CLASS 10
THE THIEFS STORY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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I went back to the bazaar and sat down in the shelter of the clock tower.
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It was a simple matter to steal ____ and sometimes just as simple to be caught. But to be a really big man, a clever and respected man, was something else.
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My spirits rose. But when I took the note, I saw it was still wet from the night’s rain.
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In my short career as a thief, I had made a study of men’s faces when they had lost their goods.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What evidence from the text supports the narrator’s thinking for returning Anil’s money? I went back to the bazaar and sat down in the shelter of the clock tower. It was a simple matter to steal–and sometimes just as simple to be caught. But to be a really big man, a clever and respected man, was something else.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hari Singh decided to come back to Anil because he felt that when Anil would come to know about the theft, he would feel sad, not for the loss of money but for the loss of trust. He did not want to lose his trust.
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer: Hari Singh justifi ed to himself his intention of stealing Anil’s money by thinking that if he didn’t take his money, Anil would only waste it on his friends and the fact that Anil did not even pay him, provided yet another incentive for him to rob Anil.
Detailed explanation-4: -He had not robbed anyone for a long time. He also justified his act of stealing Anil’s money by telling himself that if he didn’t steal it then also Anil would waste it on his friends.