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Evans Tries an O-level Extra Questions and Answers Short Answer Type

Question 1.
When did the Governor rang up the Secretary of Examination Board and why?
Answer:
It was in early March when the Governor of Oxford , Prison rang up the Secretary of Examination Board that their one of the prisoners Evans wanted to take an O-Level examination in German.

Question 2.
What was Evans known as by the prison officers? What did the Governor decide?
Answer:
The prison officers used to call Evans – Evans the Break. Thrice he had escaped from the prison already. But this time the Governor decided that he would see everything personally.

Question 3.
Who were Jackson and Stephens?
Answer:
Jackson was the senior prison officer on D wing. Stephens was also an officer at the Oxford Prison. He was recently recruited to the profession. How-ever, they both proved good for nothing and used to jump into conclusion very soon without doing any investigation.

Question 4.
What were the contents of the small suitcase that McLeery carried?
Answer:
The suitcase that McLeery carried had a yellow invigilation paper, a sealed envelope containing the question paper, a copy of the Bible, the newspaper ‘The Church Times’, a paper knife and a small inflated rubber ring. McLerry said that he was suffering from piles and he needed it if he had to sit for some length of time.

Question 5.
Do you think Evans was really keen to get some sort of academic qualification?
Answer:
No, Evans was not at all keen to get any academic qualification. He pretended to take an O-level examination to escape from the prison. The German teacher, the invigilator, someone at the Examination Board and a fake prison officer were all part of his plan.

Question 6.
When did the Assistant Secretary, Examination Board ring up the Governor and why?
Answer:
At 9.40 a.m. the Assistant Secretary of the Examination Board rang up the Governor to say that there was a correction slip which some fool had forgotten to place in the examination package.

Question 7.
What did Jackson ask Stephens to take away from Evans’ cell and why?
Answer:
Stephens was asked to take away Evans’ razor which he was going to shave and also his nail file. In fact they didn’t want to leave anything with which Evans could do any mischief.

Question 8.
How did the Governor react to the two phone calls he received in quick succession?
Answer:
The Governor received two phone calls in quick succession in the morning. One was from the Examination Board informing him about the correction slip. The second call was from the magistrate’s court asking for the prison van. In fact, both the calls were hoax and part of Evans’ escape plan.

Question 9.
Who was Reverend Stuart McLeery?
Answer:
Reverend Stuart McLeery was a parson. He was appointed by the Examination Board to act as an invigilator for the exam to be conducted in the prison. But in fact the person who came there to invigilate was one of Evans’ accomplices. The real McLeery had been kept tied in his room.

Question 10.
How did the Governor, Oxford Prison describe Evans to the Secretary Examinations Board?
Answer:
The Governor said that Evans was quite a pleasant sort of chap. He had no record of violence. He was one of the stars at the Christmas concert. But he was just a congenital kleptomaniac.

Question 11.
What seating arrangements were made in Evans’ cell for the examination?
Answer:
Two square tables were placed opposite to each other in the cell. One of the tables was placed nearer the cell door. Then Stephens brought two hard chairs. He placed them in front of each table.

Question 12.
What would Stephens see whenever he peeped from the peephole?
Answer:
Whenever Stephens saw through the peephole he found that the scene was much or less the same. Evans, his pen between his lips, sat staring straight in front of him towards the door. And opposite him, McLeery seated slightly askew from the table.

Question 13.
What was the scene at the D-wing when Stephens went there after McLeery had left?
Answer:
When Stephens re-entered D Wing, walked to Evans’ cell and opened the peephole, he saw a man was fallen back in Evans’ chair. A grey blanket was slipping from his shoulders and his closely cropped hair were covered with fierce red blood.

Question 14.
What did Evans tell the Governor about the blood on his head?
Answer:
The Governor asked Evans how he got that blood to pour over his head. At this Evans replied that it was a pig’s blood that the person disguised as McLeery brought with him in a little rubber ring. They had got to mix with trisodium citrate to stop it clotting.

Question 15.
What kind of a person was Evans?
Answer:
Evans was quite a pleasant sort of fellow. There was no record of violence against him. At prison, he was one of the stars at Christmas concert. But he was a kleptomaniac. The police would often arrest him. But he was very clever. He always managed to escape from prison. Therefore the prison officers would call him ‘Evans the Break’.

Question 16.
Did the exam go as scheduled?
Answer:
The exam did not go as scheduled. The exam was scheduled to start at 9.15 a.m. Stephens took some time to frisk McLeery. When the exam was just going to begin, Evans objected Stephens’ presence there in his cells. The Governor asked Stephens to come out of the prison. At last the exam started at 9.25.

Question 17.
Did the clues left behind on the question pa¬per put Evans back in prison again?
Answer:
The injured McLerry said he knew where Evans had gone. He pointed towards the question paper. A photocopied sheet had been carefully and cleverly superimposed over the last but blank page. McLeery said that Evans had gone to Elsfield Way. But the person impersonating McLeery was in fact Evans himself. The clues left on the question paper were to misguide the police.

Question 18.
Where did Evans go?
Answer:
Evans went to a hotel named Golden Lion at Chipping Norton.

Question 19.
Did the injured McLeery help the prison officers to track Evans?
Answer:
The person who pretended to be injured was not McLeery. He was Evans himself. Actually he produced some such clues which were to put the police on the wrong track. Thus, he did not help the prison officers to track Evans.

Question 20.
While we condemn the crime, we are sympa-thetic to the criminal. Is this the reason why prison staff develop a soft corner for those is custody?
Answer:
It is commonly said that we should hate the crime and not the criminal. One may become criminal due to some compulsion. The best way to remove crime from the society is to reform criminals. Harsh punishment often makes the convicts hardened criminals. When a criminal is sent to prison, the prison staff treat him as a human being. The crime committed by him generally becomes a thing of the past. Therefore the prison staff develop a soft corner for those in custody.

Question 21.
Do you agree that between crime and punishment it is mainly a battle of wits?
Answer:
Yes, it is certainly a battle of wits between crime and punishment. The criminals generally prove too smart for the police officers. They generally guess what the next step of the police would be. The same thing happens in the present story. Evans very easily be fools the entire prison staff from the beginning to the end. He escapes under the very nose of the Governor.

Evans Tries an O-level Extra Questions and Answers Long Answer Type

Question 1
Who checked McLeery’s suitcase and why? What things had McLeery brought with him?
Answer:
Mcleery’s suitcase was opened by Jackson. The prison people did not have any doubt on McLeery but they thought that innocently he might have brought something which Evans could use to hold him as a hostage. Jackson picked up each envelope in turn, carefully passed his palms along the surfaces and seemed satisfied.

But one of the objects puzzled him the most. It was an inflated ring of about twelve inches circumference. At this, McLeery explained that he was suffering from haemorrhoids and he needed it when he had to sit for some time.

Besides that there were a sealed question-paper envelope, a yellow invigilation form, a special authentication card from the Examination Board, a paper- knife, a Bible and a copy of‘The Church Times’. Jackson took the paperknife from there.

Question 2.
Describe the precautions taken by the prison officers to prevent Evans from escaping?
Answer:
All the measures were taken to prevent Evans from escaping. The governor decided to inspect all the arrangements. The examination was conducted in the prisoner’s cell. It was locked from outside with a heavy lock. A device was placed so that the conversation could be heard. All the objectionable objects of Evans were taken away. Even the invigilator was frisked.

His paper knife was taken away by Jackson. There was a peephole in the door of the cell and Stephens was asked to peep through it every minute. The prison staff wanted to take no chance with Evans. But Evans proved too smart for them. In spite of all these arrangements he managed to escape.

Question 3.
Where did the Governor find Evans? How was he able to locate that place?
Answer:
After a gentle stroll round the centre of Chipping Norton, Evans decided to return to the hotel. He collected his keys from the receptionist and went up the stairs to his room. He unlocked the door and closed it quietly behind him. But he was frozen to the spot when he saw on the bed the very last man in the world he had wanted to see.

That man was the Governor.Evans asked him how he, came to know that he would be in the Golden Lion Hotel. The Governor told him with the help of the correction slip. Then Evans wanted to know how he came to know about the location of the hotel since there would be thousands of the same name. At this, the Governor said that from the Index number 313; centre number 271. When took an Ordnance Survey Map for Oxfordshire, he found the place was in the centre of Chipping Norton.

Question 4.
How far was Stephens helpful for Evans’ escape?
Answer:
Stephens was a newly recruited officer in the prison. He was very particular about showing his efficiency ” in front of the higher authorities. He was especially glad that he was in charge of Evans’ examination. However he forget that to handle such a criminal like Evans could he risky for a novice like him. Evans complained of Stephens’ breathing and got him naturally out of the cell. Once out of the cell, Stephens kept peeping into the cell but soon fed up with.

To show that he was very confident and efficient, he left the cell door to come after short intervals. The short intervals soon became longer and very longer giving time for Evans to dress himself up inside the cell. Stephens was taken to the highest joy when he received the fake call from the Governor to take the invigilator out of the prison. He in his pride took the invigilator out of the prison and made way for Evans’ escape in a wonderful way.

Question 5.
Write a brief character-sketch of the Governor?
Answer:
The Governor was a dutiful officer. He took all precautions for the smooth conduct of the examination. But he was a bit too over-confident. No doubt that the Governor knew a little German and he deduced that Evans tactful be at a hotel Golden Lion. And from the index number and centre number he was able to find out that the hotel would be located at the centre of Chippping Norton.

But instead of going there with full police force he went there alone. He had already seen that Evans had been fooling them since morning. He handed him over to the prison officer whom he had never seen before. It did not occur to him that the prison officer could also be one of Evans accomplices.

And that was exactly the case. As a result, Evans was able to escape once again. So we can say that he was just a good-for-a-giggle, gullible person.

Question 6.
What were the precautions taken for the smooth conduct of the examination?
Answer:
All precautions were taken for the smooth conduct of the examination. The Governor decided to keep a close eye over the whole affair. The examination was conducted in the cell of the prisoner. The door of the cell was locked. The cell was thoroughly searched before the day of examination.

Evans’ nail file, razor and any other thing that could help in his escape was removed from there. The prison officers put a device over the door of the cell so that the Governor could hear all the conversation going during the examination.

Even the invigilator McLeery was thoroughly frisked before the start of the ex¬amination. Stephens was posted outside the cell. He was asked to peep through the peephole to see that everything was going smoothly. However all this arrangements proved futile and Evans managed to escape from prison.

Question 7.
Did the Governor and his staff finally heave a sigh of relief ?
Answer:
The Governor and his staff had a sigh of relief for a few minutes only. After Stephens had escorted McLeery out of the prison gates, he decided to have a look at Evans. He found that a man badly wounded was sitting in Evans chair. He immediately concluded that Evans had run away after hitting McLeery on . his head. He raised alarm and panic spread everywhere.

The wounded McLeery said that he knew where Evans had gone. But the person who pretended to be wounded was not McLeery. He was Evans himself. Actually he produced some such clues which were to put the police on the wrong track. The prison officers thinking him to be McLeeiy provided him ambulance. Thus Evans again escaped from the prison. Thus, there was no relief for the Governor but only trouble.

Question 8.
Reflecting on the story, what did you feel about Evans’ having the last laugh?
Answer:
‘Having the last laugh’ means to have a final victory over one’s rival. By taking the hint from the question paper, the Governor reached the hotel where Evans was and captured him and came to know how he planned his escape and said that his game was over.

Evans surrendered himself to the Governor. The Governor told Evans that they would meet soon. But Evans still had a last card in his ‘ sleeve.The moment the Governor was away, the so called ‘ prison officer-a friend of Evans-unlocked the handcuffs and asked the driver to move fast and Evans told him to turn to Newbury. Evans, thus, has the last laugh.

Question 9.
When Stephens comes back to the cell he jumps to a conclusion and the whole machinery blindly goes by his assumption without even checking the identity of the injured ‘McLeery’. Does this show how hasty conjectures can prevent one from seeing the obvious? How is the criminal able to predict such negligence?
Answer:
Evans was a smart criminal. He had beforehand assessed the weaknesses of the jail officers successfully. Stephens was a new recruit to the prison set up. When he saw the injured McLeery in the cell he at once jumped to the conclusion that Evans had escaped from the prison. He did not even check who he really was and neither did anyone else. It did not occur to anyone to question how there could there be two persons one in the cell and the other who had been escorted out by Stephens.

It was for this very reason that friends of Evans, who, posing as the Governor on the phone, have directed Stephens that he himself should escort the parson out, when the exam is finished. The Governor and his officers, lead Evans out of the prison. The question paper is left behind to mislead the Governor. This shows that Evans type criminals had enough time to study the behaviour patterns of the jail officers and plan their strategy well.

Question 10.
What could the Governor have done to securely bring back Evans to prison when he caught him at the Golden Lion? Does that final act of foolishness really prove that ‘he was just another good-for-a giggle, gullible Governor that was all’?
Answer:
No doubt that the Governor knew a little German and he deduced that Evans could be at a hotel Golden Lion. And from the index number and centre number he was able to find out that the hotel would be located at the centre of Chippping Norton. But instead of going there with full police force, he went there alone. He had already seen that Evans had been fooling them since morning.

He handed him over to the prison officer whom he had never seen before. It did not occur to him that the prison officer could also be one of Evans accomplices. And that was exactly the case. As a result, Evans was able to escape once again. Thus this final act of foolishness of the Governor proved that he was just a good-for- a-giggle, gullible person.