CHAPTER 2 HALF A RUPEE WORTH

PSEB CLASS 10 SUPPLEMENTARY BOOK SOLUTION

HALF A RUPEE WORTH

Simplified Material
X- English L2: HALF A RUPEE WORTH
Short Answer Type Questions

Q1.How did Subbiah manage to get rice during the drought?
Ans. He managed to get rice from villages.

Q2. Those were the days when Subbiah loathed the rice bags?’ Which were those days? Why did he dislike the rice then?
Ans. He loathed the rice bags when he worked under his father. He disliked the rice because he did not want to stay in the shop.

Q3 ‘Rice was in his blood’ means:
Ans. He knew all about rice.

Q4 How did Subbiah’s profits increase during the war? Did he follow the rules laid down by the government? How did he tackle the officers?
Ans. His profits increased because he sold the rice at high price during the war. He did
not follow the rules. He bribed the officer.

Q5 Besides selling rice what else did Subbiah do to earn more?
Ans. Subbiah also lent money at high interest to earn more money.

Q6 Who came to buy rice one evening when Subbiah was about to go home? Did he give rice to him? What did he say?
Ans. A poor man came to him. At first, he told him that he had some other business.
But in the end, he agreed to give rice.

Q7 How much rice did Subbiah agree to sell to him and for how much?
Ans. He agreed to sell him half seer of rice for half a rupee.

Q8 Why did Subbiah ask the man to wait? What reasons did he give?

Ans. He did not want to show him his secret godown. So he told the man that he had to
bring rice from some other man.

Q9 Where did Subbiah go to get the rice?
Ans. He went to the secret godown to get the rice.

Q10 Did the man wait for Subbiah for long? How do you know?
Ans. Yes, the man waited for Subbiah for long time. He waited till next morning.

Q11 Where did Subbiah go then? Where was he taken and by whom?
Ans. The man went to Subbiah’s house. He was taken to the secret go-down by Subbiah’s wife.

Q12 How did Subbiah die?
Ans. Rice bags fell on him. He died under them.

OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS
SUPPLEMENTARY READER LESSON 2: HALF A RUPEE WORTH

Q1 Subbiah was a rice merchant. (True/ false)

Q2 Subbiah had_______ children.
i) two ii) three iii) four iv) five

Q3 Where did Subbiah’s wife take the man?

Q4 Subbiah died in a road accident. (True/ false)

Q5 Subbiah’s profit __ during the war.
i) increased ii) decreased iii) go down iv) did not change

Q6 Subbiah was buried under the bags and died. (True/ false)
Answer Key:

Ans Subbiah was a rice merchant. (True)

2 Subbiah had five children.
i) two ii) three iii) four iv) five

3 Where did Subbiah’s wife take the man? Ans. Godown

4 Subbiah died in a road accident. (false)

5 Subbiah’s profit increased during the war.
i) increased ii) decreased iii) go down iv) did not change

6 Subbiah was buried under the bags and died. (True)

Answer each of the following in one word / phrase / sentence :

Question 1. Who wrote the story, ‘Half a Rupee Worth?
Answer: R.K. Narayan.

Question 2. Who was Subbiah ?
Answer: A rich merchant.

Question 3. What sort of a man was Subbiah ?
Answer: A shrewd businessman.

Question 4. Where had Subbiah spent all his days ?
Answer: With his father in rice shop.

Question 5. For how much did Subbiah agree to sell half a seer of rice ?
Answer: For half a rupee.

Question 6. What was the government rate of rice at that time ?
Answer: Three seers of rice for a rupee.

Question 7. What did Subbiah’s wife have to tell the people when Subbiah did not return by the next morning even ?
Answer: She had to tell them about their secret godown also.

Question 8. Where was Subbiah’s secret godown situated ?
Answer: In a back street adjoining Subbiah’s house.

Question 9. How was the main door of the secret godown opened by the people ?
Answer: They first broke open the front ventilator and then a boy slipped through it to open the main door.

Question 10. Where did they find Subbiah eventually ?
Answer: He lay buried under a heap of rice bags.

Complete the following :

1. Subbiah kept ………………… prized cows and buffaloes.
2. Subbiah owned ………………… acres of land.
3. During the war, there was a …………….. of rice.
4. Subbiah …………… all about rice and the rice business.
5. To earn more, he lent money at ……………….. of interest.
6. When Subbiah died, there was ………. in his hand.
Hints :
1. five
2. thirty
3. scarcity
4. knew
5. a very high rate
6. a half-rupee coin.

Write True or False against each statement :

1. Subbiah loathed the rice bags in his boyhood.
Answer: True

2. Subbiah’s profits increased during the war.
Answer: True

3. Subbiah followed the rules only on paper.
Answer: True

4. When Subbiah’s father died, he took over his father’s business.
Answer: True

5. Subbiah’s wife did not know about his secret godown.
Answer: False.

6. Besides selling rice, Subbiah used to sell and buy lands also.
Answer: False.