Complete बिहार बोर्ड 12th English Solution
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B.2.1 Complete following sentences on the basis of the unit you have just studied:
i) A simple-minded person is calm, innocent and differently looking than others.
ii) Johnson was more interested in talking than working
iii) Johnson's possession included a plough, a two wheeled cart, tools, a bony brown mare
iv) Benjy's simplicity seemed gradually to have become cunningness.
B.1.2 Read the following sentences and write T for true and 'F' for false statements
i) Johnson was a hard-working man. - False
ii) Johnson was interested in preaching. - True
iii) Johnson had an insane son. - False
iv) Benjy hated his hens. - False
B.1.3 Answer the following questions briefly
Q.1 - Who is a tenant farmer?
Ans. – In this story Johnson is a tenant farmer.
Q.2 - What did the doctor advise Benjy's patents to ensure his mental growth?
Ans. - The doctor advised Benjy's parents to engage him in a work to develop a sense of responsibility in him and he suggested them to give him some hens.
Q.3 - What did Benjy understand about a hen?
Ans. – Benjy understood the first and last thing about a hen: that it exists for the purpose of laying eggs.
Q.4 - What did Benjy understand about the business of hens?
Ans. – What Benjy understood about the business of hens was that eggs could be sold to callers at the back door of their house, in scores and half-scores and fivers.
B.2.1 Complete the following sentences on basis of the unit you have just studied.
i) Benjy left school at the age of fourteen.
ii) By then Benjy had forty or fifty hens.
iii) Benjy knew about segregating breeds of hens through reading a paper.
iv) Johnson believed that the earth designed and created by God would take care of itself.
v) When Benjy was 21, his father handed him the passbook.
B.2.2 Answer the following questions briefly
Q. 1 What silent belief did Benjy's parents cherish about their land?
Ans. - At the back of their minds Benjy’s parents laid a precious belief that Benjy would one day grow out of his simplicity. In the same way they cherished a silent belief that the earth would one day outgrow their poverty.
Q.2 - Why had their land not yielded much?
Ans. Johnson must have had an idea that the earth, designed created, and nourished by God, would take care of itself. While he talked, thistles seeded and choked his wheat, rabbits broke in and gnawed his cabbages, storms smashed his standing corn. Thus, their land not yielded much.
Q.3 - How did Benjy's parents feel when be silently put the passbook in his pocket?
Ans. - A strange tremor of a peculiar emotion went through them both: a mixture of disappointment, fear, pride, and pain.
Q.4 - What had Benjy's parents expected when they handed him the passbook?
Ans. - Benjy's parents had expected: a word of thanks, perhaps a concession, a willingness that they should share the money they had helped to save.
Q.5 - What did Benjy want to do with money?
Ans: - He wanted to buy a piece of land with money.
B.3.1 Complete the following sentences on the basis of the unit you have just studied:
a) The only difference between Benjy's hens and his parents land was that the hens belonged to Benjy and his parents land did not belong to them originally.
b) Benjy wanted to buy his parents' land to install more incubators for the chickens and hens.
c) It was possible to gauge Benjy's progress by the new chicken houses covering his father's former land, and by the fact that he now employed people to help him
d) Benjy's parents did not like Florence because she was a simple, undistinguished girl with ugly legs and a mouth that would not keep shut
B.3.2 Answer the following question briefly-
Q.1 - Who had Johnson rented their land from?
Ans. Johnsons had rented their land from Mr. Sanders.
Q.2 - What information did Sanders give them that made them happy?
Ans. –Sanders told them that Benjy would buy their land.
Q.3 Who was Florence?
Ans. Florence was one of the employees who worked at Benjy’s chicken houses.
Q.4 Why did Benjy want to Mary Florence?
Ans. - Benjy did not need a distinguished, intelligent girl, even if one would have looked at him. He needed a woman to help with the hens.
B.4.1 Complete the following sentences on basis of the unit you have just studied:
a) When Benjy asked his parents to vacate the front bedroom, they moved into the back.
b) Benjy asked parents to go somewhere else because he had bought that property and he wanted it now.
c) Benjy's parents did not speak when their son drove them down into the town because for forty years they had believed Benjy to be not right in his head, they made allowances for the last time.
B.4.2 Read the following sentences and write T for true and 'F' for false statements:
i) With the arrival of Florence as Benjy's wife the house was filled with happiness - False
ii) Benjy and his wife lived in one part of the house and his parents in the other. - True
iii) Benjy paid utmost attention to his ageing parents - False
Q.1 - Did Benjy treat his parents justly? What would you do if you were Benjy?
Ans. – No, Benjy didn’t treat his parents justly. If I were Benjy, I must have taken care of my parents. His parents always believed that Benjy was a simple-minded person, what he actually wasn’t. He knew very well how to grow his business; he knew how to handle finances and how to make good investments. In fact, he was more hard working and more intelligent than his father, so he must have understood about the conditions of his parents but in reality, he was cunning and a coward. So, he always thought about himself and his business.
Q.2 – On how many occasions were Benjy’s parents disappointed with Benjy?
Ans. – Benjy’s parents were disappointed several times in this story. Disappointment starts with handing over the passbook to Benjy. He didn’t even thank them for helping him in saving that much amount. Then there comes a time when Benjy decides to buy a piece of land with that money, he didn’t even consult his parents regarding this. Then he decides to buy the land borrowed by his own parents and he doesn’t make them aware of it, they come to from the owner of their land, Sanders. When Benjy decides to marry Florence, again he didn’t find it meaningful or worthy to ask his parents. And at last, he tells them to get out of his house.
Q.3 – ‘Looks are deceptive.’ How does this apply to Benjy?
Ans. – In this story, the complete plot has been based on how innocent and simple-minded did Benjy look. And at last, he turns out to be cunning and selfish. So we can say that ‘Looks are decptive’. Benjy was a simple guy, with smooth silky hair and loose limbs, he didn’t talk much and always smiled whenever anyone told him anything. But there was always something running in the background of his cunning and deceitful mind. Anyone could think that he was a man with no mind but only his actions reflected every time what he actually was. So ‘Looks are deceptive’ applies completely to Benjy.
Q.4 – What is the role of Florence in this story? How did she affect Benjy’s life?
Ans. – Florence played the role of an antagonist in this story and was the main reason behind the separation between Benjy and his parents. The problem of the girl was different. It seemed to the parents of Benjy that the girl was about to take Benjy away from them. The air in the house became charged deeply with antagonism, the house itself invisibly but clearly divided. And then presently it became divided in actuality. Once there occurred a quarrel between Florence and Benjy’s mother and when Benjy heard of the quarrel he had a very simple solution. That settled it , he said. 'Now you eat in the kitchen, and we'll eat in the other room.' and throughout that winter Benjy and his wife lived in one part of the house, and his father and mother in the other. To the old people the days began now to seem very long. As the winter went on, and the four people were more and more confined indoors, the division in the house became an enormous gap. The two women passed each other on the stairs with glances of antagonism, nor speaking. When Benjy's father walked out to preach on Sundays he walked slowly and brokenly, with the steps of an old man.
Q.5 – Johnson himself was responsible for his tragedy or troubles. Do you agree with this? Give reasons.
Ans. – Yes, I agree that Johnson himself was responsible for his tragedy and troubles. The reason of their sorrow was not in the Earth or Benjy but in themselves. For most of their lives they had put rather more value on faith than sweat. At the back of their minds, lay a precious belief that Benjy would one day grow out of his simplicity. In the same way they cherished a silent belief that the earth would one day outgrow its poverty.
For many years Johnson had been a local preacher, a man with quite a gift of talking. He liked not only to talk on Sundays, to village congregations in small still chapels far out in the countryside, but he liked to talk at the backdoor, over the field gate, in the road outside the house. He talked so much that he must have had an idea that the earth, designed created, and nourished by God, would take care of itself. While he talked, thistles seeded and choked his wheat, rabbits broke in and gnawed his cabbages, storms smashed his standing corn. He struggled on like a man chained by bad luck.
Q.6 - How is simple minded man defined in story? Do you agree with this definition?
Ans. – The Benjy has been introduced as a simple-minded man in this story. Benjy had the large loose limbs that often belong to the simple-minded and thick, soft fair hair on his face. He had the look of being simple-hearted.
man, as well as a simple-minded man. His eyes were blue, and all day long he had a simple smile on his face. But somewhere behind the blue eyes, the simple smile, and the soft childish hair. I don’t agree with this definition because his simplicity seemed gradually to have become a kind of cunning.
Q.7 - Sketch the character of Johnson.
Ans. - For many years Johnson had been a local preacher, a man with quite a gift of talking. He liked not only to talk on Sundays, to village congregations in small still chapels far out in the countryside, but he liked to talk at the backdoor, over the field gate, in the road outside the house. He talked so much that he must have had an idea that the earth, designed created, and nourished by God, would take care of itself. While he talked, thistles seeded and choked his wheat, rabbits broke in and gnawed his cabbages,
storms smashed his standing corn. He struggled on like a man chained by bad luck. For most of their lives they had put rather more value on faith than sweat. At the back of their minds, lay a precious belief that Benjy would one day grow out of his simplicity. In the same way they cherished a silent belief that the earth would one day outgrow its poverty.
Q.8 - Sketch the character of Benjy.
Ans. - The Johnsons' son was named Benjy, and it was more than thirty years since they had surrendered to the idea that he was not right in his head. It was not that he was insane or imbecile or even that he could not read and write and count figures, but only that he was simple, not quite like other people. And because he was their only son, the Johnsons had spent many years being a little too kind, too anxious and too sacrificial towards him, so that he had grown up to seem worse, in their eyes, than he really was. Benjy had the large loose limbs that often belong to the simple-minded and thick soft fair hair on his face. He had the look of being a simple-hearted man as well as a simple-minded man. His eyes were blue, and all day long he had a simple smile on his face. But somewhere behind the blue eyes, the simple smile, and the soft childish hair, his simplicity seemed gradually to have become a kind of cunning.
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