Glimpses of India Extra Questions and Answers Class 10
English First Flight
Glimpses of India Extra Questions and Answers Very Short Answer Type
Question 1.
What are the elders in Goa nostalgic about?
Answer:
The elders in Goa are nostalgic about the Portuguese and their loaves of bread.
Question 2.
How do they remember it?
Answer:
They remember about it fondly.
Question 3.
What equipments do the Goan people still own there?
Answer:
They still have amongst them the mixtures, the moulders and time-tested furnaces and
those who bake the loaves.
Question 4.
What are those bakers known in Goa?
Answer:
Those bakers are known as ‘pader’ in Goa.
Question 5.
What does the thud and jingle of the traditional baker’s bamboo indicate?
Answer:
It indicates the announcement of the arrival of the baker in the morning.
Question 6.
What announces the arrival of the baker in Goa?
Answer:
The thud and jingle of the specially made bamboo staff announces the arrival of the
traditional baker.
Question 7.
How would the baker greet the lady of the house?
Answer:
The baker would greet the lady of the house with ‘good morning’.
,Question 8.
What did the children long to get from the baker?
Answer:
The children longed for to get bread-bangles from the baker.
Question 9.
What kind of fragrance does the author still recall?
Answer:
The author still recalls the typical fragrance of the baker’s loaves.
Question 10.
What kind of dress the lKabaV was?
Answer:
A single piece long frock reaching down to the knees.
Question 11.
When did the baker collect his bills?
Answer:
The baker collected his bills at the end of the month.
Question 12.
How were the monthly accounts of the baker recorded?
Answer:
The monthly accounts recorded on some wall in pencil.
Glimpses of India Extra Questions and Answers Short Answer Type
Question 1.
Why is the baker essential for the Goan people?
Answer:
Most of the celebrations and festivals need supply of bread so the baker’s furnace is
essential for the Goan people.
Question 2.
Why did the baker and his family always look happy and prosperous?
Answer:
The baker used to collect his bills at the end of the month. Baking was indeed a
profitable business in
the old days. The baker and his family never starved. Their plump physique was an
open testimony that they were happy and prosperous.
Question 3.
Why would the children run to meet and greet the baker?
Answer:
, The jingling thud of the baker’s bamboo would wake up the children from their sleep.
They would run to meet and greet him to get bread bangles or sometimes sweet bread
of special make.
Question 4.
What indicates the presence of the ‘patters’ still in Goa?
Answer:
The presence of the ‘paders’ in Goa even today is indicated by the fact that still there
are mixers, the moulders and those who bake the loaves. Moreover, those age-old time-
tested furnaces still exist.
Question 5.
What would the baker do after his musical entry?
Answer:
The baker would greet the lady of the house with ‘good morning’ and then place his
basket on the bamboo after his musical entry.
Question 6.
How did the pader treat the kids who surrounded him?
Answer:
The pader treated the kids who surrounded him, very kindly he would push them aside
with a mild rebuke.
Question 7.
Was baking a profitable profession?
Answer:
Yes, baking was really a profitable profession as the bread was an important part of the
food of the Goan people. The bakers earned well and kept servants. Their families
looked happy and prosperous. They never starved.
Question 8.
What are the elders in Goa nostalgic about?
Answer:
The elders in Goa are much fond of loaves of bread. Those were the Portuguese days
and the people liked the breads of different types very much.
Question 9.
Is bread-making still popular in Goa? How do you know?
Answer:
Bread-making is still popular in Goa. We can see the mixers, the moulders and those
who bake the loaves. Most of their festivals and other occasions will become
meaningless without the loaves of the bread. The ladies of the house prepare
sandwiches on the occasion of their daughter’s engagement.
English First Flight
Glimpses of India Extra Questions and Answers Very Short Answer Type
Question 1.
What are the elders in Goa nostalgic about?
Answer:
The elders in Goa are nostalgic about the Portuguese and their loaves of bread.
Question 2.
How do they remember it?
Answer:
They remember about it fondly.
Question 3.
What equipments do the Goan people still own there?
Answer:
They still have amongst them the mixtures, the moulders and time-tested furnaces and
those who bake the loaves.
Question 4.
What are those bakers known in Goa?
Answer:
Those bakers are known as ‘pader’ in Goa.
Question 5.
What does the thud and jingle of the traditional baker’s bamboo indicate?
Answer:
It indicates the announcement of the arrival of the baker in the morning.
Question 6.
What announces the arrival of the baker in Goa?
Answer:
The thud and jingle of the specially made bamboo staff announces the arrival of the
traditional baker.
Question 7.
How would the baker greet the lady of the house?
Answer:
The baker would greet the lady of the house with ‘good morning’.
,Question 8.
What did the children long to get from the baker?
Answer:
The children longed for to get bread-bangles from the baker.
Question 9.
What kind of fragrance does the author still recall?
Answer:
The author still recalls the typical fragrance of the baker’s loaves.
Question 10.
What kind of dress the lKabaV was?
Answer:
A single piece long frock reaching down to the knees.
Question 11.
When did the baker collect his bills?
Answer:
The baker collected his bills at the end of the month.
Question 12.
How were the monthly accounts of the baker recorded?
Answer:
The monthly accounts recorded on some wall in pencil.
Glimpses of India Extra Questions and Answers Short Answer Type
Question 1.
Why is the baker essential for the Goan people?
Answer:
Most of the celebrations and festivals need supply of bread so the baker’s furnace is
essential for the Goan people.
Question 2.
Why did the baker and his family always look happy and prosperous?
Answer:
The baker used to collect his bills at the end of the month. Baking was indeed a
profitable business in
the old days. The baker and his family never starved. Their plump physique was an
open testimony that they were happy and prosperous.
Question 3.
Why would the children run to meet and greet the baker?
Answer:
, The jingling thud of the baker’s bamboo would wake up the children from their sleep.
They would run to meet and greet him to get bread bangles or sometimes sweet bread
of special make.
Question 4.
What indicates the presence of the ‘patters’ still in Goa?
Answer:
The presence of the ‘paders’ in Goa even today is indicated by the fact that still there
are mixers, the moulders and those who bake the loaves. Moreover, those age-old time-
tested furnaces still exist.
Question 5.
What would the baker do after his musical entry?
Answer:
The baker would greet the lady of the house with ‘good morning’ and then place his
basket on the bamboo after his musical entry.
Question 6.
How did the pader treat the kids who surrounded him?
Answer:
The pader treated the kids who surrounded him, very kindly he would push them aside
with a mild rebuke.
Question 7.
Was baking a profitable profession?
Answer:
Yes, baking was really a profitable profession as the bread was an important part of the
food of the Goan people. The bakers earned well and kept servants. Their families
looked happy and prosperous. They never starved.
Question 8.
What are the elders in Goa nostalgic about?
Answer:
The elders in Goa are much fond of loaves of bread. Those were the Portuguese days
and the people liked the breads of different types very much.
Question 9.
Is bread-making still popular in Goa? How do you know?
Answer:
Bread-making is still popular in Goa. We can see the mixers, the moulders and those
who bake the loaves. Most of their festivals and other occasions will become
meaningless without the loaves of the bread. The ladies of the house prepare
sandwiches on the occasion of their daughter’s engagement.
