good deed comes around

Q1          With which vaccine did the narrator help his mother? How did he do so?

Ans        The narrator helped his mother with the polio vaccine for children. He had a tray of sugar lumps and would give one to each person. The health assistant would squeeze a drop of the solution into  each  sugar lump. Then the narrator would tell them to swallow them. Finally he would check that all children had swallowed the medicine.

Q2

Ans        In the 1970s, the war in Rhodesia escalated and the region was devastated. Nearly every farm was attacked and for almost 10 years, nobody went into the minefields near the mountains. In 1986, Mozambique had been battered by a decade of war and famines. It was  the poorest country in the world.

Q3          In England, the narrator took up journalism and began working for the London Sunday Times. He went back to South Africa in 1986 because the newspaper sent him there.

Q4

Ans        On the second day, the narrator reached the base and was presented in front of the Camp Commander. But  his status changed from that of a hostage to an honoured guest when the Camp Commander came to know that the narrator and his mother had vaccinated the Commander and his people years ago when he was a child and saved them from many deadly diseases.

THINK AND ANSWER

Q1         

Ans        “His” is the storekeeper to whom the narrator had asked the question about rebels. His smile disappeared because in the corner of the store 6 armed rebels were sitting and listening to their conversation. After this, the narrator was taken hostage by the rebels and taken to their base camp.

Q2         

Ans        The Camp Commander was surprised when the narrator greeted him in the local chiNdau dialect. The narrator was an American and the Commander had not expected him to know the local language.

Q3

Ans        The Commander said this because years ago the narrator and his mother, who was a doctor, had vaccinated him and saved him from many diseases like polio, tuberculosis and diphtheria.

Q4

Ans        The narrator believed that a good deed comes around. Years ago his mother and he had helped the local rebels of Mozambique by giving them vaccinations and medical care. Their kindness and generosity was returned by the camp Commander who released him and saved his life. The photo of the narrator with the rebels is a proof that our good deeds never die and they are returned.

RTC

Ans a     The speaker was in the base camp of the rebels.

Ans b     The speaker met the Camp Commander there.

Ans c     The speaker was held as a hostage because he was a foreigner asking around about the location of the rebels.

Ans d     The speaker was elevated to an honoured guest when the Camp Commander found out that the narrator and his mother had helped the local people by giving them vaccinations and medical help years ago.