CLASS 11 · WOVEN WORDS · CHAPTER 8
Original student-friendly answers to the story's textbook activities.
8 worked answers · short steps first, explanations when you need them
Textbook pages Understanding the Text
Question Understanding the Text 1
Connect the costly meal with the narrator's later joke about her weight.
She once exhausted his money with a huge meal; years later he jokingly calls her weight his revenge.
Question Understanding the Text 2
Link the repeated phrases to his shrinking budget and the guest's costly orders.
He fears the growing bill because he has little money and cannot bring himself to refuse her.
Question Understanding the Text 3
Point out the gap between her claims, her eating, and her advice to the narrator.
She claims to eat little while ordering many dishes and advises him to eat less; she also misses the meaning of his joke.
Textbook pages Talking about the Text
Question Talking about the Text 1
Use the guest's contradiction to explain how a person can miss their own habits.
The guest thinks she eats lightly but orders many courses, showing how people can miss their own behaviour.
Question Talking about the Text 2
Contrast his polite words with his private calculations and fear.
He smiles and orders politely while privately calculating the bill and worrying he cannot pay.
Textbook pages Appreciation
Question Appreciation 1
Cover the ironic meal, the dinner joke, and the narrator's self-mocking account.
The humour comes from irony; she mistakes his dinner remark for a joke, and he mocks his own inability to refuse.
Question Appreciation 2
Explain how access to his thoughts creates tension and allows the final retrospective joke.
We share his private panic while the guest remains unaware, and his hindsight supplies the closing joke.
Textbook pages Language Work
Question Language Work
Quote or paraphrase his limited monthly money, cheapest meal, and empty pocket afterward.
He has only eighty francs, chooses the cheapest dish, considers cutting coffee, and ends with no money.