Chapter -4.1 Please Listen!
1. Question: What does the speaker ask for at the beginning?
Answer: The speaker asks simply to be listened to.
2. Question: Does the speaker want advice?
Answer: No, the speaker clearly says they don’t want advice.
3. Question: Why does the speaker not want advice?
Answer: Because once they understand the reason behind their feelings, the answers become obvious.
4. Question: What kind of feelings does the speaker talk about?
Answer: Irrational and illogical feelings.
5. Question: When do irrational feelings make sense, according to the speaker?
Answer: They make sense when we understand what is behind them.
6. Question: What does the speaker say happens when things become clear?
Answer: The answers become obvious and no advice is needed.
7. Question: Whose example does the speaker use to explain the idea of listening?
Answer: The example of God.
8. Question: What does the speaker say about God?
Answer: God is mute—He doesn’t give advice or try to fix things; He just listens.
9. Question: Why does prayer sometimes work, according to the speaker?
Answer: Because God listens without giving advice, allowing people to work things out themselves.
10. Question: What does the speaker want the listener to do?
Answer: Just listen sincerely.
11. Question: What should the listener NOT do according to the speaker?
Answer: They should not give advice, solve the problem, or add to the fear.
12. Question: Why shouldn’t the listener increase the speaker’s fear?
Answer: Because it makes the situation worse.
13. Question: What does the speaker want the listener to accept as a simple fact?
Answer: Their feelings.
14. Question: When does the speaker want the listener to talk?
Answer: After waiting for a minute and after the speaker finishes.
15. Question: What does the speaker offer in return?
Answer: The speaker promises to listen in return.
16. Question: What does the speaker want more than solutions?
Answer: Understanding and empathy.
17. Question: How does the speaker want to understand their feelings?
Answer: By talking freely and being heard.
18. Question: What does the line “Irrational feelings make sense” mean?
Answer: Even irrational feelings have a reason behind them.
19. Question: Why does the speaker not want anyone to solve their problem?
Answer: Because solving the problem themselves helps them understand it better.
20. Question: Why does the speaker not want to hear “tell me why”?
Answer: Because they want to explain things in their own way and at their own pace.
21. Question: What does the speaker consider more important—talking or listening?
Answer: Listening.
22. Question: Who is described as “mute”?
Answer: God.
23. Question: What does God do instead of giving advice, according to the speaker?
Answer: God just listens and allows people to find their own answers.
24. Question: What does the speaker say people should do when someone talks?
Answer: Just listen.
25. Question: Why does the speaker say, “You have not done what I asked”?
Answer: Because people often give advice instead of listening.
26. Question: Why is listening important according to the speaker?
Answer: Because when someone listens, the speaker can understand themselves better.
27. Question: What does the speaker promise to do if the listener waits?
Answer: The speaker will listen to them in return.
28. Question: What does the speaker ask for while they are talking?
Answer: Patience and silence from the listener.
29. Question: What communication style is highlighted in the poem?
Answer: A conversational or colloquial style.
30. Question: What is the central message of the lesson?
Answer: Good listening helps people understand their own feelings and find their own solutions.
Answer by Dimpee Bora
