Hi Everyone!! This article will share Bombay to Bangalore Questions & Answers.
In my previous posts, I have shared the questions and answers of How Daddy Was Always Late, From a Railway Carriage and Idgah so, you can check these posts as well.
Bombay to Bangalore Questions & Answers
Question 1: Who is the author of the short story?
Answer: The author of the short story is Sudha Murthy.
Question 2: At which station did she board the train and what was her final destination?
Answer: She boarded the train at Gulbarga railway station. Her final destination was Bangalore.
Question 3: Who was the ticket collector yelling at?
Answer: The ticket collector was yelling at a girl who was hiding under the author’s berth because she was not having her ticket.
Question 4: What did the author do for the poor girl?
Answer: The author paid for the poor girl’s rail ticket till the last destination, i.e, Bangalore.
Question 5: Why did the receptionist tell the lady that she didn’t have to pay anything?
Answer: The receptionist told the lady that she didn’t have to pay anything because that poor girl – Chitra, for whom the author once paid for the rail ticket, paid her hotel’s bill.
Question 6: Read the statement and answer the questions:
1. “Not you, madam, …your berth. Hey, come out, where is your ticket?”
(a) Who is the speaker?
Answer: The ticket collector is the speaker.
(b) Who does ‘madam’ refer to?
Answer: ‘Madam’ refers to the narrator of the story whose destination was Bangalore.
(c) Who does the speaker ask for a ticket?
Answer: The speaker asked for a ticket of a little girl who was hiding under the narrator’s berth.
(d) Where was the third person?
Answer: The third person here refers to the little girl who was hiding under the narrator’s berth.
2. “No, Akka. I have talked to…and made up my mind. I would like to do my…so that I can immediately get…after 3 years.”
(a) Who is the speaker?
Answer: The speaker is the little girl ‘Chitra’ who is now grown up.
(b) Who is ‘Akka’?
Answer: ‘Akka’ is the narrator of the story who once paid Chitra’s ticket from Bombay to Bangalore.
(c) What did the speaker want to do?
Answer: The speaker wanted to do diploma in computer science so that she could immediately get a job.
(d) What did she want to get once three years were over?
Answer: Once three years were over, she wanted to get a job.
3. “Akka, my company…the USA! I wanted to meet you and take…but you are not here in… “
(a) Who is the speaker?
Answer: The speaker is the little girl, Chitra who is then going to USA.
(b) In which city was she when she said these words?
Answer: When she said these words, she was in Bangalore.
(c) Why did she want to meet Akka?
Answer: She wanted to meet Akka because her company was sending her to USA, and she wanted to take Akka’s blessings.
(d) Where was the speaker going?
Answer: The speaker was going to USA.
So, these were Bombay to Bangalore Questions & Answers.