Question

I. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given:             8 Marks        People moan about poverty as a great evil and it seems to be an accepted belief that if people had plenty of money, they would be happy, and get more out of life. As a rule, there is more genuine satisfaction in life and more is obtained from life in the humble cottage of the poor man than in the palace of rich men, who are attended by servants and governesses at a later stage. At the same time, I am glad to think they do not know what they have missed. It is because I know how sweet and happy and pure the home of honest poverty is, how free from perplexing care and social envies and jealousies, how loving and united the members are in the common interest of supporting the family that I sympathise with the rich man’s boy and congratulate the poor man’s son. It is for these reasons that from the ranks of the poor so many strong eminent self-reliant men have always sprung. If you read the list of the “Immortals who were not born to die” you will find that most of them have been poor.
  1. What is the popular notion about poverty?     (2 Marks)
2. Where can one get more genuine satisfaction in life ?    (1 Mark) 
  3. Why does the author pity the rich man’s boy?    (1 Mark)
4.Find two words in the passage with similar meanings to ‘confusing’ and ‘self – dependent’  (2 Marks)
5.How has the author compared the rich with the poor?   (2 Marks)

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ans 2-As a rule, there is more genuine satisfaction in life and more is obtained from life in the humble cottage of the poor man than in the palace of rich men, who are attended by servants and governesses at a later stage.

1-People moan about poverty as a great evil and it seems to be an accepted belief that if people had plenty of money, they would be happy, and get more out of life.