Q. What is a nickname? Can you suggest another one for Private Quelch?
Ans: A nickname is an informal, often humorous name given to a person. The name is usually associated with an external trait or a personality quirk or with some achievement. In this manner, Quelch can be given the name Mr.Overaction / Show-off / Know-all etc.
Q. Private Quelch looked like a Professor, when the author first met him at the training depot, why?
Ans: Professor Quelch was lanky, stooping, frowning through horn-rimmed spectacles. He always had an air of know-all around himself. Talking to him was like talking to an encyclopedia. A small conversation would confirm that he was fit to be a university professor, one who gives a detailed lecture on their favourtie topic.
Q. What does the dark, sun-dried appearance of the Sergeant suggest about him?
Ans: The Sergeant who was giving a lesson the working mechanism of the service rifle looked like a dark, sun-dried raisin. This suggests that he must have been working in British ruled India, he tropical season of which, had baked his skin and thus gave him a sun tanned complexion.
Q. How was Private Quelch's knowledge exposed even further as the Sergeant's classes went on?
Ans: The Seargent did not like to be interrupted, so he put forth a series of questions to Private Quelch, with an intention of insulting him, but Quelch had expertise in his area of knowledge and hence answered every question adeptly. This only brought him glory.
Q. What did the Professor mean by "intelligent reading"?
Ans: The prompt answers given by Quelch regarding the service rifle A to Z surprised the sergeant. So he was compelled to ask the Professor / Quelch how or where he got his information, even before the training started, to which Quelch replied it was just a matter of "intelligent reading" meaning he had read everything thoroughly and with utmost concentration.
Q. What were the Professor's ambitions in the army?
Ans: The Professor's greatest ambition was to get a commission in the army. To achieve his dreams, he burned the midnight oil / spent late nights into reading the training manuals. He also tried to impress his seniors with his so gained bookish knowledge. But he wanted to take one step at a time. And his first step was to get a stripe.
Q. Did Private Quelch's day to day practices take him closer towards his goal? How can you make out?
Ans: Private Quelch's day to day practices didn't help him in winning a commission, as he was a bit of a show off. The moment some senior started teaching something he felt compelled to correct mistakes and he did a good job of that. This irritated one of his seniors to the extent that he took care of sending Quelch to cookhouse duties as a punishment. Thus his dreams crashed a bit prematurely.
Q. Describe Corporal Turnbull.
Ans: Corporal Turnbull was a very intelligent, young officer. He took his job quite seriously. He had come from Dunkirk with all his equipments and other training apparatus. He was worshipped as a hero by all the Privates. He was considered tough enough to take the pain of being hammered with a nail. He didn't like to be interrupted. He thought he was to be respected for his position by his juniors. When Private Quelch interrupted him during his lesson, he was enraged.
Q. How did Private Quelch manage to anger the Corporal?
Ans: On a drowsy summer afternoon, Corporal Turnbull was lecturing on the usage of grenade to the soldiers and explaining to them about the fragments it was made up of, Private Quelch, immediately corrected him by saying it consisted of 44 segments. This didn't go well with Corporal, who got so angry that he punished The Professor / Quelch by sending him to cookhouse duties as a punishment.
Q. Do you think Private Quelch learnt a lesson when he was chosen for cookhouse duties? Give reasons for your answer.
Ans: Some people never ever learn. Same was the case with Quelch as even after being sent to cookhouse duties as a punishment, he started picking up fights with the working staff and also complained about the 'unscientific' and 'unhygienic' way of peeling potatoes. He considered it a sheer waste of vitamin values.
THE END! :-))
Seetha Lakshmi. :-)
Ans: A nickname is an informal, often humorous name given to a person. The name is usually associated with an external trait or a personality quirk or with some achievement. In this manner, Quelch can be given the name Mr.Overaction / Show-off / Know-all etc.
Q. Private Quelch looked like a Professor, when the author first met him at the training depot, why?
Ans: Professor Quelch was lanky, stooping, frowning through horn-rimmed spectacles. He always had an air of know-all around himself. Talking to him was like talking to an encyclopedia. A small conversation would confirm that he was fit to be a university professor, one who gives a detailed lecture on their favourtie topic.
Q. What does the dark, sun-dried appearance of the Sergeant suggest about him?
Ans: The Sergeant who was giving a lesson the working mechanism of the service rifle looked like a dark, sun-dried raisin. This suggests that he must have been working in British ruled India, he tropical season of which, had baked his skin and thus gave him a sun tanned complexion.
Q. How was Private Quelch's knowledge exposed even further as the Sergeant's classes went on?
Ans: The Seargent did not like to be interrupted, so he put forth a series of questions to Private Quelch, with an intention of insulting him, but Quelch had expertise in his area of knowledge and hence answered every question adeptly. This only brought him glory.
Q. What did the Professor mean by "intelligent reading"?
Ans: The prompt answers given by Quelch regarding the service rifle A to Z surprised the sergeant. So he was compelled to ask the Professor / Quelch how or where he got his information, even before the training started, to which Quelch replied it was just a matter of "intelligent reading" meaning he had read everything thoroughly and with utmost concentration.
Q. What were the Professor's ambitions in the army?
Ans: The Professor's greatest ambition was to get a commission in the army. To achieve his dreams, he burned the midnight oil / spent late nights into reading the training manuals. He also tried to impress his seniors with his so gained bookish knowledge. But he wanted to take one step at a time. And his first step was to get a stripe.
Q. Did Private Quelch's day to day practices take him closer towards his goal? How can you make out?
Ans: Private Quelch's day to day practices didn't help him in winning a commission, as he was a bit of a show off. The moment some senior started teaching something he felt compelled to correct mistakes and he did a good job of that. This irritated one of his seniors to the extent that he took care of sending Quelch to cookhouse duties as a punishment. Thus his dreams crashed a bit prematurely.
Q. Describe Corporal Turnbull.
Ans: Corporal Turnbull was a very intelligent, young officer. He took his job quite seriously. He had come from Dunkirk with all his equipments and other training apparatus. He was worshipped as a hero by all the Privates. He was considered tough enough to take the pain of being hammered with a nail. He didn't like to be interrupted. He thought he was to be respected for his position by his juniors. When Private Quelch interrupted him during his lesson, he was enraged.
Q. How did Private Quelch manage to anger the Corporal?
Ans: On a drowsy summer afternoon, Corporal Turnbull was lecturing on the usage of grenade to the soldiers and explaining to them about the fragments it was made up of, Private Quelch, immediately corrected him by saying it consisted of 44 segments. This didn't go well with Corporal, who got so angry that he punished The Professor / Quelch by sending him to cookhouse duties as a punishment.
Q. Do you think Private Quelch learnt a lesson when he was chosen for cookhouse duties? Give reasons for your answer.
Ans: Some people never ever learn. Same was the case with Quelch as even after being sent to cookhouse duties as a punishment, he started picking up fights with the working staff and also complained about the 'unscientific' and 'unhygienic' way of peeling potatoes. He considered it a sheer waste of vitamin values.
THE END! :-))
Seetha Lakshmi. :-)
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