Answer the following questions as briefly as possible. Write the answers in the space provided.
(a) What did Jawahar Lal Nehru steal from his father's study and why?
(b) Why did Jawahar Lal's father lose his cool?
(c) Why did little Jawahar Lal rush to his mother?
(d) Why did Gandhiji decide to steal a bit of gold from his brother's armlet? How did he feel after
stealing it?
(e) What did Gandhiji write in his letter to his father?
(f) Why did Gandhiji's father weep on reading the letter?
Answers
Explanation:
(a) What did Jawahar Lal Nehru steal from his father's study and why?
Jawaharlal Nehru once stole one of his father's pens from his study thinking that his. ... His father did not like the way his son had taken his pen without his. permission. He scolded the boy so much that he wept bitterly and went rushing to his mother.
(b) Why did Jawahar Lal's father lose his cool?
JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU. ... Jawaharlal Nehru once stole one of his father's pens from his study thinking that his. when his father returned from court, he lost his cool on finding one of the pens missing.
(c) Why did little Jawahar Lal rush to his mother?
He scolded the boy so much that he wept bitterly and went rushing to his mother.
(d) Why did Gandhiji decide to steal a bit of gold from his brother's armlet? How did he feel after
stealing it?
When Gandhiji's elder brother fell into debt, he took a bit of gold from his brother's armlet to help the brother repay his debt. Later, he felt guilty of his act of stealing. ... Gandhiji did not want to hurt his father but he could not bear to live with the guilt. So he decided to confess to his brother.
(e) What did Gandhiji write in his letter to his father?
He wrote a letter to his father, confessing his sin, and asking his forgiveness. ... In the letter, he asked for a suitable punishment and promised him never to steal again in the future.
(f) Why did Gandhiji's father weep on reading the letter?
Answer: Gandhiji felt disturbed and unhappy after he took the gold from his brother armlet he realised he had done something wrong but he felt this was not enough he felt that a real and complete cleansing was possible only if he confessed .
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