VELAMMAL BODHI CAMPUS, ANUPPANADI, MADURAI

THE ENEMY

IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

1) Why did the General spare the American soldier? (All India 2009)
2) Why was Dr. Sadao not sent to the battlefield? (All India 2009)
3) Why did the messenger come to Dr. Sadao? What did Hana think about it? (All India 2010)
4) What forced Dr. Sadao to be impatient and irritated with his patient? (All India 2010)
5) In what context does Hana remember General Takima? What does she infer? (All India 2010)
6) How did Hana help Dr. Sadao while he operated upon the enemy soldier? (Comptt. Delhi 2010)
7) What was the old gardener’s reaction when Dr. Sadao gave shelter to the enemy soldier?
(Comptt. All
8) How did Dr. Sadao ensure that the American sailor left his house but he himself remained safe
and secure? (Delhi 2011)
9) Why did Hana wash the wounded soldier herself? (Delhi 2011)
10) How does the writer indicate that Dr. Sadao’s father was a very traditional and conventional
man? (Delhi
11) How did Dr. Sadao plan the American prisoner’s escape? (Comptt. Delhi 2011)
12) Did Hana think the Japanese tortured their prisoners of war? Why? (Delhi 2012)
13) Why had Hana to wash the wounded man herself? (Delhi 2012)
14) What help did Dr. Sadao seek from Hana while operating on the wounded white man? (Delhi
2012)
15) Who sent a messenger to Dr. Sadao? What for? (Comptt. All India 2012)
16) What forced Dr. Sadao to be impatient and irritable with his patient? (All India 2013)
17) In what context does Hana remember the cruel nature of General Takima? (All India 2013)
18) What made a cool surgeon like Sadao speak sharply to his wife and what was her reaction? (All
India
19) How nearly had Dr. Sadao missed marrying Hana? (Comptt. Delhi 2013)
20) In what condition was the American sailor when Dr. Sadao found him?(Comptt. All India 2013)
21) Do you think Dr. Sadao’s final decision was the best possible one in the circumstances?
Why/Why not? Explain with reference to the story, ‘The Enemy’. (Delhi 2013)
22) Why did Dr. Sadao treat the American soldier even though it was an unpatriotic act on his part?
23) Why did the General not order immediate arrest of Dr. Sadao who had sheltered a white man?
(Comptt.
24) How did Hana help Dr. Sadao? (Comptt. All India 2014)
25) In what condition did Dr. Sadao find the American soldier at the seashore? (All India 2015)
26) What role did the American professor play in bringing Hana and Sadao together? (All India 2015)
27) What was Sadao’s father’s dream for him? How did Sadao realise it? (All India 2015)
28) Dr. Sadao was a patriotic Japanese as well as a dedicated surgeon. How could he honour both
the values? (Delhi 2015)
29) Dr. Sadao faced a dilemma. Should he use his surgical skills to save the life of a wounded person
or hand an escaped American P.O.W. over to the Japanese police? How did he re-solve this clash
of values? (All
30) How did the arrival of the prisoner destroy the peace of Sadao’s home? (Comptt. Delhi 2015)
31) What was his father’s chief concern about Dr. Sadao? (Delhi 2016)
32) Why was Dr. Sadao not sent abroad along with the troops? (Delhi 2016)
33) Where, when and how did Dr. Sadao meet Hana? (Delhi 2016)
34) Where and how did Sadao meet Hana in America? (Comptt. Delhi 2016)
35) What did Dr. Sadao understand more about the wound on peering into it? (Comptt. All India
2016)
36) What dilemma did Dr. Sadao face? (Comptt. Delhi 2017)
37) Why did Dr. Sadao’s servants leave his service? (Comptt. Delhi 2017)
38) How did Dr. Sadao rise above narrow prejudices of race and country to help a human being in
need?
39) Describe the difficulties faced by Dr. Sadao when he decided to help the enemy soldier.(Delhi
2009)
40) Dr. Sadao was compelled by his duty as a doctor to help the enemy soldier. What made Hana,
his wife sympathies with him in the face of open defiance from the domestic staff? (All India
2011)
41) What explains the attitude of the General in the matter of the enemy soldier? Was it human
consideration, lack of national loyalty, dere-lition of duty or simply self-absorption? (All India
2011)
42) Draw a character sketch of the old General in the lesson, ‘The Enemy’. (All India 2011)
43) How did Dr. Sadao rise above narrow prejudices of race and country to help a human being in
need?
44) What impression do you form about Dr. Sadao as a man and as a surgeon on your reading the
chapter, ‘The Enemy’? (All India 2012)
45) Why did Sadao Hoki go to America? Narrate his experiences there. (All India 2012)
46) Why did Sadao help the American soldier to escape? How did he do it? (All India 2012)
47) Dr. Sadao was more a dutiful doctor than a loyal citizen. Substantiate the statement by quoting
suitable evidence from the story,’The Enemy’. (Comptt. Delhi 2012)
48) What was the General’s plan to get rid of the American prisoner? Was it executed? What traits
of the General’s character are highlighted in the lesson ‘The Enemy’? (All India 2014)
49) Explain the reactions of the servants in Dr. Sadao’s house when he decided to give shelter to an
enemy in the house. (All India 2014)
50) What conflicting ideas arise in Dr. Sadao’s mind after he has brought the wounded American
soldier home? How is the conflict resolved? (Comptt. Delhi 2014)
51) A doctor is supposed to be gentle and humane. How did Sadao show these qualities in the story,
“The Enemy”? (Comptt. Delhi 2016)
52) Describe how Dr. Sadao met his life partner in America. (Comptt. All India 2016)
53) Good human values are far above any other value system. How did Dr. Sadao succeed as a
doctor as well as a patriot? (Delhi 2017)
54) How did Dr. Sadao face the dilemma he came across in his life? What light does it throw on his
character? (Comptt. All India 2017)
55) To choose between professional loyalty and patriotism was a dilemma for Dr. Sadao. How did he
succeed in betraying neither? (All India 2017)