Class 12 English Previous Year: Short Questions With Answers - The Enemy

Q. 1. Why was Dr Sadao not sent to the battlefield? (All India 2020)
Ans. Dr Sadao was not sent abroad with the troops because the ailing General trusted no other surgeon but Dr Sadao and could have needed his expert services anytime.

Q. 2. How did Dr Sadao get rid of the enemy soldier? (2022)
Ans. Dr Sadao planned out everything beforehand. He put his boat on the shore with food and extra clothing. He asked the American prisoner of war to row to a little island near the coast and then wait for a Korean ship to pass. He also gave the American his flashlight complete with instructions on how to signal him in a time of distress.

Q. 3. What secret plan did the General have about the American soldier staying under the
care of Sadao? (All India 2022)
Ans. The General planned to get the American soldier staying under the care of Dr Sadao assassinated by his private assassins. He assured the doctor about the removal of the dead body.

Q. 4. Hana told Yumi to wash the soldier. How did Yumi react? (Delhi 2021)
Ans. When Hana asked Yumi to wash the soldier, she bluntly refused, saying that she had never washed a white man and she would not wash a dirty one. Yumi obstinately told Hana that she was a poor person and did not want to associate with the man.

Q. 5. Why did the servants leave Dr Sadao’s house? (2023)
Ans. The servants left Dr Sadao’s house because they did not approve of the white man staying in the surgeon’s house. They thought that Sadao’s stay in America during his education had erased all his sentiments for his country. Also, they did not want to be in trouble with the authorities if Sadao was arrested as a traitor.

Q. 6. What was his father’s chief concern about Dr. Sadao? [Delhi Set I, 2019] 
Ans. Dr. Sadao’s father had a great concern for Sadao’s career. His chief concern was his education. In order to fulfill that requirement, he sent him to America at the age of twenty–two to learn surgery and medicine.

Q. 7. What was Sadao’s father’s dream for him? How did Sadao realise it? [Outside Delhi Set III, 2017] 
Ans. Sadao’s father wanted his son to be a doctor. Sadao realized this dream by becoming one of the most known and respectable surgeons of the country. He was also working to perfect a discovery which would render wounds clean. He was so trustworthy as a doctor that the General had not sent him abroad with the troops as he wanted to keep Sadao around for his surgery.

Q. 8. Why was Dr. Sadao not sent abroad along with troops? [HOTS] [Delhi Set II, 2016]
Ans. Dr. Sadao was not sent abroad with the troops for two reasons—
(i) He was working on a discovery which would render wounds entirely clean.
(ii) The General was in a condition where he might need an emergency operation. He could only trust Sadao as his surgeon.

Q. 9. How nearly had Dr. Sadao missed marrying Hana? [Comptt., Delhi Set-I, 2018] 
Ans. Dr. Sadao met Hana at a party. He did not want to go to that party and had almost avoided going to the party. If he had not gone there, he would never have met Hana and would have missed marrying her.

Q. 10. What role did the American play in bringing Hana and Sadao together? [Outside Delhi Set II, 2019] 
Ans. Sadao had met Hana at an American professor’s house. The professor and his wife had been kind people. They wanted to do something for their few foreign students. Sadao had almost not gone to Professor Harley’s house that night. But when he went there, he had found Hana, a new student, for whom he developed a liking.

Q. 11. Where, when and how did Dr. Sadao meet Hana? [Delhi Set III, 2016] 
OR 
Where had Dr. Sadao first met his wife? What had been his initial reaction? [Comptt. Delhi / Outside Delhi 2018] 
Ans. Dr. Sadao met Hana in America at an American Professor’s house during a party. At first, he had almost avoided going to the party. Had he not gone there, he would have missed meeting and marrying her.

Q. 12. In what condition did Dr. Sadao find the American soldier at the seashore? [Outside Delhi Set I, 2015] 
OR 
In what condition was the American soldier when Sadao found him? [Comptt., Outside Delhi Set-I, 2021] 
Ans. Dr. Sadao found the American soldier in an unconscious state. He was badly injured by a gunshot wound on the right side of his lower back and was battered by rocks. The waves had thrown him onto the shore. He was bleeding profusely.

Q. 13. Why does Dr. Sadao mutter the word, ‘My friend’ while treating the American prisoner of war? What is ironic about his words? [CBSE, SQP, 2014, 2015] 
Ans. Being a doctor, may be he was trained to talk to patients in a friendly manner to comfort them and to get back response. It was ironical because the patient was a soldier of the American army which was their enemy. Finally, Sadao, saved his life, too.

Q. 14. Why Hana had to wash the wound herself? [Delhi Set-II, 2012, 2011] 
Ans. When Hana saw that her husband was willing to help the wounded man, she also got ready to help him. When the maid-servant refused to wash the wounded man, she herself washed him.

Q. 15. What forced Dr. Sadao to be impatient and irritable with his patient? [Outside Delhi Set-I & II, 2013] 
Ans. Hana started vomiting when she saw Dr. Sadao operating on the prisoner, as she had never seen an operation in her life. Sadao wanted to help her in distress but he couldn’t leave his patient alone because the wounded man urgently needed an operation or he could die. This situation made Dr. Sadao impatient and irritable with his patient.

Q. 16. What help did Dr. Sadao seek from Hana while operating on the wounded white man? [Delhi Set-III, 2012]
OR
How did Hana help Dr. Sadao while he operated upon the enemy soldier? [CBSE, SQP I, 2012] 
Ans. When the maid-servant refused to wash the wounded man, Hana herself washed him. When her husband asked her to help him to turn the man she did so. He asked her to give the anesthesia, on seeing the blood Hana ran out of the room. Then, she came back with a bottle and some cotton in her hand and assisted her husband in removing the bullet.

Q. 17. What made a cool surgeon like Sadao speak sharply to his wife and what was her reaction? [Outside Delhi Set-III, 2020] 
Ans. The sight of blood made Hana choke. Sadao spoke sharply and asked her not to faint. He argued if he stopped, the patient would die. Hana clasped her hands to her mouth and ran out of the room.

Q. 18. Did Hana think that the Japanese tortured their prisoners of war? Why? [Delhi Set-I, 2012] 
Ans. Hana thought that the prisoners of war were tortured. She had heard stories of the sufferings of the prisoners. When the wounded American soldier was brought in, she had seen the red scars behind his neck. In fact, these scars were the proofs of torture, he had suffered in prison.

Q. 19. What dilemma did Dr. Sadao face? [Comptt., Delhi Set-I/II, 2017] 
Ans. Dr. Sadao found an American soldier badly wounded. As a doctor, it was his duty to save the dying man, yet he was in a dilemma as the American soldier was an enemy of his country, Japan and it was his duty to report to the army about the soldier.

Q. 20. Why did Dr. Sadao’s servants leave his service? [Comptt., Outside Delhi Set-III, 2015] 
Ans. The servants felt that they could not stay if Sadao kept that white man any more in the house. People would think that they liked Americans. The servants grew more watchful daily. On the seventh day, the servants left altogether.