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By:- Alexander Baron

A MAN WHO KNEWTOO MUCH

Alexander Baron (4 December 1917 – 6 December 1999) was a British author and screenwriter. He is best known for his highly acclaimed novel about D-Day entitled From the City from the Plough (1948) and his London novel The Lowlife (1963). His father was Barnet Bernstein, a Polish-Jewish immigrant to Britain who settled in the East End of London in 1908 and later worked as a furrier. Alexander Baron was born in Maidenhead and raised in the Hackney district of London. He attended Hackney Downs School. During the 1930s, with his school friend Ted Willis, Baron was a leading activist and organizer of the Labour League of Youth (at that time aligned with the Communist Party), campaigning against the fascists in the streets of the East End. Baron became increasingly disillusioned with far left politics as he spoke to International Brigade fighters returning from the Spanish Civil War, and finally broke with the communists after the Hitler–Stalin Pact of August 1939.[1]

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The story is about a man named private quelch who likes to show off his knowledge.narrator and his friends also gave him nickname 'professor' due his lanky body and bespecaled looks.Although private quelch meant to acquire a stripe and to get comision.He works hard for his ambition but due to his habbit of interupting senoirs and showing off his knowledge he was nominated for permanent cookhouse duties by Corporal Turnbull.Corporal turnbull was a young and smart soldier who had returned from dunkirk,he was a man not to be triffled with.narrator and his fellow soldiers told each other that they could hammer nails into him without him noticing it.There are also many incidents in the story, when private quelch outshone his fellow soldiers(including narrator) on aircraft recognition,when professor interupted the sergeant and he asking questions to professor in hope of revenge.The story ends with a light note with private quelch lecturing his fellow soldiers on how to cut potato without its vitamin values being wasted.

SUMMARY

MCQQuestion

Q:-1

Q:-2

Where did the writer meet privateQuelch?

Who was Private Quelch?

a) Bus stand b) marketC) Training depot d) house

a. Writer b) professorc) Sergeant d) officer

What was their first lesson in camp?

In which shape they stand first?

Q:-3

Q:-4

a. About hand grenadeb. About service riflec. How to use weapond. How to use hand grenade

a) Triangle b) squarec) Circle d) rectangle

What is the speed of riffle as told by the sergeant?

What is the original speed of the riffle?

Q:-5

Q:-6

a. 3000feet/sec b) 2500feet/secc) 3500feet/sec d) 2000feet/sec

a. 2,440feet/sec b) 3,360feet/secc) 4,440feet/sec d) 5,340feet/sec

Who question to professor that, “You had any training before”?

Who is known as ordinary officer?

Q:-7

Q:-8

a. Ordinary officer b) sergeant c) his friend d) writer

a. Officer of the day b) sergeantc) Best officer d) none of these

Who announced the name of plane?

How professor identified the plane?

Q:-9

Q:-10

a) Ordinary officer b) professorc) Both a and b d) none of these

a. By watching itb. High tip speed of the airscrewc. Both a and bd. None of these

When the turning point come in the Professor’s life?

What is the position below the sergeant rank?

Q:-11

Q:-12

a) Summer afternoon b) morningC) Evening d) none of these

a) Officer b) Doctorc) Corporal officer d) none of these

Corporal was taking lesson on?

What no of parts of hand grenade?

Q:-13

Q:-14

a) Machine gun b) riflec) Short gun d) hand

grenade

a) 35 b) 44c) 40 d) 30

To whom did the officer nominatefor permanent cook house duties?

Q:-15

a) Sergeant b) professorc) Corporal officer d) none of

these

Answers1. Training depot (c) 2. Professor (b)3. About service rifle (b)4. Circle (c)5. 2,000feet/sec (d)6. 2,440feet/sec (a)7. Sergeant (b)8. Officer of the day (a)9. Professor (b)10. High tip speed of the Airscrew (b)

11. Summer afternoon (a)12. Corporal officer (c) 13. Hand grenade (d)14. 44 (b)15. Professor (b)

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