My Lost Dollar

1. What is the speaker trying to do in the story?

• Motivating the friend to return the borrowed dollar
• Gathering clues to identify the lost dollar
• Searching for the lost dollar in the taxi stand
• Attempting to make references to the borrowed dollar

2. What does the author mean by ‘carry the recollection of it to the grave’?

• Take it to the grave
• Carry the image of the person to the grave
• Remember till the end of life or throughout one’s life
• Collect it till you reach the grave

3. Whom does ‘them’ refer to in the sentence? If there are such men I want them to speak out.

• The officials of Bermuda to whom Todd owes some dollars.
• The club members to whom Todd owes some money and has forgotten to pay back.
• The friends to whom Todd owes some money and has forgotten to pay back.
• The people to whom the narrator owes some money and has forgotten to pay back.

4. Find words from the story that mean: A persistent feeling of ill will

• friendly
• demeanor
• expansion
• grudge

5. ‘My dollar has clean gone out of his mind.’ Whom do the following possessive nouns refer to in the given line? 1) My 2) his

• 1) Mr. Todd, 2)Mr. Stephen Leacock
• 1)Mr. Stephen Leacock 2) Mr. Todd