(a) Why was Patol Babu nervous? (b) What did Patol want to remind and to whom? (c) What is the synonym for ‘confused’ in the passage?

Question

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

Patol Babu suddenly felt a little nervous. Should he ask somebody? There was Naresh Dutt there; should he go and remind him? It didn’t matter if the part was small, but, if he had to make the most of it, he had to learn his lines beforehand. How small he would feel if he muffed in the presence of so many people! The last time he acted on stage was twenty years ago.

Questions 

(a) Why was Patol Babu nervous? 

(b) What did Patol want to remind and to whom? 

(c) What is the synonym for ‘confused’ in the passage?

Answer 1

(a) Patol Babu was nervous because he had not yet received the dialogue he was to speak during the shooting. 

(b) Patol wanted to remind Naresh Dutt that he had not yet received his lines to be spoken during the shooting. 

(c) nervous