Class 10 English Chapter 1 Question Answers - First Flight

Q1: What are the elders in Goa nostalgic about?
Ans: The elders in Goa are nostalgic about the Portuguese and their loaves of bread.

Q2: How do they remember it?
Ans: They remember about it fondly.

Q3: What equipments do the Goan people still own there?
Ans: They still have amongst them the mixtures, the moulders and time-tested furnaces and those who bake the loaves.

Q4: What are those bakers known in Goa?
Ans: Those bakers are known as ‘pader’ in Goa.

Q5: What does the thud and jingle of the traditional baker’s bamboo indicate?
Ans: It indicates the announcement of the arrival of the baker in the morning.

Q6: What announces the arrival of the baker in Goa?
Ans: The thud and jingle of the specially made bamboo staff announces the arrival of the traditional baker.

Q7: How would the baker greet the lady of the house?
Ans: The baker would greet the lady of the house with ‘good morning’.

Q8: What did the children long to get from the baker?
Ans: The children longed for to get bread-bangles from the baker.

Q9: What kind of fragrance does the author still recall?
Ans: The author still recalls the typical fragrance of the baker’s loaves.

Q10: What kind of dress the lKabaV was?
Ans: A single piece long frock reaching down to the knees.

Q11: When did the baker collect his bills?
Ans: The baker collected his bills at the end of the month.

Q12: How were the monthly accounts of the baker recorded?
Ans: The monthly accounts recorded on some wall in pencil.