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Karnataka 1st PUC English Textbook Answers Reflections Chapter 5 Money Madness
Money Madness Comprehension I:
1. How do people feel when they give
a. one pound?
Answer:
People feel without a pang.
b. ten pounds?
Answer:
It will be a real tremor when they give a ten pound.
Question 2.
“Money has got us down” could mean
(a) It has ruined us.
(b) it has made us tremulous.
(c) it has made us greedy.
(d) it has made us its slaves.
Answer:
(b) It has made us tremulous.
Question 3.
How are people without money, usually treated?
Answer:
If people are without money they are treated that let them eat dirt, and go cold.
Question 4.
What things should be made available free of cost?
Answer:
Bread, Shelter and fire should be made available free of cost.
Question 5.
The speaker is frightened of
(a) having no money.
(b) money madness.
(c) eating dirt.
Answer:
(b) money madness.
Question 6.
What happens if we do not regain our sanity about money?
Answer:
We start killing one another for money if we do not regain our sanity about money.
Money Madness Comprehension II:
Question 1.
How does money trigger fear in an individual?
Answer:
An individual without money feels like frightened nd the fear becomes like a big diseases. The situation becomes insecured and unsafe. If we don’t have money we are really worried of things.
Question 2.
How does an individual measure the value of another individual in terms of money?
Answer:
An individual can be measured in terms of money like how much belongings, properties, and assets he has for himself. The bank transactions, business, and houses he had for his own.
Money Madness Comprehension III:
Question 1.
Collective madness about money affects the individuals also. How does the poem bring this out?
Answer:
Collective money – madness eradicates the basic social wellbeing of the society. There are different levels of people who own money. If the money is accumulated in one collective place the other individuals cannot afford money. The poem brings out the instability of the system of the country.
Question 2.
What, according to the poet, might happen if people do not regain sanity about money? What solution does he offer?
Answer:
If people do not regain sanity about money, they start killing one another about the money. We should rethink and should make the basic needs available for free.
Money Madness Additional Question and Answer
I. Fill in the blanks:
1. Money is our madness.
2. I shall have to eat dirt.
3. We are so terrified of (terrify)(use the verb correctly).
4. Money has a fearful cruel power among men. (write the adjective form of the verb fear)
Bread here means food.
Money Madness Summary in English
Money is a madness shared by everyone in the world. If the whale world is mad, then every single person carries the madness around him. The people do not give the pound note with happiness and if a person thinks to give a 10 pound note he feels tremors within him. Money makes afraid. It has got us down to grovel in front of it.
Money Madness Summary in Kannada
Glossary:
Multitude(n) : the masses; the uneducated and vulnerable ordinary people.
Pang(n) : sharp intense pain or distress.
Tremor (n) : a shaking or trembling movement caused by fear.
Quail (y) : tremble, lose heart
Grovel (y) : to behave in a servile way
Delirium (n) : an excited, dreamy state, most often seen in serious illness.