Christian Standard Hr. Sec School - CIN
1 Online Examination - 2020
Class: IX
Sub Alt. English
Group: A
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow:
Hospitality is a virtue for which the natives of the East in general are highly and deservedly
admired; and the people of Egypt are well entitled to commendation on this account A word which
signifies literally "a person on a journey" ("musafir“) is the term most commonly employed in this
country in the sense of a visitor or a guest. There are very few persons here who would think of
sitting down to a meal, if there were a stranger in the house without inviting him to partake of it
unless the latter were a menial, in which case, he would be invited to eat with the servanis it
would be considered a shameful violation of good manners if a Muslim abstained from ordering the
table to be prepared at the usual time because a visitor happened to be present Persons of the
middle classes in this country, If living in a retired situation, sometimes take their supper before the
door of their house, and invite every passenger of respectable appearance to eat with them. This is
very commonly done among the lower order. In cities and large towns, claims of on hospitality are
infrequent; as there are many wekalehs, or Khans, where strangers may obtain lodging, and food is
very easily procured, but in the villages, travelers are then lodged and entertained, by the Sheykh
or some other inhabitant; and if the guest be a person of the middle or higher classes, or even not
very poor he gives a present to his host's servants, or to the host himself. In the desert, however, a
person is seldom received from a guest. By a Sunneh law. A traveler may claim entertainment from
a person able to afford it to him, for three days.
1) Which virtue does the natives of the East highly regård in general? [1]
What is the term used for a guest or visitor in Egypt?
What is considered as a violation of good manners? [2]
Which act of hospitality is very commonly done among the lower order of the East? [1]
Answers
Answer:
Ans1-Hospitality is a virtue for which the natives of the East in general are highly and deservedly admired.
Ans2- ("musafir“) is the term most commonly employed in this
country in the sense of a visitor or a guest.
Ans3-. There are very few persons here who would think of sitting down to a meal, if there were a stranger in the house without inviting him to partake of it unless the latter were a menial, in which case, he would be invited to eat with the servanis it would be considered a shameful violation of good manners.
Ans4-if the guest be a person of the middle or higher classes, or even not very poor he gives a present to his host's servants, or to the host himself. In the desert, however, a person is seldom received from a guest. By a Sunneh law. A traveler may claim entertainment from person able to afford it to him, for three days.
Explanation:
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