“Kabuliwallah” Question Answers ALTE WBCHSE 11

Explore “Kabuliwallah” Question Answers which is included in ALTE of WBCHSE Board for Class 11. Rabindranath Tagore’s “Kabuliwallah” or “Kabuliwala” is a heart rendering short story that leaves the readers in tears. Having been written several years ago by Kaviguru , the short story is still popular among the masses and included extensively in several educational boards. Friendship is not about just having friends but it is about how one values that bond. The story is a mirror to the limitlessness of friendship and how the age gap is just a matter of excuse for it. Thsts why Mini, a four year old girl and Kabuliwallah , a middle aged vendor cherish their precious friendship irrespective of what the society thinks.

SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS

Question 1: How did Rabindranath free Bengali Literature from traditional models? 

Ans: Rabindranath Tagore by introducing new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language in Bengali literature he freed from traditional models. 

Question 2: What does Tagore’s collection of poem ‘Gitanjali’ contain? 

Ans: Gitanjali contains his various thoughts common to humanity like love, freedom, joy and sorrow, satisfaction, dignity of labour and so on. 

Question 3: When was Tagore awarded the Nobel Prize and what was exceptional about it? 

Ans: Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913 and he was the first non European to receive it. 

Question 4: What does this short story “Kabuliwallah” deal with? 

Ans: The story Kabuliwallah deals with the beautiful friendship that developed between Rehmat the Kabuliwallah and the young girl Mini. 

Question 5: How did the narrator of the story and his wife differ in their view regarding Mini’s ‘prattle’? 

Ans: Mini’s mother is often annoyed at Mini’s frettle and used to stop her but the narrator could not prevent the girl from chattering. 

Question 6: What were the three consecutive questions asked by Mini to her father when he was engrossed in writing the seventeenth chapter? 

Ans: The three questions many asked to her father when he was busy in his 17 th chapter were: 

Father! Ramadayal the doorkeeper calls a crow a Krow? 

What do you think, father Bhola says there is an elephant in the cloud, blowing water out of strong and that’s why it rains.

Father, what relation is mother to you? 

Question 7: How did Mini react when Kabuliwallah turned and looked at? 

Ans: When Kabuliwallah turned and looked at Mini she was overcome by terror and fled to her mother’s protection and disappeared. 

Question 8: What blind belief did Mini have regarding the bag of Kabuliwallah? 

Ans: Mini had a blind belief that inside the bag that the big man carried there were perhaps two or three children like herself. 

Question 9: Why did the narrator think of stopping the Kabuliwallah buy something and let him go? 

Ans: The narrator thought to buy something from Kabuliwallah since he has been called. 

Question 10: On which topic did the narrator and the pedlar converse in their first meeting? 

Ans: The narrator and the peddler conversed about Abdul Rahman,the Russians, the English, and the Frontier policy in their first meeting. 

Question 11: How did Mini react when her father brought her out in front of Kabuliwallah for the first time? 

Ans:  Mini stood by her father, Kabuliwallah offered raisins. But she would not be tempted and only clung closer to her father with all her doubts increased. 

Question 12 : Why was the narrator startled when Kabuliwallah was leaving a few days later? 

Ans: One morning when the narrator was leaving, he was startled to find Mini seated on a bench near the door. She was chattering with the Kabuliwallah. 

Question 13 : What was the corner of the little Mini’ saree stuffed with? 

Ans: Mini’s saree corner was stuffed with raisins and almonds. 

Question 14 : ‘I found the unfortunate coin had made twice its own worth of trouble’- Explain. 

Ans: The coin had brought troubles in the house of the narrator.  Mini’s mother was scolding Mini for receiving it from Kabuliwallah. 

Question 15 : On making enquiries what did the narrator come to know about the meeting of two great friends? 

Ans: On making enquiry , the narrator came to know that Kabuliwallah and Mini are meeting daily and spending time together. The Kabuliwallah had overcome fear of child by judicious bribery. 

Question 16 : What was the first joke between the two friends which provided Mini with amusement? 

Ans: The first joke was that when Mini asked Kabuliwallah about the content of the bag .He replied in his nasal tone that he had an elephant in his sack. 

Question 17 : What was the double meaning of the term father in law? 

Ans: Amongst the men of Kabuliwallah, the word ‘father in law’ had the double meaning. It was considered a euphemism for jail where all are taken care of at no expense of others. Due to marriage relations, the father of the groom becomes father in law of the bride and vice versa. 

Question 18 : What made Mini go into bits of Laughter on hearing the term father in law? 

Ans: When Kabuliwallah said that he would trash his father in law, this made Mini go into peals of laughter. 

Question 19: What did usually take  place in the season of autumn in the olden days? 

Ans: During the season of autumn in olden days the king used to go forth to conquest in the morning. 

Question 20 : What does the term vegetable existence mean? 

Ans: The term ‘vegetable existence’  means that whenever the narrator had a call to travel it would fall upon him like a thunderbolt. 

Question 21 : What would the narrator do on seeing a foreigner in the street? 

Ans: When the narrator used to see a foreigner in the street, he used to weave a network of dreams. The dreamy elements would constitute of the mountains and the glens forest. It would also contain dream of his distant home, with his cottage and a life full of challenges. 

Question 22 : On seeing the kabuliwallah, what did the narrator start imagining? 

Ans: On seeing Kabuliwallah, the narrator starts imagining the pictures of arid mountain peaks . It would having narrow passages of towering heights camels carrying merchandise, turbaned merchants do their daily jobs.