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F 4 A Shady Plot

Match the following exercise on page 33, regarding words and expressions

pertaining to ghosts and ghost stories

Apparition A supernatural appearance of a person or thing, a ghost,

spectre or phantom

Poltergeist German word , meaning „noisy ghost‟ – a troublesome spirit

that announces its presence with unexplainable sounds and the

creation of disorder.

Clairvoyance The supposed power to see objects or events that cannot be

perceived by the senses

Crystal Ball A globe of quartz crystal in which images, believed to portend

the future, are supposedly visible to fortune tellers

Eerie So mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the

spine

Medium A person through whom the spirits of the dead are alleged to

be able to contact the living

Transmigration To pass into another body after death : going from one state of

existence or place to another

Psychic Capable of extraordinary mental processes, such as

extrasensory perception and mental telepathy

Ouija Board A spelling board device intended to communicate with and

through the spirit world , obtaining answers to questions

Exorcist A conjurer who expels evil spirits by conjuration

Premonition A feeling of anticipation and anxiety over a future event

Paranormal Beyond the range of normal experience of scientific

explanation



Tarot Card Any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical

representations, used for fortune telling

Vampire A reanimated corpse that is believed to rise from the grave at

night to suck the blood of sleeping people

Q. 4 page 46 Answers only

1. The narrator earns his living by working as a accountant in a

lumbering company

2. The writer was overconfident about his ability to write ghost stories

because whenever magazines wanted a ghost story they got in touch

with him

3. The sight of the ghost materializing in his room filled the narrator

with fear.

4. The ghost wanted John to stop people from using the Ouija board.

5. John wanted the ghost to disappear before his wife entered the room

and waves his arms at the ghost with something of the motion of a

beginner when learning to swim. His movement show his anxiety.

6. When the narrator says his wife is never so pretty as when she‟s

doing something she knows he disapproved of his tone is ironic.

7. The ghost says “ It‟s all your fault.‟ „Ít‟ here refers to the ghost

materialising in sections.

8. Gladolia wishes to leave the narrator‟s house as she does not like the

Ouija boards.

Question 5 page 48 Answers only

1. Jenkins wanted the narrator to write a horror genre

supernatural ghost story. This was because the readers of

his magazine wanted the ghostly and horror stuff.

2. No, the narrator did not like write ghost stories. This is

clear from the statement of the narrator that for months, he

had pursued his imagination and creative abilities to get

inspirations for some story to write. But suddenly, for no

particular reason, the idea of a ghost story had come to him,

and this had enabled him to write his first ghost story. He



also calls himself aloud to be „imbecile‟, who had reached

the stage of talking to himself, sarcastically and ironically.

3. The Writer Inspiration Bureau was organised to enable

ghosts to keep busy without having to undergo suffering of

the level of purgatory. The members of the Bureau scouted

for those in need of help in writing and spent their time in

helping such people.

4. Helen and other ghosts were helping the narrator to write as

they wanted to spend their time without getting bored. They

were going on strike because people had been using the

Ouija Board too frequently. This kept them awake all night

and the ghosts had to listen to all kinds of illogical

questions. Helen‟s condition for continued help was that

the narrator should burn the Ouija Board that was used by

his wife.

5. The ghost tells the narrator that it is she and her co ghosts

who had got the last story of the narrator, written and

published. The narrator had been taking pride in having

got his first ghost story published .

6. John wanted the ghost to disappear before his wife reached

the scene because she had already accused him of flirting

with one of her friends on the previous night. The statement

indicates that John‟s wife is suspicious of him and no longer

trusts him.

7. The narrator had hesitated to be a partner to Laura Hinkle

because he believed her to be a flirt, and would therefore,

make him uncomfortable.

8. The ghost conveys that John had betrayed the confidence

of Helen and was therefore a traitor. Then all the Ouija

Board ghosts began calling names to John because he had



betrayed Helen. John‟s wife demanded to know who Helen

was, as they had no acquaintance by that name.

9. Yes, because having heard about Helen from one of the

guests, other women began to falsely declare that their

confirm Ouija Board was also telling them about Helen

and John. Therefore, the narrator calls the assembly

„manipulative‟, as the assembly comprised of his wife‟s

friends and they were all siding with her, by confirming the

gossip.

10. John‟s wife is angry because she believes her husband to be

having an affair with Helen. She decides to leave the house

and go to visit her grandparents .

11. John wishes he were dead because he had been falsely

accused and no one would believe that Helen was a ghost.

He had no means of proving his innocence.

12. The pun in the sentence “the affair was quite above board‟

is that the ghost called Helen, had spread the rumour about

the affair of John and Helen, through the Ouija Board.

Above board means all clear and fair with nothing to hide.

The pun above board is the Ouija Board is being referred to

as being the only medium of his so called affair with Helen

the ghost. The word „board‟ is used in double meaning to

create the pun.

13. John‟s apprehension was unfounded because she was

assuming Helen to be a woman. When she finds out that she

is a ghost she believes John and does not leave him as she

had threatened in the morning.



Answer 7 page 49 Characteristics of

The Narrator His wife

1 2

shy Loves novelty and

thrills

protective suspicious

loyal gullible

Self disparaging Jealous

overconfident manipulative

clever sceptical

creative shrewd

firm Sly

fearless strong

Sl.

No.

Person Extract characteristic

1 2 3 4

1 John Hallock

1. Already given in the

question

2. Already given

3. Already given

4. “I‟ve got the bulliest plot

for ghost story” I cried

5. I threw a protective

husbandly arm about her

to catch her when she

should faint

1. Overconfident

2. Sceptical

3. Gullible

4. Creative

5. Protective

2 Lavinia

Hallock

1. “I don‟t know, John they

are awfully thrilling.”

2. “You know I bought the

loveliest thing this afternoon.

Everybody‟s wild over them”

3. My wife crossed her

1. Loves novelty

and thrills

2. Spendthrift



knees and stared at me

through narrowed lids.

4. “But we don‟t know

anyone by the name Helen ”

5. Already given

6. Already given in the

question

3. Suspicious

4. Jealous

5. Manipulative

6. strong

Answer 8 Column B only

1. Mister Hallock

2. The Mrs.

3. Should think you are lost

4. She is done. Phoned you this morning

5. For the Lord‟s sake

6. Will not stop to argue now

7. I am going to quit

8. I don‟t like magic and ghosts

9. I am done with this place

10. I am.



Chapter 5 Patol Babu , Film Star

Page 67 Question 3 Answer the following questions briefly:

Answers only:

1. Nishikanto Ghosh gave the news to Patol Babu that he had given the

latter‟s address to his cousin, for contacting Patol Babu directly for a

short role in a film. He hoped that Patol Babu would not refuse him.

2. Patol Babu reacted excitedly as the offer of a short role in a film was

beyond his wildest dream.

3. Patol Babu had lost his first job in Calcutta due to the War , when he had

been retrenched by the company in order to cut expenses.

4. To reconcile with the dialogue given to him, Patol Babu practiced saying

the single word in different variations of emotion and loudness. It had to

be delivered in the perfect pitch and with the best mix of surprise and

pain . Therefore, he practiced the expressions in the glass of a window.

5. Mr Pakrashi was an actor and Patol Babu‟s acting teacher and mentor .

His first lesson to Patol Babu had been that an artist should aim at

squeezing every drop of meaning from the lines given to him. A drama

involved work of many and the combined work made it successful. Each

word spoken in a drama was like a fruit on a tree and an actor alone knew

how to pluck that fruit and reach its essence to convey to the audience.



Recalling these words of him mentor, Patol Babu was inspired and began

seeing acting potential in the single sound dialogue given to him.

6. Patol Babu was a meticulous man as he always practiced and prepared

himself for the work entrusted to him. He did not like to work in a

manner that would make others laugh or mock at him. He had worked for

nine years in Hudson and Kimberley and was not late for a single day.

7. Mr. Mullick turned down Patol Babu‟s request for a rehearsal because

there was no time . He needed to shoot the scene in sunlight, and clouds

were gathering near the Sun. Also, the scene was so short that no

rehearsal was needed.

8. To make his role more authentic, Patol Babu practiced repeatedly before

the glass of a window. He spoke his one word dialogue in different

variations of loudness, and found the correct pitch with blend of sixty

percent pain and forty percent surprise. For getting the correct expression

on his face, he practices twisting his facial muscles in pain and surprise.

Quest 5 page 68 Answers only:

1. Unassuming ; Modest

2. Talented

3. Diligent

4. Passionate actor

5. Meticulous

6. genial

QL 6. Page 68 Match the following. Answers only:

a) gave up = surrendered or relinquished



b) stirred up = stimulate the imagination

c) wind up = shut down

d) put up = staged

e) pulled up = stopped

f) pulled himself together = gained control over one‟s actions

Chapter 6 page Virtually True

Exercises page 78

Answers only:

1. Sebastian Shultz had met an accident a few days ago. He had been in

coma since then. The paper said that he had recovered and regained

consciousness miraculously.

2. The evidence for Michael‟s claim that his dad was nutty, is that his

father had a Pentium 150Mhz processor, with 256 of RAM, a 1.2 Gb

hard disk drive and 16 speed CD ROM complete with printer, modem

and scanner. He has also got all the best games, such as Tornado,

MeBabash, Black Belt and Kyrene‟s Kastle.

3. The second game seemed very real as the player could feel himself as

a participant in the game. He was walking inside massive doors of the

dragon‟s castle lair. He game was about rescuing Princess Aurora

from the wicked dragon. The narrator could hear the princess call for

help, feel himself running down the spiral stairs towards the dungeons

along with the second knight, feel the dragon‟s fiery breadth. He went

down the cold stone steps with sword in hand, and he was

disappointed that he could not save the second knight from the dragon.

4. The last game could be put under the title „ Rescue from War Zone‟

5. Michael‟s theory was that Sebastian was plugged into the computer at

the time of his accident. Therefore, part of his memory got captured in

the game. Michael‟s father had told him that nothing ever gets lost in a



computer‟s memory, and therefore, Sebastian‟s memory had got

stored in the disk of the game that he was watching at the time of the

accident. As it was reported by Sebastian‟s parents, that all their game

disks had been stolen by someone at the hospital. The stolen disk was

unknowingly bought by Michael‟s father at the Computer Fair.

Thereby, Sebastian had entered Michael‟s computer, and was rescued

by him in the fourth game.

B. Reference to Context

Answer 1. When Sebastian spoke these lines he was on the roof of

the jail.

2. His idea was to call for a helicopter to facilitate his rescue from

the roof.

3. The idea was a good one but it did not succeed because the

movement of the helicopter was slow, and the guards reached the roof

before the helicopter could.

Q 3 Answer the following questions briefly:

Answers only are given here:

a) The news of „miracle recovery‟ had shocked Michael because

he saw that the boy in the picture was the boy in the four

computer games he had played to rescue the boy.

b) The chance meeting of Michael and Sebastian Shultz had taken

place in the first game entitled “Wild West Guns‟ in which

Shultz was the second sheriff.

c) The computers fascinated Michael and his dad because it

could do everything, paint, play music, create displays and help

Michael to make his homework look fantastic.

d) Michael had been virtually transported first to the deserts of the

wild west.



e) Sebastian Shultz had asked Michael for help in recuing him

from the computer game. He conveyed his messages through

printed lines.

f) Michael failed to rescue Sebastian Shultz the first time because

even before Michael could understand the situation, Sebastian

who was disguised as the second sheriff, was fatally shot by a

posse of men on horseback, who were following him.

g) The second attempt to rescue Sebastian Shultz was also

disastrous because Michael could not slay the fiery dragon that

was pursuing Shultz.

h) The accident that injured Sebastian Shultz was a motorway

accident and Shultz was plugged into a computer game on his

laptop, at the time his head was hit during the accident.

i) Sebastian Shultz had entered the games because at the time of

his accident , his memory had got saved on the game disk.

j) Sebastian Shultz‟s memory was stored on Michael‟s disk

through 3 D virtual reality. Michael discovered it by playing

the same disk. Sebastian‟s disk was stolen by someone during

his hospitalization, and had got sold to Michael‟s father during

the Computer Fair. When Michael played the games he was able

to discover Sebastian disguised as one of the characters in the

game. Sebastian asked Michael to rescue him from the games.

Answer 5. The story cannot be continued in real life as it is a part of the

virtual reality of the game. The woman reading the newspaper and

the newspaper also are a part of the game. Therefore, Michael and

Sebastian cannot meet in real life, and their story cannot continue

in this world. It can however, be continue as another virtual game



that can begin with Sebastian returning to school and meeting

Michael. Both can then go on through another adventure.

Answer 6 Putting the given sentences in sequential order

a, b, j, d, c, e, g, i, h,f , k

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