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|. Answer these questions in one or two words or, in short phrases., , Question 1., , Name the two temples the author visited in, Kathmandu., , Answer:, , Pashupatinath and Baudhnath Stupa.

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Question 2., , The writer says, “All this | wash down with Coca, Cola.” What does ‘all this’ refer to?, , Answer:, , Com-on-the-cob and marzipan., , Question 3., , What does Vikram Seth compare to the quills of a, porcupine?, , Answer:, , The flutes tied on the top of the flute seller's pole., , Question 4., , Name five kinds of flutes., , Answer:, , The reed neh, the recorder, the Japanese, shakuhachi, the deep bansuri, the breathy flutes of, South America, the high pitched Chinese flutes.

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ll. Answer each question in a short paragraph., , Question 1., , What difference does the author note between the, flute seller and the other hawkers?, , Answer:, , The author finds a difference in selling the articles., The flute seller does not shout out his wares. He, makes a sale in a curiously offhanded way as if, this was incidental to his enterprise., , Question 2., , What is the belief at Pashupatinath about the end, of Kaliyug?, , Answer:, , People believe that when a small shrine emerges, fully on Bagwati river, the goddess inside will, escape, and the evil period of the Kalyug will end, on earth.

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Question 3., The author has drawn powerful images and, pictures. Pick out three examples each of, , 1. the atmosphere of ‘febrile confusion’ outside, the temple of Pashupatinath (for example:, some people trying to get the priest’s, attention are elbowed aside...), , 2. the things he sees, , 3. the sounds he hears

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Answer:, , 1. The author describes the monkey's fight, vividly and graphically. A fight breaks out, between two monkeys. One chases the, other, who jumps onto a shivalinga, then, runs screaming around the temples and, down to the river., , 2. The author observes a princess of the, Nepalese royal house. Everyone bows to her., He sees monkeys. He sees felt bags, Tibetan, prints and silver jewellery. He looks at flute, sellers, hawkers of postcards, shops selling, western cosmetics, etc., , 3. He hears film songs from the radios, car, horns, bicycle bells, stray cows low and, vendors shout out their wares. He also, listens to the various flutes played by the, flute seller.