Once a servant carried a letter and basket of mangoes from his master to his master’s daughter. The young lady got the
basket and the letter and she found four of the mangoes missing. Then she asked the servant why he had taken four mangoes
from the basket. The servant who did not know how to read or write, said, “This is really wonderful! When I asked the master
for a message for you, he told me that the letter would tell you everything. On my way to this village I felt very hungry and
wanted to eat some of the mangoes. I buried the letter deep in the earth to make sure that it did not see me eating them. After
eating four mangoes, I dug the letter out and put it back in the basket. But the letter must have somehow seen me eating the
mangoes and it has now told you about it. This is something magical!” If you think about it, there cannot be anything more
magical than writing. The simple servant realized its magic, but we do not realize it at all!
Q 1. From where did the servant carry basket of mangoes?
(a) Market to master’s house
(b) Master’s house to market
(c) Master’s house to his master’s daughter
(d) Master’s daughter to master’s house
Q 2. How many mangoes were found missing?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) Four
Q 3. What had happened to the mangoes?
(a) They fell down
(b) The monkey ate them
(c) The servant ate them
(d) The master ate them
Q 4. What type of person was a servant?
(a) Greedy
(b) Coward
(c) Liar
(d) Truthful
Q 5. How did servant try to save himself?
(a) By buried the letter under the earth
(b) By telling a lie
(c) By not going to master’s daughter’s house
(d) By eating all the mangoes
Q 6. Choose the word which means ‘buried’.
(a) lying on the top
(b) eating
(c) put under the earth
(d) saw
Q 7. Choose the word which is antonym of ‘shallow’.
(a) deep
(b) buried
(c) magical
(d) hollow
Answers
Answered by
1
Answer:
1(c) 2(d) 3(c) 4(d) 5(a) 6(c) 7(al
Answered by
2
Answer:
(c) Master’s house to his master’s daughter
(d) Four
(c) The servant ate them
(c) Liar
(a) By buried the letter under the earth
(c) put under the earth
(a) deep
Explanation:
- We have to read the entire passage attentively to decipher the correct answers.
- The commencing lines of this passage shows that, the servant carry basket of mangoes from master’s house to his master’s daughter.
- Furthermore, the starting lines depicts that the young lady found four of the mangoes missing.
- Moreover, in the middle of this passage we can clearly see that the servant was very hungry and wanted to eat some of the mangoes so, he ate four of them.
- Evidently, the servant buried the letter deep in the earth to make sure that it did not see him eating the mangoes.
- As we know, the word 'buried' implies 'to put something in a hole in the ground and cover it'.
- The meaning of 'shallow' is 'not deep; with not much distance between top and bottom'. Therefore, its antonym is 'deep'.
Hence, the alternative containing the correct context are, '(c), (d), (c), (c), (a), (c), (a)'.
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