Hi Everyone!! This article will share Bed Number 29 Questions & Answers.
In my previous posts, I have shared the questions and answers of One Thousand Dollars and The Dying Detective so, you can check these posts as well.
Bed Number 29 Questions & Answers
Question 1: How did the author lose his eyesight?
Answer: One day, the author met with a terrible accident on a busy street and lost his eyesight.
Question 2: What did the author do before he lost his eyesight?
Answer: The author was a painter. He used to paint pictures before he lost his eyesight.
Question 3: Who did the author meet in the hospital ward? Why was he there?
Answer: The author met a soft-spoken, cheerful man named Naeem in the hospital ward. He was his wardmate and known as Number Twenty Nine. He was also blind like the author and was in the hospital for the operation of his eyes.
Question 4: When did the author regain his confidence and how?
Answer: Naeem motivated the author to start painting again. He provided everything that was needed for painting. He would describe the scene and the author would paint it on the canvas forgetting his blindness. Naeem would highly praise his paintings. That was how the author regained his confidence.
Question 5: What happened when the author’s second operation failed? Who consoled him then?
Answer: The author felt depressed when his second operation failed. This is because he had spent all his money on the operation and was left with nothing for the third operation. It was Naeem who consoled him and offered to help him with money for the operation, which the author politely declined.
Question 6: How did the author get the money to get operated the third time? Who helped him?
Answer: Naeem helped the author with the money to get operated the third time. He kept all the paintings made by the author with him and gave him the money. He told the author that his affluent friend, an art lover, was buying his paintings.
Question 7: Where was Naeem when the author regained his eyesight?
Answer: When the author regained his eyesight, Naeem was no longer in the hospital. He had left because he had spent all his money in buying the author’s paintings and now, had no money to pay for his own third operation.
Question 8: Did the author know that Naeem was also blind like him? Give reasons to support your answer.
Answer: No, the author did not know that Naeem was also blind like him. He used to give vivid description of scenes to the author so that he could paint and also used to admire his work immensely. So, the author could never even imagine that he was also blind like him.
Question 9: Why could Naeem not get his treatment done?
Answer: Naeem could not get his treatment done because he had spent all his money in buying the author’s paintings to support him financially for getting his third operation. So, he was left with no money to get his treatment done.
Question 10: How did the author feel when he learnt that Naeem had left the hospital because he had no money for the treatment?
Answer: The author was deeply shocked when he learned that Naeem had left the hospital because he had no money for the treatment. He was unable to move for some time. His eyes were filled with tears.
Question 11: How could Naeem describe different seasons in detail?
Answer: Naeem was also a painter. He had painted four paintings of the four seasons before he was blind. That is why he could describe the different seasons in detail.
Question 12: What does the message “The goddess of art smiled on me…. and then it vanished” mean?
Answer: This means that joy was immediately followed by grief. The author regained his eyesight and was excited to see Naeem. He wanted to thank him because it would not have been possible without him. But when he came to know that Naeem had already left the hospital and read his letter, all his hope was dashed. This deeply pained the author.
So, these were Bed Number 29 Questions & Answers.