Question

1 Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow. (3 x 1 = 3)

Most of us would agree that it is admirable to be loyal—we approve of loyalty to our

friends and loyalty to our country. When we speak of loyalty here we mean a readiness to help

people when they are in difficulty or in danger, and a constant interest in their well-being at all

times. It is often very clear when a person is being disloyal—when he lets his parents suffer

without showing any concern, or fights in any army against his fellow countrymen,

indiscriminately. For such people, most of us would feel disapproval.

However, there often arise situations in which it is harder to decide if a person is being

disloyal or not. A clever child may resist his parents’ appeals to stop studying and pick up a

job in order to help them financially. He may believe that he will be able to repay his parents

more fully in the near future if he continues his studies for a few years longer, whereas, if he

stops now, his talent will be wasted and never serve any purpose to anybody. On the other

hand, if a boy’s parents are in great poverty, it might be disloyal for him to refuse to help them

by going out to work and even if later in life he is successful, he may regret his disloyalty as a

boy.

A more difficult problem sometimes is that of a human being’s relationship with the

government of his country. A group of people who sincerely love their country and are anxious

for its prosperity, may revolt against the government because they believe the government is

bad for the country. They will immediately be called rebels and traitors. Calling them rebels

may be correct, but not traitors, for they may be more truly loyal to the interests of their fellow

countrymen than the government. Here we have to wait and see if they were inspired by true

loyalty or by selfish interests.

Answer the following in your own words.

(a) According to the writer who is a loyal person?

(b) How is disloyalty different from treachery?

(c) Why is it not correct to call people rebelling against their government for the benefit of

the country traitors?​

Answer 1

Answer:

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it is often very clera when a person is being disloyal when he lets his parents suffer

may be correct, but not traitors, for they may be more truly loyal to the interests of their fellow