located the crime. The murder was committed at night, Shyam the boy servant, must has opened the door of the flat to make the robbers enter the room.
Question 4.
How did the police investigate the murder ? Was it a proper investigation ?
Answer:
The boy servant in question had been filmed, holding loaded trays in party and his address was noted. He was arrested in his village with fifty rupees and a saree that was stolen.To my mind it was a proper investigation.
Class11 English South Delhi Murder
Question 5.
How does the poem bring out the predicament of the old people living alone in big cities ?
Answer:
The old people who live alone in big cities have no one to look after them. Their children live far away from them, even in foreign lands. They depend entirely on a servant. Even their other relatives visit them rarely. Their death or murder is detected by neighbours after a few days.
Question 6.
Narrate the poem in your own words.
Answer:
An old couple lived in South Delhi. They had some inherited jewellery and presents sent to them by their sons. They had a servant. His name was Shyam. He was a sweet boy and he belonged to a small village in Bihar. He served the old couple. One day he went home to see his parentr. He bought a sari for his mother.The police believed that all such murders were committed by Nepali or Bihari servants. They could get his photo and address. They caught him in his village. Shyam had no hand in the crime. The poor boy had only fifty rupees and a sari he had bought for his mother.
Class11 English South Delhi Murder
Question 7.
The moment the police officer comes out of the room he asks, “Nepali boy, no ? Bihari Chhokra’ (lines 16-17). What light does it throw on his attitude ?
Answer:
This incident shows that the police officer had preconceived notion that the murders were committed either by Nepali or Bihari servants. That is why, without any investigation he comes to this conclusion.
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