After reading through the lines answer the question as direct
The war began about a question of the religious principle, namely whether one should break an egg at the bigger end or at the smaller end .The ancient practice of course was to break it at the bigger end. But the present Emperor's grandfather, when he was a boy , happened to cut one of his fingers when breaking an egg at the bigger end .So, the Emperor ,his father, published a decree prohibiting the practice of breaking egg at the bigger end.
a) Name the story and its author.
b) The word in the passage which means legal command
¡) Order ¡¡) Decree ¡¡¡) Prohibit
c) The customary way of doing something or behavior
¡) Practice ¡¡) Course ¡¡¡) Ancient
d) Which practice is being talked about in the excerpt and why was it Prohibited and by whom?
e) Write the antonym of (any two)
¡) Ancient ¡¡) Allow ¡¡¡) Release
Answers
Explanation:
After Gulliver's visit to the Emperor's palace at Mildendo, Reldresal, Lilliput's Principal Secretary of Private Affairs, pays a visit to Gulliver and explains the faction quarrels between the High Heel Party and the Low Heel Party. The conflict, he says, started over a religious question: At which end should the faithful break their eggs: at the big end or at the little end? The Blefuscudians break theirs, in the original style, at the big end. But, by royal edict, the Lilliputians must break their eggs at the little end. There are rebels in Lilliput, Reldresal says, and already 11,000 of them — Big Endians — have been put to death; others have fled to the court of Blefuscu. He explains further that the Lilliputians have lost 40 ships in the war. The dilemma seems hopeless, for Lustrog, the prophet of their religion, has said, "All true believers shall break their eggs at the convenient end."
Answer:
a)
b) order
c) ancient
d)
e) release