Extract Based Questions: Two Gentlemen of Verona - Class 10 PDF Download

Q1: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
“One boy had on a worn jersey and cut-off khaki pants; the other a shortened army tunic gathered in loose folds about his skinny frame. Yet, gazing at the two little figures, with their brown skins, tangled hair and dark earnest eyes, we felt ourselves strangely attracted. ”

(a) What quality of the boys attracted the narrator?
Ans: The narrator was attracted by the honesty in the boys’ eyes.

(b) How did the narrator help the boys?
Ans: The narrator helped the boys by buying the strawberries they were selling.

(c) How do we know that the boys were poor?
Ans: We know that the boys were poor as they were wearing tom and oversized clothes.

Q2: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
“Next morning, coining out of our hotel, we saw our friends bent over shoeshine boxes beside the fountain in the public square, doing a brisk business. We watched for a few moments; then as trade slackened we went over. They greeted us with friendly faces. ”

(a) Whom does the narrator refer to as ‘our friends’?
Ans: The narrator refers to Nicola and Jacopo as ‘our friends’.

(b) What were the ‘friends’ doing?
Ans: The boys were shining shoes in the town square.

(c) What does the phrase ‘trade slackened’ mean?
Ans: The phrase means that the boys’ business of shining shoes had slowed down. They were not very busy.

Q3: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
“As we made the rounds, my interest was again provoked by their remarkable demeanour. ”

(a) What does the phrase ‘making the rounds’ mean?
Ans: The phrase means to go around from one place to another. The narrator means he was sightseeing in the town of Verona. ’

(b) What did the narrator notice about their ‘demeanour’?
Ans: The narrator noticed that the boys were very serious.

(c) Why was it ‘remarkable’?
Ans: It was remarkable because the boys were rather young. The seriousness did not go well with their age.

Q4: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
“The following afternoon we drove to the tiny village set high upon the hillside. ”

(a) Who went on the trip to the tiny village?
Ans: The narrator and the two brothers, Nicola and Jacopo went on the trip.

(b) What was the name of the village they had driven to?
Ans: The narrator and the boys had driven to the village called Poleta.

(c) Why was the narrator surprised when Jacopo directed him as to where he should stop?

Ans: The narrator was surprised as he had thought they would stop at some humble dwelling, but Jacopo guided him to a large villa.

Q5. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
“The boys grew to hate the Germans. When the resistance movement began to form they were among the first to join. ”

(a) Who are the ‘boys’?
Ans: The ‘boys’ are Nicola and Jacopo.

(b) Why did the boys grow to hate the Germans?
Ans: The boys hated the Germans as not only they had lost their father early in the war but a German bomb had also destroyed their beautiful home.