Available Answers

1. 1.

   What kind of the people did the bookshop attract? Which kind visited the bookshop most often?

2. 2.

   What made them to do? Who is ‘them' in the sentence? What did they do?

3. 3.

   Describe the principal side business of the bookshop where the writer worked. What did he learn from it?

4. 4.

   Why does the author say that the bookseller leads ‘an unhealthy life'?

5. 5.

   What was the author's attitude towards books before he took up the job in the bookshop? What change came about after that, and why?

6. 6.

   Explain the following with reference to the context.

   ......the thing that chiefly struck me was the rarity of really bookish people.