CLASS 9
THE BEGGAR
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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to seek sympathy
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to get alms
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to befool them
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none
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Detailed explanation-1: -What lies did Lushkoff tell people to beg? Ans. In order to beg alms and earn sympathy, Lushkoff told different lies to people. He would claim to be a student who had been expelled or a village schoolteacher who had lost his job because of the intrigues and lies of others.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ans. :-Lushkoff tells Sergei that he was telling lies because no one would help him if he told the truth about his drunkenness. Instead, lies helped him get both sympathy and money that he required desperately to keep himself alive.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lushkoff is a beggar who tells blatant lies about his plight to arouse the sympathy of others and get alms in return.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ans. Sergei sent Lushkoff to his friend with a letter of recommendation for some copying work. This was a cleaner employment in comparison to wood-chopping. As a parting advice, he told Lushkoff to work hard and not to drink.
Detailed explanation-5: -One day a beggar came to Sergei, an advocate, and asked for help. The beggar had worn a fawn-coloured tattered overcoat and had dull, drunken eyes with the red spot on either cheek. He told Sergei that he had been a village schoolteacher for eight years but had lost his job because of scheming and lies.