Analysing Textual Passages 7

Read the following passage from ‘Tea-shops in Malayalam Cinema’ and
answer the questions that follow.
The small wayside restaurants located mostly in villages and popularly known
as ‘tea-shops’, played a crucial role in making panthibhojanam a way of life in
Kerala. The tea-shops were the products of two important social changes that
were taking place at the time. One was the increasing freedom of movement in
public spaces acquired by the depressed sections of society. The other was the
emergence of an economy based on money. The tea-shop came into existence
at a time when wages began to be paid in cash, rather than in kind. It was also
the time when people were beginning to travel beyond the boundaries of their
villages to sell what they produced in their fields or small workshops.
1. In what ways do ‘tea-shops’ play a crucial role in Kerala’s social life?
2. When, according to the author, did tea-shops become a common thing in
Kerala?
3. Look at the sentence, ‘One was the increasing freedom of movement in public
spaces acquired by the depressed sections of society.’ In the sentence ‘one’
is used instead of a noun phrase. Write the noun phrase that can replace
‘one’ in the sentence.
4. How were wages paid in the past? Cite an example for such a payment
system.
5. What picture of the social life of Kerala in those days do you get from the
passage