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Class 9 INTER UNIVERSITY PRESS Solutions English Chapter 4 - My Lost Dollar

My Lost Dollar Exercise Passage 1

Solution 1

Todd is the narrator's friend who owes him a dollar.  

Solution 2

No, Todd doesn't remember that he owes the narrator some money. 

Solution 3

The narrator explains that Todd meets him in the same frank friendly way as always. This indicates that he doesn't remember the dollar. 

Solution 4

The author feels miserable about the dollar that his friend owes him. He says that he will carry the recollection of it to his grave. However he also mentions that the one lost dollar will not make a difference to their friendship. 

Solution 5

The narrator employs a humorous tone to describe his situation. He uses exaggeration and a bit of satire to begin his story and explain that Todd has forgotten to pay him back a dollar he owes. The narrator says that although Todd may have forgotten about the dollar, he (the narrator) will remember it to his grave. 

My Lost Dollar Exercise Passage 2

Solution 1

Todd needed a dollar in change to pay for his taxi ride so he borrowed the same from the narrator. 

Solution 2

When Todd asked for the dollar, the narrator felt with certainty that Todd meant to pay it back to him, he therefore gave it to Todd willingly. 

Solution 3

The narrator received a note from Hamilton, Bermuda sent by Todd. The narrator thought it was his dollar but much to his disappointment, it was a note describing the temperature of Bermuda. 

Solution 4

When someone borrows money, they ought to return it. With this principle in his mind, the narrator frets and fumes over how Todd has forgotten to pay him back. He makes several assumptions about how he is never going to get his money back from Todd. He explains how Todd doesn't remember borrowing the dollar at all and keeps meeting him as usual. It is thus evident that the narrator exaggerates the case of his lost dollar. 

My Lost Dollar Exercise Passage 3

Solution 1

The narrator never asked Todd directly to return his dollar but instead expected Todd to remember that he owed him a dollar. 

Solution 2

When the narrator asked Todd how much he spent on his trip, Todd told him that he kept no accounts. This practically proved that since the man doesn't manage his finances well he would never have remembered the single dollar he once borrowed. Therefore, the narrator realised that he would never get his dollar back from Todd. 

Solution 3

Yes, the narrator seems to be obsessed with his lost dollar. He mentions the dollar throughout the story. In fact, every time he comes across Todd, he only thinks of his dollar, although he never directly asks for it and claims that it will not stand between their friendship.  

Solution 4

The narrator asked Todd about the currency used in Bermuda in a hope to remind him of the one American dollar that Todd owed him. Further, he asked Todd how much the trip to Bermuda cost him. The narrator made such several indirect references to money hoping that he would remember that one dollar he owes him. However, all the attempts made by the narrator failed miserably and he could never get his dollar back. 

My Lost Dollar Exercise Passage 4

Solution 1

The narrator had lent his friend Todd a dollar which the latter has forgotten to pay back. In this reference, the narrator mentions that despite Todd forgetting about his dollar, he bears Todd no grudge. He does not give a reason for it except that there are quite a few of his other friends too who owe him a dollar and have forgotten about it. 

Solution 2

The narrator has a list of men who owe him a dollar and who have forgotten to repay it. Having understood that Todd will never repay the dollar too, the narrator has added him to this list. 

Solution 3

The narrator could not forget the people whom he had lent money and who have not paid him back. He doesn't have any hard feelings for them but he cannot forget about his money either. 

Solution 4

One day the narrator met Todd out at dinner where Todd was talking about how Poland would never pay her debts. The narrator wished that Poland's debts might remind Todd of the dollar he hadn't paid the narrator. Unfortunately, this too didn't remind Todd of the dollar. 

My Lost Dollar Exercise Passage 5

Solution 1

As the narrator thinks about his dollar, he thinks it is quite possible that he too may have taken a dollar from people and has failed to repay it. 

Solution 2

The narrator feels uncomfortable at the thought of owing money to people. He feels that it is theoretically probable that there are people in the world from whom he may have taken a dollar but who haven't asked their dollars back and whose dollar he too has forgotten about. 

Solution 3

The author has used a confessional tone in the given extract. In this extract, he realises that like Todd, he too may have forgotten about money taken from some men. 

Solution 4

The narrator is trying to explain that if he had taken a dollar and had forgotten about it, and does not have a recollection of it so far then he will never remember in this life.

 

My Lost Dollar Exercise Passage 6

Solution 1

The narrator is referring to men from whom he may have borrowed money but whom he has forgotten to pay back. 

Solution 2

The narrator wants those men to speak out in reasonable numbers so that he can write down their names on paper and pay them back one by one. 

Solution 3

According to the author, great nations are built on the rock basis of absolute honesty. 

Solution 4

No. We know this because the author mentions not wanting a copy of his story to be lying around such that his friend Major Todd may see it and realise that he never returned the dollar to the author. 

Solution 5

In the short story My Lost Dollar, the narrator describes his discomfort about living with the fact that his friends whom he had lent money have totally forgotten about the same. The author's character at first appears to be a light-hearted one who can move on in life with the help of humour. However, as the story proceeds, it is seen that the author is rather sarcastic about Todd's poor memory in relation to the lost dollar. Although he says that he will never hold a grudge against him over a dollar, his thoughts wander in the direction of his dollar every time the two meet. Deep within his heart, he wants his dollar back and makes many futile attempts at reminding Todd of the same. However, he keeps his attitudes and behaviour intact with Todd despite his problem of the lost dollar. When nothing worked out, he seemed to have written this story to express his feelings. He tells his readers to circulate the story wisely, as if trying to hint that if the story, with Todd's name clearly in it, is read by Todd, he may remember to pay back the author his dollar after all. 

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