Question

I was overwhelmed with gratuitous advice. Well-meaning yet ignorant friends thrust their

opinions into unwilling ears. The majority of them said I couldn’t do without meat in the cold

climate. I would catch congestion. Mr Z went to England and caught it on account of his

foolhardiness. Others said I might do without flesh but without wine I could not move. I would be

numbed with cold.

One went so far as to advise me to take eight bottles of whisky, for I should want them after

leaving Aden. Another wanted me to smoke, for his friend was obliged to smoke in England.

Even medical men, those who had been to England told the same tale. I replied that I would try

my best to avoid all these things, but if they were found to be absolutely necessary I did not

know what to do. I may here mention that my aversion to meat was not so strong then as it is

now. I was even betrayed into taking meat about six or seven times at the period when I allowed

my friends to think for me. But in the steamer, my ideas began to change. I thought I should

not take meat on any account. My mother, before consenting to my departure, had exacted a

promise from me not to take meat. So, I was bound not to take it, if only for the sake of the

promise. The fellow passengers in the steamer began to advise us (the friend who was with me

and myself) to try it. — . M K Gandhi.

Write the correct option in your answer sheets for the following question

(a) The advice the narrator received from his friends was …………………..

(i) well-meaning (ii) uncalled for

(iii) sought after (iv) given by friends

(b) When was the narrator offered the advice?

(i) when he was leaving for England

(ii) when he was in Aden

(iii) when he had started eating meat

(iv) when he was on the steamer

(c) Why did the narrator’s friends advise him to take meat?

(i) everyone in England ate meat

(ii) meat would cease congestion.

(iii) meat-eating would keep him healthy

(iv) he would find it tasty​(d) The narrator was reluctant to eat flesh as ……………………….

(i) he had never eaten it before

(ii) he did not like the taste

(iii) it was not available on the steamer

(iv) he had promised his mother he would not do so

(e) What does the term congestion here refer to?

(i) eat (ii) give up

(iii) a disease . . (iv) cold

(f) Narrator's idea began to change in the steamer because of

(i) his friends advice (ii) his mother's advice

(iii) his liking for meat (iv) himself

(g) Find a word form the passage which is same as 'costing nothing'

(h) Find a word form the passage which is same as 'deceived'

(i) Find a word form the passage which is opposite to 'inclination'

(j) Find a word form the passage which is opposite to'fail to impress'​

Answer 1

Answer:

a. well meaning.

b. when he had started eating meat.

c. meat eating would keep him healthy.