F 4: A Shady Plot (by Elsie Brown)

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Q. Why does Helen say people would not have believed in Hallock's ghosts if they had looked like her?

A. Helen had the looks of a sophisticated woman. There was nothing 'ghostly' about her except the way she had appeared in bits and parts from nowhere. However, fiction writers like Hallock often describe ghosts as ugly, horrifying creatures. Helen feels that since people were so used to reading about such stereotypical ghosts, they would not believe in Hallock's ghost if they looked anything like her.


Q. "Well I was in no position to contradict Jenkins." Why does Hallock make this statement?

A. Jenkins was the editor of the magazine, the only magazine, which published John Hallock's short stories, thus providing him with an additional income. John needed this income very much to cope up with his wife's expenses and thus had no option but to oblige to the demands of Jenkins.


Q. RTC

"And somehow I had always been able to dig one up for him, so I had begun to get a bit cocky as to my ability."

i) Identify "I" and "him" in the above extract.

A.i) "I" is John Hallock and "him" is Jenkins, the editor of the magazine which publishes Hallock's works.

ii) What had the speaker always been able to dig up for "him"?

A.ii) The speaker, Hallock, had always been able to dig up a ghost story for Jenkins.

iii) What is the word 'cocky' referring to?

A.iii) 'Cocky' refers to the overconfidence John had on his writing abilities.

iv) Why did the speaker feel a bit cocky about his ability?

A.iv) John felt cocky about his ability because he could write a ghost story whenever he had to, even though he had no preconceived plot in mind. He never had to hunt for inspiration. 

Q. What makes Helen, the ghost and her other co-ghosts organize The Writer's Inspiration Bureau?   [N.C.E.R.T.]
A. In her past life, Helen had to give up writing because of lack of ideas and had to take up the boring job of a reader at a magazine. Similarly, her fellow ghosts had faced a deficit of creative 'inspiration'. Thus in the afterlife, they decided to form The Writer's Inspiration Bureau to aid living writers with ideas and inspiration.

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