My School Days
Chapter 5
1. Vary Short Question Answer
(a) To which school was the author admitted?
Ans. The author was admitted to the Ballygunge Government High School.
(b) What was the school hall used for?
Ans. The school hall was used for the annual prize distribution ceremony and feasts on the occasion of Saraswati Puja.
(c) What was the name of the Shakespearean play that was performed in the hall?
Ans. The play, the Merchant of Venice, was performed in the hall.
(d) Name the two foreign actors mentioned by the author.
Ans. Greenberg and Salim were the two foreign actors mentioned by the author.
2. Short Question Answer
(a) How did B. D Roy teach the pronunciation of ‘the’?
Ans. B. D Roy taught us how the pronunciation of ‘the depends on whether the following word begins with vowel or a consonant.
(b) How did the author get to be Ashubabu’s favourite?
Ans. The author, Satyajit Roy, could draw well, so he got to be Ashubabu’s favourite
(c) What was ‘music drawing’?
Ans. It is an event. There will be a blackboard and coloured chalk on a table. A student will sing a song and another draw a picture in the blackboard, trying to capture in line and colour the essence of the song.
(d) Why did everything seem much smaller to the author when he went back to school after ten years?
Ans. This feeling was normal. The author was five feet three inches tall when he left school and now had grown about six and a half feet. But the school did not grow.
(e) What is a ‘pleasure’ according to the author?
Ans. According to the author, it is indeed a pleasure to take a trip down memory lane and relive the past moments of joy.
3. Fill in the Blank
(a) Sachin Tendulkar is my favourite cricketer.
(b) When Rip-Van-Winkle came back to the village the next morning, he could not recognize it.
(c) Most people have sweet memory of chilbood.
(d) The student could not promuunce, the word correctly.
(e) Mr. Das is an excellent teacher.
4. Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements
a) The author went to Ballygunge Government High School with his mother.
Ans : F
(B) Ballygunge Government High School is on the eastern side of Beltala Police Station.
Ans : T
(e) The southern part of the school was the playground.
Ans : T
(d) When seen from above the author’s school looked like the English letter “L.
Ans : F