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10110Wing passage carefully and answer the following
questions: - 10
Once upon a time there lived a King in a palace. He was very
handsome but he was a great fool. One day he announced that he wanted to
reach the moon and arrangements should be made for that No one had the
courage to tell the King. That it was not possible to do. The clever minister
thought of a plan. He went to the King and said” your majesty, tell the royal
carpenters to have all the barrels in the kingdom fastened together into a
towards you can then climb said the limb to the top and reach the moon.
At the Kings orders all the barrels were collected and fixed one on
the top of another to make a tower. Every piece of wood, even beds and
chairs, were added to the tower. All that the tower was ready and the King
managed to reach the very top, he stretched up to reach the moon but he
couldn't send up another chair of box" he called out." there is nothing left
said the clever minister. “Then take something off the bottom and send up."
Said the foolish King. They pulled a barrel from the bottom of the tower. As
expected the entire tower collapsed and the foolish King died,
1. What was the foolish Kings wish?
2. Why couldn't any body tell the king that his wish was foolish?
3. What was the carpenter ordered to do?
4. What did the king order the minister when he could not reach the
moon?
5. What word in the passage is a synonym of the word” crumble”?​

Answer 1

Questions:

1. What was the foolish king's wish?
2. Why couldn't anybody tell the king that his wish was foolish?
3. What was the carpenter ordered to do?
4. What did the king order the minister when he could not reach the moon?
5. What word in the passage is a synonym of the word "Crumble"?

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Answer - 1

• The foolish king's wish was that he wanted to reach the moon and arrangements should be made for that.

Answer - 2

• Anybody couldn't tell the king that his wish was foolish, as no one had courage to tell the king that it was impossible to do so.

Answer - 3

• The carpenters were ordered to have all the barrels in the kingdom fastened together into a tower, on which the king can climb and reach the moon.

Answer - 4

• When the king couldn't reach the moon he ordered the minister to take something off from the bottom of the tower and send it up.

Answer - 5

• "Crumble" means - break or fall apart into pieces. Hence, synonym word of "Crumble" from the passage is "Collapsed".