Listening Skills
The Boy Who Broke the Bank
1. Who is the main character in "The Boy Who Broke the Bank"?
Answer: Nathu
2. What is Nathu’s occupation?
Answer: Sweeper
3. How does the rumor
about the bank spread?
Answer: Through Nathu’s
conversation with Sitaram
4. Why does Nathu complain
about his job?
Answer: He has not received
his last month’s
pay
5. What is the name of the bank in the story?
Answer:
Pipalnagar Bank
6. What does Sitaram do for a living?
Answer:
Washerman
7. How does Seth Govind Ram, the bank owner, react to the situation?
Answer: He is unaware of the situation
8. What was Nathu’s reaction when he heard the rumor he had unintentionally started?
Answer: He was worried
9. What is the primary theme of "The Boy Who Broke the Bank"?
Answer:
The power of rumors
10. What time of the year does the story take place?
Answer: Summer
11. What is Nathu’s main complaint when talking to Sitaram?
Answer:
He has not received his last month’s
pay
12. How does Mrs. Srivastava contribute to the spreading of the rumor?
Answer: She tells her friend
Mrs. Bhushan about the
bank
13. What does the public believe about the bank once the rumor spreads?
Answer: The bank is bankrupt
14. How do people react to the rumor about the bank?
Answer:
They begin to withdraw all their money
15. Who is the first person to hear the rumor from Mrs Srivastava?
Answer: Mrs. Bhushan
16. What does Kamal Kishore do after hearing the rumor?
Answer:
He spread the rumor to his neighbor
Deep Chand
17. What is the main reason the rumor spreads so quickly?
Answer:
The town’s small size and close-knit community
18. What does the old gentleman think of the rumor when he hears it?
Answer:
He is unsure
and seeks confirmation
19. What lesson can be learned from "The Boy Who Broke the Bank"?
Answer: The impact of careless listening
20. What does the bank manager do in response to the situation?
Answer: Tries to calm the crowd
21. How does the story "The Boy Who Broke the Bank" begin?
Answer: With Nathu sweeping
the steps of the bank
22. What role does Seth Govind Ram play in the story?
Answer: He is the owner of the bank
23. Why is the title "The Boy Who Broke the Bank" ironic?
Answer: Nathu had no intention of causing trouble
24. How does the public's perception of the bank change by the end of the story?
Answer:
They lose complete
trust in the bank
25. What does Nathu think about the commotion at the bank by the end of the story?
Answer: He is confused and scared
26.
How does Sitaram react when Nathu tells him about his frustration? Answer: He agrees
with Nathu’s complaints
27. What is the significance of the Pipalnagar Bank's name?
Answer:
It suggests a small, local establishment
28.
Beggar was an interesting character because…
Answer: He astonished everyone by running speedily
to the bank.
He had a thousand
rupees in savings
29.
The manager
tried to handle
the angry customers by…
Answer: Trying to explain customers, that there’s no bankruptcy and bank has enough money to return
all the customers.
30. People assumed that Seth Govind Ram…
Answer: Has left the town because of bankruptcy.
31. Mrs. Shrivastava and Mrs. Bhushan
were_____ _.
Answer: Friends
32. Kamal Kishore
was______
Answer: The owner of a photography shop
33. The sweeper boy in the story needs to get his______ , but the manager doesn’t care about the boy and his difficulties
Answer:
Salary
34. “I have been looking
for you for almost an hour, where did you disappear?” who said this?
Answer: Mrs. Bhushan
35. The author of the story “The boy who broke the bank” is ..
Answer:
Ruskin Bond
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