Money Madness question and answer. First PUC Money Madness notes. PUC first year notes. Important questions from Money Madness.
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Money Madness poem important notes
I. Answer the following questions in a word, a phrase or a sentence each:
1. How do people feel when they give
(a) one pound?
Answer: Feel painful.
(b) ten pounds?
Answer: Feel trembling movement.
2. “Money has got us down” could mean,
(a) it has ruined us. (b) it has made us tremulous.
(c) it has made us greedy. (d) it has made us its slaves.
Answer: (d) it has made us its slaves.
3. How are people without money, usually treated?
Answer: The people without money are treated as foodless and shelter less.
4. What things should be made available free of cost?
Answer: Bread, fire and shelter should be made available free of cost to all.
5. The speaker is frightened of
(a) having no money. (b) money madness. (c) eating dirt.
Answer: (b) money madness.
6. What happens if we do not regain our sanity about money?
Answer: If we do not regain our sanity about money we may start killing each other.
II. Answer the following questions in a paragraph each:
1. How does money trigger fear in an individual?
Answer: The moneyless man is treated as poor and powerless; he definitely fears to lose the money. Obviously, he gives much importance to money. Each and every man goes behind money and breaks all relationships. Lack of money triggers the fear in an individual.
2. How does an individual measure the value of another individual in terms of money?
Answer: Money becomes the most significant thing in society. So man automatically tries to accumulate money to lead his life happily. This money madness spreads widely in the society. Money leads the society and gets respect. So, those who have money, get respect in society. So, man measures the value of others in terms of money.
First PUC Money Madness poem
III. Answer the following questions:
1. Collective madness about money affects the individuals also. How does the poem bring this out?
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2. What according to the poet, might happen if people do not regain sanity about money? What solution does he offer?
Answer: A man who does not have money will not get respect from society and those who have money get respect and are obeyed by all. So to get all these social status, man gives much importance to money.
The poet says that man has this money madness and it is widely spread among men. He affirms that if society goes behind money, individual too goes behind the same. He confirms that no man gives a pound without pain and no man gives a ten pounds without trembling, and the man loses his generosity.
If people do not regain sanity about money, certainly money has got men down to become its slaves. So, the poet offers a genuine solution that bread should be free, shelter should be free and fire should be free to all the people in the world.
Extra questions from Money Madness poem:
1. Why does the poet say, “we must have some money”?
Answer: The poet says, we must have some money, otherwise we shall eat dirt.
2. How does a person feel when he parts with a pound of money?
Answer: When a person parts with a pound of money he feels pang.
3. How does a person feel when he hands out a ten-pound note?
Answer: When he hands out a ten pound note, he feels tremor.
4. What kind of feeling does money create in us?
Answer: Money crates quail in us. We marvelled before it in strange terror.
Madness poem notes for puc first
5. How do money-mad men get treatment without money?
Answer: Money-mad men treat men without money with contempt. They say, ‘let them eat dirt’.
6. What does a man without money fear?
Answer: A man without money fears money mad fellow men. He fears to be dishonoured by eating dirt.
7. What does the poet mean by ‘bread’, ‘shelter’ and ‘fire’?
Answer: Bread refers food, Shelter refers house. Fire refers to the food arrangement. These are required by a person for existence.
8. Why does the poet state that money is our collective madness?
Answer: The poet states that money is our “collective madness” as he deals with a topic of universal importance regarding the money madness of man. This madness is not on small or individualistic level but it is the madness of the multitude.
9. Why do we grovel before money?
Answer: We grovel before money as it has become the controlling power of our lives. It makes us kneel in front of itself. It makes us fearful and a sense of apprehension and stress grips us.
10. What does the poet mean by, ‘I shall have to eat dirt’?
Answer: The poet says that if he has no money, the world would give him “little bread” to eat, in the name of humanity. He has to suffer through pains. This is what the poet means when he says ‘I shall have to eat dirt’.
11. What is the poet afraid of?
Answer: The poet is afraid of the inhumane and pitiful situation of eating dirt if one has no money. He fears that such madness for money might result in the world going completely insane.
Extra questions from Money Madness
12. Do you agree with the poet that our basic needs should be free?
Answer: Yes, our basic needs such as bread, shelter and fire should be free. It is the cost of these basic needs that make man rush for money and once these needs are made free, man would regain his sanity about money.
13. Why is money referred to as our collective madness?
Answer: Money is referred to as our collective madness as this madness is not on small or individualistic levels but it is the madness of the multitude, in numbers unimaginable and at levels incredible. And since the multitude as a whole is mad, so every person in this world carries his share of insanity with him.
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