First Day at Work

First Day at Work follows the story of Anne the protagonist of the story and describes her experience at the first day of her work as a school teacher Through this extract she reflects on how her day went and whether she was able to do justice to her job or not She begins by recalling how the day went like a dream She heard classes worked sums and set copies mechanically The children in her class behaved well and there were only two cases of indiscipline One was Morley Andrews whom she caught driving a trained pair of crickets on the aisle and the other was Anthony Pye who had poured ...

1.
Answer the following questions with reference to the context.
Morley Andrews was caught driving a pair of trained crickets in the aisle.
a. How was Morley Andrews punished?
b. What was done to the crickets afterwards?
c. What did Morley believe was done to the crickets?
2.
She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.
1. Who had said these words and when?
2. Who was reminded of these words and why?
3. What was the person doing when this thought occurred?
3.
Why are beginnings for example, the first day of work or school - considered so important?
4.
The other culprit was Anthony Pye.
1. What do you understand by the word 'culprit' here?
2. What did Anthony Pye do?
3. What was Pye told by Anne?
4. How did Pye react to it?
5.
Whose 'first day of work' does the passage describe? What work does she do?
6.
What was Anne's own estimate of how the day went?

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