NCERT Class 9 English Eleventh Chapter If I Were You Solution
NCERT Class 9 English Chapter 11 Solution: Dear students Here in this post we are posted Eleventh Chapter If I Were You full exercise questions & answer by our arts teacher. This Solution is helpful for CBSE English medium students. Download this 11th Chapter English solution & prepare your homework.
I.) Answer these questions.
1.) “At last a sympathetic audience.”
(i) Who says this?
Answer:
Gerrard said this line.
(ii) Why does he say it?
Answer:
When the intruder asked about Gerrard,. He became pleased as no one did not want to know about him till date. That is why he started this.
(iii) Is he sarcastic or serious?
Answer:
He said it in a sarcastic way.
2.) Why does the intruder choose Gerrard as the man whose identity he wants to take on?
Answer:
The intruder chooses Gerrard as the man whose identity he wants to take as he finds few similarity between them and again he finds Gerrard a strange type character who was known by few people.
- “I said it with bullets.”
(i) Who says this?
Answer:
Gerrard say this.
(ii) What does it mean?
Answer:
It means Gerrard can kill anyone if things will not in his favour.
(iii) Is it the truth? What is the speaker’s reason for saying this?
Answer:
No, Gerrard told this to get rid from the hands of the intruder who wanted to kill him.
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4.) What is Gerrard’s profession? Quote the parts of the play that support your answer.
Answer:
Gerrard was a director or a playwright
“I think I will put it in my next play” -> this line shows that Gerrard was actually related with play,
5.) “You’ll soon stop being smart.”
(i) Who says this? If I Were You
Answer:
The intruder said this.
(ii) Why does the speaker say it?
Answer:
To make Gerrard scared and to warn him the intruder told this line.
(iii) What according to the speaker will stop Gerrard from being smart?
Answer:
Warning him and making sacred by saying that he can kill him will stop Gerrard from being smart.
6.) “They can’t hang me twice.”
(i) Who says this?
Answer:
The intruder said this.
(ii) Why does the speaker say it?
Answer:
The intruder had already murdered a person and was being chased by the police. So if he will do another one, the punishment would still remain same and they could not scared to have a punishment for killing Gerrard.
7.) “A mystery I propose to explain.” What is the mystery the speaker proposes to explain?
Answer:
Gerrard was a secretive man. He did not usually meet with anyone except few vendors. He was like that as he was himself a wrong man like the intruder and he was also planning to escape from his house as he was expecting of a police raid in his house, that night.
8.) “This is your big surprise.”
(i) Where has this been said in the play?
Answer:
This has been said in the thirteen paragraphs from the last of the play*
* When Gerrard was asked about his real identity by the intruder, he gave this answer.
(ii) What is the surprise?
Answer:
Gerrard’s real identity was the surprise for the intruder.
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