Comprehension check…
1. What did Hafeez contractor have nightmares
about?
Ans: Hafeez
Contractor had nightmares about appearing for a maths examination where he did
not know anything.
2. What
did the Principal say to him, which influenced him deeply?
Ans: The Principal said to him that he was a
good student but he had never studied. His mother had worked very hard to bring
him up. He should rise to the occasion and study hard.
3. “...that year I did not step out onto the
field.” What was he busy doing that year?
Ans: He just studied, ate and went for prayers that
year.
4. (i) What “distraction” did Hafeez Contractor
create one day?
(ii) Would you
have liked to participate in the “distraction” had you been with him?
Ans (i) One day
he did not want to study. So, he played ‘chor-police’ with his
classmates for one whole hour.
(ii) Yes, I
would have liked to participate in the “distraction” had I been with him.
Comprehension
check…
1. Hafeez Contractor wanted to join
the police force. Why didn’t he?
Ans: Hefeez Contractor did not join the
police force because his mother did not want him to join it.
2. In the architect’s office, Hafeez
Contractor was advised to drop everything and join architecture. Why?
Ans: In
the architect’s office someone was drawing a window detail. He told him
that the window would not open. Later, it was found that the drawing was wrong.
Seeing this, his cousin’s husband asked him to draw a few specific things,
which he immediately did. So, he was told to drop everything and join
architecture.
3. (i) What was Mrs Gupta’s
advice to Hafeez contractor?
(ii) What made
her advise him so?
Ans: (i) Mrs. Gupta told him that he would be
an architect when he grew up.
(ii) She
saw his sketches, which were always very good. Therefore, she advised him to
take up architecture.
4. How did he help fellow students who had
lost a button?
Ans:
When his fellow students lost a button, he helped them by cutting a
button from chalk.
5. Which rules did he break as a
school boy?
Ans: He was interested only in
games, and playing jokes and pranks on others. He copied in class during exams.
He used to get hold of the examination paper.
6. (i) What is Hafeez
contractor’s definition of mathematics?
(ii) How would
you want to define mathematics? Do you like the subject?
Ans: (i) He
said that putting design, construction, psychology and sociology together, and
making a sketch from all that is ‘mathematics’.
Ans: (ii) Mathematics can be defined as a
branch of science which deals with numbers and constructions. Yes, I like it.