Class – 12th
Subject – English
Day – Thursday
Date – 10/09/2020
Topic –Short Type Q-Ans. of ‘The Enemy’
4. The Enemy (Pearl S. Buck)
Short Type Q-Ans.
Q. 1 Who was Dr. Sadao? Where was his
house?
Ans.
Dr. Sadao was a famous Japanese surgeon and scientist. His house was on a spot
of the Japanese coast. It was built upon rocks above a narrow beach.
Q. 2 What will Dr. Sadao and his wife do
with the man?
Ans.
Dr. Sadao performed his duty as a doctor and saved the life of enemy. Now they
decided to hand him over the police but the man is very weak. In this way, they
saved a enemy’s life.
Q. 3 What will Dr. Sadao do to get rid
of the man?
Ans.
The man got recovery soon. But still he was very weak. So he decided to help
him in escaping from there. He provided a boat to him to run away from there.
Q. 4 Who was Hana? Where had Sadao met
her?
Ans.
Hana was Dr. Sadao’s wife. She was an American lady. He had been come to
America to learn surgery and medicine. Sadao had met Hana in America first
time.
Q. 5 In what condition did Sadao and
Hana find the wounded man on the beach?
Ans.
The man was wounded. The sand on one side of him had a stain of blood soaking
through. He lay motionless. He was in wet rags. An old cap struck on his head.
Sadao turned the man’s head. He saw that it was a white man.
Q. 6 Who was Yumi? What did she refuse
to do and why?
Ans.
Yumi was a maid in Sadao’s house who looks after the children. She refuse to
wash the white man. She said that she had never washed a white man. And she
said that she would not wash so dirty man as he was.
Q. 7 What did the old gardener say about
the white man?
Ans.
The old gardener was a superstitious person. He said that the white man ought
to die. First he was shot. Then the sea caught
him and wounded him with her rocks. It showed the man was feted to die
and they had no business to save him.
Q. 8 How did Sadao take the bullet out
of the white man’s body?
Ans.
Sadao performed an operation. His wife helped him with anesthetic while
probing. Sadao felt the tip of his instrument strike against something hard. It
was dangerously near the kidney. Then he probed with his fingers and took the bullet
out in the cleanest manner.
Q. 9 Describe the time in which the
story ‘The Enemy’ is set?
Ans.
The story had been set in the time of the second world war (1939-45). An
American prisoner of war is washed ashore in a dying state. He is found at the
doorstep of a Japanese doctor. The story revolves round the doctor’s way of
handling the enemy prisoner.
Q.10 Will Hana help the wounded man and
wash him herself ?
Ans.
Hana asked her maid servant Yumi to help them in this incident. She asks her to
wash the wounded man. But she refused to help them. At this Hana herself washed
the wounded soldier.
Q.11 Does the story remind you of ‘Birth’
by A.J. Cronin that you read in Snapshots last year? What are the similarities
in both stories?
Ans.
Both the stories ‘Birth’ by A.J. Cronin and ‘The Enemy by Pearl S. Buck have
the same theme. In both stories, the main character is a doctor who does all he
can do to save a human life. The common element in the world of Dr. Sadao is,
“I have been trained not to let a man die if I can help him”.