Question

(c) In the following passage, fill in each of the numbered blanks with the correct form of the word given
in brackets. Do not copy the passage, but write in correct serial order the word or phrase appropriate to the
blank space :
Once there lived a monk who ............... 1................ (decide) to make his followers always laugh. People
flocked to him to listen to his jokes and
2 ................ (return) home laughing. The monk would
make fun of himself and others, ............... 3................ (make) sure that there ..........
.....(be) not
a single gloomy face in the crowd. After some years when he ............ 5.............. (die) and yet cheerful,
his followers asked him how he ............. 6.............. (manage) to be happy even on his death bed. He did
not reply but made a last wish that he should be cremated with his clothes on. He wished that he should be
kept on the funeral pyre with the same clothes he ................... (wear). His wishes were carried out
and to everyone's surprise, when the pyre was ............... 8 ............. (light) it was found that the old mon
had hidden firecrackers under his clothes.
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Answer 1

Answer:

1. decided

2. returned

3. made

4. should

5. was about to die

6. managed

7. was wearing

8. lighten