Choose
the correct alternative from the given options and complete the sentences.
1. What is the name of
the protagonist of the story, ‘The Gold Frame’ by R. K. Laxman?
a. Laxman
b. Narayan
c. Datta
d. Goenka
2. What is the name of
the protagonist’s shop in the story, ‘The Gold Frame’ by R. K. Laxman?
a. The Gold Frame
b. Modern Frame Works
c. The Common man
d. Fujiyama
3. What is the
protagonist’s occupation in the story, ‘The Gold Frame’ by R. K. Laxman?
a. social worker
b. frame-maker
c. shopkeeper
d. writer
4. What kind of a mount
did the customer choose in the story, ‘The Gold Frame’ by RK
Laxman?
a. plain, oval
b. cut, oval
c. plain, square
d. cut, square
5. What was the total
cost of framing the picture in the story, ‘The Gold Frame’ by R. K. Laxman?
a. fifteen rupees
b. sixteen rupees
c. seventeen rupees
d. eighteen rupees
6. What was Datta’s
experience regarding his customers?
a. his customers always came
punctually
b. his customers never came
punctually
c. his customers usually
came punctually
d. his customers never
collected the frames
7. When did Datta say the
picture would be ready?
a. in a week’s time
b. in ten days’ time
c. in two weeks’ time
d. in a month’s time
8. What did the customer
want from Data?
a. He wanted to buy a
framed photograph.
b. He wanted Datta to frame a
photograph.
c. He wanted to frame
Datta’s photograph.
d. He wanted Datta to
photograph a frame.
9.Which of these
adjectives do not apply to Datta?
a. Terse
b. Industrious
c. Indolent
d. nonchalant
10. What was the
customer’s attitude towards the man in the photograph?
a. He respected and admired
him.
b. He feared and
respected him.
c. He loathed and admired
him.
d. He loved and feared
him.
11. Why did Datta feel
that ‘there would be trouble if he did not deliver the order on the promised date’ ?
a. because the customer
was aggressive and demanding
b. because the customer
had made that very clear to him
c. because the customer was
obsessively attached to the photograph
d. because the customer
had an unpredictable nature
12. Whose photograph did
the customer bring?
a. that of a holy manlier
b. that of a social
worker
c. that of a revered old man
d. that of his
grandfather
13. What did Datta do
with unclaimed photographs?
a. He gave them away to
others.
b. He stored them in a box.
c. He fed them to
cockroaches and silver fish.
d. He sold them to
customers.
14. What feature of the
photograph made Datta think of it as just another photograph of an elderly person of those days?
a. the studio props
b. the moustache and turban
c. dark suit and striped
tie
d. the sepia-brown colour
15. What happened to the
photograph?
a. It got damaged by
silverfish.
b. Datta dropped paint on it.
c. It got torn during
framing.
d. Datta set it all right
by accident.
16. Why was Datta scared?
a. He was afraid he
wouldn’t get paid.
b. He was afraid he would
never work again.
c. He was afraid his
reputation was ruined.
d. He was afraid the customer
would assault him.
17. How did Datta attempt
to restore the picture?
a. by rubbing the enamel with
a cloth
b. by smearing enamel on
the picture
c. by shaking it
violently
d. by looking for a
similar picture.
18. Why did Datta take
time to unwrap the photograph?
a. because he was tired
b. because he was nervous
to unit
c. because he wanted to
create suspense
d. because he wanted to
dazzle his customer
19. How did Datta spend
the days preceding the customer’s return?
a. in a drunken state
b. in anxious suspense
c. in resigned calmness
d. in his usual casual
manner
20. Why was the customer
indignant?
a. He noticed that the frame
was wrong.
b. He realized the
substitution.
c. He wasn’t happy with
the mount.
d. He felt he had been
overcharged.
Answer
the following questions in about 80 words.
Q. 1.
Sketch the character of ‘Datta’ in the short story ‘The Gold Frame’
Ans. The
story, ‘The Gold frame’ is written by R. K. Laxman. The major theme of story is
‘false prestige and society’. It is humorous story. Datta is a major character
in the story. He is a frame-maker. He runs a shop of making frames. The name of
his shop is Modern Frame Works. His description by the writer is quite
humorous. He has a concave figure. He wears silver-rimmed glasses. He perfectly
fits into his small shop.
Datta is a silent and hard-working man. He gave only laconic answers to his
customers. He discouraged his friends who disturbed him with their idle
gossips. He always remains busy with his work of fame-making. Thus, Datta is
depicted as a simple, hardworking and straightforward person.
Q. 2.
Describe Datta’s shop in his own words.
Ans. The name of Datta’s shop was ‘Modern Frame Works’. It was so
small. It was as though tucked between a drug store and a radio repair
shop. It looked like an extra-large wooden packing case. Its legs were
unstable. It rocked when Datta shook his Dhoti vigorously to find the pencil
lost in it. Datta’s shop was a crowded with many frames and photos of Gods,
actors, leaders, etc. It is humorous and ironical that it was named as ‘Modern
Frame Works’ but it had ancient look. Nothing was modern with it.
Q. 3.
How is the ending of the short story “The Gold Frame”?
Ans. The
ending of the story, “The Gold Frame” is surprising. It is humorous too. Datta
spoils the picture given by the customer. Therefore, he fixes another picture
into the frame in place of the original picture. He prepares his mind to
make the customer accept that this was the picture given by the customer if he
comes to know the deception. But the customer complains that Datta has deceived
the customer. Datta thinks that the customer recognized the deception. But the
customer tells him that he had asked for the cut mount and Datta has given him
a square mount. Datta gets shocked that the customer could not recognize the
original fault but another one. It makes the readers laugh that in the
confusion of selecting and shaping a photo like the given one by the customer,
Datta changes the frame itself and makes another fault.
