Question & Answer of the story "The Golden Touch".

THE GOLDEN TOUCH QUESTION AND ANSWER BY BK ENGLISH CLASSES 
(CHSE Odisha +2 1st Year English)



About the Author-

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. He was a master of the allegorical and symbolic tale. He is one of the greatest fiction writers in American literature, he is best known for The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851).

Born- Nathaniel Hathorne
July 4, 1804
Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died- May 19, 1864 (aged 59)
Plymouth, New Hampshire, U.S.
Awards And Honors: Hall of Fame (1900)
Notable Works: “Doctor Heidegger’s Experiment” “Fanshawe” “Mosses from an Old Manse” “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” “Rappaccini’s Daughter” “Roger Malvin’s Burial” “Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys” “The Blithedale Romance” “The Celestial Railroad” “The House of the Seven Gables” “The Marble Faun” “The Scarlet Letter” “Twice-Told Tales” “Young Goodman Brown” 
Movement / Style: American Renaissance

Questions and answers
Think it out – 1
1. What do you learn about King Midas from the first two paragraphs of the story?
Answer – I learn from the first two paragraphs of the story that, King Midas had fabulous wealth and a rich king. Yet he had a great weakness for gold.He loved his daughter Marygold very much. But his love for gold was more than anything else in the world.

2. What did he wish when he saw the golden light of the evening sun?
Answer – Upon seeing the golden light of the Sun, he wished if it could turn everything into gold that it fell upon.

3. Why didn’t he like the roses of his garden?
Answer – He considered the roses grown in her garden as too mundane and ordinary. They didn’t enthuse him a bit. He wished his garden had roses of gold.

4. How did he spend his time in his ‘treasure-room’?
Answer – As his favourite pastime, he would walk to his hidden store where gold coins were kept. Then he would count them one by one. The jingle of the coins pleased him a lot. At times, he would hold a gold bar, and start imagining gold cups and plates.

5. How did he come across the stranger?
Answer – The stranger made his appearance inside his top-secret treasure room as soon as the first rays of the Sun came in. The king was baffled to see him. He had a soft smile on his face.

6. How did King Midas answer the stranger’s question, “What else do you want?”
Answer – The King had concluded that the stranger had magical powers. On hearing his query about his want, the king asked him about ways to hasten his amassing of gold. Quite foolishly, the king wanted the power to transform everything he touched to gold.

7. How did the stranger fulfill his wishes?
Answer – The stranger granted the boon (ବରଦାନ )to Midas that next morning at sunrise everything would turn gold with his (king's) Golden Touch.

Think it out – 2

1. When did the king discover that his desire for the golden touch had been fulfilled?
Answer – Quite early in the morning, the king discovered that his desire for the golden touch had been fulfilled when a piece of cloth near him turned into gold upon his touch.

2. Why was the king not sad when his spectacles turned into gold?
Answer – On touch, the king’s spectacles turned to gold making it useless as a device for vision. However, the king was not unduly perturbed. ‘The golden touch was far more beneficial than a pair of glasses,’ he construed.

3. What was Marygold’s complaint about the golden rose?
Answer – Marygold’s complaint about the red roses was that they had lost both their beauty and sweet scent.

4. How did the king console his daughter?
Answer – The king consoled his daughter by saying that the golden roses were worth much more than the real ones. So, she needn’t be so distraught at the conversion. With these words, the king mollified her.

5. Why couldn’t the king enjoy his breakfast?
Answer – The king couldn’t enjoy his delicious breakfast as it all turned into gold as soon as he tried to eat.

6. What happened to Marygold when the king kissed her?
Answer – When Midas kissed his dear daughter Marygold, she turned into gold. Her sweet little face turned into yellowish gold.

Think it out- 3

1. How did the king realise that the gold in touch was useless gift for him?A

Answer: When the daughter of the king turned into a gold pile, at that time the king reached that the golden touch was a useless.

2. You are wiser then you were-why did the stranger say so?

Answer: The stranger said so because when the king couldn’t get the real shape of her daughter he feels said. The king knew it very well that the common things are much more precious than riches.

3. What did the stranger advise the king to do to get rid of his golden touch ?

Answer- The stranger advised the king to collect water from the river and sparkle it on anything to get the real shape and size.

4. How did the king get back his daughter?

Answer: The moment the king sprinkled river water on his daughter, she returned her original she.

5. Is the story a tragic or comic one?Answer: The story is obviously a tragic one because we shouldn’t hope for wealth always, save time, excess greed brings sorrow and sufferings touch.



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