d) Berbal's wife
Read the paragraph & answer the questions given below.
One day walking in the garden with Birbal and the other couriers, Emperor Akbar
bent to pick up a sharp stone. With it, he drew a line on the ground and said
"Birbal make the line shorter." He paused and with a glint of mischief in his eyes,
he said, But don't touch it. Just make it shorter."
The courtiers looked at each other. Birbal surely couldn't do this, could
he? Perhaps he would finally be outwitted.
But Birbal calmly bent down to pick up another stone. He quiety drew
a second line below Akbar's. Everyone looked at the two lines, Akbar's line was
dearly shorter than Birbal's!
1) What did Akbar pick from the ground ?
2) What did Akbar draw on the ground ?
3) How did Birbal answer Akbar's question?
4) Find antonym of 'Night" from the given paragraph.
5) Give a suitable title to the story.
6) Name the characters of the story.
Answers
1) One day walking in the garden with Birbal and the other courtiers, Emperor Akbar bent to pick up a sharp stone. With it, he drew a line on the ground and said, “Birbal, make the line shorter.” He paused and with a glint of mischief in his eyes, he said, “But don't touch it. Just make it shorter.”
2) One day, Akbar drew a line on the floor and ordered his ministers to shorten the line without rubbing out any part of it.
3) Immediately Akbar asked Birbal the three questions and informed him that if he could not answer them, he would have to resign as chief minister. To answer the first question, Birbal brought a hairy sheep and said, “There are as many stars in the sky as there is hair on the sheep's b
5) The title which I can give to this story is "There is always a sunshine even after the darkest night". I think it is an appropriate title to this story, as it starts with a sad tone where the kid's father met with an accident and is hospitalized.