THE ENEMY

PEARL S BUCK

1. Who was Dr. Sadao and where was his house?

2. Was Dr. Sadao arrested on the charge of harbouring an enemy?
3. Did Hana help the wounded man and wash him herself?
4. What did Sadao and his wife decide to do with the man?
5. What did Sado do to get rid of the man?
6. Justify the title ‘The Enemy’?
7. How did the General act out of self –interest?
8. Why did Sadao give the American a flashlight?
9. Whom did Sado think of after the American had escaped to safety?
10. Who was Dr Sadao? Where was his house?
11. What did his father often do?
12. What did his father do for Sadao?
13. Why did the author say that Dr. Sadao was also famous as a scientist?
14. Why was Dr. Sadao not sent abroad with troops?
15. How Hana came into the life of Sadao?
16. What did they see standing there? Who was he? What had happened to him?
17. How did they guess him a white man?
18. How did they guess that he was wounded?
19. What did the doctor do on seeing him in the dreadful state?
20. What was the dilemma for them?
21. How did they come to know him as an American?
22. Why did they not put him back to the sea?
23. What was the only thing they decided?
24. Why were they afraid of taking him to their house?
25. Together they lifted the man. Why did they think him as a fowl?
26. Where did they carry him and why?
27. What did they do to wash his wound?
28. How did Yumi react when Hana asked her to obey the command of her
master?
29. How did Dr. Sadao operate the American soldier?
30. How did Hana behave with the solder?
31. What did Hana think about the stores of the prisoners of war?
32. Why did Hana remember such men as General Takima?
33. What did Dr. Sao say when the soldier asked him what he was going to with
him?
34. Where were, according to the servants, Dr. Sadao and his wife saving the
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 35. What did the Gardner say about his master?
36. What did the cook say about his master?
37. Why did the cook let the drops of blood, from the fowl’s neck, flow into the
roots of the wisteria vine?
38. What did Yumi say sadly?
39. What were the feelings of Hana for the POW?
40. What did the letter of Dr. Sadao mean?
41. What happened on the seventh day after that?
42. How did the couple manage the house?
43. How did Hana feel when she saw a messenger in official uniform?
44. Why had the messenger come to meet Sadao?
45. Why was the General not in favour of Sadao’s arrest?
46. What were the two foreign elements the General wanted Dr. Sadao to
combine?
47. What did the General suggest to get rid of the American?
48. Did the plan to kill the American succeed? Why or why not?
49. Did Dr. Sadao take Hana , in confidence in the matter of the plan? Why or
why not?
50. What happened that night when Sadao was told about the plan to murder the
American?
51. What happened the second night?
52. What diod Sadao do to get rid of the American soldier?
53. What measures did Sadao take for the safety of the American?
54. Why was Sadao not able to ask the General about assassins?
55. Howdid the American behave while departing?
56. The general wanted to reward Sadao. But he had another reward. What was
that reward?
57. What were the motives that drive Sadao to take his decision?
58. Why did the General not send Sadao with the troops?
59. What dilemma was Sadao confronted with when they found the wounded
man? Who was he?
60. What did the servants think of Sadao?
61. Why was the prisoner terror-struck when Sadao told him it was too early to
thank him?
62. What two foreign elements did the General want Sadao to combine in dealing
with the situation?
63. What plan was suggested by the general to help Sadao get rid of the prisoner?
Why did he want to help Sadao?
64. “You are saving my life again. Why did the prisoner say this?
65. Why do you think Sadao was not able to kill the prisoner?

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 66. There are moments in life when we have to make hard choices between our
roles as private individuals and as citizens with national loyalty. Discuss with
reference to the story. (Long)
67. Dr. Sadao was compelled by his sense of duty as a doctor to help the enemy.
What made Hana his wife, sympathetic to him in the face of an open defiance
from the domestic staff? (Long)
68. How would you explain the reluctance of the soldier to leave the shelter of the
doctor’s home even when he knew he couldn’t stay there without risk to the
doctor and himself? (Long)
69. What explains the attitude of the General in the matter of the enemy soldier?
Was it human consideration, lack of national loyalty, dereliction of duty or
simply self-absorption? (Long)
70. While hatred against a member of the enemy race is justifiable, especially
during war time, what makes a human being rise above narrow prejudices?
(Long)
71. Do you think the doctor’s final solution to the problem was the best possible
step in the circumstances? (Long)

Your passion will define your limits…..strive for more.

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