8. The Hack Driver, 10th-Eng

8. The Hack Driver (Sinclair Lewis)
Very Short Type Q-Ans.
 
1. Who is the writer of the story ‘The Hack Driver’?
Ans. Sinclair Lewis
 
2. Where was the lawyer sent?
Ans. New Mullion
 
3. Why was the writer sent to New Mullion?
Ans. To serve summons
 
4. Who was to be brought out by the lawyer?
Ans. Oliver Lutkins
 
5. By what did the narrator go to New Mullion?
Ans. By train
 
6. Who was Oliver Lutkins?
Ans. A Hack Driver
 
7. Who was the hack driver in reality?
Ans. Lutkins himself
 
8. What was the name of hack driver?
Ans. Bill or Magnuson
 
9. Where did the hack driver take the narrator first of all?
Ans. At Fritz’s shop
 
10. What was Gustaff?
Ans. A Barber
 
11. How many restaurants were there in New Mullion?
Ans. Four
 
12. Where did the narrator and the hack driver enjoyed there lunch?
Ans. On Wade’s Hill
 
13. Who is addressed as old tigress in the chapter?
Ans. Lutkin’s mother
 

8. The Hack Driver (Sinclair Lewis)

 

Short Type Q-Ans.

 

1. Why is the lawyer sent to New Mullion?

Ans. The lawyer was sent to New Mullion to serve a summons on Oliver Lutkins, who was needed as a witness in a law case. 

 

2. Who was Lutkins?

Ans. Lutkins is a hack driver who lives at New Mullion. He was about forty and looked very cheerful.

 

3. What did the hack driver tell the narrator about Lutkins’ mother?

Ans. The hack driver told the narrator that Lutkins' mother was a terror. He told him that she was about nine feet tall and four feet thick. He also said that she was quick as a cat.

 

4. How did Lutkins’ mother receive the narrator?

Ans. When Bill told that the narrator was a lawyer and came to search her property. Lutkin's mother invited them both in the kitchen and then took out iron rod from stove and threatened them to burn them by that. She chased them out and laughed on them.

 

5. Why did the narrator not like his job?

Ans. The narrator hated his job because he had to visit the corners of the city. He was asked to reach any part of the city to serve summons to the people. As a junior assistant clerk, his task was to reach to the people for the court cases.

 

6. What more does Bill say about Lutkins and his family?

Ans. Bill told that Lutkins was a clever man and hard enough to catch him. He was always upto something or other. He told that Lutkin's mother was a terror. And he might have escaped and hided over his mother's farm after listening the news of the summons from the court.

 

7. Why do you think Lutkins’ neighbours were anxious to meet the lawyer?

Ans. Lutkins' neighbours were anxious to meet the lawyer because they were the only ones who did not get a chance to meet the lawyer, who was fooled by Lutkins for an entire day. Everybody else in the village had witnessed the lawyer being deceived by Lutkins.

 

Long-Answer

1. How did the hack driver sketch the character of Oliver Lutkins?

Ans. Lutkins is a hack driver who lives at New Mullion. He was about forty and looked very cheerful. The lawyer was sent to New Mullion to serve a summons on Oliver Lutkins, who was needed as a witness in a law case. The hack driver was Lutkins himself.  The hack driver told the narrator that he knew all the places where Lutkins could be found. He drove the lawyer for six hours in the village in search of Lutkins. The narrator hired him at the rate of two dollars per hour. When they went at Lutkin’s house, her mother took out iron rod from stove and threatened them to burn. She chased them out. The narrator had to return to city without serving summon.