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I: A Baker from Goa
Oral Comprehension check (Part-I)
Q.1. What are the elders of Goa nostalgic about?
Ans: The elders of Goa are nostalgic about the good old Portuguese days and their famous loaves of bread.
Q.2. Is bread making still popular in Goa? How do you know?
Ans: Yes, bread-making is still popular in Goa. We know it from the fact that the people associated with bread-making-the mixers, moulders and the paders are still there in Goa. They are doing their business.
Q.3. What is the baker called?
Ans: The baker is called pader.
Q.4. When would the baker come every day? Why did the children run to meet him?
Ans: The baker would come twice a day-Once in the morning to sell his loaves of bread and then again after selling the loaves of bread. The children ran to meet him to get the bread bangles.
Oral Comprehension Check (Part-II)
Q.1. Match the following. What is must.
(i) as marriage gifts? -Cakes and bolinhas
(ii) for a party or a feast? -sweet bread called bol
(iii) for a daughter’s engagement? -bread
(iv) for Christmas? -sandwiches.
Ans:
(i) Sweet bread known as bol is a must for marriage.
(ii) Bread is a must for a party or a feast.
(iii) Sandwiches are a must for a daughter’s engagement.
(iv) Cakes and bolinhas are a must for christmas.
Q.2. What did the baker wear: (i) in the Portuguese days? (ii) When the author was young?
Ans:
(i) In the Portuguese days the baker used to wear a dress called Kabai. It was a single piece long frock reaching down to the knees.
(ii) When the author was young the baker used to wear a shirt and trousers which were shorter than full-length ones and longer than half pants.
0.3. Who invites the comment-“he is dressed like a pader”? Why?
Ans: Anyone who wears a half pant which reaches just below the knees invites the coment that he is dressed like a pader. This is because of the fact that such type of dress was worn by the baker during the author’s childhood days.
Q.4. Where were the monthly accounts of the baker were recorded?
Ans: The monthly accounts of the baker were recorded on some wall in pencil.
Q.5. What does a jackfruit-like appearance mean?
Ans: A ‘jackfruit-like’ appearance resembles a baker. Anyone with a jack-fruit like an appearance is compared to a baker.
Thinking about the Text:
1. Which of these statements are correct:
(i) The pader was an important person in the village in old times.
(ii) Paders still exist in Goan villages.
(iii) The paders went away with the Portuguese.
(iv) The paders continue to wear a single piece long frock.
(v) Bread and cakes were an integral part of Goan life in the old days.
(vi) Traditional bread baking is still a very profitable business.
(vii) Paders and their families starve in the present times.
Ans: Statements in (i) (ii) (v) (vi) (vii) are correct.
Q.2. Is bread an important part of Goan life? How do you know this?
Ans: Yes, bread is an important part of Goan life. We know it from the existence of the baker even after the Portuguese rule. The leavened oven baked bread is a gift of the Portuguese. The old eaters of loaves might have vanished. But the mixers, moulders and the paders are there.
Traditional bread-baking has remained a profitable profession in Goa. The furnaces have not yet been extinguished. Bread is a must for feasts and parties, marriages, and christmas ceremonies in Goa. There are varieties of loaves like ‘bol’, bolinhas, and sweet bread. The pader still goes on selling breads in households. From this, we know that bread is an important part of Goan life.
Q.3. Tick the right answer. What is the tone of the author when he says the following:
(i) The thud and the jingle of the traditional baker’s bamboo can still be heard in some places. (nostalgic, hopeful, sad)
(ii) Maybe the father is not alive but the son still carries on the family profession. (nostalgic, hopeful, sad)
(iii) I still recall the typical fragrance of those loaves (nostalgic, hopeful, naughty)
(iv) The tiger never brushed his teeth. Hot tea could wash and clean up everything so nicely, after all. (naughtily, angry, funny)
(v) Cakes and bolinhas are a must for christmas as well as other festivals. (sad, hopeful, matter of fact)
(vi) The baker and his family never starved. They always looked happy and prosperous.
Ans: (i) nostalgic (ii) hopeful (iii) nostalgic (iv) funny (v) matter of fact (vi) matter of fact.
Additional Questions & Answers
A. Very short answer Type Questions and Answers
Q.1. What did the elders reminiscence nostalgically?
Ans: The elders reminiscenced nostalgically about the good old Portuguese days, the Portuguese and their loaves of bread.
Q.2. Who does the author have ‘amongst them’?
Ans: The author has among them the mixers, moulders and paders.
Q.3. What age old, time tested thing still exists in Goa?
Ans: The age old time tested farnaces still exist in Goa.
Q.4. What did the baker carry in his hand?
Ans: The baker carried a bamboo stick in his hand.
Q.5. Why did the baker carry the bamboo?
Ans: The baker carried the bamboo to announce his arrival with its thud.
Q.6. Who does still carry the father’s profession?
Ans: The son carries the father’s profession of bread baking,
Q.7,”….. son still carries on the family profession.” What is the profession?
Ans: The profession is bread-baking in Goa.
Q.8. Who is known as a poder in Goa?
Ans: The bakers are known as a poder in Goa.
0.9. How did the author treat the baker during his childhood?
Ans: During his childhood, the author treated the baker as a friend, companion and guide.
0.10. How many times did the baker visit the household?
Ans: The baker used to visit the households twice a day.
Q.11. When did the baker visit the households?
Ans: Twice, once in the morning to sell his breads and again on his way back home.
Q.12. What did awake the author during his childhood?
Ans: The thud of the baker’s bamboo woke up the author during his childhood.
Q.13. By whom were the loaves bought?
Ans: The loaves were bought by some Paskine and Bastine, the maid servants.
Q.14. What did the children long for?
Ans: The children longed for the bread bangles.
Q.15. Whom would the baker greet and how?
Ans: The baker would greet the lady of the house wishing her “good morning.”
Q.16. What was essential for marriage gifts?
Ans: The sweet bread called bol is essential for marriage.
Q.17. What the lady of the house must prepare for her daughter’s engagements?
Ans: Sandwiches must be prepared for the engagement of the lady’s daughter.
Q.18. What was essential for Christmas as well as other festivals?
Ans: Cakes and bolinhas were must items for Christmas and other festivals.
Q.19. What was the peculiar dress of the baker known as?
Ans: The peculiar dress of the Kabai was known as Kabai.
Q.20. What kind of a dress was the Kabai?
Ans: The Kabai was a single piece long frock reaching down the knees.
Q.21. When did the baker usually collect his bills?
Ans: The baker usually collected his bills at the end of the month.
B. Short Type Questions & Answers (Bearing 2 marks each)
Q.1. “Those eaters of loaves might have vanished, but the makers are still there”. Who are the caters and makers referred to here?
Ans: The eaters are the elders of Portuguese Goa who might have died. The makers are the mixers, moulders and paders. These people are associated with bread-baking.
Q.2. “The fire in the furnaces still exist”. Why does the writer say so? living.
Ans: The bakers of olden days in Portuguese Goa are no more But the traditional profession of the father has been continued by the sons. As a result, the furnaces are still burning.
Q.3. “He used to come twice a day”. (i) Who is he’ here? (ii) When did he come twice a day?
Ans:
(i) The ‘he’ is the baker.
(ii) He used to come once in the morning to sell his bread and then again after his basket was empty.
Q.4. Of what use was the baker’s bamboo?
Ans: The baker used his bamboo to give a jingling thud to announce his arrival. He also used bamboo as a stand for his basket. He would place the bamboo vertically and place the basket on it.
Q.5. “………and we ran to meet and greet him.” Who are meant by ‘we’ and ‘him’?
Ans: ‘We’ mean the author and his childhood companions. ‘Him’ means the baker.
Q.6. Why did the author did not care to brush his teeth in his childhood?
Ans: The author in his childhood did not think it necessary to brush his teeth. It was troublesome. He had to pluck mango leaf for the toothbrush. Besides he thought that the tiger never brushed its teeth. He added that hot tea could wash and clean up everything.
Q.7. What is a Kabai? What type of dress was it?
Ans: Kabai is a peculiar dress worn by the bread-seller. It was a single piece long frock reaching down to the knees. The bread seller used to wear kabai during the olden days.
Q.8. What type of dress did the baker wear during the author’s childhood?
Ans: During the author’s childhood bakers were seen wearing a shirt and trousers that was shorter than full-length one and longer than half pant.
Q.9. “Baking was indeed a profitable profession in the old days.” How do you know?
Ans: The baker and his family never starved. He, his family and his servants looked happy and prosperous. Their plump physique testified that baking was indeed a profitable profession.
Q.10. Who are the people compared to a pader and a baker?
Ans: Anyone who wears a half pant that reaches just below the knees is compared to a pader. A person with a jackfruit like appearance is compared to a baker.
C. Long Type Questions & Answers (bearing 4 marks each)
Q.1. Give a description of the Goan baker of Portuguese days.
Ans: During the Portuguese days in Goa, the baker was an essential part of village life. The baker was then called pader. He used to bake- bread and cake and sell them. He had his furnance which remained still unextinguished. Every morning the baker would arrive and with a thud of the bamboo announce his arrival. He would deliver the bread every morning and collect the bills at the end of the month.
To the children, he was a friend, companion and guide. While the elders were interested in his loaves of bread the children longed for the bread bangles. He was popularly known as pader. As for his dress, he wore a Kabai. It was a single piece long frock reaching down to the knees. It was the baker who maintained the age old profession and served the people by baking and selling bread and cake.
Q.2. Describe the scene in a household after the arrival of the baker.
Ans: Every morning the baker would arrive carrying on his head a basket load of loaves of bread. He would announce his arrival with the jingling thud of the bamboo pole he used to carry. He would place the basket on the vertical bamboo pole. He would wish good morning to the lady of the house. Then he would deliver the bread to the maid servant.
The children would be driven away. But they would not give up their attempt. They would climb on a bench or such other tall place and would peep into the basket. The author said that he could still remember the typical fragrance of those loaves. The children were interested in the bread. bangles.
They were so much interested in the bread bangles that they did not bother even to brush their teeth and wash their mouth. Thus the arrival of the baker in a household was like a small but regular occasion.
Q.3. What are the different varieties of bread baked and their use?
Ans: The bakers in Goa baked varieties of loaves of bread. Normal loaves of bread were baked for common consumption. Sweet bread known as ‘bol’ was a must item for marriage gifts. Without ‘bol’ marriage gifts
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