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Read the extracts given below and
questions that follow each
1. At about the age of twenty-five, the Prince,
heretofore shielded from the sufferings of the
world, while out hunting chanced upon a
sick man, then an aged man, then a funeral
procession, and finally a monk begging
for alms. These sights so moved him that
he at once went out into the world to seek
enlightenment concerning the sorrows he
had witnessed. He wandered for seven years
and finally sat down under a peepal tree,
where he vowed to stay until enlightenment
come. Enlightened after seven days, he
renamed the tree the Bodhi Tree Tree of
Wisdom) and began to teach and to share
his new understandings.
(CBSE)
That he renounced the royalty and
became an ascetic shows
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(a) he was very sensitive
(b) he was enlightened
(c) he was brave and courageous
(d) he was selfless
(ii) People began to call him Buddha for his
(a) wisdom
(b) learning
(c) riches
(d) renunciation
(iu) Upto the age of twenty five the prince
lived
iii) upto the age of twenty five the prince lived ..
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Answer 1

Answer:

witnessed. He wandered for seven years

and finally sat down under a peepal tree,

where he vowed to stay until enlightenment

come. Enlightened after seven days, he

renamed the tree the Bodhi Tree Tree of

Wisdom) and began to teach and to share

his new understandings.