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THE PROPOSAL

Check Your Understanding: Questions and answers
Q1: How does Lomov come to Chubukov’s house? What does he come for? How is he
received?
Q.2. How does Chubukov react when Lomov says that he has come to ask for the hand of his
daughter?
Q3: Why did Lomov want to get married?
Q4: What happens to Lomov when he is in an excited state?
Q5: How does Natalya excite Lomov to the point of verbal fighting?
Q6: How does Lomov react when Chubukov says that he is not used to misbehaviour by a
young man like Lomov?
Q7: Why does Natalya ask her father Chubukov to fetch Lomov in at once when they have
fought verbally? How does she accuse her father?
Q8: How do Lomov and Chubukov fight after talking about dogs, etc?
Q9: How is ‘the Proposal’ a great comedy?

Assessment: NCERT Questions and answers

Q1: What does Chubukov at first suspect that Lomov has come for? Is he sincere when he
later says “and I’ve always loved you, my angel, as if you were my own son”? Find reasons
for your answer from the play.

Q2: Chubukov says of Natalya: “….as if she won’t consent! She is in love; egad, she is like a
lovesick cat.” Would you agree? Find reason for your answer.

Q3: (i) Find all the words and expressions in the play that the characters used to speak
about other, and accusations and insults they hurl at each other.

(ii) Then think of five adjectives or adjectival expressions of your own to describe each
character in the play.

Q3: Can you imagine what these characters will quarrel about next?

Thinking About Language
Q.1. Read through the play carefully and find expressions that you think are not used in
contemporary English and contrast these with idiomatic modern English expressions that
also occur in the play.

Q2: Look up the following phrases in a dictionary to find out their meaning and then use
each in a sentence of your own.
(i) You may take it that
(ii) He seems to be coming round
(iii) My foot’s gone to sleep