Questions & Answers on ‘The Swan Song’
A. Answer
in one word or in a phrase or a sentence:
Q1. What was the last solo performance enacted by Svietlovidoff before
leaving the stage?
Ans. He recited very touching lines from Shakespeare’s Othello.
Q2.Why does Svietlovidoff feel dismayed?
Ans. HE feels dismayed because he is alone and in old age.
Q3.What was Nikita Ivanich’s occupation?
Ans. He is a prompter.
Q4. How does the protagonist describe the prime days of his life?
Ans. He calls them glorious days when his audience appreciated him
a lot.
Q5. What was the condition that the woman who Svietlovdoff loved
put on their marriage?
Ans. She told the actor to quit the stage if he would like to
marry her.
Q6. How long has Svietlovidoff been an actor?
Ans.. He has been an actor for forty-five years.
Q7. How does Svietlovidoff realise that old age is no more a
burden?
Ans. In the end, he realises that old age is not a burden if the
person is a genius and has talent
Q8.How did the audience bid farewell to the actor?
Ans.. The audience bid the actor farewell by calling his name
sixteen times and giving him garlands.
B. Answer
the following questions in about 30 words each:
Q1. What was the last solo performance enacted by Svietlovidoff
before leaving the stage?
Ans. Svietlovidoff was once a great artist on the stage. But later
on, he started playing the role of a joker. Before leaving the stage after 45
years of his acting, he recites a few lines from Othello, a famous play written
by William Shakespeare. It was his solo performance.
Q2. Why does Svietlovidoff feel dismayed?
Ans. Svietlovidoff has lost his faith in the audience. He also
feels that his worship of art was an illusion. He comes to know the bitter
reality that the audience loves only the performances of the artist. But they
never bother to know about his personal life. At the age of sixty-eight years,
he feels dismayed due to all this. He feels alone and dejected at the callous
attitude of the audience.
Q3.What was Nikita Ivanich’s occupation?
Ans. Nikita Ivanich does the job of a prompter on stage. He is
also an old man like Svietlovidoff. He has no place to live and no one to look
after him. He passes his nights in the dressing room of the theater.
Q4. How does the protagonist describe the prime days of his life?
Ans. Svietlovidoff tells Nikita that he was a great actor in the
prime time of his life. People applauded (praised) him for his acting on the
stage. He also tells him that he was a very handsome, bold, and enthusiastic young
man. He had also served in the army and the artillery.
Q5. What was the condition that the lady Svietlovidoff loved put
in front of him?
Ans. Svietlovidoff was a handsome, daring, and eager young man. A
rich lady loved him. When he requested her to marry him, she put a condition on
him. She told him to quit the stage for that. She also told him that she could
love an actor but never marry him.
Q6. How long has Svietlovidoff been an actor on stage?
Ans. Svietlovidoff has been an actor on stage for forty-five
years. But now, he is of sixty-eight years. In his youth, he was a great actor.
After the rejection from the woman he loved, he started playing as a baffoon in
his frustration.
Q7. How does Svietlovidoff realise that old age is no more a
burden?
Ans. Towards the end of the play, Nikita encourages Svietlovidoff
by telling him that he is a genius. He is capable of performing powerful roles
at that time also. Svietlovidoff feels encouraged and recites several lines
from Shakespeare’s King Lear and Othello. Then he realises that old age is no
burden or hurdle if a man is a genius and has a talent.
Q8. How did the audience bid farewell to the actor?
Ans. Svietlovidoff narrates to Nikita that the audience was mad in
joy. They called his name sixteen times. They had also brought garlands for
him. Thus they applauded his last performance with great enthusiasm.
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