Question

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 became a beggar and 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 fig tree, where he vowed to stay until enlightenment came.
Enlightened after seven days, he renamed the tree, the Bo Tree (Tree of wisdom) and began to teach
and to share his new understandings.
1. What did he want to achieve?
2. At what age he achieved the enlightenment?
3. What is Bo tree known as?
4. He got Enlightenment after
from his hunt.
5. Which word in the passage means the same as ' a state of high spiritual knowledge
azpead the extracts given below and answer the auestions that follow ( 6 Marks)​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. He wanted to achieve enlightenment.

2. He achieved the enlightenment at the age of thirty-two.

3. It is known as Tree of Wisdom.

4. He got enlightenment after wandering for seven years from his hunt.

The word 'wisdom' is the same as a state of high spiritual knowledge.