Q1: What are the elders in Goa nostalgic about?
Ans: The elders in Goa are nostalgic about the Portuguese and their loaves of bread.
Q2: How do they remember it?
Ans: They remember about it fondly.
Q3: What equipments do the Goan people still own there?
Ans: They still have amongst them the mixtures, the moulders and time-tested furnaces and those who bake the loaves.
Q4: What are those bakers known in Goa?
Ans: Those bakers are known as ‘pader’ in Goa.
Q5: What does the thud and jingle of the traditional baker’s bamboo indicate?
Ans: It indicates the announcement of the arrival of the baker in the morning.
Q6: What announces the arrival of the baker in Goa?
Ans: The thud and jingle of the specially made bamboo staff announces the arrival of the traditional baker.
Q7: How would the baker greet the lady of the house?
Ans: The baker would greet the lady of the house with ‘good morning’.
Q8: What did the children long to get from the baker?
Ans: The children longed for to get bread-bangles from the baker.
Q9: What kind of fragrance does the author still recall?
Ans: The author still recalls the typical fragrance of the baker’s loaves.
Q10: What kind of dress the lKabaV was?
Ans: A single piece long frock reaching down to the knees.
Q11: When did the baker collect his bills?
Ans: The baker collected his bills at the end of the month.
Q12: How were the monthly accounts of the baker recorded?
Ans: The monthly accounts recorded on some wall in pencil.