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Glimpses Of India
Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Marriage gifts are meaningless without the sweet bread known as the bol, just as a party or a feast loses its charm without bread. Not enough can be said to show how important a baker can be for a village.
1. What was the role of bread in the life of the Goans?
2. Why is a baker important to the people of the village?
3. Find the word in the passage that means opposite to ‘significant’.
1. Bread was an essential part of the marriage functions, parties or the feast, Christmas and other festivals.
2. A baker is important to the people of the village because bread is essential for every party or festival.
3. Meaningless.
Some More Questions From Glimpses of India Chapter
Why would the baker come everyday? What announced his arrival?
What would the baker do after his musical entry?
How did he treat the kids who surrounded him?
How did the children get along with the baker?
Or
Why would the children run to meet the baker as soon as he arrived?
How do you know the kids were excited about the bread?
‘The tiger never brushed his teeth.’ Why does the author say so?
What are the different varieties of bread? Which occasions are they associated with?
Or
What are bol and bolinhas? Why are they necessary and when?
What did the bakers wear: (i) in the Portuguese days (ii) when the author was young?
How was baking a profitable profession?
What image of a baker comes before the eyes on reading ‘A Baker from Goa’?
Or
Describe a Goan baker.
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