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Father’s Help---Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayan

1. Where has the story been taken from?
Ans: the story has been taken from ‘Malgudi Days’.
2. What did swami hope?
Ans: Swami hoped that he would succeed in evading to go to school.
3. What excuse did swami give to ignore school?
Ans: Swami gave the excuse that he had a headache to ignore school.
4. How did Swami’s mother react to his complaint of headache?
Ans: In reaction to swami’s complaint, the mother allowed him to stay at home.
5. What was the reaction of Swami’s headache in the father’s view?
Ans: In fathers view moving idly around on Sundays was the reaction of Swami’s headache.
6. Who was Samuel?
Ans: Samuel was the arithmetic teacher in Swami's school.
7. Where did the father find Swami in the morning?
Ans: Father found Swami on a bench in the mother’s room.
8. How did Swami describe Samuel before father?
Ans: Before father, Swami described Samuel as an angry man who always scolded the students.
9. What did Swami hope about his father?
Ans: Swami hoped that his father would allow him to avoid school and stay at home.
10. What was the unexpected turn of Swami’s father?
Ans: The ‘unexpected turn’ refers to fathers decision to send a letter with Swami to the headmaster.
11. What did the father ask Swami to do with the letter?
Ans: Father asks Swami to give the letter to the headmaster first and then to go to his class.
12. What wrong, according to himself,  did Swami do regarding Samuel?
Ans: Swami had cooked up a false story about Samuel by mixing up the real and imagined.
13. What was Swami not sure about?
Ans: Swami was not sure whether he had given an accurate description of Samuel.
14. What did Swami feel about himself?
Ans: Swami felt himself to be the worst boy in the world while going to school. 
15. Why did Swami stop on the roadside?
Ans: On his way to school Swami stopped on the roadside to make his mind about Samuel.

16. How did Swami evaluate Samuel?
Ans: In Swami’s view, Samuel was a good and friendly person having a special affection for him.
17. When did Swami feel sorry for Samuel?
Ans: Swami felt sorry for Samuel when he recalled his appearance.
18. What did Swami Decide when he enters the school premises?
Ans: Getting into the school premises, Swami decided to give the letter to the headmaster after the school-hour.
19. What ‘idea’ is referred to here?
Ans: The idea referred to here is Swami’s plan to give the letter to the headmaster after the school-hour.
20. Why did Swami decide to give the letter after the school-hour?
Ans: Swami decided to give the letter after the school hour as he still hoped that Samuel sir might do something violent and thereby justify the letter. 
21. Standing before the class what did Samuel hope?
Ans: Standing before the class Samuel hoped that he would be severely rebuked by Samuel.
22. What reason did Swami give for being late?
23. What was the unexpected question to Swami?
Ans: That Samuel wanted to know why Swami had come to school despite his headache was an unexpected question to Swami.
24. How did Samuel behave in the class that day?
Ans: That day Samuel behaved in a gentle, considerate and sympathetic manner in the class that day.
25. When Swami returned home with the letter, what did his father think?
Ans: When Swami returned home with the letter, father thought that Swami out of fear had not intentionally delivered the letter to the headmaster.