10th English - Prose -Unit 2 Question and answer

 

10th English Guide unit 2. THE NIGHT THE GHOST GOT IN  - Prose Question and answer

10th Samacheerkalvi English book back Question and answer Guide

TEXTBOOK QUESTIONS 

Answer the following questions in a sentence or two. 

1. Why was  the narrator  sorry  to have  paid attention to the footsteps? 

• The  narrator felt sorry for having  paid  undue  attention  to the footsteps  because it was all  a misunder standing.  
• There was no ghost moving  down stairs. 
• It was his  grandfather.  If he hadn’t been so foolish  to take his  grandfather’s footsteps  for those of a ghost, he could have averted that entire hullabaloo. 

2.Why did Herman and  the author slam the doors? 

• Herman and  the author slammed  the doors because  he was perhaps afraid of the sound of the footsteps. 

3.What woke up the mother? 

• The slamming of the doors woke up the mother. 

4.    What do you understand  by the  mother’s  act of throwing the shoe? 

• To  the  extent that  mother was trying  to alert the neighbour and seek their help,she was justified in throwing a shoe and breaking their window.

 5.  Why  do  you  think  Mrs.  Bodwell  wanted  to  sell  the  house? 

• Mrs.  Bodwell  wanted  to sell  the house  because she wanted  to go back to Peoria, fearing that it was haunted. 

6.How did the cops manage to enter the locked house?

•  The  cops managed  to enter into  the locked  house  by  breaking the glass of the front door.

7.Why were the policeman prevented  from entering grandfather’s room? 

• The policemen were prevented from entering the grandfather’s room  because he attacked the police, grabed  one of their guns and shot.

8.Who used the zither and how? 

• Grandfather used the zither’s gun from it's holster and let fly.
• The report seemed to crack the rafters and smoke filled theattic.

9. Mention  the things that the grandfather imagined. 

• He believed that the police were “deserters”  from  the army and tried to fend off the narrator,believing too that he was apart of his paranoid nightmare.