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Too Dear (Question and answer)
Too Dear lesson questions and answers
Answer the following questions in a word, a phrase or a sentence each:
1. Who is known as a brother monarch?
Ans: King of Italy is known as a brother monarch.
2. How much did the French government expect for a guillotine and an executioner in Too dear?
Ans: 16,000 Francs expect for a guillotine and an executioner.
3. Which country banned the Gaming Houses in Europe?
Ans: Germany Sovereigns banned the Gaming Houses in Europe.
4. What business does the king of Monaco Monopolize in ‘Too Dear!’?
Ans: The king of Monaco Monopolize Gaming houses business.
5. Mention one of the reasons as to why death sentence was altered to life imprisonment?
Ans: Because they could not afford a guillotine nor an executioner.
6. What was the initial punishment suggested to the criminal by the council?
Ans: Death sentence suggested to the criminal by the council .
7. Mention one of the taxes imposed by the King of Monaco.
Ans: Tobacco, wine and spirits, poll tax, gaming houses etc.
8. What were the duties expected of the guard in the story, Too Dear!?
Ans: The guard was expected to watch the criminal and also fetch his food from the palace kitchen.
9. What did the people play in gaming houses?
Ans: The people play Game of Roulette in gaming houses.
10. What is the population of Monaco?
Ans: The population of Monaco is seven thousand inhabitants.
11. How many men did the army of Monaco have?
Ans: The army of Monaco have sixty men.
12. What is a Guillotine?
Ans: Guillotine is a machine used to execute the head of a criminal.
Notes of the lesson Too Dear
13. Monaco did not have a guillotine as well as a …………….
Ans: Executioner.
14. Which government was approached first in the story Too Dear!?
Ans: The French government approached first in the story Too Dear.
15. How much did the Italian government quote for the guillotine and the executioner?
Ans: Twelve thousand francs, including the travelling expenses.
16. What reason did the soldiers give for not executing the criminal?
Ans: They soldier gave the reason that they were not trained to do so.
17. What was the sum fixed as pension for the criminal in Too Dear?
Ans: 600 francs fixed as pension for the criminal in Too Dear.
18. Meaning of the proverb,” You can’t earn stone palaces by Honest Labour.”
Ans: Honest Labour alone cannot earn riches. One has to take resort to dishonest measures in order to earn beyond means.
19. How did the man kill himself in despair in the story Too Dear?
Ans: Drawn or Shoot himself.
20. What was the punishment given to the murder in the beginning in Too Dear?
Ans: To Head Cut off was the punishment given to the murder in the beginning.
21. Why was the prince of Monaco unwilling to put an additional tax of two francs on the people?
Ans: The Rascal was really not worth the money.
22. How much did the criminal receive as advance before leaving Monaco in Too Dear!?
Ans: One – Third of his annuity the criminal receive as advance.
23. Why was the sentence changed to life imprisonment?
Ans: -Because execution was too expensive.
24. Name the special source of revenue in the kingdom of Monaco? Ans: Gaming House, where people play Roulette.
question and answer from Too Dear for PUC
25. Where did the criminal go to fetch his dinner in Too Dear?
Ans: The criminal goes to fetch his dinner in Palace Kitchen.
26. How does the author describe the kingdom of Monaco?
Ans: The kingdom of Monaco was near the borders of France and Italy, on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It had only seven thousand inhabitants and a small army of sixty men.
27. What were the different kinds of tax that were levied on the people of Monaco?
Ans: The people of the kingdom of Monaco had to pay the taxes on tobacco and wine.
28. What crime was committed in Monaco that had never been committed before? What was done once the crime was discovered?
Ans: A man committed a crime of murdering someone. This had never happened before in this peace loving kingdom. The murderer was sentenced to death after the trial.
29. What punishment did the judges announce for the murderer?
Ans: The murderer was sentenced to death for his crime. The king announced to execute the murderer.
30. What was the hitch in executing the death punishment?
Ans: The only hitch in executing the death sentence was that the kingdom had neither the guillotine and nor the executioner.
31. When it was discovered that the punishment could not be carried out due to the absence of a guillotine, what did the ministers decide to do? What was the response they received? Ans: When the ministers found that they had neither the guillotine and nor the executioner, they made an inquiry in the neighbouring countries to get it on rent.
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32. Why was the convict’s punishment changed from one of death sentence to life imprisonment?
Ans: Because the kingdom could not afford to rent a guillotine and an executioner.
33. What arrangements were made to keep the murderer in the prison?
Ans: The murderer was locked in a prison. A guard was appointed to keep a watch on him and fetch him food from the palace kitchen.
34. Why did the council decide to dismiss the guard?
Ans: At the end of one year of the imprisonment of the murderer, the king found that they had to spend a lot on the guard appointed for him. So they dismissed the guard.
35. Why did the prisoner not escape from the prison? What complaints did he lodge?
Ans: The prisoner did not escape from the prison saying that he had nowhere to go. He complained that the king had ruined his name and character. He even told the king that he had harassed him by removing the guard.
36. What was the price the government had to pay in order to make the prisoner go away?
Ans: The government had to promise him to pay the annual pension of 600 francs and they even had to give him one third of it in advance.
37. According to the author, what was a good thing for a murderer?
Ans: According to the author, it was a good thing that he did not commit his crime in a country where they do not grudge expense to cut a man’s head off or keep him in prison for life.
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