(a) Who were ‘those people’ that Patol thought to be pulling his leg? (b) What did Patol think the whole thing to be?

Question

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

Were these people pulling his leg? Was the whole thing a gigantic hoax? A meek, harmless man like him, and they had to drag him into the middle of the city to make a laughing stock out of him. How could anyone be so cruel?

Questions 

(a) Who were ‘those people’ that Patol thought to be pulling his leg? 

(b) What did Patol think the whole thing to be? 

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

Answer 1

(a) The people were connected with films. They were trying to pull Patol Babu’s leg. 

(b) Patol Babu thought that the whole thing connected with the shooting was a huge hoax. 

(c) harmless