Q.3. Read the following extract and answer the questions give below:
(6*1=6)
Dashrath Manjhi was born in 1934 in the village of Gehlour, Bihar to a family of labourers. India was under
the colonial rule then. While still a teenager, Dashrath began working as a woodcutter to earn his livelihood.
Since child marriages were common those days; Dashrath got married at a very young age. But unable to put
up with abject poverty, Dashrath fled his home and took up a job as a miner in one of the coal mines of
Dhanbad, a city in Jharkhand known as “Coal Capital of India”. Having toiled in Dhanbad for many years, he
returned to Gehlour and wedded Falguni Devi with whom he had fallen in love. Later on, he discovered that
Falguni Devi was the same girl he had married off to when he was a child. Dashrath soon took up cutting trees
or working in the fields to earn money. Falguni Devi had to climb up and down a knoll every day to carry
food for him.
Question:
1. Dashrath Manjhi was born in 1934 in the village of
(a) Gaya
(b) Jharkhand
(c) Dhanbad
(d) Gehlour
2. Here, 'abject' represents
(a) hopeless
(b) severe
(c) endless
(d) good
3. Here, 'knoll' represents
(a) valley
(b) hill
(c) ravine
(d) deep hole
4. Dashrath Manjhi got married to
(a) Krishna Devi
(b) hill
(c) ravine
(d) deep hole
5. After marriage, Dashrath Manjhi took up to
(a) wood-cutting
(b) building houses
to earn money.
(c) working in mines
(d) mending shoes
6. Dashrath Manjhi got married at young age as
(a) sati marriage
(b) child marriage
was common during those days.
(c) dowry system
(d) poverty
Answers
Answer:
Q.3. Read the following extract and answer the questions give below:
(6*1=6)
Dashrath Manjhi was born in 1934 in the village of Gehlour, Bihar to a family of labourers. India was under
the colonial rule then. While still a teenager, Dashrath began working as a woodcutter to earn his livelihood.
Since child marriages were common those days; Dashrath got married at a very young age. But unable to put
up with abject poverty, Dashrath fled his home and took up a job as a miner in one of the coal mines of
Dhanbad, a city in Jharkhand known as “Coal Capital of India”. Having toiled in Dhanbad for many years, he
returned to Gehlour and wedded Falguni Devi with whom he had fallen in love. Later on, he discovered that
Falguni Devi was the same girl he had married off to when he was a child. Dashrath soon took up cutting trees
or working in the fields to earn money. Falguni Devi had to climb up and down a knoll every day to carry
food for him.
Question:
1. Dashrath Manjhi was born in 1934 in the village of
(a) Gaya
(b) Jharkhand
(c) Dhanbad
(d) Gehlour
2. Here, 'abject' represents
(a) hopeless
(b) severe
(c) endless
(d) good
3. Here, 'knoll' represents
(a) valley
(b) hill
(c) ravine
(d) deep hole
4. Dashrath Manjhi got married to
(a) Krishna Devi
(b) hill
(c) ravine
(d) deep hole
5. After marriage, Dashrath Manjhi took up to
(a) wood-cutting
(b) building houses
to earn money.
(c) working in mines
(d) mending shoes
6. Dashrath Manjhi got married at young age as
(a) sati marriage
(b) child marriage
was common during those days.
(c) dowry system
(d) poverty