The cop and the Anthem 1

Prose Section

Lesson No 3.

The cop and the Anthem

 Extract No . 01 

Activities with expected answers

Page No. 28/29  [Lines, “ Soapy left……brass buttons”]

Read the extract and do all the activities that follow:

A1. Web                     (02)

Complete the web by writing down what soapy had planned to order in Cafe. 

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Note:This is a practice Activity for students.

Soapy left his bench and strolled out of the square and across the level sea of asphalt, where Broadway and Fifth Avenue flow together. Up Broadway he turned, and stopped at a luxurious cafe.

Soapy had confidence in himself From the lowest button of his vest upward. He was shaven, and his coat was trim and his neat, black bow had been presented to him by a lady missionary on Thanksgiving Day. If only he could reach a table restaurant unsuspected, Success would be this. The portion of him that would raise no doubts in the waiter’s mind. A roasted mallard duck, thought, Soapy, would be about the thing with a bottle of wine and then some cheese, a cup of coffee and a cigar. One dollar for the cigar would be enough. The total would not be so high as to call forth ant extreme of revenge from the cafe management; and yet the meat would leave him filled and happy for the journey to his winter Island.

But as Soapy set foot inside the restaurant door, the head-waiter’s eye fell upon his tattered trousers and Decadent shoes. Strong and ready hands turned him about and conveyed him in silence and haste of the menaced Mallard.

Soapy turned off Broadway. It seemed that his route to the covered island was not to be an easy one. Some other way of entering the limbo must be devised.

At a corner of Sixth Avenue electric lights and cunningly displayed wares behind plate-glass made a shop window attractive. Soapy took a stone and dashed it through the glass. People came running round the corner, a policeman in the lead. Soapy stood still with his hands in his Pockets, and smiled at the sight of brass buttons.

 A2. Give reasons :                     (02)

Soapy failed in his first attempt in the cafe because ……………………

  Soapy set foot inside the restaurant door, the head-waiter’s eye fell upon his tattered trousers

and Decadent shoes. The waiters conveyed him that he won’t be allowed to enter into the cafe due to his financial condition as well as his appearance.

A3. Find out :                     (02)

Find out the attempts made by soapy with a desire that he would be caught by police and sent to Prison.

Firstly soapy tried to enter into a cafe even if he had no money. Secondly, when he came at the corner of the sixth avenue electric lights and beautifully decorated shop, he took a stone and smashed and Dashed  it through the glass with an intention that the nearby police would catch him.

A4. Personal Response :             (02)

Imagine you are a manager of hotel,a poor hungry boy come in

the hotel,consume the food and he isunable to pay the Bill.

Share your Views how, you will handle the

situation in fifty words.

A5. Language study :.                 (02)

i) He stopped at a luxurious cafe.

(Frame a “wh question” to get the underlined part as an Answer)

Where did he stop?

ii) As soapy set foot inside the restaurant door, the head-waiter’s eye fell upon his tattered Trousers and decadent shoes.

( Rewrite using ,’ As soon as”/No sooner. Than”)

As soon as soapy set foot inside the Restaurant door, the head-waiter’s eye fell upon his Tattered  trousers and decadent shoes.

No sooner did soapy set foot inside the Restaurant door than the head-waiter’s eye fell upon his  tattered trousers and decadent shoes.

A6. Vocabulary :.                      ( 02)

Find out words from the extract which mean the following :

a) Notice = eyes fell upon

b) Hurriedly = haste to

c) Menaced = troubled

d) Cunningly = very wisely.

A6. Vocabulary:.                           (02)

Find out words from the Extract which means Jail or Prison.

Photo with Noble Laureate Dr.Kailash Satyarthi at INCSC Mumbai.

Activities prepared by

Tushar jaisinha Bagwe

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

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tushar@somaiya.edu

tushar8bagwe@gmail.com