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On Saying Please By A. G. Gardiner

 

On Saying Please 

By A. G. Gardiner

F.Y. B. Com Semester -I


1. What is the full name of A. G. Gardiner?

A. Alfred George Gardiner(1865-1964)


2. What is the pen name of the author?

A. Alpha of the Plough


3. Where was the Gardiner born?

A. Chemsford, UK


4. As a Boy Gardiner worked at ________

A. Chemsford Chronicle and Bournemouth Directory 


5. When did he join Daily Telegraph?

A. 1887


6. In which year he is appointed as Editor of Blackburn Weekly Telegraph?

A. 1899


7. Gardiner was an editor of ________.

A. The Daily Mail


8. From 1915, he contributed to _______ under the pseudonym 'Alpa of the Plough'.

A. The Star


9. His Famous Works:

    The Pillars od Society

    Pebbles on the Shore

    Many Furrows and Leaves in the Wind


10. The Essay On Saying Please is on ___________.

A. the value Politness


11. Bad Manners are an example of this type of offence?

A. Motral


12. This is not punishable under the law

A. Being Discourteous


13. What is an example of Courtesy?

A. Helping an elderly person ton get in  the car


14. How did the lift-Man react to the person when the latter refused to say 'please' to him?

A. Threw him out of the lift


15. The Author says that ' Please' and 'Thank You' are___

A. Part of our moral duty

B. Old Customs for us to follow

C. Like small changes with which we pay our way as social  

D. Both A and B

    

15. The Author was particularly impressed by a civil and kind act of this person?

A. Bus Conductor


16. The Steam of general life get polluted by one's behavior by 

A. Bus Conductor


17. The law does not compel me to say that I shall not wax my moustache or dye my hair or wear ringlets down my back'. this means that

A. It is perfectly fine by law for anyone to do exactly as they like with their looks


18. Why the author overwhelmed by the bus conductor?

A. Because he was not just good-mannered, he was kind to everyone on the bus, every single day

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19. How, according to the author, should the lift-man have handled the impolite person who would not say 'Please' to take a subtle and effective revenge?

A. He should have had treated the gentleman with elaborate politeness.


20. Discourtesy is not a ______ offense,

A. Legal 


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