Passage 4

“The ears are bad,” he said; “droop them a little more. Thank you. Now the eyes. Roll them in under
the lids. Put the hands on the knees, please, and turn the face just a little upward. Yes, that’s better.

(i) Which body features are asked to be improved upon and how?
Ans. The ears, eyes and face have to be improved upon. The ears need to be bent, the eyes must
be rolled under the eyelids and the face be turned upwards.

(ii) Do you think the narrator is happy and satisfied with the photographer?
Ans. The narrator is not happy because the photographer is trying to make him pose unnaturally to
get a perfect photograph. However, the narrator wants a picture of himself just as he looks.

(iii) Which things other than the ones mentioned later in the context are to be set right?
Ans. The mouth, eyebrows and hairline have to be set right.

(iv) Did all these body features of the narrator meet the due approval of the photographer?
How do you know?
Ans. The features did not meet his approval because he used his drawing and technical skills to
improve the negative of the narrator’s photograph.

(v) What does it tell you about the photographer’s art?

Ans. He was proud of his talent. He created a nice photo, using his drawing and technical skills.
However, the photograph looked different from the narrator’s appearance.

Passage 5
“Stop,” I said with emotion but, I think, with dignity. “This face is my face. It is not yours, it is mine.
I’ve lived with it for forty years and I know its faults. I know it’s out of drawing. I know it wasn’t made
for me, but it’s my face, the only one I have –”

(i) Who is the speaker here? Who is he talking to? What is the occasion?
Ans. The narrator says this. He is talking to the photographer. He has gone to the studio to get
himself photographed and is hurt by the man’s behaviour of finding faults with his body features.

(ii) What prompted the speaker to say. “It is not yours, it is mine”?
Ans. He said this to insist that it was his face, his property and he accepted it. The photographer had
no right to say that it was wrong or to find faults in it.

(iii) What is the tone of the speaker?

Ans. The speaker is annoyed and hurt

(iv) What does the extract tell about the narrator’s present mood?
Ans. The narrator is hurt and annoyed.

(v) The narrator seems to assert some idea.

Ans. The idea is of accepting the real self and not trying to shift towards the deviated or made up
selfself.
Passage 10
Snick
The photographer had pulled a string. The photograph taken. I could see the machine still staggering
from the shock.
“I think,” said the photographer, pursing his lips in a pleased smile, “that I caught the features just in
a moment of animation.”
“So!,” I said bitingly, – “features, eh? You didn’t think I could animate them, I suppose? But let me
see the picture.”

(i) When the narrator spoke ‘bitingly’, what does it tell about his feeling?
Ans. He was hurt and annoyed.
(ii) What does the extract indicate about the machine?
Ans. It was old.
(iii) Why was the photographer pursing his lips in a pleased smile?
Ans. He was proud of his accomplishment of capturing the perfect expressions.
(iv) What was the moment of animation?
Ans. When the narrator was speaking to the photographer and was getting up from the stool, there
was a moment when his facial expressions were perfect. This is called the right moment of
animation when the photograph was clicked.
(v) Why did he want to see the picture?
Ans. He wanted to verify the claim of the photographer by seeing the photo that he had clicked.

Passage 9
I waited an hour. I read the Ladies Companion for 1912, the Girls Magazine for 1902 and the Infants
Journal for 1888. I began to see that I had done an unwarrantable thing in breaking in on the privacy
of this man’s scientific pursuits with a face like mine.
After an hour the photographer opened the inner door.

(i) Why did he wait for an hour?

Ans. The photographer wanted him to think that he was a busy man.
(ii) What does ‘breaking in’ mean?
Ans. It means to enter into a prohibited place.
(iii) Why did the narrator think that he had done an unwarrantable thing?
Ans. He tought so because he had to wait for a long period of time. Perhaps it was so because the
photographer was busy in some great scientific research and he had disrupted his work.
(iv) ‘with a face like mine means ……………………………
Ans. It means that his face was not photogenic and perhaps that was the reason for the
photographer’s reluactanc ein taking its photograph.
(v) Find a synonym of ‘confidentiality’ from the extract.
Ans. Privacy