Bihar Board Class 12 English Book Solutions Chapter 6 The Artist

The Artist

A. Work in small groups and discuss the following:-

1. Everyone has a hobby of one's own. What is your hobby?

Ans:- Answer this question yourself.

2. Several people are passionately attached to a particular thing or idea. Does it help to be passionate?

Ans:- Yes, it helps to be passionately attached to something or some idea. It helps to achieve something great.

3. Do you think that spending your time on thing other than studies is a wastage of time?

Ans:- I don't think so if the things are worth the while.

B.1.1 . Complete the following sentences on the basis of what you have studied.

i) Seibei was passionately interested in collecting gourds.

ii) Seibei laughed all the way home because he realized his mistake.

iii) Seibei was twelve years old and at primary school.

iv) Seibei did not appreciate baked gourd because it was not symmetrical.

v) Seibei was now engrossed in his picture.

B.1.2. Answer the following question briefly.

1. Where did seibei live?

Ans:- Seibei lived in a harbor town.

2. Which type of gourd did seibei like?

Ans:- Seibei liked round and symmetrical gourd.

3. Why did the conversation of his father and his friends make seibei laugh inwardly?

Ans:- The conversation of his father and his friend made seibei laugh inwardly because his father commented on baking gourd that they had at the agriculture show last spring. The baking gourd had made quite a stir at the time, but when he (seibei) had gone to see it he had found it rather a stupid-looking object and had walked out of the show.

4. Why did seibei's father shout at him?

Ans:- Seibei's father and his friend were taking about bake gourd, they had seen in the agricultural show held in the last spring, which according to him was most beautiful. But seibei found it stupid-looking when he had gone in that show, as such he had walked out of it. So he said that he didn't think so much of it, because it was just an awkward thing. seibei's interruption made his father angry. So he shouted at him.

5. What did Seibei wander about the town?

Ans:- It was seibei's hobby to wander about the town almost daily looking for gourds. He was deeply interested in buying and collecting it from the market and arrange it on the walls of his house.

B.2.1. Complete the following sentences of the basis of the story.

i) The old woman asked ten Sen for the gourd.

ii) The teacher was particularly angry because it happened to take place in an ethics class.

iii) Seibei's father worked at carpenter's shop.

iv) seibei's father fetched his hammer and systematically smashed them to pieces.

v) The curio-dealer sold the confiscated gourd to curio-dealer.

B.2.2. Answer the following questions briefly.

1. What made seibei's heart beat faster?

Ans:- When Seibei was examining the gourds, suddenly he caught sight of one which was about five inches long. something about it made seibei's heart beat faster.

2. Which is called effeminate pastime in the story?

Ans:- The teacher came from another part of japan and found it most offensive that children should indulge in such womanish pastimes as collecting gourds. As such it is called effeminate pastimes in the story.

3. How did seibei's father react to the teacher's complaint?

Ans:- Seibei's father react to the teacher's complaint when he knew. Seibei's fault which was reported by seibei's teacher. He bacame angry at this matter. As soon as he heard, he grabbed his son by the collar and gave him a sound beating. he chided his son that he would never get anywhere in the world, the way he is carrying on.

4. How much did the curio-dealer pay for the confiscated gourd?

Ans:- The curio-dealer paid fifty yen for the confiscated gourd.

5. what did seibei do after he was forced to give up collecting gourds?

Ans:- The Father of seibei fetched his hammer and systematically smashed the gourds to pieces, one after the other, It brought a chance in his hobby. Seibei is now engrossed in his pictures.