Ch-4 The Enemy by Kalki Extracts Fully Solved NCERT BASED Course

Ch-4 The Enemy by Kalki Krishnamurthy 

Extracts Fully Solved 

  

Q1.Directions: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:

Extract 1

Thus agreed, together they lifted the man. He was very light, like a fowl that had been half- starved for a long time until it is only features and skeleton. So, his arms hanging, they carried him up the steps and into the side door of the house. This door opened into a passage, and down the passage they carried the man towards an empty bedroom.

(a) Who lifted the man together?

(i) Hana and Sadao

(ii) Hana and Yumi

(iii) Sadao and Yumi

(iv) Sadao and Colonel

(b) In the above extract, 'He was very light, like a fowl'. Here 'he' refers to……..

(c) To whom did the empty room belong?

(d) What does 'fowl' mean?

Extract 2

“But the utter pallor of the man's unconscious face moved him first to stoop and feel his pulse. It was faint but it was there. He put his hand against the man's cold breast. The heart too was yet alive. "He will die unless he is operated on," Sadao said, considering. "The question is whether he will not die anyway."

(a) What did Sadao do to make sure if the man was alive?

(i) He checked the man's pulse

(ii) He checked the man's heart

(iii) He checked the man's pulse and heart

(iv) He checked the man's eyes

(b) Sadao wants that the man……..

(c) Who is the author?

(d) Give a synonym of 'Faint'.

Extract 3

 "The master ought not to heal the wound of this white man," he said bluntly to Hana. "The white man ought to die. First he was shot. Then the sea caught him and wounded him with her rocks. If the master heals what the gun did and what the sea did they will take revenge on us."

(a) Who speaks "the master ought not to heal the wound of this white man"?

(i) Some old man in the neighbourhood

(ii) The doctor's father

(iii) The old gardener

(iv) None of the above

(b) The 'master' referred to in the first line is………..

(c) What does 'bluntly' mean?

(d) Name the lesson and it's writer.

Extract 4

“It was at this moment that both of them saw something black come out of the mists. It was a man. He was flung up out of the ocean-flung, it seemed, to his feet by a breaker. He staggered a few steps, his body outlined against the mist, his arms above his head. Then, the curled mists hid him again.”

(a) At first Sadao considered him to be:

(i) fisherman.  (ii) a criminal 

(iii)A politician  (iv)A singer 

(b) In the above extract 'both of them' are:

(i) Sadao and his friend

(ii) Hana and Sadao

(iii) Hana and her friend

(iv) White man and Hana

(c) 'He was flung up out of the ocean'. Whom does 'he' refer to here?

(d) What does 'Flung' mean?

Extract 5.

“He did not seem to hear her. But she was used to his absorption when he was at work. She wondered for a moment if it mattered to him what was the body upon which he worked so long as it was for the work he did so excellently.”

(a) Sadao didn't hear……….

(b) What work was Sadao doing?

(i) He was carrying the dirty body of the wounded man

(ii) He was operating to get the bullet out of man's body

(iii) He was giving oxygen to the wounded man

(iv) He was shaking the body of the wounded man

(c) Give a word which can replace 'seem'.

(d) Give a synonym of 'absorption.

Extract 6

“The young American, without a word, shook Sadao's hand warmly, and then walked quite well across the floor and down the step into the darkness of the garden. Once-twice... Sadao saw his light flash to find his way. But that would not be suspected. He waited until from the shore there was one more flash. Then he closed the partition. That night he slept.”

(a) Sadao waited until……….

(b) In what way, Sadao can be called a traitor?

(i) He saved the life of an enemy

(ii) He gave shelter to an enemy in his house

(iii) He helped an enemy to escape safely

(iv) All of the above

(c) Who is the young American?

(d) Give a synonym of suspected.

Extract 7

"It will be better for her to empty her stomach," he thought. He had forgotten that of course she had never seen an operation. But her distress and his inability to go to her at once made him impatient and irritable with this man who lay like dead under his knife.

(a) Choose the writer of the above extract.

(i) Jack Finney (ii) Tishani Doshi

(iii) Pearl S. Buck (iv) Susan Hill

(b) Sadao had a knife in his hand to…….

(c) Who is 'he' in the given extract?

(d) Give an antonym of 'impatient.

Extract 8

Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow:

“The professor and his wife had been kind people anxious to do something for their few foreign students, and the students, though bored, had accepted this kindness. Sadao had often told Hana how nearly he had not gone to Professor Harley’s house that night-the rooms were so small, the food so bad, the professor’s wife so voluble. But he had gone and there he had found Hana, a new student, and had felt he would love her if it were at all possible.”

 

1. Name the Professor.
A. Anatomy Professor
B Professor Harley
C Professor Tom
D None of these

2. What does the word ‘Voluble’ mean?
A Garrulous
B Gassy
C Loquacious
D All of the above
3. Where was Dr Sadao putting up when he met Hana?
A Japan.
B America
C At General’s home
D All of these. 

4.Which race did Hana belong to?

A. American

B Japanese

C Indian

D Chinese

Extract 9.

Sadao hesitated again. "The strange thing is," he said, "that if the man were whole I could turn him over to the police without difficulty. I care nothing for him. He is my enemy. All Americans are my enemy. And he is only a common fellow. You see how foolish his face is. But since he is wounded..."

1. Sadao at first decided to:

(a) treat the soldier

(b) throw him back in the sea

(c) hand him over to the police

(d) make him unconscious

2. The wounded soldier belonged to:

(a) The Russian army

(b) U.S. Navy

(c) The British army

(d) The Japanese army

3. Sadao and Hana decided to take the soldier:

(a) inside their house

(b) to the police station

(c) to the movie theatre

(d) to the park

4. What do you think would be the possible reason for Dr. Sadao's hesitation?

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Answers

Extract 1

(a) (i) Hana and Sadao

(b) the wounded person

(c) The empty room belonged to Sadao's father.

(d) Fowl means a bird, especially a chicken

Extract 2

(a) (iii) He checked the man's pulse and heart

(b) should not die

(c) Pearl S. Buck is the author.

(d) A synonym of 'Faint' is delicate or inaudible

Extract 3

(a) (iii) The old gardener

(b) Dr. Sadao

(c) Bluntly means in a very direct way, without trying to be polite.

(d) The name of the lesson is 'The Enemy'. Kalki 

Extract 4

(a) fisherman 

(b) (ii) Hana and Sadao

(c) Here, 'he' refers to a wounded American soldier.

(d) Flung means to throw or hurl forcefully

Extract 5.

(a) Hana's answer to Sadao that she washed the wounded man

(b) (ii) He was operating to get the bullet out of man's body

(c) 'Appear' can replace 'seem'.

(d) A synonym of 'absorption' is concentration or engrossment.

Extract 6

a) one more flash

(b) (iv) All of the above

(c) The young American is the soldier who has been treated by Sadao.

(d) A synonym of 'suspected' is distrusted or doubted.

Extract 7

(a) (iii) Pearl S. Buck

(b) operate the sore of the man

(c) Sadao is 'he' in the given extract.

(d) An antonym of 'impatient' is patient or calm.

Extract 8

1.B Professor Harley

2.D All of the above

3.B America

4.B Japanese

Extract 9

1-(b) throw him back in the sea

2-(b) U.S. Navy

3- (a) inside their house

4-The stranger being an American becomes the cause of doctors dilemma. he could not decide whether he should bring him back to the senses or let him die.