9th Class English Best Seller - O Henry Question Bank

done 9th CBSE English Best Seller - O Henry Total Questions - 32

• question_answer1)
  "I contrived to keep out of her sight as much as I could, but I never lost track of her. The last station she got off at was away down in Virginia, about six in the evening."    (a) Who is the speaker here? Identify 'her'. (c) Why was he following her?
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    "Yet, I am a man and I have a heart to do and dare. I have no title save that of an uncrowned sovereign; but I have an arm and a sword that yet might free Schutzenfestenstein from the plots of traitors."                        (a) Who is T here? (b) What can he do for his beloved? (c) Who was his beloved?
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    "A tall old man, with a smooth face and white hair, looking as proud as Julius Caesar was there to meet her. His clothes were frazzled but I didn't notice that till later."                    (a) Who has been described as a 'tall old man'? (b) Who is the speaker here? (c) Who was 'her'?  (c) Jessie, Colonel Allyn's daughter is 'her'.
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    "They went in a gate on top of the hill. It nearly took my breath away when I looked up. Up there in the biggest grove, I had ever seen was a huge house with round white pillars about a thousand feet high and the yard was so full of rose-bushes and box-bushes and lilacs that you couldn't have seen the house if it hadn't been as big as the Capitol at Washington."            (a) Who went in a gate on top of the hill? (b) Who is the speaker here? (c) Why was he so stunned?
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    I've had my salary raised twice since I saw you and I get a commission, too. I've bought a neat slice of real estate. Next year the firm is going to sell me some shares of stock. Oh, I'm in on the line of General Prosperity.              (a) Who is the speaker here? (b) What does it show about the speaker? (c) Describe General Prosperity.
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    "She looks at me as cool as if I was the man come to see about the weeding of the garden, but I thought I saw just a slight twinkle of fun in her eyes."                     (a) Identify the speaker here. (b) Who is 'She' here? (c) Why was there a twinkle of fun in her eyes?
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    "And then I told her why I had come, as respectful and earnest as I could. And I told her everything about myself and what I was making and now that all I asked was just to get acquainted with her and try to get her to like me.               (a) Identify 'I' in the above extract. (b) What did he want to tell her? (c) Who is 'She'?
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    "Men are very clumsy", said she. 'I know you were on every train. I thought you were going to speak to me and I am glad you didn't."    (a) Who is 'she'? (b) To whom does 'You' refer? (c) Why was she glad?
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    "I was on the south-bound, going to Cincinnati, about eighteen months ago, when I saw, across the aisle, the finest looking girl I'd ever laid eyes on. Nothing spectacular, you know, but just the sort you want for keeps".          (a) Who is speaking to whom? (b) Where was T going? (c) What kind of a girl did he come across?
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    "For about nine seconds he had me rattled and I came mighty near getting cold and trying to sell him some plate-glass. But I got my nerve back pretty quick. He asked me to sit down and I told him everything."                          (a)Identify'!'. (b) Why he was getting so nervous? (c) Who is 'he'?  (c) He refers to Colonel Allyn, Jessie's father.
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    "We talked two hours. I told him everything I knew and then he began to ask questions and I told him the rest. All I asked of was to give me a chance. If I couldn't make a hit with the little lady, I'd clear out and not bother any more."   (a) Who talked for two hours? (b) What did John tell Colonel Allyn? (c) Who has been described as the 'little lady'?
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    'He's coming', says she. 'He's going to tell you, this time, the story about the old African and the green watermelons'.          (a) Who is coming? (b) Who said these lines to whom? (c) How is 'she' related to the one who is coming?
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    "I married her a year ago, "said John, "I told you I built a house in the East end. The belted-I mean the Colonel- is there, too," (a) Who is the speaker here? (b) Who married whom? (c) To whom is he talking?
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    We are a proud family. Look at that mansion. It has fifty rooms. See the pillars and porches and balconies. The ceilings in the reception rooms and the ball room are twenty eight feet high.                            (a) Who is the speaker here? (b) To whom is the speaker speaking? (c) What does the above description of the house show about the speaker?
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    'Good-night," says I, "and it wasn't Minneapolis. What's your name, first, please?"                         (a) Who is the speaker? Or Who is wishing good night? (b) To whom is he wishing good night? (c) Where did T belong to?
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    But I got my nerve back pretty quick. He asked me to sit down and I told him everything. (a) Who is the speaker here? (b) Who asked him to sit down? (c) What does 'everything' imply?
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    glanced out of the window. Coke town was nothing more than a ragged hillside dotted with a score of black dismal huts propped up against dreary mounts of slag and clinkers. (a) Who is T here? (b) How is coke town described? (c) Where was he going?  
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  Where was the narrator going and whom did he meet in the chair-car?
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• question_answer19)
    Who was sitting on chair no 9 and what was he reading? What sort of views were exchanged between him and the narrator?       
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    What does the narrator describe about John's looks and his views on the plate-glass company when he met him?        
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• question_answer21)
    What was John A Pescud's opinion about best sellers? Why?              
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• question_answer22)
    What did John say when the narrator asked him about his company and his work?
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    What does John say about himself since his last meeting with the author?
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    What did John describe about the mansion when he first saw it to the author? 
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    How did John's first meeting with Jessie's/other go?             
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    Why did John get off at Coke town?    
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• question_answer27)
    John is a hypocrite. Do you agree with this statement? Substantiate your answer.                    
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• question_answer28)
  Give a character sketch of John A Pescud.     
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• question_answer29)
                                                      Give a character sketch of Jessie Allyn.   
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• question_answer30)
                                                              Give a character sketch of Colonel Allyn.
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• question_answer31)
                                                              Compare and contrast the characters of John to that of the narrator in the best seller.
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• question_answer32)
    Consider yourself as John A Pescud and express your views when you first saw Jessie and what did you say when you met her. How did you manage to convince her father for marriage? Write a diary entry in about 180-200 words.                                                                                  
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