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    The Stolen Bacillus

    Herbert George Wells

    B. 1. The Bacteriologist says that they have to keep the living disease bacteria with
    them because they need live bacteria to study them.
    2. The Bacteriologist likes to impress others with his work and enjoys watching their
    reactions. He describes the course of the epidemic so vividly because he likes to
    be dramatic.
    3. The Bacteriologist says ‘blue ruin’ because the Anarchist has stolen the bacillus that
    causes blue pigmentation. We get to know what he means from this sentence— I
    wanted to astonish him, not knowing he was an Anarchist, and took up a cultivation
    of that new species of Bacterium
    I was telling you of, that I think cause the blue patches upon various monkeys; and like a
    fool,
    I said it was Asiatic cholera.
    4. a. ‘All those people’ refer to anarchists.
    b. The Anarchist in the story is a pale and weak looking man. It is possible that they
    treated him in this way because he was not a strong man who resorts to physical
    violence or likes to use explosive devices.
    c. The Anarchist wanted glory and fame more than anything else. He wanted to be
    respected and given importance to by his community. That was the real reason
    behind his actions.
    5. a. The Anarchist shall be the first one to die from the cholera. He will be the first victim.
    b. He will possibly have partial or complete blue pigmentation on his body, with
    no fatal or life-threatening side effects.
    c. If the bacillus causes him to become blue, he will be the laughing stock of his
    community. His already delicate reputation as an Anarchist would be shattered.
    I think he deserves the consequences because he was a man bent on destruction,
    without the least concern for the hundreds and thousands of people who would suffer
    or die because of him.
    6. a. The Bacteriologist was probably wondering how the bacillus would affect a
    human, the Anarchist. He was also probably deciding whether or not to tell the
    Anarchist that he had stolen the wrong bacillus, not Asiatic Cholera.
    b. The Anarchist was walking towards Waterloo Bridge, brushing against as many people
    as he
    could, to infect them with the bacillus.
    7. a. The Bacteriologist’s intention was to impress the visitor, not really mislead him. It
    is possible that he did not have the living Cholera germ in his lab, so he tried to
    pass off a different bacillus as the Cholera germ.
    b. Although the Bacteriologist knew that the Anarchist did not have the Cholera germ
    with him, he still chased him because that bacillus was his research work. It had
    probably taken him both effort and money to cultivate it. The Anarchist was taking
    away his work.

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