Maharashtra Board Class 9 English Chapter 4.4 My Financial Career Solution

Maharashtra Board Class 9 English Solution Chapter 4.4 – My Financial Career

Balbharati Maharashtra Board Class 9 English Solution Chapter 4.4: My Financial Career. Marathi or English Medium Students of Class 9 get here My Financial Career full Exercise Solution.

Std

Maharashtra Class 9
Subject

English Solution

Chapter

My Financial Career

Answer the following questions:

Q1.) What makes the narrator nervous at a bank?

Ans: The clerk, the wickets, the sight of money, everything rattles the narrator when he enters a bank.

Q2.) What word should he have avoided in his request to see the manager?

Ans: The author should have avoided the word ‘alone’ when he requested the Accountant that he wants to see the Manager.

Q3.) Why was the manager alarmed?

Ans: When the narrator said to the manager that he wants to talk to him alone, the manager was alarmed, as if the narrator has got some secret to reveal.

Q4.) Who did he think was the visitor?

Ans: The manager thought the narrator was one of Pinkuton’s men.

Q5.) What procedure did the author have to follow to open the account?

Ans: To open an account, the author first went to the accountant’s wicket and gave the money to him; the accountant gave the money to another clerk, and made the author write the sum on a slip and made him sign in a book.

Q6.) What error did the author make in the cheque? Did he correct it?

Ans: The author made an error of writing the wrong amount on the cheque, instead of writing six dollars, he wrote fifty six dollars on the cheque.

Q7.) Why did the author pretend to appear a bad tempered man?

Ans: As the author deposited the money, and took out the same amount, all the bank staffs were surprised to see what he did. To avoid such embarrassment and insult he thought of showing his bad temper and show them that the bank staffs did some mistake.

Q8.) What decision has the author taken after the episode at the bank?         

Ans: After what happened with him in the bank the author decided not to go to the bank again and that he will save all the money at home and keep the extra six dollars into his socks.

Q9.) Is the author’s last decision wise?

Ans: No, not at all, instead he should have tried to overcome his fear of going into the bank ans should have tried to deal with it.

ENGLISH WORKSHOP:

 

Q1.) Find from the lesson, the antonyms of the following:

a) Afterwards – Beforehand

b) Spending – Savings

c) Careful – Careless

d) Withdraw – Deposit

e) Confidently – Timidly

f) Cheerful –Sepulchral

 

Q2.) Fill in the blanks choosing the appropriate word/idioms from the lesson:

a) The detective solved the mysterious crime.

b) In the examination, I did not know the answer, so I wrote something

c) He was dizzy and he shambled into the room

d) While agreeing with his elders he had fearfully quick temper

e) The sight of a snake rattles me

f) As soon as I cross the threshold of my home, I greet my family

 

Q3.) Using the following points frame a character sketch of the narrator. Support each character sketch instances from the lesson-

(i) Different and timid

(ii) Unusual behavior

(iii) Ignorant about banking

(iv) Nervous and careless

(v) Economical

Ans: The author was quite a complicated and timid. Just a simple task of going to the bank and opening an account made him nervous and he started behaving in an unusual manner, he also asked if he can talk to the manager alone, as if he has got some big secret to share with the manager. He did not know how to open an account or write a cheque correctly. He made mistakes even while filling the cheque slip because of his nervousness and wrote the wrong amount on the cheque, and after realizing the mistakes, he didn’t even correct it out of sheer embarrassment and behaved rather rudely to the bank staffs so as to pretend that he was not at fault. He started keeping the money in his trousers pocket and silvers in a sock.

 

Q4.) Rewrite the following in indirect speech:

a) “Can I see the manager?” I said, “Certainly” said the accountant.

Ans: I asked the accountant whether I could see the manager and the accountant replied certainly.

 

b) “Good morning” I said and stepped into the safe. “Come out” said the manager coldly.

Ans: I greeted good morning and stepped into the safe. The manager ordered me coldly to go out.

 

c) ……the words seemed to mean, “Let us do this painful thing while the fit is on us”

Ans: ….the words seem to mean that they should do that painful thing while the fit was on them.

 

d) “What! Are you drawing it all out again?” he asked in surprise. “Yes, the whole thing,” I said.

Ans: He exclaimed in surprise whether I was drawing it all out again. I replied in affirmation that I was drawing out the whole thing.

 

e) “How will you have it?” he said. “In fifties” I said.

Ans: He asked me how would I have it, to that i replied that i want them in fifties.

Updated: September 7, 2021 — 12:02 am

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