Noor Ul Ain

Roll no. 13
Suicides by Guy de Maupassant
MQCs
1. On which day does Robert commit suicide?
a) Sunday
b) Monday
c) Tuesday
d) Wednesday
2. Robert commits suicide by
a) Hanging himself
b) By inhaling carbon monoxide
c) By having poison
d) By shooting himself
3. What word is applied to the death in which nothing definite is found?
a) Tragedy
b) Mystery
c) Disaster
d) Devil’s game
4. A sick stomach cause
a) Scepticism
b) Nightmare
c) Desire to suicide
d) All of these
5. What is Robert’s reaction when he reminds his dead friend upon seeing
his handwriting?
a) He smiles from ear to ear
b) He feels nostalgic of childhood
c) He begins to tear up
d) He throws the letter angrily
6. What is Robert’s age in the last letter he sees written to his mother?
a) 6
b) 7
 c) 8
d) 9
7. What is the age mentioned in the last letter which Robert sees?
a) Elizabethan Age
b) Puritan Age
c) Victorian Age
d) Age of Reason
8. For how many year, is Robert living the same boredom routine?
a) 10
b) 20
c) 30
d) 40
9. Each brain is like a _____, where the same horse keeps circling around
eternally.
a) Carnival
b) Circus
c) Festival
d) Thanksgiving
10. What kind of character is Robert?
a) Flat
b) Round
c) Changing
d) Multiple Personality
Short Questions
1) According to Robert, why good digestion is everything in life?
It gives the inspiration to the artist, amorous desires to young people, clear
ideas to thinker, and the joy of life to everybody. It also allows one to eat
heartily which is one of the greatest pleasures of life.
2) Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe as it gives back life
to those who no longer exist. Explain
Human mind is one of the best creation of the world that it can keep 50 to
60 years old memory fresh. If a person or a friend who is dead exist in our
mind with all the personality traits he/she used to have. We have each
detail of that person, how one would react, what are one’s favorites and
 dislikes, what one looks like when one smiles, cries or displeases. We have
a complete image of that person in our mind as clear and vivid that such a
dead person can never be found in the world but in the human mind. That’s
why human memory is more beautiful world then the real world.
3) How can solitude and boredom be seen as the reason of Robert’s suicide?
In the beginning, Robert is pleased by the liveliness of the world but the
continuous repetition of the same events made his life boring. For last 30
years he is rising at the same time dining at the same restaurant, same
time, and same dishes served by the same waiters. He is terrified by the
loneliness felt in strange places. At the home, he experience the same
monotonous routine that sometimes he feels like jumping out of the
window. Meeting the same people also irritates him. All these things make
him go mad and make him wanting to kill himself.
4) Upon reading the story, what do you come to know about his love life?
Upon opening a drawer, Robert finds the memories of his love back then in
the early adulthood. He finds dancing shoes, torn handkerchiefs, broken
garters, curly locks and dried flowers. All these things reminded him of
those ladies with whom he was in love and now all of them are white-
headed old ladies.
5) Why does Robert advice to not to reread old letters?
Upon rereading the old letter especially the last one, the one he wrote to
his mother at the age of 7, Robert becomes more depressed and lonely. He
is living a lonely life of monotonous routine, so he think of cleaning up the
letters which are piled up in his drawer. But all these letter, fueled up the
fire of depression and solitude in him thus making him take up his life. He
advises not to do it because it makes a person sad and depressed.