The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse Question Answer

Class 11th English Literature

The Chapter “The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse” by William Saroyan from NCERT Snapshots, the CBSE board. Below you can find Questions and Answers.

1. Who was Aram?

Ans. Aram was a nine-year-old poor Armenian boy whose world was full of every imaginable kind of magnificence and life was still a delightful and mysterious dream.

2. What were the hallmarks of the Garoghlanian family?

Ans. They were famous for their honesty. They were proud first, honest next, and after that, they believed in right and wrong. None of them would take advantage of anybody in the world.

3. Who was Mourad?

Ans. Mourad was Aram’s cousin. He was 13 years old. He enjoyed being alive more than anybody else. Mourad was found of animals and birds. He had a good understanding of them.

4. When and why did Mourad make up Aram?

Ans. Mourad knew that Aram was also fond of the horse so he wanted him to take a ride therefore he wake up Aram.

5. How did Aram justify Mourad’s act of stealing?

Ans. Aram justified Mourad’s act of stealing by saying that stealing a horse for the ride was not the same thing as stealing something else such as money. For all he knew, it wasn’t stealing at all. It wouldn’t become stealing until they offered to sell the horse, which of course, he knew they would never do.

6. What was funny about uncle Khosrove?

Ans. Uncle Khosrove an enormous man with a powerful head of black hair and the largest moustache in the San Joaquin Valley a man so furious in temper, so irritable, so impatient that he stopped anyone from taking by roaring. “It is no harm, pay no attention to it”.

7. Who was John Byro? Why was he sad?

Ans. John Byro was an Assyrian farmer who out of loneliness had learned to speak Armenian.

He was sad because he had lost his white horse which cost him 60 dollars and without it, his surrey was useless.

8. Did the boys return the horse because they were conscience-stricken or because they were afraid?

Ans. The boys were not afraid they were conscience-stricken. They knew that if they did not return the horse, they would be called thieves, and it would be something unheard of.

9. How did John Byro react to getting his horse back? Why?

Ans. John Byro was happy when the horse returned because the horse becomes stronger than ever as well as better tempered too.

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