The Enemy Important Questions Answers for AHSEC 2023

The Enemy Important Questions Answers for AHSEC 2023: The story "The Enemy" is from the class 12 NCERT English supplementary reader Vistas. "The Enemy" is written by an American writer & novelist Pearl S. Buck. Here you'll get The Enemy Important Questions Answers for AHSEC 2023.

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Q1. Why did the General spare the American soldier ? (All India 2009)

Ans: The General had his own selfish interest in sparing the American soldier. He knew Dr. Sadao was indispensable to him and did not want him to be arrested. He did not trust other surgeons. In his capacity as a General he should have had the American soldier arrested but he refrained from it in his personal self-interest.

Q2. Why was Dr. Sadao not sent to the battlefield ? (All India 2009)

Ans: Dr Sadao was an eminent surgeon and a scientist. He was perfecting a discovery which would render wounds entirely clean. He had not been sent with the troops as there was slight danger that the old General might need an operation for a condition for which he was now being treated medically.

Q3. Why did the messenger come to Dr. Sadao ? AHSEC 2020 (All India 2010)

Ans: The messenger comes to Dr. Sadao to inform him that the old General was in pain again. Hana felt relieved to hear that the messenger had come only to inform Dr. Sadao about the General’s ill-health.

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Q4. What forced Dr. Sadao to be impatient and irritated with his patient ? (All India 2010)

Ans: His patient was badly wounded and this was a cause of worry, concern and vexation for Dr. Sadao. Saving him was a challenge for his skills as a doctor and harbouring him in his house could lead to Dr. Sadao’s arrest and his treatment was the ultimate test of the doctor’s patience.

Q5. How did Hana help Dr. Sadao while he operated upon the enemy soldier ? (Comptt. Delhi 2010)

Ans: First Hana washes the wounded man’s face and body with warm water till it was quite clean. She then assists Dr. Sadao during the operation even though she has never even witnessed an operation before. She brings in the towels and though she is not comfortable at the sight of the bleeding wound she gives anaesthesia to the patient.

Q6. How did Dr. Sadao ensure that the American sailor left his house but he himself remained safe and secure ? (Delhi 2011)

Ans: Dr. Sadao offered his personal boat with food and extra clothing to the American soldier when he left his house. He then advised the soldier to go to a nearby island where no one lived and escape from there by boarding a Korean fishing boat. Dr. Sadao then informed the General that the soldier had escaped.

Q7. Why did Hana wash the wounded soldier herself ? (Delhi 2011)

Ans: When Hana asked her servants to clean the dirty wounded man but the servants and even her maidservant refused to do as they believed it was unpatriotic work to treat an enemy and in fear of trouble with the authority. She had left no other option so she had to clean the wounded man herself.

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Q8. How does the writer indicate that Dr. Sadao’s father was a very traditional and conventional man ? (Delhi 2011)

Ans: Though Dr. Sadao and Hana had fallen in love in America, he got married to her only after his father approved of her. His father always wanted Sadao to get married to a girl who was pure in her race. Dr. Sadao’s marriage to Hana was arranged by his father in the old Japanese way indicating that he was a traditional and conventional man.

Q9. What forced Dr. Sadao to be impatient and irritable with his patient ? (All India 2013)

Ans: Hana had never seen an operation and the sight of Dr. Sadao operating on the soldier made her sick and she rushed out to the garden to retch. Dr. Sadao knew how distressed Hana was and his inability to go to her made him impatient and irritable with his patient because of whom he could not be with his wife.

Q10. Who was hana ? What did she notice coming out of the mist ? AHSEC 2019, 2022

Ans: Hana was the name of Dr Sadao's wife. She noticed something black come out of the mists. It was a man a white man, An American soldier he was wounded, prisoner of a war and an enemy of Japan.

Q11. Who was Dr Sadao ? Where was his house ? AHSEC 2022

Ans: Dr Sadao was an eminent Japanese surgeon and scientist. He had spent eight valuable years of his youth in America learning all about surgery and medicine there. He was perfecting a discovery which would render wounds entirely clean.

Dr Sadao’s house was built on rocks well above a narrow beach that was outlined with bent pines on a spot of the Japanese coast.

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