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Question of Trust (Victor Canning)
Very Short Type
Q-Ans.
1. How years old was Horace Danby?
2. What job did Horace Danby do?
3. What was Horace Danby fond of?
4. Why did Horace rob a safe every year?
5. Where did Horace Danby decide to make a theft this time?
Ans. Shotover Grange
6. Where had the servant at Shotover Grange gone that afternoon?
7. How much worth of jewels were in the Grange safe?
8. What did the young lady threaten to do?
9. How many times did Horace Danby make a theft in a year?
Ans. Only once
10. Who was Sherry?
11. Where was the safe in the room?
12. In which dress was the young lady?
13. Why did Horace take-off his gloves?
14. How long did Danby keep his promise to the young lady?
Ans. For two years
15. How was the real mistress of the house looked?
16. Who is the real culprit in the story?
Ans. Shotover Grange
Ans. Only once
Ans. For two years
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Question of Trust (Victor Canning)*
Short Type Q-Ans.
Q. 1 What does Horace Danby like to collect?
Ans. Horace Danby is a book lover. He likes to collect books. He loves rare and expensive books.
Q. 2 Why does he steal every year?
Ans. Every year, he breaks a safe. With this money he buys books. The stolen money lasts for twelve months. Then he steals again the next year.
Q. 3 Who is the real culprit in the story?
Ans. The real culprit in the story is the lady thief whom Danby meets in Shotover Grange. She poses before him to be the landlady. She pretends that she has lost the key to the safe. Danby is befooled. He breaks the safe and is caught.
Q. 4 In what way could Horace Danby’s arrest have helped the young lady?
Ans. If Horace Danby was arrested for the jewels robbery at Shotover Grange then she could be safe. She got the jewels but Horace broke the safe for her. Thus, his arrest could have helped her by making her tension free.
Q. 5 How many times did Horace Danby make a theft in a year? Why?
Ans. Horace loved reading rare and expensive books. So he robbed a safe every year to buy these books. He robbed only one safe every year.
Q. 6 What story did Horace tell the police when he was arrested?
Ans. He told the police that he had not stolen any jewels. He said that he opened the safe for the young wife of the owner of the house. But the wife was an old lady of about sixty with grey hair. So, none believed his story.
Q. 7 What do you think is the meaning of the phrase ‘honour among thieves’?
Ans. The phrase ‘honour among thieves’ means that thieves have their code of conduct. One thief is honest to the other thief. They never betray one another.
Q.1 Write a character sketch of Horace Danby.
Once he was duped by a young lady. That young lady, who pretended to be the owner’s wife, was also a thief. He gave all the jewels to the young lady and left his fingerprints all over the room. Thus, he was arrested and sent to prison. Now he did not like the thought of ‘honour among thieves’ any more.
Short Type Q-Ans.
Q. 1 What does Horace Danby like to collect?
Ans. Horace Danby is a book lover. He likes to collect books. He loves rare and expensive books.
Q. 2 Why does he steal every year?
Ans. Every year, he breaks a safe. With this money he buys books. The stolen money lasts for twelve months. Then he steals again the next year.
Q. 3 Who is the real culprit in the story?
Ans. The real culprit in the story is the lady thief whom Danby meets in Shotover Grange. She poses before him to be the landlady. She pretends that she has lost the key to the safe. Danby is befooled. He breaks the safe and is caught.
Q. 4 In what way could Horace Danby’s arrest have helped the young lady?
Ans. If Horace Danby was arrested for the jewels robbery at Shotover Grange then she could be safe. She got the jewels but Horace broke the safe for her. Thus, his arrest could have helped her by making her tension free.
Q. 5 How many times did Horace Danby make a theft in a year? Why?
Ans. Horace loved reading rare and expensive books. So he robbed a safe every year to buy these books. He robbed only one safe every year.
Q. 6 What story did Horace tell the police when he was arrested?
Ans. He told the police that he had not stolen any jewels. He said that he opened the safe for the young wife of the owner of the house. But the wife was an old lady of about sixty with grey hair. So, none believed his story.
Q. 7 What do you think is the meaning of the phrase ‘honour among thieves’?
Ans. The phrase ‘honour among thieves’ means that thieves have their code of conduct. One thief is honest to the other thief. They never betray one another.
Q.1 Write a character sketch of Horace Danby.
Once he was duped by a young lady. That young lady, who pretended to be the owner’s wife, was also a thief. He gave all the jewels to the young lady and left his fingerprints all over the room. Thus, he was arrested and sent to prison. Now he did not like the thought of ‘honour among thieves’ any more.