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Short Question and Answer

Q. 1: What was Daiches attitude towards the weekend as a schoolboy? Why did he long for it? 

 Ans: 
 As a schoolboy, he felt joy at the arrival of the weekend. He walked home like an escaped prisoner. He longed for it to get rid of the daily burden of school. 

Q. 2: What was his general view of school life?

Ans: 

 He was a good student and often enjoyed the actual classroom work. School life was full of labour and tough competitions. Teachers gave them a lot of homework. This daily grind of the school made him long for holidays. 

Q.3: He liked holidays for their freedom- freedom for what? 

Ans:
 He liked holidays for their freedom-freedom from waking up early in the morning, from a large number of classes and from the grind of routine school work. 

Q. 4: How did he spend his summer holidays? 

Ans: 
The summer holidays were a long period of bliss. He spent his summer vacation in his village with his grandparents. He played cricket in July sunshine; he enjoyed these holidays very much. 

Q. 5: Wishes don‟t come true in this life, writes Daiches. What are the things he longed for but could not have? 

Ans: 
 He wished to get a tricycle in his early childhood and later a bicycle. He wished to get ice-cream and sweet free of cost. His these wishes did not come true. 


Q. 6: What did he do with his pocket money? 

Ans: 
 He kept his savings in money-box because he was not allowed to spend his pocket-money. 

Q. 7: Why was the Friday morning rose coloured for the writer? 

Ans: 
 Friday morning was positively rose coloured because it was the weekend. Moreover, they were going to have two consecutive holidays to enjoy themselves. 

Q. 8: What were unexpected respites? 

 Ans: 
 Unexpected respites mean sudden dismissal of school before the usual time due to some crises, celebration and football match. But these were few and far between.

Q. 9: When did he buy his first bicycle? 

Ans: 
 He bought his first bicycle at the age of 21 with the prize money he won at Edinburgh University. 

Q.10: What was the most frightening day of the week for Daiches? 

Ans: 
 Monday was the most frightening day of the week for Daiches. Waking up on Monday morning was a dismal experience for the writer. 

Q.11: What were the feelings of the writer on Saturday and Sunday? 

Ans: 
 Saturday night had the charm for the holiday between it and Monday morning. But Sunday night was full of the threat of Monday morning.