ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The narrator employed ____ cookies to push the engine from behind
A
twenty
B
fifty
C
hundred
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -He offered me the services of his temple elephant. I also engaged fifty coolies to push the engine from behind.

Detailed explanation-2: -He has to hire an elephant and fifty men but while attempting to move the road engine, the road engine hits a wall. If anything there are traces of irony in the story.

Detailed explanation-3: -The narrator planned to move the engine through an elephant. The narrator had won an engine at the fair and to hold his engine at the Gymkhana Grounds, the writer was forced to pay rent. Eventually, the fairgrounds’ administrators insist that the narrator turn off his engine right away.

Detailed explanation-4: -After the end of the fair the narrator had to pay thirty rupees to the municipality for keeping the road engine at the Gymkhana Grounds. In the meantime, the narrator arranged to keep the road engine to a field owned by a friend of his. For this he employed Joseph, fifty coolies and the temple elephant.

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