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Comprehension Check
Question 1. Why did the king want to know answers to three questions?
Answer: The king wanted to know the answers to three questions as he wished to become a great ruler.
Question 2. Messengers were sent throughout the kingdom
(i) to fetch wise men.
(ii) to find answers to the questions.
(iii) to look for the wise hermit.
(iv) to announce a reward for those who could answer the questions.
Mark your choice.
Answer: (ii) to find answers to the questions.
Comprehension Check
Question 1. Many wise men answered the king’s questions, ___________________.
Answer: Many wise men answered the king’s questions, but their answers were so varied that the king was not satisfied.
Question 2. Someone suggested that there should be a council of wise men ___________________.
Answer: Someone suggested that there should be a council of wise men to help the king act at the right time.
Question 3. Someone else suggested that the king should have a time table ___________________.
Answer: Someone else suggested that the king should have a time table and follow it strictly.
Question 4. The king requested the hermit ___________________.
Answer: The king requested the hermit to answer three questions.
Question 5. The king washed and dressed the bearded man’s wound, ___________________.
Answer: The king washed and dressed the bearded man’s wound, but the bleeding would not stop.
Working with the text
Answer the following questions:
Question 1. Why was the king advised to go to magicians?
Answer:
Some of the wise men thought that to decide the right time to do something, one must look into the future and only magicians were able to do that. So, they advised the king to go to the magicians.
Question 2. In answer to the second question, whose advice did the people say would be important to the king?
Answer: In answer to the second question, some wise men believed that the king should have some councilors to give him advice, some others said priests, some other wise men said that doctors’ advice was most important and yet others believed that the soldiers were the most important.
Question 3. What suggestions were made in answer to the third question?
Answer: In answer to the third question, i.e. “What is the most important thing to do”, some wise men responded that science was the most important thing, some others believed that fighting was the most crucial thing to do for a king, and the others said that religious worship was the most important thing to do.
Question 4. Did the wise men win the reward? If not, why not?
Answer: No, none of the wise men won the reward. That is because all of them came up with different answers and the king was not satisfied with any of those answers.
Question 5. How did the king and the hermit help the wounded man?
Answer: First of all, the king cleaned the wound by washing it. Then he covered the wound with his handkerchief. He continued to dress the wound until the bleeding stopped entirely. The king gave some water to the wounded man to drink.
The king and the hermit carried the wounded man inside the hut and let him take rest in the hut in the night.
Question 6. (i) Who was the bearded man?
(ii) Why did he ask for the king’s forgiveness?
Answer: (i) The bearded man was the king’s enemy. He had come there to take revenge from the king of his brother’s death and take back his property.
(ii) He asked for the king’s forgiveness because he came to kill the king and the king saved his life.
Question 7. The king forgave the bearded man. What did he do to show his forgiveness?
Answer: The king forgave the bearded man. He showed his forgiveness by offering to send doctor and servants to take care of the wounded man. He also promised to return his property too.
Question 8. What were the hermit’s answers to the three questions? Write each answer separately. Which answer do you like most, and why?
Answer: The hermit’s answers to the three questions were:
1. The right time to do something is “now” because it is the only time when we can act.
2. The most important person is the person you are with at a particular moment, because what will happen in the future.
3. The most important thing to do is to do good to the person because we are here on the earth for that purpose alone.
Working with language
Question 1. Match items in List A with their meanings in List B.
A B
wounded got up from sleep
awoke give back
forgive small patches of ground for plants
faithful severely injured
pity pardon
beds loyal
return feel sorry for
Use any three of the above words in sentences of your own. You may change the form of the word.
Answer:
A B
wounded severely injured
awoke got up from sleep
forgive pardon
faithful loyal
pity feel sorry for
beds small patches of ground for plants
return give back
Sentences with three words:
1. Pallavi had to return the bag to her friend.
2. One should be faithful to one’s friends.
3. The dreadful dream awoke Reshma from sleep.