(a) When and for how long it was ‘smooth sailing’ for Patol Babu? (b) Why and how did Patol lose his job?

Question

Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:

It was quite smooth sailing for some years, and Patol Babu was in his boss’s good books. In 1943, when he was just toying with the idea of starting a club in his neighbourhood, sudden retrenchment in his office due to the war cost him his nine-year-old job.

Questions 

(a) When and for how long it was ‘smooth sailing’ for Patol Babu? 

(b) Why and how did Patol lose his job? 

(c) What is the opposite of the word ‘bad’ in the passage?

Answer 1

(a) Patol Babu led a very smooth and comfortable life for nine years when he worked as a clerk with Hudson and Kimberley. 

(b) Patol Babu lost his job as he was retrenched due to the war. 

(c) good