The cop and the Anthem 2

Prose section

The Cop and the Anthem

Extract No 02

Activities with Expected answers

Page No.  29/30

  [Lines, “where’s the man……down the streets”]

Read the first activity, read the extract and do all the activities that follow:

A1. Who said to whom.             (02)

Write down who said to whom and rewrite the sentences.

a) “Where’s the man that done that?” ………The police officer said to the nearby people.

b) “Don’t you think that I might have had something to do with it?” Soapy said to the police officer.

c) “And don’t keep a gentleman waiting,” ……soapy said to the waiters

d) “No cop for you,”………………The waiters said to soapy.

“Where’s the man that done that?” inquired the officer agitatedly.

“Don’t you think that I might have had something to do it?” said Soapy, with a friendly tone, as one greets good fortune. 

The policeman refused to accept Soapy even as a clue. Men who smash windows do not remain to chat with police. They take to their heels. The policeman saw a man half-way down the block running to catch a car. With drawn Club he joined in the pursuit. Soapy, with disgust in his heart, drifted along, twice unsuccessful.

On the  opposite side of the street was a restaurant of no great pretensions. It catered to large appetites and modest purses. Its crockery and atmosphere were thick; its soup and napery thin. Into this place Soapy betook himself without challenge. At a table he sat and consumed beefsteak, flack jacks, doughnuts and pie. And then he told the waiter the fact that the minutes coin and himself were total stranger.

“Now, get busy and call a cop”, said Soapy. “And don’t keep a gentleman waiting.

“No cop for you,” said the waiter, with a voice like butter cakes and an eye like in the Manhattan cocktail. “Hey, Con!”

Neatly upon his left ear on the callous pavement two waiter pitched Soapy. He arose, joint by joint, as Carpenter’s rule opens, and dusted his clothes. Arrest seemed now but an elusive dream. The Island seemed very far away. A policeman who stood before a drugstore two doors away laughed and walked down the street.

A1.True or False:.                       (02)

a) The policeman arrested Soapy.

b) Soapy told the waiter the fact that he didn't have a penny.

c) The waiter called the cop to arrest Soapy.

d) Soapy thought that getting arrested seems to be very easy.

Practice Activity for students

A2. Describe :                     (02)

Describe the features of the Restaurant as mentioned in the extract in the light of the statement, “It Catered to large appetites and modest purses.”

The Restaurant was a restaurant of no great pretension. The crockery and the table clothes and Napkins seem to be ordinary. It serves in quantity and not in quality still it is affordable to common And poor people because they can get unlimited food in limited/reasonable amount or money.

A2. Give reasons :                     (02)

The policeman did not arrest soapy because ………

The PoliceMan thought that Men who smash windows do not remain to chat with police. They take to their Heels.They disappear from the place.At the same time, the policeman saw a man half-way down the block running to catch a car. With drawn Club he joined in the pursuit. 

A2 Infer/Interpret:

Infer and interpret the statement,"Don't you think that I might have had something to do about it? 

Write in your own words.

A3. Conclusion :            (02)

Find out the conclusion from the statement,” I picked it up this morning in a Restaurant if you recognise yours, why I hope you will,” in context with the above extract.

Practice Activity for students.

A4. Personal Response :             (02)

  Share  your and the owner’s reaction when you/ other person pick somebody else's/your belongings by mistake in about Fifty words.

A5. Language study :           (02)

i) ‘where’s the man that done that?’ inquired the officer.

(Rewrite in Reported speech)

The officer asked/inquired where the man was that done that.

ii) The police man saw a man half way down.

( Frame a wh question)

What did the police man see?

iii) Men who smash windows do not remain to chat with the police.

( Make a Simple Sentence)

Men smashing windows do not remain to chat with the police.

A6. Vocabulary :                    (02)

Find out words from the extract which mean the following.

a) Table clothes/Napkins = Napery

b) To cause to go = Betook

c) Ate = consumed

d) policeman = cop

Activities prepared by

Tushar jaisinha Bagwe

K.J SOMAIYA COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND COMMERCE VIDYAVIHAR, MUMBAI 77

E Mail ID tushar@somaiya.edu