Bihar Board Class 12th students, Chapter 6 in English Prose, The Artist, is essential for your exam preparation. This article provides a summary, a subjective-objective, and a free PDF to help you study.

The Artist is a story composed by the Japanese writer Shiga Naoya. This story shows the old thinking of teachers and parents toward the students. The teacher and parents think that spending time outside of study is only wasted time. In this story, Seibei is a twelve years old school going student who was very passionately interested in collecting gourds. He is not interested in studying and playing with the students. After class, he usually wondered about the town looking for gourds. He would sit cross-legged in the corner of the living room working on his newly acquired fruit. He used to walk everywhere in the search of gourds but his father didn’t like his son’s work
whatever Seibel was doing. He wanted his son to give up this unwanted war. Seibei’s father didn’t want to listen to any complaints from his son. One day Seibei purchases an attractive gourd from an old woman and goes to school with it. He starts polishing it under
his desk but Seibel is caught red-handed by his class teacher. The teacher became very angry with Seibei. The teacher took the gourd with him and followed Seibei to his home and complained to his parents against Seibei. The parents of Seibei scolded him very badly and broke all the gourds. At last, by force he made him give up that work and those things. Thus we see that the teacher and parents didn’t care for the interest of the child. This is an injustice to children.

1. Who has written the prose piece “The Artist”?
(A) Rabindranath Tagore
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Shiga Naoya
(D) Shiv Naipal | Ans- (C)

2. Who is the main character of “The Artist”?
(A) Shiga Naoya
(B) Sebi
(C) Seibei
(D) An old man | Ans- (C)

3. Seibei was a ………….. Japanese boy.
(A) ten years old
(B) eleven years old
(C) twelve years old
(D) thirteen years old | Ans- (C)

4. The word drama comes from a ………….. word
(A) Latin
(B) Scandinavian
(C) Greek
(D) American | Ans- (C)

5. Seibei was a twelve years ………….. boy.
(A) Indian
(B) Chinese
(C) Korean
(D) Japanese | Ans- (D)

6. The curio dealer paid …………. for the confiscated gourd.
(A) ten yen
(B) twelve yen
(C) sixteen yen
(D) fifty yen | Ans- (D)

7. Seibei’s hobby was collecting of ……
(A) lady’s finger
(B)  parwal
(C)  pumpkin
(D) gourds | Ans- (D)

8. The Artist is written by ………
(A) Germaine Greer
(B) Shiga Naoya
(C) Anton P Chekhov
(D) H.E. Bates | Ans- (B)

9. Shiga Naoya is a …………. writer
(A) Japanese
(B) Chinese
(C) Indian
(D) Bhutanese | Ans- (A)

10. ……. told to Singh Namiwabushi ballads.
(A) Junko
(B) Ruko
(C) Seibei
(D) Reibei | Ans- (C)

11. Seibei bought a ………….. inch gourd from an old woman.
(A) five
(B) four
(C) three
(D) six | Ans- (A)

12. Seibei was passionately interested in …………..
(A) gourds
(B) lady’s finger
(C) parwal
(D) pumpkin | Ans- (A)

13. One-day Seibei was caught red-handed by his …………. teacher.
(A) Physics
(B) Math
(C) Hindi
(D) Ethics | Ans- (D)

1. Why did the conversation of his father and his friend make Seibei Laugh
inwardly?
Ans- The Conversation of his father and his friend made Seibei laugh inwardly because his father commented on baking gourd that they had at the agricultural show last spring. The baking gourd had made quite a stir at the time but when Seibei had gone to see it he had found it rather a stupid-looking object and had walked out of the show.

2. Why did Seibei’s father shout at him?
Ans- Seibei’s father shouted at him because he had interrupted their discussion on baken
gourd.

3. Why did Seibei wander about the town?
Ans- Seibei wandered about the town as he wanted to look for gourds. He wanted to
recognize almost every gourd in the market.

4. What made Seibei’s heart beat faster?
Ans- When Seibei was Examining the gourds, suddenly he caught sight of one which was
about five inches long so it made Seibei’s heart beat faster.

5. Which is called effeminate to pastime in the story
Ans- The teacher came from another part of Japan & found it most offensive that children
should indulge in such womanish pastimes as collecting gourds. As such it is called
effeminate pastime in the story.

6. How did Seibei’s father react to the teacher’s complaint?
Ans- Seibei’s father reacted to teacher’s complaint when he knew about Seibei fault. He
became angry and grabbed his son’s collar and give him a sound beating.

7. What did Seibei do after he was forced to give up collecting gourds?
Ans- Seibei was engaged in his pictures after he was forced to give up collecting gourds.

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Chapter 6, The Artist, is vital for Bihar Board Class 12th English. It covers the challenges and passion of artists. Download the free PDF and the important Q&A PDF to prepare thoroughly for your exams.

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