Lesson - 3
The Night I Met Einstein
(New) Word-Meanings
| Word | Meaning |
1. | physicist | a specialist in physics |
2. | dine | to take dinner |
3. | pleased | pleasure |
4. | gramophone | an instrument for reproducing sounds or music |
5. | untidy | not neat |
A. Read the lines from the text and answer the questions.
1. “You’re not tone-deaf.”
a. Who said this to whom?
Ans- Albert Einstein said this to the narrator (Jerome Weidman).
b. Why did the listener think he was tone-deaf?
Ans- The listener thought that he was tone- deaf because he did not understand classical music.
c. How did the speaker conclude that the listener was not tone-deaf?
Ans- When Einstein took the narrator to a room and asked about his favourite music, he played that music for the narrator. When the narrator sang the song’s lines for Einstein, then he concluded that the narrator is not tone-deaf.
2. “I’m so sorry, Dr. Einstein,” she said, giving me a cold look, “that you missed so much.”
a. Who said these words?
Ans- The hostess said these words.
b. What had Dr. Einstein ‘missed’?
Ans- Dr. Einstein missed the part of concert.
c. Why did ‘she’ give the narrator a cold look?
Ans- The hostess gave the narrator a cold look because the narrator missed the beautiful piece of music from the concert.
D. Think and answer.
1. Do you think Einstein is a good teacher? Why do you think so?
Ans- Yes, I think Einstein was a good teacher. Because Einstein gave the example of learning maths to the narrator to understand the beauty of Bach’s music. As in math, one has to learn addition and subtraction in order to do multiplication and division. In the same way, one has to know basic music to understand advanced level music.
2. Did Einstein feel upset about missing a good concert? Give reasons for your answer.
Ans- No, Einstein did not feel upset about missing a good concert. When the hostess told the narrator and Dr. Einstein that they missed so much. On this Einstein said, “My young friend here and I, however, were engaged in the greatest activity of which a human being is capable.”
