12th Class English Ch 2 Hitch- Hiking Across The Sahara Question Answer

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The most important short questions for 12th Class English Ch 2 Hitch- Hiking Across The Sahara Question Answer are listed above.

Question 1

1.Give an idea of the size of the Sahara. How does the writer compare it with England?

Answer

Sahara occupies the complete width of North Africa. It is many times the size of great Britain. It would be difficult to find out England if it were placed in the middle of the Sahara desert.

Question 2

2.What had Christopher’s foster-mother to do with his desire to see the distant places?

Answer

Christopher was a naughty boy. His foster mother used to threaten him to send him to Timbuktu. The threat aroused in him a keen desire to visit this city.

Question 3

3.How did Christopher manage to get a seat in the weapons carrier?

Answer

The civilians were not allowed to travel in the military truck. But Christopher showed the officer a permit from the war ministry. In fact the permit had later been cancelled. But the officer could not see the stamp of cancellation. Therefore Christopher got a seat in the weapon carrier.

Question 4

4.What was the most noticeable feature of the desert city named Ghardaia?

Answer

Flies were in plenty there. Food was completely covered with flies. Even the faces of children were with flies.

Question 5

5.How did they manage to drive the heavy truck in the trackless desert with its soft sand?

Answer

They placed steel mesh before the wheels of the truck to make a runway. The truck moved on this runway easily. In this way they drove the truck in the desert.

Question 6

6.What did the driver of the truck tell Christopher about three Englishmen who had attempted to cross the desert?

Answer

The driver told Christopher about three Englishmen who had died while crossing the desert. They drank from the radiator to quench thirst. One of them drank oil.

Question 7

7.Give an account of the little town named EI Golea and compare it with In Salah bringing out the difference between the two?

Answer

EI Golea was a true oasis. Its pools of water were shaded by trees. On the other hand . In Salah was fighting for its survival. The sand was engulfing it.

Question 8

8.What do you know of professor Claude Balanguernon? How did he save the hero’s life towards the end of hitch-hike?

Answer

Professor Claude Balanguernon was a Frenchman. He was living at Tamanrasset. He was giving education to the Taured people. At the end he sent the Desert patrol to In Abbangarit to save Christopher.

Question 9

9.Describe the events leading to the killing of a camel. What sort of water did they get from its stomach?

Answer

Christopher and his companions were left without food and water. Thus they had to kill a camel to get water. The fluid they got from its stomach was greenish. It looked like blood.

Question 10

10.Describe the journey through the land of Thirst and Death?

Answer

The part of the desert where they killed a camel to get water was known as the Land of Thirst and Death. It was an area of dry wells. They faced a sand storm there.

Question 11

11.Describe the stay at In Abbangarit. How did Christopher manage to get water there?

Answer

At In abbangarit Christopher lived in a mud building. He did not have any bucket or rope to get water from the well. He tied the wire of his recording machine to a metal teapot and drew water from the well.

Question 12

12.What was the condition of the Sahara desert in the past?

Answer

It consisted of vast barren sand plains. Its days were very hot. It had few water wells and little vegetation. Its larger parts were almost uninhabited. There were widely scattered towns and a few wandering tribes.

Question 13

13.Where is Timbuktu?

Answer

It is an ancient city in the heart of French Africa. It is near the river Niger in the extreme south of the inhospitable Sahara desert.

Question 14

14.From which city did Robert Christopher start his journey and what do people think about this city?

Answer

He started his journey form Boussaada. The city is known as the port of the Sahara. It is this city from where the desert really starts.

Question 15

15.Who was with Robert Christopher when he went from Boussaada and what were the weather conditions?

Answer

Three men Robert Christopher the driver and the greaser sat side by side in the front seat. The conditions were very painful. The truck moved at the speed of twenty miles per hour. In two hours the water bag was hot enough to make tea.

Question 16

16.What was condition of food in Ghardaia?

Answer

There all the time food was completely covered with flies. The people there were not hesitant to eat such food. However the writer was very careful in eating food.

Question 17

17.What happened to Christopher when he jumped onto the sand barefooted?

Answer

Not realizing the intense heat of sand he jumped out of the truck barefooted. He felt as if he had jumped into a bed of hot coals . With a scream of pain he jumped back into the truck. Meanwhile his thirst became fierce.

Question 18

18.What did Christopher feel when he was thirsty in the desert?

Answer

He felt that everything was dead and dry and hot. His mind was foggy. He was on fire. His lungs were hurt from the hot air. He tried to faint himself but his head was pounding with so much pain which kept him conscious.

Question 19

19.Give an account of the little town of EI Golea?

Answer

EI Golea was a fascinating little town. It was a true oasis with a plenty of water. It had defeated the barrenness of the desert. There was a little pool half a kilometer away from the centre of the town. It was shaded by palm palm-trees and fruit-trees. Cool grass was growing beside the pool.

Question 20

20.What was the condition of In Salah?

Answer

Parts of the city were engulfed by the deserts. Palm-trees that stood so high were like bushes. Some trees were completely covered with sand. Christopher bent down and picked some dates off the palm-trees. People were leaving the town.

Question 21

21.Why was Professor Claude Balanguernon staying at Tamanrasset?

Answer

He had devoted himself to help the Tuareg people. He convinced them that education was useful for them. He adopted their habits and customs to provide them a natural way of learning. He did not ask them to adopt western habits.

Question 22

22.When did a snake attack Christopher? OR How did Christopher manage to avoid the stung of a poisonous snake?

Answer

Christopher was gathering stones to place them in fire for the pan to stand on them. He found a snake coiled under a stone. The snake struck but Christopher jumped back in time to avoid its deadly stung. The snake was killed by the guide’s slave.

Question 23

23.How did Christopher try to make a line to the teapot to fetch water from the well?

Answer

First he tried to make a line by tying all the strings he could find. He even tore his turban into strips to add them to the line. But it made a line half down the well. Finally he used the wire of his recording machine as a line to draw water.

Question 24

24.What do you know about Robert Christopher?

Answer

Robert Christopher was an American. His first adventure was that he went around the world at the cost of eighty dollars. He had a keen desire to visit the far-off city Timbuktu. He decided to travel right across the sahara from Algiers to Timbuktu. He hitchhiked the sahara in 1956.

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12th Class English Ch 2 Hitch- Hiking Across The Sahara Question Answer

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