(A1) State whether the following statements are true or false and
correct the false statements :
(i) The king was satisfied with the answers given by the learned people.
(ii) The king was ready to give a reward for the right answers.
(iii) There were four questions the king wanted answers to.
(iv) The third question was about the most important occupation.
(The paragraph)
Once a certain king had an idea. If he always knew the right time
to begin everything, if he knew who were the right people to listen to
and whom to avoid and above all, if he always knew what was the most
important thing to do, he would never fail in anything that he would
undertake. Since he was convinced that he was right in thinking this
way, he had a proclamation made in his kingdom. He would give a
great reward to anyone who would teach him what the right time was
for every action, who the most necessary people were, and how he
might know the most important thing to do.
Many learned people came to the court but they all gave different
answers. In reply to the first question, some said that to know the
right time for every action, one must draw up in advance a table of
days, months and years, and must live strictly according to it. Others
declared that it was impossible to decide beforehand the right time for
every action; but that, not letting oneself be absorbed in idle pastimes,
one should always attend to all that was going on, and then do that
was most essential. Yet others said that it was impossible for one man
to decide correctly the right time for every action and that the king
should, instead, have a council of wise people, who would help him to
fix the proper time for everything.
Equally varied were the answers to the second question. Some
said the people the king most needed were his councilors; others the
priests; others the doctors while some said the warriors were the
most necessary.
To the third question about what was the most important
occupation, some replied that the most important thing in the world
was science. Others said it was skill in warfare; and others, again,
that it was religious worship. The king was convinced by none of these
answers and gave the reward to none.
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true
and i dont know that it is right or wrong
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