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FRANCIS SCHOOL, INDIRAPURAM

Worksheet- Class- XII
The Enemy
- Pearl S. Buck

Short Answer Type Questions

1. Why did Dr. Sadao treat the American soldier even though, it was an unpatriotic action on his part?

2. How did Hana help Dr. Sadao?

3. Why did the General not order immediate arrest of Dr. Sadao who had sheltered a Whiteman?

4. What made a cool surgeon like Sadao speak sharply to his wife and what was her reaction?

5. Why had Hana to wash the wounded man herself?

6. How does the writer indicate that Dr. Sadao’s father was a very traditional and conventional man?

7. Why did the messenger come to Dr. Sadao? What did Hana think about it?

8. How did Dr. Sadao get rid of the enemy soldier?

9. Why did the servants leave Dr. Sadao’s house?

Long Answer Type Questions

1. What was the General’s plan to get rid of the American prisoner? Was it executed? What traits of
General’s character are highlighted in the lesson?

2. What conflicting ideas arise in Dr. Sadao’s mind after he has brought the wounded American soldier
home? How is the conflict resolved?

3. .What impression do you form about Dr. Sadao as a man and as a surgeon on your reading of the chapter
‘The Enemy’?

4. Why did Sadao Hoki go to America? Narrate his experiences there.

5. Dr. Sadao was compelled by his duty as a doctor to help the enemy soldier. What made Hana, his wife,
sympathetic to him in the face of open defiance from the domestic staff?