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ARIADAHA KALACHAND HIGH SCHOOL
Full Marks : 40
Time : 1 Hour 30 Minutes
READING COMPREHENSION (SEEN)
1. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Same days after the funeral, a special train took Gandhiji's ashes to Allahabad. The compartment was decked
on the train sang Bhajans. People did not weep anymore for they could feel Gandhiji's presence
ements are
Amid the flowers and the songs. At every station sorrowful crowds filled the platform. Amid song and prayer the
reached Allahabad. The ashes were immersed in the Ganges where a huge crowd had gathered at the bank.
Afterwards we all went back to Delhi.
Back in Delhi, I felt at sea. I had not directly walked with Gandhiji, gone to prison at his call or made any sacrifice
for my country. My sisters and I, and other young people like me, had been merely onlookers. But still I felt at
I felt I had grown up wthin a magic circle. With Bapu's passing away, I felt the magic circle had vanished, leaving
A. Write correct alternatives to compelte the following sentences :
1x4=4
(2) The journey for the immersion of Gandhiji's ashes started from-
(ii) Delhi
(iii) Kanpur
(iv) Ahmedabad
The ashes of Gandhiji were taken in alan-
(ii) mail train
(iii) local train
(iv) uncommon train
(e) The bank of Ganges was filled in with-
(ii) moderate crowd
(iii) feeble crowd
(iv) enormous crowd
a) Gandhiji having passed away the narrator realised the
(0) appearance
(ii) disappearance
(iii) baselessness
(iv) nothingness of the magic circle
B. Complete the following sentences with information from the text :
1x2=2
e.
© People did not weep as
The speaker along with her sister and many young people
C.Answer the following question :
1x2=2
How was the compartment decorated? What did people on the train do?
RADICATUTUD
(1) Allahabad
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(1) thin crowd
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Answer 1

Answer:

{a}

1) Allahbad

2) Special Train

3) Huge Crowd

4) Nothingness of the magic circle

{b}

1) People did not weep as they could feel Gandhiji's presence

2) The speaker along with her sister and many young people had been merely onlookers

{c}

1) The train was decorated with flowers. The people on the train sang Bhajans.