10th English Prose Lesson 4 Questions and Answers

The Attic

Get “The Attic” 10th English Lesson 4 questions and answers for TN Board students. Includes important questions, short answers, and detailed explanations to help you prepare effectively for exams.

1.Write a few lines about the owner of the shop?

The owner of the tea shop was over sixty, a little rustic in appearance, with his white neatly-combed hair and clean look, He was wearing a dhoti and a blue striped shirt that could be seen from under a green shawl.

2.What was the daily routine of Sanyal?

Sanyal’s daily routine was to go to tea shop have tea and biscuits and always remembers to pay – having an acute sense of self-respect.

3.Why was there a sudden change in Aditya’s expression?

Mr Sanyal suddenly stood up, stretched himself and, raising his lean right arm, and with eyes dilated, began to recite a poem by Tagore – Panraksha. Having recited the poem, he left the place, making the gesture of Namaste with his hands, to nobody in particular. this made the sudden change in Aditya’s expression.

4.Why did Aditya decide to visit his ancestral home?

Aditya decided to visit his ancestral house to take the medal from his attic.

5. What was the condition of the attic?

A portion of a wall of the attic had crumbled down.
Through the ‘window’ that had been created, they could see the sky, the fields, a part of the rice mill, the spire of the old temple.
The floor was strewn with twigs and straw and pigeon droppings.
There was a broken cricket bat, the remains of an armchair and a wooden packing case.

6.When did Aditya heave a sigh of relief? Why?

Aditya heaved a sigh of relief, when he saw the medal in the attic.
It was a silver medal belonged to Sanyal.
He took it from him twenty-nine years ago and lied that was lost.
Now he wanted to return it to him.

7.Why did Aditya and his friend go to the jeweller?

Aditya and his friend went to the jeweller to find out the weight of the article.

8.What did Aditya offer Sanyal?

Aditya offered fifteen 10 rupee notes to sanyal for the medal.

9.“Your grievances are absolutely justified.” Who says this to whom? Why?

Aditya said this to Sanyal, because Aditya was the cause for Sanyals grievances.

Paragraph Questions (Slow Learners)

1. Give a detailed account of all thoughts and questions in the narrator’s mind while accompanying Aditya from the tea shop to Sanyal’s house?

TITLE : The Attic

AUTHOR : Satyajit Ray.

Theme : Confusion over Aditya’s Behavior

The narrator and Aditya had visited Aditya’s village after twenty nine years.
They went to Nagen uncle’s tea shop. They met Sasanka Sanyal there.
Sanyal suddenly stood up and began to recite the poem ‘Panraksha’ by Tagore.
He noticed a sudden change in Aditya’s expression, while hearing Sanyal’s recitation.
He asked Aditya the reason for it but Aditya didn’t answer.
Aditya inquired Nagen about Sanyal.
They wanted to meet Sanyal again, Aditya expressed his wish to visit his old house.
In his house, the narrator witnessed Aditya heaving a sigh of relief, when he had got a medal in the attic.
The narrator eagerly asked the reason for it.
Aditya did not answer him there as well.
Later they went to the jeweller to find out the weight of the medal.
The narrator could not understand why Aditya behaved like that.
They went to Kabiraj’s house, where Sanyal stayed.
Aditya confessed Sanyal for his act of stealing his medal which he got for recitation.
Only then, the narrator knew the answers for all the questions in his mind

Moral : Honesty and repentance are the only ways to find true peace

2.‘Man does change with time’-What were the various changes that came about in Aditya?

TITLE : The Attic

AUTHOR : Satyajit Ray.

Theme : Man Does Change with Time

Twenty nine years ago Aditya was jealous of Sanyal, when Sanyal got a medal for recitation of a poem.
Aditya took the medal from Sanyal to show his father and never returned, it to Sanyal.
When Sanyal demanded his medal, Aditya replied that there was a hole in his pocket and it had fallen through it.
Aditya remembered everything.
But Sanyal got angry with Aditya.
Aditya justified Sanyal’s anger and grievance, since he committed the mistake.
Now he wanted to prove that he was not the same as he had been earlier.
He said to Sanyal that man changes with time.
Aditya too changed and realized his mistake.
So he gave Sanyal the cost of the medal one hundred and fifty rupees.
As Sanyal refused, Aditya handed over the silver medal to him and proved that he has changed with time.

Moral : It is never too late to undo a wrong

3.Give a brief character sketch of Sasanka Sanyal.

TITLE : The Attic

AUTHOR : Satyajit Ray.

Theme : Man Does Change with Time

Sasanka Sanyal led a cursed life, He sold his lands and his house for his daughter’s marriage.
He lost his wife and only son the year before.
He was forced to stay in Jogesh Kabiraj’s house who was his father’s friend.
In spite of his suffering, he showed his sense of self respect by paying money for his tea and biscuits in the tea shop.
He recognised Aditya at the tea shop itself.
He recited the poem for which he got the medal.
He recited it so that Aditya could remember and recognize him.
He could not forgive Aditya, who never returned the silver medal.
Sanyal became helpless due to old age and poverty.
He was a man of innocence who expressed his grievances politely.
He admitted that he got angry at the tea shop.
Finally he acknowledged that he could not control his anger and behaved indifferently.
He did not accept the money for his medal from Aditya.
He frankly asked Aditya that he Wanted his medal back.
For him, the silver medal and the recognition were more valuable than anything else.
Though Sanyal suffered a lot, he proved that he had an acute sense of self-respect.

Moral : It is never too late to undo a wrong