ALL QUESTIONS AND ANSWER OF "THE EYES HAVE IT" BY RUSKIN BOND

1. What thoughts came across in the narrator’s mind about the girl’s hair in the short story The Eyes Have It?

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2. “Then I made a mistake”—what was the mistake? Why was it mistake? How did the girl react to it? 

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3. “They called their good-byes”—Who bade goodbye and whom? Briefly show how they saw off their relation. 

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4. Write down how the blind gild registered a spell on (impressed) narrator’s mind. OR How did the narrator feel in getting the company of the girl? OR “But it would stay with me for the rest of the journey”—Whose feeling was it? Why did the speaker feel so? 

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5. “The man who had just entered the compartment broke into my reverie”—What seemed like daydream (reverie) to the speaker and why? 

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6. “Yet I was prepared to sit there for almost any length of time just to listen to her talking”—Why did the narrator say so?

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7. What views did the narrator and the girl express on Mussoorie? 

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8. “I wondered if my words had touched her, or whether she thought me a romantic fool”—Why did the speaker think so?

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9. How did the narrator try to hide his blindness from the girl? OR “I wonder if I would be able to prevent her from discovering that I was blind”—How did the speaker prevent the girl from discovering his blindness? 

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10. “Well it often happens that people with good eyesight fail to see what is right in front of them”—When did the speaker say so? What is speaker’s point of this view? 3+2 

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11. “Few girls can resist flatter”—Where does the line occur? Why did the narrator flatter the girl and how? What was effect of it on the girl? 1+3+1 

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12. Significance of the title of the prose  "The Eyes Have It" by Ruskin Bond. 

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13. Describe the conversation between the author and the last fellow passengers.

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14. ENDING, AS A SHORT STORY

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15. "She would forget our brief encounter."-Who said this? What was "the brief encounter? mentioned in this line? Why would she forget that?

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