Here we have given NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English Moments Chapter 9 The Accidental Tourist By Bill Bryson.
Chapter 9 The Accidental Tourist By Bill Bryson
Think About It
1. Bill Bryson says, “I am, in short, easily confused.” What examples has he given to justify this?
Ans.Bill Bryson is often confused. He is unable to find out the lavatory in a cinema. Instead he ends up standing in a small street. His specialty is returning to hotel desks twice or thrice a day and inquiring about his room number. That is why he said that he was easily confused.
2. What happens when the zip on his carry-on bag gives way?
Ans. Bill Bryson was checking in the Logan Airport in Boston. He was going to London with his family. He tried his level best to open the zip on his carry-on bag but in vain. He pulled it but with full force. Abruptly the zip gave way. The side of the bag flew open and everything within-newspaper cuttings and other loose papers, a 14-ounce tin of pipe tobacco, magazines, passport, English money, film-scattered over an area about the size of a tennis court. Besides, a hundred carefully sorted documents and coins came out like rain. The tobacco tin opened up. He got his finger injured. Blood scattered flowing. He was dumbstruck while his wife was furious.
3. Why is his finger bleeding? What is his wife’s reaction?
Ans. His finger is bleeding as it got injured when he pulled the zip of his carry-on bag forcefully. His wife is furious as well as wonderstruck that he did that thing for a living.
4. How does Bill Bryson end up in a “crash position” in the aircraft?
Ans. Once on board a flight, Bryson leans over to tie his shoelaces. At the samemoment, someone in the seat in front of him throws his seat back. Consequently Bryson is knocked and pinned helplessly in a crash position.
5. Why are his teeth and gums navy blue?
Ans.Once while on a plane, Bryson was writing some notes in his notebook, sucking on the end of his pen. He was thinking of a lady. The pen had leaked and his gums, teeth, tongue and chin were all coloured with navy blue ink. They remained so for many days.
6. Bill Bryson “ached to be suave”. Is he successful in his mission? List his ‘unsuaveways.
Ans. No, he is not successful in his mission. He would rise from a dinner table in the manner of an earthquake. He would get in a car and close the door leaving 14 inches of coat outside. He would wear light-coloured trousers and sit on chewing gum, ice cream, cough syrup and motor oil.
7. Why do you think Bill Bryson’s wife says to the children, “Take the lids off thefood for Daddy”?
Ans.Bill Bryson’s wife says to the children to take the lids off the food for Bill so that he may not make a mess out of it. As he is always confused and creates chaos in whatever he does, his wife does not want the lid to fly away to somepart of the plane and the food to spill all over the place.
8. What is the significance of the title?
Ans. The title indicates that the tourist in the story meets with many accidents.Whatever Bryson does, he meets with an accident as he is confused. So the significance of the title can’t be ignored.
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