Question

3. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow :
greater purchasing power than mon
successful to receive a word of praise.
is too busy or
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They prescribed methods ranging from intensive prayers to strenuous physical
exertions, and for a fee they agreed to perform part of the necessary religious
ceremonies. Each pandit's advice was carefully heeded. Since my mother
knew that my father would dislike such methods, she kept them secret,
making it doubly hard for herself.
(1) Who are they' and what did they prescribe ?
2.
(ii) What did they agree to do?
1
(ii) What was kept secret by the writer's mother from his father ?
1
(iv) Which word in the passage means the same as 'to tell somebody to have
a particular treatment'?
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Answer 1

Answer:

1 They prescribed methods ranging from intensive prayers to strenuous physical

exertions, and for a fee they agreed to perform part of the necessary religious

ceremonies. Each pandit's advice was carefully heeded.

2 they agreed to perform part of the necessary religious ceremonies.

3 Since my mother

knew that my father would dislike such methods, she kept them secret,

making it doubly hard for herself.