1. The document discusses a short story about a man named Private Quelch who likes to show off his knowledge to his fellow soldiers, earning him the nickname "Professor." 2. Private Quelch hopes to get a promotion but his habit of interrupting superiors jeopardizes his chances. 3. The story describes several incidents where Private Quelch displays his knowledge, much to the annoyance of others, and ends on a light note with him lecturing on how to cut potatoes without losing vitamins.

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2. By:- Alexander Baron
A MAN WHO KNEW
TOO MUCH

3. Alexander Baron (4 December 1917 – 6 December 1999) was a British
author and screenwriter. He is best known for his highly acclaimed
novel about D-Day entitled From the City from the Plough (1948) and
his London novel The Lowlife (1963). His father was Barnet Bernstein, a
Polish-Jewish immigrant to Britain who settled in the East
End of London in 1908 and later worked as a furrier. Alexander Baron
was born in Maidenhead and raised in the Hackney district of London.
He attended Hackney Downs School. During the 1930s, with his school
friend Ted Willis, Baron was a leading activist and organizer of the
Labour League of Youth (at that time aligned with the Communist
Party), campaigning against the fascists in the streets of the East End.
Baron became increasingly disillusioned with far left politics as he
spoke to International Brigade fighters returning from the Spanish Civil
War, and finally broke with the communists after the Hitler–Stalin
Pact of August 1939.[1]

5. The story is about a man named private quelch who likes to show off his
knowledge.narrator and his friends also gave him nickname 'professor' due
his lanky body and bespecaled looks.Although private quelch meant to
acquire a stripe and to get comision.He works hard for his ambition but due
to his habbit of interupting senoirs and showing off his knowledge he was
nominated for permanent cookhouse duties by Corporal Turnbull.Corporal
turnbull was a young and smart soldier who had returned from dunkirk,he
was a man not to be triffled with.narrator and his fellow soldiers told each
other that they could hammer nails into him without him noticing it.There
are also many incidents in the story, when private quelch outshone his
fellow soldiers(including narrator) on aircraft recognition,when professor
interupted the sergeant and he asking questions to professor in hope of
revenge.The story ends with a light note with private quelch lecturing his
fellow soldiers on how to cut potato without its vitamin values being
wasted.
SUMMARY

6. MCQ
Question
a) Bus stand b) market
C) Training depot d) house
a. Writer b) professor
c) Sergeant d) officer

7. a. About hand grenade
b. About service rifle
c. How to use weapon
d. How to use hand grenade
a) Triangle b) square
c) Circle d) rectangle

8. a. 3000feet/sec b) 2500feet/sec
c) 3500feet/sec d) 2000feet/sec
a. 2,440feet/sec b) 3,360feet/sec
c) 4,440feet/sec d) 5,340feet/sec

9. a. Ordinary officer b) sergeant
c) his friend d) writer
a. Officer of the day b) sergeant
c) Best officer d) none of these

10. a) Ordinary officer b) professor
c) Both a and b d) none of these
a. By watching it
b. High tip speed of the airscrew
c. Both a and b
d. None of these

11. a) Summer afternoon b) morning
C) Evening d) none of these
a) Officer b) Doctor
c) Corporal officer d) none of these

12. a) Machine gun b) rifle
c) Short gun d) hand grenade
a) 35 b) 44
c) 40 d) 30

13. a) Sergeant b) professor
c) Corporal officer d) none of these

14. Answers
1. Training depot (c)
2. Professor (b)
3. About service rifle (b)
4. Circle (c)
5. 2,000feet/sec (d)
6. 2,440feet/sec (a)
7. Sergeant (b)
8. Officer of the day (a)
9. Professor (b)
10. High tip speed of the
Airscrew (b)

15. 11. Summer afternoon (a)
12. Corporal officer (c)
13. Hand grenade (d)
14. 44 (b)
15. Professor (b)

16. The End