Question

3. Read the following passage and answer the given questions:
One day when I was in the fifth standard at the Rameswaram Elementary School, a new teacher
came to our class. I used to wear a cap which marked me as a Muslim, and I always sat in the front row
next to Ramanadha Sastry, who wore a sacred thread. The new teacher could not stomach a Hindu
priest's son sitting with a Muslim boy.
In accordance with our social ranking as the new teacher saw it, I was asked to go and sit on the
back bench. I felt very sad, and so did Ramanadha Sastry. He looked utterly downcast as I shifted
to my seat in the last row. The image of him weeping when I shifted to the last row left a lasting
impression on me
After school, we went home and told our respective parents about the incident. Lakshmana Sastry
summoned the teacher, and in our presence, told the teacher that he should not spread the poison
of social inequality and communal intolerance in the minds of innocent children. He bluntly asked
the teacher to either apologise or quit the school and the island. Not only did the teacher regret his
behaviour, but the strong sense of conviction Lakshmana Sastry conveyed ultimately reformed this
young teacher.
A. Tick (✓) the correct alternatives :
The student whom the new teacher sent to the back bench was —
(a) Ramanadha Sastry
(b) the narrator
(c) Rameswaram
(d) Lakshmana Sastry
*) The new teacher was sent for by-
(a) the narrator's father
(b) a Muslim guardian
(c) Ramanadha
(d) Lakshmana Sastry
The incident in the class, made Ramanadha-
(a) furious
(b) delighted
(c) morose
(d) annoyed
(iv) The new teacher was by nature very much -
(a) friendly
(b) jealous
(c) liberal
(d) conservative
B. State whether the following statements are 'True' or False'. Pick out Supporting Statements
(S.S) in support of your answers from the passage:
i) The narrator was the son of a Hindu pnest.
S.S:
) The teacher was as firm as a rock till the end
S.S:
C. Answer the following question :
2
What was indigestible to the new teacher ?​

Answer 1

Answer:

A)

1 the narrator

2 Lakshmana sastry

3 morose

4 jealous

B)

1 False because in this paragraph narrator said that he used to wear a cap that indicates that he was a Muslim.

2 False because till the end the teacher's point of view was changed and he had also invited the narrator for dinner.

C)

1 The new teacher could not stomach a Hindu

priest's son sitting with a Muslim boy.